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In late spring of 1861- Richmond, Virginia, became the Capitol of the Confederate States of America. With that title came responsibilities to have a new congress, government offices and a President. Jefferson Davis was elected to do that job. Davis and his wife, there children and various members were housed in the newly purchased Confederate White House, at the corner of 5th and K Street. The previous owner had just added a third floor and redecorated the interior of the home. He sold the house and the furniture for $43,000.00. to the Richmond City authorties - which then rented it to the Confederate Government as an executive mansion. Davis and his 35 year old wife, Varina and there children made this there new home for the next 4 years. The house was made into a museum in 1890, only a few years after the war. Mrs. Davis was of much help with this project. Today it is one of the most intact Historic Homes in America. I used this house as my Bible when restoring ,My Old Historic House.
|Mrs. Jefferson Davis
|The Confederate White House mantle and Lambrequin made by Mrs. Davis that inspired me to make mine.
|The Confederate White House.
|Another Lambrequin, made by Mrs. Davis at the Confederate White House.
When I visited the Confederate White House Museum many years ago, I was taken by the wonderful needlepoint Lambrequins that were on the fireplaces. They were all hand stitched by Mrs. Davis and were still hanging there after all these years. To make a long story short, I wanted a Lambrequin for my house. So I went on a quest to find one. I looked in antique shops, on the internet,called pickers in Europe, but was not able to find any. Luck was with me, when I went to an antique show in Chicago and found an old clock shelf Lambrequin. Being affordable, I bought it and decided to use it as a pattern and make my own.
For those of you who do not know what a lambrequin is: Webster Dictionary defination is: a kind of pendent, scarf or covering attached to the fireplace to protect the mantle from heat and smoke. An ornament or short decorative hanging from a shelf or fireplace mantle. Sometimes known as a cornice, pelment or valance.
Opulent Victorian Houses of the Antebellum period had such decorations on there mantles, most often hand made by the house owners. They would purchase a pattern or design ,from a mail order source, usually in Europe and needlepoint was the most often used method used. Some were made from fabric that matched the rooms curtains and furniture.
|The antique clock shelf Lambrequin that I copied to make my Lambrequin.
For my Lambrequin, I drew the pattern on graph paper, using the piece that I had found as a pattern. I made a chart for all the colors and worked them one at a time. Much like counted cross stitch is done.The background was all done last. After weeks and weeks of counting stitches, the Lambrequin was still not long enough for my mantle. I could not force myself to do one more block. So, I decided to make the middle one different. When all the needlepoint stitches were done, the edges were finished out with black bias tape, turned under and hand stitched to the back. I used a black cording to finish it off and highlighted it all with tassels. I did the needlepoint using the basket weave stitch, it does not distort the canvas so much, so very little blocking was needed.
|The center block that I designed and made different.
Someday, 100 years or so from now, I hope some one will be inspired by my Lambrequin , like I was by Mrs. Davis's. I hope it will be still hanging on the mantle, I made it for. I know as long as I own this house, it will be,
My Lambrequin is on the mantle in the Gentleman's parlor. I designed the curtains for this room to match. They were all hand made by my dear sweet sister. I used the same pattern for the overall design and hand trimmed them with satin cords and tassels.
I wish you could come by sometime soon for a tour and see the Lambrequin.I will leave the lights on and Sissy Dog will meet you with a jump and a Kiss.
|Close up of the needlepoint Lambrequin I hand made.
|The center block I made and altered the pattern from the original I found.
|The curtains I designed, made by my sister, to match the Lambrequin.
|A view showing the Lambrequin on the mantle and the curtains in the Gentlemen 's parlor.

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The Volkswagen Nils concept isn't the first time Volkswagen's threatened to change the automotive paradigm. It isn't even the second time. But it is the first time they've also threatened to turn conventional wisdom on fuel efficiency since World War II on its head.
If you'll recall from advance info, Nils weighs 1,000 pounds, and with a 30-peak-hp (20 hp nominal power) electric motor it can get from 0-60 in 11 seconds. No speed demon, this, but since you're alone in the cockpit, you have no one to impress, right? Screw the old "When you ride alone" posters — maybe that single-seater deal isn't a bad idea after all.
And yet, here we are still driving regular, old cars to work instead of batshit trikes or Bonneville bullet cars that get 200 mpg (that's miles per gallon, not mph) powered by tea tree oil. But will we go solo in semi-open-wheeled quads with butterfly doors? Probably not. Never.


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For Sale:Mamiya ZD back like new in box with all accessories. Includes a 48x36 etched focusing screen, 3 batteries and the Mamiya software. This back was shipped to me from Mamiya NY on Oct 16, 2007 and I've used it for 3 shoots. It has less than 800 frames on it. The back works seamlessly with the Mamiya 645AFD and AFD II and also works with the RZ Pro IID with support for the RZ Pro II coming early next year.The back has the new hardware/ firmware update that fixes noise issues. The back is a great performer - especially for the money - and the image quality is right up there with other MFDB backs that share the same Dalsa sensor. I'm only selling due to the decision to go back to shooting Canon DSLR's exclusively.I posted several images in the following thread and I'd be happy to provide images of the back and additional images upon request.http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index....showtopic=20472[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=152574\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
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Game 5.5 Signals the End of the Rays Run
I was told that J P Howell was taking the loss pretty hard last night after the Philadelphia Phillies ended the 46 hour lay-over of Game 5 of the World Series. I do not know why he is thinking it is the end of all things right now. You have to remember that this years' team went above every expectation set by the coaches' and management. they flew beyond any goal or lofty intention of every and any fan, and last, but not least, they made us proud to be Ray Fans.
I did not go out to the Trop last night at 3 a.m., I wanted to cheer and applaud for the Rays for a job well done. But this is private time. I know as an ex-athlete that you need a little space right after a collossial event to get your feet back on the ground. It has been an emotional rollercoaster for the team the last 3 days. And no matter what the outcome, there was going to be some backlash mentally and emotionally.
Just remember guys, on Saturday at the City of St. Pete celebration, it will all seem to fade away. We have 107 days until we start it all over again, and I can not wait personally. Not for the goals and aspirations of 2009, but because the Rays deserve another shot at the title. If Rocco can come back off the canvas, why can't we get another shot at the ring and the dream.
Congrats to the World Champions
Seriously, it was a great World Series from Game 1-5. The Phillies have been hungry for a title for 28 years in baseball. Heck, Pete Rose was playing third base back then for the Fightin' Phillies. What was so special was to see 40-something Jamie Moyer go out to the pitching mound and take a pole and wedge that pitching rubber out of the clay and take it home.
It was an exciting series. And do I enjoy the end result………well, no, but I do enjoy the fact that it was settled on the field and not in a boardroom or in a conference call. We got to finish the game, and for that we have to thank Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. He wanted to play these games to their conclusions. He did not want a shortened World Series, or a series that would be questioned. He might still be questioned, but I think it was done with the most respect for both teams and was done as fast and as safe as possible.
Game 5 had to be stopped, and the Rays scoring in the top of the 6th inning on Monday gave him ample cause to suspend it and play it under better circumstances. There were an announced crowd of 44,000 on hand Wed. night. That is about 1,000 less than Monday, but those people might have already been on Broad Street preping for a good time by 8:30 that night. We played out the final 2 1/2 innings and the city got to have a dry and cool celebration after all.
