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Errors, misjudgments cost Cubs in loss to Giants
CHICAGO -- The Cubs left Arizona just two weeks ago, and it seems as if they've forgotten some of the defensive drills they did in the desert.
The Giants took advantage of a sloppy fourth inning Thursday to rally from a five-run deficit and post a 7-6 victory. Pablo Sandoval hit a two-run double and Angel Pagan drove in two runs, including a tie-breaking sac fly in the fifth, for San Francisco.View Full Game Coverage
CHICAGO -- The Cubs left Arizona just two weeks ago, and it seems as if they've forgotten some of the defensive drills they did in the desert.
The Giants took advantage of a sloppy fourth inning Thursday to rally from a five-run deficit and post a 7-6 victory. Pablo Sandoval hit a two-run double and Angel Pagan drove in two runs, including a tie-breaking sac fly in the fifth, for San Francisco.View Full Game Coverage
"You spend hours and hours on [defense] for 45 days of Spring Training, and to have the lapses in the games when it counts, it costs you games, it costs you pitches, it costs you not being able to go five innings," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said.
The Cubs rallied in the second against Ryan Vogelsong (1-1) as Nate Schierholtz singled to lead off against his former team, and moved up on Welington Castillo's single. One out later, Brent Lillibridge hit into a fielder's choice, forcing Castillo out at second. But shortstop Brandon Crawford's throw to first sailed, allowing Schierholtz to score on the error.
With one out in the Chicago third, Starlin Castro doubled and Anthony Rizzo launched the first pitch into the left-field bleachers. The Cubs loaded the bases, and Lillibridge smacked a two-run single, his first hit of the season, to go ahead, 5-0.
Rizzo now has three home runs, and all three have come on the first pitch. Opposing teams may change their strategy.
"You go up there looking for a pitch to hit and just being selectively aggressive," Rizzo said. "Hopefully, they keep throwing me first-pitch strikes."
The Cubs' lead was short-lived. The Giants had two on and two outs when Vogelsong reached on an error by Castro, who misjudged the grounder, trying to hurry his throw. One run scored. Pagan was safe on an infield single that Lillibridge fielded cleanly, but held because starter Scott Feldman was slow to cover first base. Another run scored. After Feldman hit Crawford with a pitch, Sandoval smacked his double to pull within one, 5-4.
"I feel really bad," Castro said of his error. "It's one of the plays I have to make. It's a routine play. The pitcher is running. I feel really bad those things happen. You have to know the pitcher is running. You have to be ready to wait for the ball and throw."
Castro led all Major League shortstops with 27 errors last season. He now has three in nine games this season.
"That one is basically not understanding that the pitcher hit the ball and you had plenty of time," Sveum said of Castro's miscue. "You didn't have to over-charge the ball and over-cook that whole play."
What happened with Feldman on the Pagan grounder?
"When I saw the ball was hit, I broke for the base," said Feldman, who also was charged with an error in the first when he botched another Pagan grounder. "I was expecting the throw [in the fourth]. I haven't looked at the replay, but maybe from the angle we were positioned at, it wouldn't have worked."
Feldman may be taking grounders at Wrigley on Friday.
"We'll have to get [Feldman] out early to start working on it, because that ain't acceptable," Sveum said.
Pitch count forced Feldman (0-2) out with two on and one out in the fifth. Nick Noonan singled to load the bases for his third hit of the game, and Hisanori Takahashi then walked Vogelsong to force in the tying run. Pagan hit a sacrifice fly and Crawford followed with an RBI single to go ahead, 7-5.
"It was a pretty good game for eight innings, but we couldn't cover first base twice, walked the pitcher, and the eighth hitter got three hits," Sveum said. "That was basically the ballgame, the eighth and ninth hitters."
The weather didn't help anyone's mood. It was a miserable 40 degrees at game time and fog enveloped the Wrigleyville neighborhood. Most of the sparse crowd, announced at 25,460, had umbrellas, ponchos, blankets, or all three, while the Cubs had an extra heater in the dugout, thanks to Sveum. They needed every advantage possible to deal with the reigning champs.
Rizzo had another chance in the ninth. The Cubs had closed to 7-6 in the eighth when Alfonso Soriano doubled and scored one batter later when Castillo grounded into a double play. In the ninth, Chicago had one on and two outs against Sergio Romo, and Rizzo took the first two pitches, both called strikes. Two pitches later, Romo got Rizzo looking at strike three.