Bullpen Moments
The Rays Bullpen has been a mainstay of this team for so long this season it amazes me that they are taking this loss so personally. If not for the efforts of everyone down there, especially Grant Balfour and J P Howell, we might not have even hit the playoffs at all this season. If you are looking for true MVP's of this playoff run, you have to consider the entire Bullpen as a whole. They have gone above and beyond themselves all year long, and do not have anything to be ashamed of at all.
Grant Balfour went to the mound in the bottom of the 6th and Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel sent up Geoff Jenkins to pinch-hit for Cole Hamels, who was still the pitcher of record for the Phillies. Jenkins had played with Balfour with the Milwaukee Brewers' and probably knows his pitching style better than anyone else on the bench.
On a 2-2 count, Jenkins hit a long fly ball into the right-center gap that hit off the scoreboard just out of the reach of a sprawling Rocco Baldelli. The ball fell to the turf and B J Upton went and retrived the ball to keep Jenkins to a double. With Jenkins in scoring position, Jimmy Rollins came up and put doen a sacrifice bunt to move Jenkins less than 90 feet from giving the Phillies the lead in the game.
Jayson Werth then came up and hit a shallow looper to the spot between second base and the outfield. Akinora Iwamura went out to try and pull in the ball, but after trying to catch it via a basket-catch, the ball trickled down from his glove to the turf and Jenkins scored to give the Phillies the lead 3-2. That was the end of the night for Balfour, who went 1.1 innings total in the game, but went 1/3 of an inning tonight, giving up 2-hits and a lone run.
J P Howell then came on to face Chase Utley and got him to strikeout on 3 pitches. Ryan Howard then came to bat and hit a fly ball to Evan Longoria at third for the final out of the 6th inning. In the 7th inning, Pat Burrell came up to start the 7th inning and was hit-less in this years' World Series. He was currently 0-13, when he hit hanging curveball into the left-center section of the outfield and clipped the high wall to settle for a double.
Burrell was immediately replaced by pinch-runner Eric Bruntlett at second base. That ended the night for Howell as he went 2/3rds of an inning throwing 7 pitches and giving up 1-hit and 1-run for the Rays. Chad Bradford came on and quickly got Shane Victorino to ground out to Iwamura at second base. This moved Bruntlett to third with 1-out in the inning. Pedro Feliz then hit a ball up the middle for a RBI single and the Phillies were up 4-3 at that time.
Bradford got Carlos Ruiz to hit into a 4-6 force out at second, with Ruiz on first on a fielder's choice. Iwamura made an amazing play behind second base to get the force out on Feliz. Phillies reliever J C Romero the came up and hit a ball to Iwamura that he flipped to Bartlett at second base for another force out to end the inning.
David Price then came on in the 8th inning and got a quick fly out from Rollins and a strikeout of Werth. He then gave up a walk to Utley before getting Howard to strikeout to end the inning for the Phillies.
Rocco Baldelli's Blast
In the 7th inning, with Ryan Madson on the mound for the Phillies, Dioner Navarro struck out to lead off the inning. Then rocco Baldelli came up and on the first pitch took Madson deep to leftfield on a line drive homer to tie the game at 4-all. The Blast was just the first homer of the World Series for Baldelli, but it put life back into the Rays' hopes for a Game 6 at Tropicana Field on Thursday night.
Jason Bartlett's Gamble
You have to be pleased with the effort of Jason Bartlett at shortstop for the Rays this season. He has brought a solid defense and a secure bat to the lineup that the Rays have never had at the position. In the top of the 7th inning tonight, Bartlett hit a single to leftfield to try to keep the rally going after Baldelli's homer.
J P Howell came up and batted in the inning for the Rays. This was an unsusual play as Rays Manager Joe Maddon could have used a pich hitter to hit for Howell since he had David Price and Chad Bradford warmed up in the Bullpen. But Maddon let Howell take his whacks at the plate for the Rays. Howell put down a perfect sacrifice bunt to move Bartlett to second and into scoring position for the Rays.
Iwamura then came up and hit a infield single to shallow centerfield and Bartlett was rounding third when Utley faked the throw to first and threw to home to get the streaking Bartlett by less than a foot at the plate. Bartlett was tagged out as he was stretching his hand for the plate and it ended the 7th inning for the Rays. It was a gutsy play by the Rays shortstop, and one that almost made a huge difference in the contest.
You have to credit Utley for seeing Bartlett taking a wide turn at third and streaking for home. If Utley has held onto the ball a split second longer, Bartlett would have scored and tied tha game at 4-all for the Rays. So if you have to find a defining moment in this game……..this was the series clincher fo the Phillies…. at the plate.
The Rays did try amd mount another rally in the 8th inning after Carl crawford lead-off with a single to centerfield. B J Upton hit a ball to short that Rollins turned into a 6-4-3 double play to remove the Rays threat in the inning. Pena then hit a weak fly ball to left to end the inning for the Rays.
In the 9th, Evan Longoria lead off the inning by hitting a fly out to second base. Navarro then hit a shattered bat single to right that fell in front of a hard charging Werth. Maddon then sent in Fernando Perez as a pinch-runner for Navarro. With pinch-hitter Ben Zobrist at the plate for the Rays, Perez stole second base on the third pitch to Zobrist and put a runner in scoring position for the Rays.
Zobrist then hit a shot to right that was caught by Werth for the 2nd out of the inning. With 1-out left in the Rays season, Maddon sent up Eric Hinske to pinch-hit for Bartlett. Hinske went down on three pitches to give the Phillies their first championship since 1980 in the majors.
Welcome Home Rays
The Rays were scheduled to be flying into St. Petersburg-Clearwater Airport at 3 am on Thursday. The team did not have a planned greeting at the airport and the team was to quickly get on their coaches' for the trip to the Trop. Several people were at the airport waiting for the team, but they did not come through the baggage area and loaded straight from the plane on the tarmac.
The Rays then trekked from the airport to the back enterance at the Trop. There they were greeted by a few dozen fans who stood out in the cold to cheer for the hometown Rays. Several members of the team did come out and salute the crowd before heading into the Trop to pack and have some private time with team mates and family.
I will be getting the information on the City of St. Petersburg celebration sometime today or tomorrow. Stay tuned to your favorite Rays blog and I will be sure to pass on all the info I get as soon as I recieve it. Again, remember that this team exceeded all expectations of it during the season and should be roundly applauded for their hustle and determination to even get into the playoffs this season.
The Saturday event will be to celebrate not only the team;s efforts, but the increased support and bonding of the Tampa Bay area this season behind the Rays "Magical Summer Tour 2008". The region has grown from just a spotty support group for the team, to an increasing fan base throughout the country and the world. The Rays are no longer the loveable losers of yesteryear. We now have tasted the fruits of winning, and it is sweet to our mouths, and we yearn for more……….
Pitchers' and Catchers' Report in 107 DAYS.
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Congratulations to the Rays! Count me as one of those applauding them: they had pitching, defense, small-ball and slugging, but they also had confidence, determination and heart. Thumbs up to you as well for your graciousness to the Phillies. I think you can be sure no one will underestimate the Rays going into next year. I'll look forward to seeing your guys at Fenway for our Opening Day next April!
It is going to be some pure fun next season in the AL East. Everyone is gearing up to top the Rays and everyone else in our division. Boston will reload, and Toronto has the pitching already. And Baltimore just hit a wall, but should be the pest of the East next year.
It is a fun time to be a baseball fan. With the economy taking a slight dive, the baseball will be more to parity, and .500 might be a high water mark next season for some divisions.
I am going to stock up on peanuts ans popcorn now
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Another hearing was held Tuesday afternoon over the estate of a missing multimillionaire whose boat washed ashore on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
No one has seen or heard from Guma Aguiar since his boat washed ashore two weeks ago, but his wife and his mother are fighting for their right to his $90 million estate. It includes at least 24 properties, some of which are in Israel, three cars, a soccer club and a basketball club.
In court Tuesday, Judge Mark Speiser appointed longtime litigator Thomas Panza to oversee most of the estate.
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler also was appointed in his capacity as an attorney to oversee the various lawsuits in which Aguiar is involved.
Whether Aguiar, a father of four, committed suicide or was lost at sea is unknown, as is the third possibility, a bombshell theory that he staged his disappearance.
The attorney for Aguiar's wife said last week that the GPS aboard his boat revealed that it motored east from his Rio Vista home and turned north before coming to a stop in the water. Some experts have speculated that Aguiar dropped anchor.
Minutes later, a grainy home video showed the vessel drifting ashore with its lights and engine on and no one aboard.


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Happy Monday!
I CANNOT believe it's November!
Where did 2015 go? It's amazing how quickly this year went by for me. It was such a great year for me I couldn't be more thankful.
Friday we were able to dress up for work so I decided to go as Minnie Mouse because I thought I had a set of eyelashes I wanted to use that would be perfect for the Minnie Mouse costume - FAIL. I never even bought them, when I thought I did... Hahaha. None the less I still decided to go as Minnie Mouse.
I didn't have an actual costume and I wanted it to be work appropriate so I decided to wear a red skirt, black blazer, and minnie mouse ears I purchased off eBay for only $4.95. I also already had polka dotted pantyhose and did my nails with polka dots. Polka dot overload!
Here's a picture of my whole outfit and a co-worker. Everyone around here are HUGE Penn State fans, so she wore her jersey. :) To the right is my office... just a little sneak peak into my daily life. haha
Friday was date night for the hubby & I. After work we went to Olive Garden because we were both craving it. I had to get my ring inspected so we went to the mall and I snuck in a trip to Ulta. :)
At Olive Garden we shared a pumpkin cheesecake, it was actually very yummy!
I filmed a makeup tutorial on my YouTube channel for my Minnie Mouse costume and I filmed a haul of the Wet N Wild Disney Villians collection. Go check it out! :)
Click HERE for my YouTube channel.
I had to run to Wal-Mart for some things to make dinner and wandered into the makeup aisle. Physician Formula finally released their shimmer line. I took a couple of pictures to show you guys.
I actually picked up the palette below, but haven't used it yet. It was only $8.97!
They also have shimmer eyeliners (I have been using their eyeliner lately and LOVE it) and shimmer gel cream shadows.
This is the actual outfit I sported on Halloween. :)
The sweater is from Kohls.
This is the makeup look I filmed.
Go check it out!
Click HERE for my channel.
Officially the first day of November and we got an extra hour of sleep. It was beautiful! What did I do with my extra hour? Took a nap for exactly an hour and it was a beautiful thing.
Also, Pandora recently released their holiday line and how adorable is this red nosed reindeer?
I tried Sheetz Reese's peanut butter hot chocolate - YUCK. I don't recommend.
Also, last but not least ColourPop released their holiday sets today! I have been wanting to try their lippies but just haven't and I don't know why. Since they came out with a kit of 6 for only $30 I would pick one up. From what I understand their holiday sets don't stick around long, so if I were you, I would order a set soon. There's also a eyeshadow set(which I'm contemplating) and a gel/liner set. If you purchase all 3 right now they're offering 20% off. But I have my eyes on other things for the upcoming VIB sale that I decided to pass and just get this set.
Anyway to check out their holiday line click here. I used coupon code THANKSBABE for $5 off, which essentially covers the shipping that is $5.
Have a great night!


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Upcoming multiplayer shooter Hawken, which just looks fucking cool, doesn't have a singleplayer campaign. So it doesn't really have much of a story. What it does have, though, is a filthy dirty megalopolis/anime setting, which this moody new trailer shows off.
There's also some gameplay footage at the end, if all you're here for is more shots of mecha blowing the crap out of each other.
Hawken, the work of nine men, is one of the big surprises of 2011, coming out of nowhere and landing a prominent spot on many people's "must see MORE" lists.
For more info on the game, check out this big interview I did with its creators earlier in the year.


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Greg Sharpe Previews Nebraska – Wyoming [AUDIO]
When the Nebraska Cornhuskers take the field against Wyoming, Saturday night in Lincoln, they'll be riding the longest opening game winning streak in the FBS, 27 straight games, dating back to September of 1985.
In 2013, they'll be looking to extend that streak in front of more fans than ever at Memorial Stadium, thanks to a new 6,000 seat expansion on the stadium's East side. The new seating and a new statue honoring long time Nebraska and Wyoming coach Bob Devaney will welcome fans in Lincoln, Saturday night.
The 'Voice of the Cornhuskers' Greg Sharpe told me he's impressed with what's he's seen at Memorial Stadium:
As for this Nebraska team, they've got a coach in his 6th year (Bo Pelini), a quarterback starting for the 4th year (Taylor Martinez), playing in the Big 10 conference for the third year. It all adds up to some real stability for this program:
It all starts on offense where redshirt senior Taylor Martinez is back at quarterback, and some Huskers watchers say he might try to make more happen this season with his arm and a little less with his legs, but he still has the ability to make things happen when he pulls the ball down and runs with it depending on the situation:
Head coach Bo Pelini has the same staff for the second straight season, and also has a new, softer image around the country - thanks to a You Tube video (see below) of him pulling off a prank on his team last week. That side of the usually intense Pelini may have surprised some, but not those close to the Husker football program:
The Nebraska defense will field a whole host of new faces in 2013, and is by far one of the biggest question marks on the team. Pelini himself says the group has 'youthful depth'. So what should we expect from the Cornhusker defense?
Former Washington high school standout Nate Gerry figures to be part of that defense from time to time. He'll also see action on special teams. Not bad for a true freshman that arrived in Lincoln two months ago as a projected redshirt:
That first test will come Saturday night when Wyoming quarterback Brett Smith brings the Cowboys to Lincoln for the second time in three seasons. When the two teams played in 2011, Nebraska won 38-14, but Smith has two impressive seasons under his belt since then, combining for 5,459 yards and 47 touchdowns. He's also rushed for nearly 1,000 yards in his career:
As a program, Nebraska has played in three conference title games and five bowl games in the last five years, and should have a big scheduling edge in 2013, with 8 of the Huskers 12 games in Lincoln, including each of the first five. That sets the table for a potentially memorable season, but along with it, brings some very high expectations for this team:
Kickoff is 7:00pm in Lincoln, Saturday night. ESPN 99.1 will join the Nebraska - Wyoming game in progress, following the conclusion of the Roosevelt - Brandon Valley game. Listen live here.


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End of the Year Awards
No one gave the Yankees a fighting chance when 2011 started. The lineup and defense was declared "old." The pitching rotation was called "comically thin," and the fact that the Yankees did not pick up a huge free agent in the off-season led every skeptic to believe they were going to fail this year.
Now look where they are – and who is struggling for their playoff lives.
The Boston Red Sox were the favorites. They acquired Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford, bolstering their already-potent, veteran-laden lineup. All the folks who talked up the Red Sox to win it all this season are probably kicking themselves now, as the Red Sox are just 2 ½ games in front of the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Angels in the AL Wild Card race.
Yesterday the Yankees beat the Rays twice, sweeping a day-night double header. The Bronx Bombers won both games by the same count, 4-2, and captured their 17th American League Eastern Division title.