"That's the situation we want to be in there," Rizzo said. "I just didn't come through today."
Romo, who has now saved all but one of the Giants' wins this year, focused on making quality pitches.
"He's a good hitter, a dangerous guy," Romo said. "He was in a position where he could have possibly won the game for his team. I wasn't really trying to pitch around him, but at the same time I wasn't like, 'Here you go,' either."
This was the first time the Giants rallied to win after a five-run deficit since Sept. 7, 2008, when they did so against the Pirates.
The Cubs, on the other hand, now lead the Majors with 10 errors.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.


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Rats in alleyways. Rats in backyards. Rats boldly gnawing through heavy plastic garbage bags. Rats that seem to be the size of cats. Rats everywhere.
Those living in the Riverview area of Lansdowne have faced such scenes for some time now.
Help from an unexpected source seems to be the only thing keeping the rat population somewhat under control in the area.
"We have snakes in the area, trust me that's something I want," said Ron Whitehead, president of Riverview-Ryerson Circle Communities Association. "Snakes eat rats."
The community has been plagued with an infestation of rats that has continued to grow while concerned residents battled with county code enforcement officials to take action.
This week, that action will take place, according to Lionel van Dommelen, chief of code enforcement for Baltimore County.
The county's Rat Attack program, a countywide effort to treat and eliminate rat infestations, began in Riverview Feb. 11.
Rats have been a problem in Riverview for more than three years, according to Whitehead.
Trash accumulation in alleyways, called easements, is the main cause of the growing infestation, he said.
"People just throw stuff in there, they're a mess," Whitehead said.
Whitehead said that the trash, combined with people not picking up dog waste and leaving out food for birds, has created a massive problem in his neighborhood.
"People throwing food out for birds and squirrels, it's a smorgasbord for rats and rodents," he said.
Dommelen agreed that trash is one of the biggest attractions that bring rats to a neighborhood.
"The population of rats will grow or shrink in direct proportion to the food supply," Dommelen said.
"If folks are not cleaning these things up and storing their trash properly, then the population grows," he said.
A single breeding pair of rats can, under ideal circumstances, produce as many as 80 offspring in one year, according to a county press release.
Dommelen said that purchasing metal trash cans and making sure to pick up dog waste can make a big difference.
The county's rat eradication program began last April. It has treated more than 2,100 county residences so far under a five-year, $750,000 contact with a local exterminator at a cost of $8 per residence.
Daniel Purdie, or "Big Dan, the Pest Man," a licensed exterminator based in Gwynn Oak, contracted with the county, and was scheduled to begin targeting and treating rat burrows in Riverview Monday, Feb 11.
He injects the holes with a poisonous powder called Ditrac. Once the rats leave their burrows, it will get onto their fur and later kill them.
"In their normal grooming process, they will ingest this Ditrac powder and it will take about five to seven days to kill them," Dommelen said. "Typically, they tend to die in their burrows."
After the exterminator is done treating the area, the county will begin performing "trash sweeps" in an effort to prevent any recurrences and ticketing residents who are still not storing trash properly.
County representatives will inspect the area and issue tickets for four weeks following the first trash sweep. It's expected that continued monitoring will create positive changes in the community.
"We find that the number of tickets we issue decreases each week," Dommelen said, noting that residents adjust their trash disposal habits to be less rat-friendly.
Harriet Pitman, a Riverview resident, said that even after purchasing rat poison and setting traps, she is still seeing rats all around the neighborhood.
"I think we're keeping them down in the block here as best we can, but they're still coming in," Pitman said.
Pitman said she is relieved that the county is coming in to take over.
"It is terrible. They eat holes in the plastic trash cans," she said. "They're big, and they do need to be treated, and I'm glad they're getting out here to do something about it."
While Whitehead was disappointed with the length of time it took for Baltimore County to address the problem, Dommelen said communities were addressed based on number of complaints and accessibility to affected properties.
"There's a large part of the community which has overgrowth in the rear of the properties," Dommelen said of Riverview. "So that would make it very difficult for him (the exterminator) in the summertime."
First District Councilman Tom Quirk, who represents the area, has worked extensively with Whitehead to bring the program to Riverview.
"This is something that I know Ron's community has been wanting for a long time," Quirk said.