Meanwhile Boston dropped their second straight game – and they are 3-7 over their last 10 games. The Red Sox have gone ice cold at the wrong time and the Yankees have become red hot at the right time.
With the Yanks no longer having to worry about winning the division and the end of the regular season right around the corner, it's that time of the year again: the time to reward the Yankee players for what they have achieved this season.
It's the third annual Yankee Yapping End of the Year Awards!
Let us all find out who this year's winners are.
Yankee Yapping Milestone Man Award
Winners: Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera
In 2009 both Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera accomplished something special. Jeter became the all-time Yankee hits leader and Rivera captured his 500th career save.
Fast forward two years later and both of these perennial Yankees are still making history.
On July 9, Jeter stepped up to the plate at home and clubbed a home run to deep left-center field, his 3,000th career hit. He became the first Yankee to ever record 3,000 hits and the second person since Wade Boggs to leave the yard for 3K.
Rivera became the all-time saves leader on Monday, nailing down his 602nd career save, securing a 6-4 Yankee win over the Minnesota Twins.
With 602 saves under his belt he passed Trevor Hoffman for most career saves all-time. Including the postseason, Rivera has 644, as he also has saved 42 playoff games.
Jeter and Rivera have only solidified what we as Yankee fans have known all along: that they are legends. No one may ever duplicate what both of these men have accomplished. In the foreseeable future, there won't be another Yankee to get 3,000 hits.
There's also a good chance no one will ever do what Rivera has done in terms of closing ballgames.
I don't have to sell the Captain and Mo at all; there is nothing to say that hasn't been said a million times. Jeter and Rivera have earned the love and adoration of every Yankee fan in the world. Both are five-time World Series champs, and have an opportunity to become six-time champs this year.
Time will tell if they get there, but until then, there are Yankee Yapping Milestone Man winners. Congrats guys!
Yankee Yapping Most Valuable Player Award
Winner: Curtis Granderson
These past few years the Yankees have had a number of players in the running for the American League Most Valuable Player Award. Last year it was Robinson Cano, this year it is Curtis Granderson. The centerfielder's .270 batting average may be the only statistic that is holding him down, but he has done very well for himself in every other offensive category.
At press time Granderson leads the majors in runs scored (134) and RBIs (119), and is second in home runs (41) to Toronto's Jose Bautista (42).
Yet, remember the old saying, which originated in 2005 when David Ortiz was in the running for MVP: it should go to "full-time players" only. Defense is part of being a baseball player too, and Granderson has exhibited excellent D.
In the field he is showing off his capability with 11 assists and a .992 fielding percentage.
Throughout the year Granderson has come up in some huge spots on both sides of the field, and has turned into the elite player the Yankees traded for before 2010. He has made a lot of progress and stepped up, especially against left-handed pitching – which was something scrutinized when the Yanks acquired him.
The big fuss about Granderson was his strife against lefties. But that has not affected him this year.
In fact, Granderson is actually hitting .277 off southpaws, as opposed to his .266 BA vs. righties. 16 of his 41 homers have come off lefties and his slugging percentage vs. left-handers is .614. Against righties, Granderson is slugging .549.
He has a chance to win the AL MVP this year. But if he doesn't, he can always take solace knowing he has won the Yankee Yapping MVP Award. Congrats Curtis!
Yankee Yapping Ace of the Year Award
Winner: CC Sabathia
I started this blog in 2009 and this will be the third Ace of the Year Award I will be handing out. All three years it has gone to the same man and rightfully so.
It was announced tonight that CC Sabathia will not make another start before the American League Division Series begins, which means he went 19-8 with a 3.00 ERA this year. He racked up 230 strikeouts, logged 237 1/3 innings, and registered three complete games (one of which was a shutout).
Sabathia has been the horse since day one; the leader. He takes the ball every fifth day and the Yankees seem to have a certain confidence and swagger whenever he's on the mound. I think they take the field knowing they have a great chance to win with Sabathia pitching.
When the postseason begins, Sabathia has to be his usual self. Not that he pitched all that poorly last year, but he did end the American League Championship Series with a 6.30 ERA while surrendering seven earned runs in just 10 innings. If he can be that dominant pitcher we have seen, the Yanks can certainly win a lot of games. If not, they are in big trouble.
But we know what to expect from him – and he usually delivers. Sabathia won't win the Cy Young Award because Justin Verlander of Detroit basically has that locked up. But he did win Yankee Yapping Ace of the Year for the third consecutive time.
Congrats, CC!
Yankee Yapping Silver Slugger Award
Winner: Robinson Cano
The Yankees have a lot of players to thank for where they are. But the biggest thanks probably deserves to go to the studly second baseman Robinson Cano.
After he showed off his might winning the Home Run Derby, Cano continued to portray exemplary power – which is something that sometimes doesn't happen. There has been a theory going around these past few years that the derby messes up a hitter's swing.
Take David Wright on the other side of town, for example. He came close to winning the Home Run Derby in 2006, but according to some experts, never put up the same power numbers after that year. Same thing goes for Bobby Abreu, who won the derby in 2005, but never hit more than 20 dingers in a season following it.
Cano on the other hand has 27 homers, 116 RBIs, and is batting .305. He has been a consistent force in the Yankee lineup, taking on the cleanup hitter role in the absence of Alex Rodriguez. He has thrived in everything that has been thrown at him and continues to impress with his sweet swing and smooth stride.
Like Granderson he may be considered for AL MVP Award – last year he finished third in the voting. Whatever happens, he has been a major reason for the Yanks' success. Congrats Robinson!
Yankee Yapping WTF?! Award
Winner: A.J. Burnett
When Spring Training started, Yankee analysts (namely Ken Singleton) raved about the difference in A.J. Burnett. Singleton called his pitching delivery "completely revisited" and after watching a bullpen session, said Burnett's fastball and curve ball were "crackling through the strike zone."
Under the tutelage of first-year pitching coach Larry Rothschild, I thought he could finally go back to that dominant form he once displayed when he pitched for the Florida Marlins and the Toronto Blue Jays. A lot of other fans also felt Burnett was primed for a big year.
But those thoughts were not well-founded.
The man who was signed to a lucrative five-year, $82.5 million contract has not lived up to it, as he is 10-11 with a 5.28 ERA – after going 10-15 with a 5.26 ERA in 2010. He has given up 107 earned runs in 182 1/3 innings pitched, and has allowed more than a hit per inning. He also leads the league in wild pitches with 25 – and this is the third time in his career he has led the league in that category.
For the past few years I have attempted to defend Burnett for the sake of our initials. I can't take away from the fact that he pitched the game of his life in Game Two of the '09 World Series. If he had not won that game and pitched as effectively as he did, I'm not convinced the Yankees would have beaten the Phillies.
Yet New York sports supporters have one question, Burnett: what have you done for me lately?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And there is no way I can defend an ERA of 5.28 in a pitcher who cost $82.5 million. Burnett was supposed to be a solid number two starter and he hasn't even proved to be a good number four starter; maybe an acceptable number five man, but he is nowhere near what the Yankees expected him to be.
I lost a little bit of respect for him when he made a start in Minnesota vs. the Twins on Aug. 20. Burnett tossed just 1 2/3 innings before Joe Girardi came to the mound to take the ball from him. He allowed seven earned runs on five hits, walking three batters and striking out only one.
As he left the mound, Burnett lipped off at his manager and stormed into the clubhouse.
In my mind it was a complete and utter display of unprofessionalism.
After this year he is still owed $33 million – which is a lot of money. Unless the Yanks can get rid of him somehow, they might be stuck with him for at least another year and a half. I just don't know what to make of him anymore.
Burnett I have one question for you: WTF?!
Yankee Yapping "He Proved Me Wrong Award"
Winner: Ivan Nova
I had serious doubts about Ivan Nova when the year began. In a big game, I did not want to trust him with the ball, being that he was 1-2 with a 4.50 ERA in 10 games (seven starts) last year. In my mind I drew a comparison between him and Ian Kennedy (when he was a Yankee), thinking he would flop.
But soon after I found myself comparing him to Kennedy, I found myself comparing him to Chien-Ming Wang, being that his sinker ball has worked so effectively and he has induced a good amount of ground ball outs. Using that pitch, he has cruised to a 16-4 record this year with a 3.62 ERA.
Nova is in the running for the American League Rookie of the Year and is probably going to be the number two starter in the postseason – quite a responsibility for a 24-year old.
Although he has certainly proved me wrong as far as the regular season goes, he still has to show he can get it done when it matters. It remains to be seen whether Nova can help carry the Yanks in the postseason. But for now, he has shown an outstanding capability on the mound.
For the past two years pitchers have won Rookie of the Year; Andrew Bailey of Oakland in 2009 and Neftali Feliz of Texas in '10. I wish Nova the best of luck to keep the line of pitchers winning ROTY moving.
And if he doesn't win it, at least he won a Yankee Yapping Award. Congrats Ivan!
Yankee Yapping Best Season From a Newcomer
Winner: Russell Martin
He may be Canadian but after this year, I think he is officially a New Yorker.
Russell Martin was a wonderful pickup by the Yanks before 2011 commenced. He has displayed sheer durability, playing in 121 games this year. His batting average is hovering around.236, but he has smacked 17 home runs and knocked in 62 runs while scoring 55.
There's an old saying about catchers: having one that can hit is a bonus – and we have that bonus.
Martin has also done very well working with a pitching staff he has never worked with before. He has done very well with every hurler on the staff and in the bullpen, and can easily call a good game behind the plate.
I'm looking forward to another year with Martin in pinstripes and he deserves the honor of being called the best newcomer to the team. Congrats Russell!
Yankee Yapping Reliever of the Year
Winner: David Robertson
This will be David Robertson's second consecutive Yankee Yapping Reliever of the Year win. Last year he grinded through a slow start, only to become a lights-out relief man.
This year Robertson was an All-Star and in relief he is 4-0 with a tiny 1.11 ERA. The young man out of Alabama has struck out 96 batters in 64 2/3 innings pitched, has notched 39 holds, and has carved his niche as the primary setup man for Rivera.
He's also earned the nickname "Houdini" for being able to get out of tight jams and sticky situations.
Robertson has been an asset ever since he joined the Yanks in 2008, and they have been lucky to have such a consistent bullpen pitcher on their roster. He scuffled a bit in last year's postseason, but if he maintains that consistency he displayed all season, he will do just fine.
Congrats David!
Yankee Yapping Future Star Award
Winner: Jesus Montero
On Sept. 1 Jesus Montero made his much-anticipated debut in a game against the hated Boston Red Sox. He went 0-for-4 while getting hit by a pitch, and didn't impress many fans in his first game.
But he collected his first hit in the next game against Toronto, and a few days later on Sept. 5 crushed his first two homers against the Baltimore Orioles at home. He became the first Yankee since Shane Spencer (1998) to hit his first two Major League homers in the same game.
Montero has only played in 14 games and still has a long way to go in terms of showing off what he can do. There are certainly high hopes and expectations, but from what he has given us so far, I believe he is capable; he can live up to the hype.
With Jorge Posada likely on his way out and Francisco Cervelli constantly getting knocked in the head, Montero is likely the catcher of the future.
With Martin around for at least another year, he can learn the ropes a little bit and still act as a designated hitter. That way when his time comes and he is the every day catcher, he will be more than ready.
In the meantime, it was smart of the Yankees to call him up and at least give him a taste of the majors. If he gets his little bit of experience now, I have no doubt he will be very dangerous in the future. And for that, he wins the Yankee Yapping Future Star Award.
Congrats Jesus!
Well, that about does it for this year's awards blog. Congrats to all the winners (save for A.J. Burnett; I'm just sorry for him at this point) and congrats to the Yankees on the AL East crown. Within the next few days we will have our ALDS opponent, so look out for previews and playoff analysis.
October, here we come.


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Tri-state couples marry despite lack of same-sex rights
Ohioans could vote on marriage equality
As the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the same-sex marriage issued, one woman in the Tri-state has been marrying same-sex couples for years.
"There's a huge demand in this area. We have many, many same sex couples who have been together a long, long time," Gay Glasscott said.
Glasscott is an ordained minister who said she married between 25 and 30 same-sex couples every year in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
"People who are supportive, committed, loving, raise children or not. The message should be, 'Let's just accept people as they are,'" Glasscott said.
But evangelicals aren't impressed by Glasscott's work.
"All major religions believe marriage is between one man and one woman," Citizens for Community Values member Phil Burress said.
Glasscott disagreed and said she believes attitudes, especially in the Tri-state, are changing.
"I think a lot of couples are just waiting to see the direction they are going to be able to take. Either they're going to be married or they won't have legal rights," Glasscott said.
Groups across Ohio are gathering signatures and organizers believe citizens will get a chance to vote on the marriage issue this year or next.


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(ARA) - Whether traveling on vacation or staying home, the summer means more time spent out and about. With activities ranging from swimming at the local pool to attending festivals, amusement parks and sporting events, people are visiting new places and new buildings.
The Elevator and Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) and the National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) remind people to ride safely when using building transportation. NEII and EESF together promote escalator safety rules and encourage building and equipment owners to make riders aware of them.
"Escalators are an extremely safe form of transportation," says Barbara Allen, executive director and spokesperson for EESF. "They transport more than 300 million people in North America daily. However, it's always important to follow simple safety guidelines and adults, especially, should supervise and set a good example for their children."
Some tips for a safe ride:
When entering escalators:
* Watch the direction of the moving step and step on and off with extra care.
* Take care if you are wearing bifocals or similar eyewear.
* Hold children firmly with one arm or hold child's free hand.
* Hold small packages firmly in one hand, but always leave one hand available to hold the handrail.
* Grasp the handrail as you step onto the moving step.
* Do not go in the opposite direction of the escalator.
* Do not take wheelchairs, electric scooters, strollers, hand carts, luggage carts or similar items on the escalator.
When riding escalators:
* Keep loose clothing clear of steps and sides.
* Wear closed-toed and hard-soled shoes, and avoid wearing footwear made of soft-resin or other rubbery materials.
* Stand clear of the sides of the escalator.
* Face forward and hold handrail for the entire ride.
* Reposition your hand slowly if the handrail moves slightly ahead or behind the steps.
* Don't rest any items or parcels on the handrail or lean against the sides.
* Don't climb onto or ride the handrail.
* Do not let children sit on steps or stand too close to sides.
* If children are too small to hold handrail, or holding the handrail pulls them close to the side of the escalator, hold their hand and keep them centered on the step.
When exiting escalators:
* Don't hesitate and step off promptly.
* Make sure to step over the comb fingers; don't let your feet slide off the end of the escalator.
* Immediately move clear of the escalator exit area; don't stop to talk or look around since other passengers may be behind you.
For more information about escalator safety, visit the NEII Web site at www.neii.org, or the EESF Web site at www.eesf.org. The EESF Web site offers online interactive safety programs for both children and adults.
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As you could have guess considering my latest update to my iPXE setup, I'm currently giving a try to Debian GNU along with FreeBSD kernel – Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
The hardware I'm giving this try with is neither simple nor complicated: it's old but it's also laptop; a Dell Latitude C640 with a P4 mobile CPU and 1GB RAM.
The install was made over network. There's nothing overly complicated but to avoid wasting time, it's always good to properly RTFM. For instance, I learned too late that kFreeBSD does not handle / partition set on a logical one. I did not understood exactly how come, but I had to get my / partition on ufs (ext2 for /home was ok though). I did not even got into ZFS, as it looks like it's not recommended with a simple i686 CPU. It took me a while and find no way to get my NFS4 partitions mounted as usual from /etc/fstab, or even with mount, I had to add a dirty call to /sbin/mount_nfs -o nfsv4 gate:/all /path in /etc/rc.local. And when it came to Xorg, I found the mouse to be sometimes working, sometimes not, plenty of overly complicated and confusing info on the web, to finally come up with a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf containing only Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" EndSection (on three lines).
These are some little inconveniencies that you would not expect with a recent GNU/Linux system install, that the debian-installer does not prevent you in any way to hit/create. I'm not even sure that I found the best fixes for them. It feels a bit like installing RedHat 5.2 🙂 with is more than what I actually expected.
So far I did not encountered any issue to get anything working but the suspend/sleep and general energy management looks much less reliable (with xfce4). On a side note, the fact that only OSS is available with kFreeBSD pushed me to update my wakey.pl script, I expect it to run on any BSD now.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – April 8, 2005 [revised May 3, 2005]) Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard will present Monday the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Awards to victims' rights advocates at the Victims' Rights Week Kick-Off Event held on the State Senate Lawn.
These awards will be presented in recognition of uncommon commitment, exemplary service, and contribution to and protecting victims' rights to justice and due process, and to improving the treatment of crime victims.
Attorney General's Distinguished Award for Leadership will be presented to Kym Pasqualini, National Center for Missing Adults, a division of Nation's Missing Children Organization.
In 1994, Pasqualini founded the Nation's Missing Children Organization in Phoenix. She expanded the organization's charter in 1995 to accept cases of those over the age of 18. She recognized that missing adults and their families were a segment of the victim population that had not yet been recognized as victims and were underserved.
In 1996, she set out to gain the assistance of Congress by introducing legislation to establish the first national clearinghouse for missing adults. In June 2002 Pasqualini was awarded a grant to establish the National Center for Missing Adults.
Attorney General's Distinguished Award for Public Policy will be presented to Deborah Tredway of the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence for her determination to change the penalty in spousal rape cases in Arizona.
Rape is rape. Yet in Arizona, there are different penalties for sexual assault and sexual assault on a spouse. Concerned that the penalty for a first offense is equal to a misdemeanor, Deborah Tredway decided to take her concerns to the Arizona State Legislature in 2004.
Working with the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Tredway became an accomplished citizen lobbyist. This year HB 2304 is making its way through the legislature and is ready to be voted on by the State House of Representatives.
Attorney General's Distinguished Award for Service Coordination will be presented to Mesa Police Department Detective Coy Johnston and Domestic Violence Specialist Andrea Sierra from the Domestic Violence Enforcement Response Team (DVERT).
Detective Johnson and Ms. Sierra strive to quickly arrest domestic violence offenders as well as work with the victims of domestic violence to educate them on the cycle of violence. What makes their collaboration unique is that one is a sworn officer and the other is a civilian victim specialist. This combination brings different perspectives to the solutions of problems.
Their accomplishments include helping to organize the "31 Days of October", a statewide DV awareness campaign (which was recognized by the Governor) and helping to establish a statewide warrant roundup coinciding with DV awareness month.
The Attorney General's Distinguished Award for Advocacy Direct Services will be presented to Terri Woodmansee, Crisis Services Coordinator for the Goodyear Police Department. Ms. Woodmansee was hired as a 911 operator in 1999, and through her job realized that more could be done to help crime victims in Goodyear. She researched various programs over three years and applied for grant funding to open a Crisis Services Unit for the City of Goodyear.
Ms. Woodmansee set up the unit, working part-time on victims' services while continuing to work as a 911 operator fulltime. Ms. Woodmansee recruited volunteers, and now heads up a program that operates 24 hours, 7-days a week. Since the unit started, the City of Goodyear has provided services to more than 800 victims and is currently working on 381 open cases.
The Attorney General's Distinguished Award for Advocacy Direct Services will be presented to the Phoenix Fire Department's Community Assistance Program. The Community Assistance Program began delivering crisis intervention and victims' assistance services on scene in 1998. The program is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to respond to police or fire requests. It is a primarily volunteer-based program with over 28,000 hours donated in 2004. The program provides services such as explaining investigative and judicial processes, explaining victims' rights and compensation, providing transportation and emergency financial assistance, and delivering death notifications.
Attorney General's Distinguished Award for Innovative Practices will be presented to ChildhelpUSA for its Mobile Center of Northern Arizona. Childhelp USA has made itself a frontrunner in the race to eliminate child abuse and to provide the best possible services to victims.
Childhelp chose to adapt the advocacy center model, which has been highly effective in the investigation of child abuse by housing in different investigative agencies one location. Childhelp USA took this concept to the next level with the Childhelp USA Mobile Center of Northern Arizona. Childhelp saw a gap in the rural areas where the closest investigative services are four to six hours away, and developed a solution.
Childhelp partners with local law enforcement agencies throughout Northern Arizona and provides the mobile center with comprehensive, professional services and state-of-the-art telemedicine for the investigation, treatment and prevention of child abuse. The mobile center provides a child-friendly traveling location where interviews and medical examinations are conducted and used for evidence in successful prosecution of child abusers.
Earlier this month, the founders of Childhelp USA were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work to end child abuse.


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Here's Rihanna, heading to dinner at Nobu in Tribeca on a particularly blustery night in NYC. She's carrying the Louis Vuitton x Frank Gehry Twisted Box Monogram Bag, which retails for $4,400 in select Vuitton stores as part of the brand's "Celebrating Monogram" collaboration with six fashion and design luminaries. (The asymmetrical shape of this bag is intentional, it hasn't been slightly smashed by Ri-Ri.)
You can get a better look at the complete collection here, and read more about it on the brand's website. "Celebrating Monogram" is a varied and at times slightly bizarre collection, but it does feature several other notable contributions from Karl Lagerfeld, photographer Cindy Sherman, and design guru Mark Newson.


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Social media and mainstream media is abuzz with this article in BMJ by Martin A Makary and Michael Daniel entitled "Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US." This image summarizes the headlines most people wrote:
While this makes for a great headline, most of the journalists and those in the media evaluating the BMJ article do like they usually do and run the headline without actually digging into the details of the study itself. Lucky for us, David Gorski, has published a really great analysis of the article on the Science-Based Medicine blog. I won't summarize it here, since you should go and read David's article in full. We'll be here when you get back.
What everyone acknowledges is that medical errors take the lives of many in the US Health System. In fact, it happens in every health system. What's also clear from this discussion is that there are A LOT of complexities associated with how you define when a death was caused by medical error, what is defined as a medical error, etc etc etc. David's article above finishes with this summary on the importance of patient safety and decreasing death due to medical errors which is the point I think we should take from it all:
Over the last three years, I've learned for myself from firsthand experience just how difficult it is to improve the quality of patient care. I've also learned from firsthand experience that nowhere near all adverse outcomes are due to negligence or error on the part of physicians and nurses. None of this is to say that every effort shouldn't be made to improve patient safety. Absolutely that should be a top health care policy priority. It's an effort that will require the rigorous application of science-based medicine on top of expenditures to make changes in the health care system, as well as agreement on exactly how to define and measure medical errors. After all, one death due to medical error is too much, and even if the number is "only" 20,000 that is still too high and needs urgent attention to be brought down. Unfortunately, I also know that, human systems being what they are, the rate will never be reduced to zero. That shouldn't stop us from trying to make that number as close to zero as we can.
Unfortunately, I believe that false headlines with inflated numbers don't help us understand the real problem and address it. The inflated numbers from the so called "study" just cause us to confuse the issues. The numbers really don't pass the "smell test" on a number of levels. Not the least of which, from my perspective, is that we don't have more medical malpractice lawsuits. In this sue happy society, if there were 251k deaths due to medical error, we'd have many more medical malpractice lawsuits out there. David explains a bunch more reasons why the numbers don't make sense and why they're really hard to calculate, so go and read those if you want a more detailed analysis.
Gong back to the earlier quote. Even if the number was 20,000, that's still far too many. We know medical errors cause death and we should work hard to prevent that from happening. Since I write from a tech perspective, I'm interested in thinking about how technology could impact these medical error rates.
From a tech perspective, I always find it interesting to read stories about the way EHR software can help prevent medical errors. The basic analysis usually points to things like drug to drug interaction checking, drug to allergy interaction checking, and other clinical decision support tools. No doubt simple checks like this can have an impact on the number of medical errors in a healthcare organization. We'll leave the discussions of alert fatigue for another discussion.
Very few people would argue against the concept that having the right information at the right time will help doctors and nurses reduce medical errors. Ideally, that's what technology should help facilitate. Plus, technology should help analyze massive amounts of health data (both personal and general) in order to facilitate the provider in their care of the patient. In many cases, that's exactly what technology can and does do for healthcare. However, we're not living in an ideal world. Technology can also increase the number of medical errors when implemented poorly or improperly.
In some cases, EHR software perpetuates misinformation and leads to providers having the wrong information at the wrong time. Sometimes the clinical decision support algorithms fail. I could go on and on about the potential issues. These are a problem and now that EHR software is a major part of most health systems, we're going to see the number of medical errors due to EHR software increase. However, in doing so, we shouldn't forget that paper had its own medical error issues as well.
Another major cause of medical errors related to EHR software is when providers create an over reliance on the software for clinical decision making. This concern is often couched as "new doctors don't know how to see patients without an EHR." I think this concern only partially explains the risk of medical errors that we could experience if we're not careful with our over reliance on technology in the care we provide patients.
Just this weekend I had this experience in my own personal life. We were headed to a new restaurant on Saturday night. We plugged the address into the GPS and started following the instructions it gave us to get to the restaurant. After turning into an apartment complex, we knew that we'd relied a little too much on technology and it had led us astray.
The banter between my wife and I was telling. As the GPS told us to turn into the apartment complex I told my wife that something didn't feel right about these directions. My wife told me that it said to turn there. It was easy for me to succumb to my wife's reliance on technology and not follow my own intuition and experience to navigate us a better direction.
In my wife and I's case, nothing too serious was on the line (although the kids were getting antsy in the back of the car). Sure, it took us about 5 more minutes to get to the restaurant, but we made it without any major harm. The same isn't true in healthcare where if providers aren't careful, their over reliance on technology can cause medical errors that could even lead to loss of life. Plus, group think about technologies ability (or inabilities) can also cause trouble.
Like most things in life, we can take any of these approaches too far. We can't be irrational about any specific approach since these are complex problems which require a detailed approach to understanding and mitigating their impact. Sometimes technology can be the solution to medical errors, but it can also be the problem if we're not careful. It always takes the right balance to make sure we're reducing medical errors as much as possible while not causing new ones.


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Canmore Art Guild Gallery at Elevation Place Annual Christmas Show and Sale
Saturday December 1, 2018 — Tuesday January 8, 2019
Canmore Art Guild Gallery at Elevation Place 700 Railway Ave #100, Canmore, AB T1W 1P4


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A very interesting find…
When my wife texted me yesterday saying she had bought me a surprise present I thought that I had finally worn her down enough to give in and buy me a Mustang. When I finally got home and didn't see it all shiny and new on the driveway I thought to myself 'Aah, she has parked it somewhere or we pick it up tomorrow, there is probably a picture of it in a card, or the keys are hanging up…
There were no keys. There was no picture. There was, instead, a little wooden box, with a couple of engraved plaques on. Now, I will be honest, I was a little bit disappointed (but not totally surprised) that there was no mustang, but on closer inspection this box could be a little gem all of its own.
The box is maybe 4 or 5 inches square with a large etching of Jerusalem on the lid, and at the front an inscription to the giver and recipient of this box. The inscription reads:
Presented to Vice-Admiral Sir R Halliday DGI
By M.G. E. Barak DMI/IDF
Hmmm. Vice-Admiral huh? Interesting! Was my initial reaction and an hour later I discovered that this Vice-Admiral was a WW2 Naval officer who earned multiple gallantry awards, was shot down by the Japs, rescued by royalty and went on to become a Knight of the Realm…
Roy William Halliday was born on June 27th 1923 studied at William Ellis School and University College School before volunteering in 1939 for the Royal Navy solely in an effort to avoid at all costs the infantry. His previous seagoing experience had been the hardship of a deckhand's life in a Lowestoft fishing trawler. Initially entering service in 1941 as a naval rating at HMS Royal Arthur at Skegness, he was quickly offered a commission as an officer in the RNVR and asked to train as a naval airman. He immediately accepted without hesitation and probably didn't make the connection that one telling reason for his quick promotion was the casuality rates for naval airman at this time!
Although not yet at war, the US was secretly providing training for British airmen. Halliday was shipped to Canada and then to the US naval air station at Grosse Ile, near Detroit, followed by highly intensive flying training at Pensacola, Florida, where he obtained his "wings" after 300 hours solo.
Pearl Harbor enabled the British at last to wear uniform. Halliday was appointed to a squadron of Grumman Avengers, a sturdy US-designed carrier-borne bomber, and joined the escort carrier Chaser in the Gulf of Mexico.
Three months of anti-submarine patrols in the Atlantic were followed by deployment to the Royal Naval Air Station HMS Sparrowhawk at Hatston in Orkney, as a guard against the escape of German heavy warships from Norway into the convoy routes.
Halliday's squadron was then embarked in the large carrier HMS Illustrious, which arrived in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in January 1944. It thereafter carried out bombing raids on Japanese installations in Java and Sumatra, as well as operations in support of General Slim's 14th Army in Burma.
Halliday had transferred to the HMS Victorious by January 24, 1945, the day of the largest raid carried out by the Fleet Air Arm, on oil refineries at Palembang in Sumatra, which were bombed by aircraft from four large carriers. During the raid Halliday's Avenger was shot up by a Japanese Zero fighter, and after a hair-raising flight, on fire, over mountainous jungle he ditched in the Java Sea and was picked up in his dinghy by the destroyer HMS Whelp, part of Force 63, a group of destroyers whose job it was to patrol the waters around Sumatra.
As the downed men struggled to inflate their life raft, and with the plane rapidly filling with water, the first lieutenant of HMS Whelp dispatched a rescue boat to haul them to safety.
In an interview with the BBC Halliday's air-gunner in that plane, Norman 'Dickie' Richardson, recounts the moment of rescue. "The first lieutenant was leaning over the rail and introduced himself as Lieutenant Philip," recalls Dickie. He arranged clean, dry clothes for them, and ensured they were fed and watered. At the time, they had no idea who he was – but his friendliness and efficiency remained with them.
It was some time later that they were to discover they were rescued by Philip Mountbatten, Prince of Greece, soon to be HRH Prince Phillip.
Returning to HMS Victorious, Halliday found that his cabin mate had been shot down and was a PoW. He was one of nine British naval aircrew who were paraded in Changi Prison, Singapore, two days after VJ Day and beheaded, to Halliday's great distress.
In the meantime, Halliday had continued in Victorious, taking part in raids on Formosa (Taiwan), the Ryuku islands and finally the Japanese mainland. Soon after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs ended the war, he was shipped home in the troop ship Rangitiki, having been awarded two Mentions in Dispatches and the Distinguished Service Cross for his gallantry and skill.
More research needs to be done into exactly where/when/why/how he won these 3 gallantry awards, a quick check through the online London Gazette has come up blank, which is not surprising as the search engine is rubbish. A search of the National Archives list of recommendations for gallantry awards between 1935 and 1990 also came up blank, although not that many RNVR awards are in there…so I will have to keep looking!
He took up the offer of a permanent RN commission and was appointed as a test pilot to the experimental establishment at Boscombe Down, where an exciting tour meant that he flew the newest types of jet aircraft.
From 1973 to 1981 Halliday was part of the defence intelligence network, initially as Director of Naval Intelligence in the Ministry of Defence. His tour in Washington as head of the British naval mission and naval attaché had a high intelligence content — unlike the other two services the naval staff was based in the Pentagon itself.
On return to the UK in 1978 he was promoted to vice-admiral and appointed Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Intelligence), in charge of the intelligence function of all three services. He was appointed KBE in 1980 and, as a mark of his undoubted acumen and his sound judgment about Cold War issues, was, unusually, continued in the quasi-civilian post of Director-General (Intelligence) as an under-secretary of state for a further three years, finally retiring in 1984. This period included the Falklands conflict. He was also chairman of trustees of the Burma Star Association and chairman of the British Military Power Boat Trust, which restores and preserves boats of historical interest.
So…an interesting character. It's amazing what you can find in your local charity shop isn't it?


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Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia
- Coverage Dates: 1943-1945
- Update Frequency: in process
Ships for Victory:J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia consists of eighty-four black-and-white photographs from the J.A. Jones Construction Company collection at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict the company's World War II cargo ship building activities in its Brunswick, Georgia shipyard from 1943 to 1945. The images document the life cycle of the Liberty and Knot ships built in Brunswick: from keel-laying and hull construction to christening and launch. Construction techniques are visible in many of the photographs, and several images feature the shipyard's male and female laborers and management staff. In addition, the launch photographs feature ship sponsors and other dignitaries. Of particular note is a series of photographs depicting Christmas Day, 1944, when the shipyard workers volunteered to work through the holiday, donating their time-and-a-half pay as a Christmas gift to the nation.
Database Provider: Digital Library of Georgia.
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PUEBLA, Mexico — It was the stuff of a major film studio's next animation project: Nine African baby elephants orphaned after their parents were poached, but then miraculously rescued to a wild game park in Latin America. In the highlands of central Mexico, pee wee pachyderms the size of Volkswagen Beetles could wander around, wide-eyed as they munched on tortillas and donned sombreros in their new home.
Except that the government of Namibia, where they came from, says it didn't happen that way.
The nine elephants that made a big media splash last week lumbering off a cargo plane, on their way to a reserve in Puebla, were the result of a commercial sale. Despite reports to the contrary, the creatures had never been truly, fully free. They also aren't babies, but youngsters ranging from 4 to 10 years old, said Boas Erkki, deputy director at the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism.
The elephants were sold by the original owner, a farm, to the Namib Game Services private reserve and their mothers were not poached, Erkki told The Associated Press on Monday. The Namib Game Services sold the animals because they didn't have enough space to keep them, he said.
Even without the poachers, the elephants had a pretty good tale. They spent 24 hours in tight quarters as they flew over the Atlantic in a chartered jet. They had stopovers in Brazil and Chile. Then a two-hour truck drive to the city of Puebla before they arrived at their new home at Africam Safari, a 900-acre wildlife preserve whose name is a combination of Africa and the family name of the park's owner — Frank Carlos Camacho.
The delivery was the brainchild of Camacho, whose preserve is just south of Mexico City.
The unlikely African acquisition began when Debbie Olson, director of the International Elephant Foundation based outside Fort Worth, Texas, learned of nine young elephants in Namibia that needed a new home. She put out the word to her board of directors, which includes Camacho.
Camacho had always planned to add a couple of elephants to his wildlife preserve, where ostriches, lemurs, giraffes, zebras and monkeys roam in spacious containment areas to the delight of visitors.
What appeared to be a marketer's dream come true soon soured, when the government of Namibia complained that news reports wrongly said the elephants were orphaned and Camacho was rescuing them.
Camacho denies telling journalists that the elephants' parents were killed by poachers. But he did use the term "rescue" and that has proved controversial.
"In no way can this export be considered to be a 'rescue' mission, nor were these elephants orphans," said a Namibian government press release. "These young elephants were in good condition at the time of leaving Namibia and were not at risk of being destroyed by this Ministry."
Camacho said he learned that the private preserve was offering up the animals because it was too small to maintain them. In May, Camacho flew to central Namibia to check out his little herd, and discovered they already had become a family.
The oldest elephant, about 10, is the size of a minivan and had been nicknamed "Big Boy" — clearly the leader of the pack. The youngest, "Chico," or "Little Boy," is 4 years old. The pack included one other male and six females.
The next step, getting them to Mexico, turned out not to be that difficult. Camacho successfully navigated through two government bureaucracies. He chartered a plane big enough for his precious cargo.
Getting them onto the plane was another matter.
"It would have been much harder if they were adults," said Cecilia Geiger, a spokeswoman for Africam Safari. The elephants obediently boarded on their own, with Big Boy leading the smaller ones up a ramp and into the cargo bay, where the elephants were put in big crates.
Camacho accompanied them, listening to the elephant chatter as they crossed the Atlantic.
"We could all feel that they had a special connection," he said.
During a reporter's visit Friday, the herd looked happy enough, playing outside in a huddle near a muddy watering pool, tossing sand with their skinny trunks, their white tusk buds barely visible. Eventually, those buds could grow into 8-foot long tusks. The elephants will grow two times their current size.
"Elephants can do just fine on their own as long as people can substitute for other elephants," said Ted Friend, professor of animal behavior at Texas A&M University. In captivity, a human trainer usually takes on the necessary role of the female elephant, he said.
As for the nine elephants at Camacho's zoo, Friend sees no problem with their environment. "It'll be a little different than what they would have had in the wild, but in a situation where they're controlled by people, then I don't see a problem."
While the Namibian government said the elephants are not orphans, and did not grow up in the wild, their origins remain a mystery. It isn't clear where the elephants' parents are, or even if any of the nine are related.
There is only one way to find out, Camacho said. He pointed at his elephants.
"You have to ask them," he said.
9 young elephants find new home in Mexican zoo
PUEBLA, Mexico — It was the stuff of a major film studio's next animation project: Nine African baby elephants orphaned after their parents were poached, but then miraculously rescued to a wild game park in Latin America. In the highlands of central Mexico, pee wee pachyderms the size of Volkswagen Beetles could wander around, wide-eyed as they munched on tortillas and donned sombreros in their new home.


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