The Huntsmoor community of Arbutus had a rat eradication attack take place last August, according to a county release.
It did take longer than we had ideally hoped for, but it's finally moving forward," Quirk said, "I'm very happy that we can finally make this happen."


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STAMFORD -- A tractor-trailer making a delivery at Hope Street Pizza Friday morning pulled down some drooping wires and snapped two power poles, knocking out power to more than 170 people.
The accident, which happened at approximately 8:30 a.m., closed part of Rock Spring Road to traffic for several hours.
Witnesses and Connecticut Light and Power workers on the scene said the truck was exiting Hope Street Pizza's driveway close to 50 yards up Rock Spring Road from the Hope Street intersection.
After the truck rolled up the driveway, it caught some wires, police said.
Officers on scene said the truck, at 14 feet high, was legal for the road and the wires must have been drooping, possibly because of the heat.
CL&P supervisor Patrick Grant said the truck at first pulled down telephone wires that then ended up snapping two poles and cutting power to the neighborhood.
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The government has abolished the requirement to detail layout and scale in outline planning applications
The current rules were dropped following an amendment to the existing legislation at the start of this year (2013) - click here to see The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) (Amendment No. 3) Order 2012.
The move, which officially comes into force on 31 January 2013, is part of a bid by the government to streamline information requirements for outline planning applications aimed at speeding up decisions and reducing costs.
Councils will also be encouraged to regularly update their information requirements as part of the reform.
Previously outline planning applications were required to set out building locations, widths, lengths and upper and lower heights. Information about open spaces and routes was also needed.
The reform came as the government published its response to a consultation on the changes. Some local planning authorities opposed dropping layout information from the outline stage.
But developers argued that providing detail at outline stage was unnecessary and resulted in 'outline applications [becoming as costly] as submitting a full application'.
The DCLG report said: 'We consider that local planning authorities are better placed to judge the information required on a site-by-site basis and this proposal will allow for greater flexibility and proportionality, having regard to the complexity and specific context of a particular application.
'As such, we have decided to take this proposal forward.'
Opportunities to simplify design and access statement requirements will also be reviewed by government.
'The Order is extremely short, but its legal effects will be wide-ranging' said Marcus Bate, planning expert at Pinsent Masons.
'The volume of information required to be submitted with outline planning applications could be significantly reduced, resulting in cost savings for applicants and speeding up determination by local planning authorities. This should help to address the gradual decline in the use of outline applications following the erosion of the gap between costs and information requirements for outline and detailed applications.'
The British Property Federation welcomed the removal of layout and scale specifications, adding that local authorities should be able to decide whether to require such information from applicants.
In response to design and access statement requirements, it said: 'In line with the wider culture change that is being encouraged by the National Planning Policy Framework and the Localism Act, we believe that it is crucial that applicants and local planning authorities alike need to change their way of thinking, in order to reduce the unnecessarily large design and access statements that are currently produced – with both outline and full planning applications alike.'
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It never ceases to amaze me how the news snooze media got away with this utter farce - after showing it (repeatedly) to hundreds of millions of TV viewers.
The below clip - featuring early ABC TV reports - contains some of the most painfully contrived acting on the part of the various "heroic on-the-street" TV reporters. Watch it carefully - and a few times if needed, pay close attention to all they say and do (then try making any sense of it) - and perhaps you may start sharing my strong feeling that NONE of this was actually (and needn't have been) filmed on the morning of September 11, 2001 :
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjPnYC6z9ik
Pay special attention to that NJ Burkett clown (please read full story of his "miraculous escape" here) and try to mentally piece together what we're asked to believe - as to just how his action-packed / "movie-like" morning played out for him...
Amazingly, ABC TV seems to be proud of their 9/11 trash-movie "news" clips. Here they are posted on their own website:
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This week in America, one of the contenders most likely to be the 2016 Republican presidential candidate defiantly ate a doughnut on late night television; it was a glazed and jelly-filled two-fingered salute to his critics.
The Republican was Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey; the late-night televised gabfest was the David Letterman show. And the "critic" who provoked the most ire from Christie was former White House doctor Connie Mariano, who in a recent interview said she feared the corpulent Christie would cark it in office if he was elected without getting his weight under control.
Shut up, Christie advised Mariano, adding that he was the most healthy fat guy his doctor had ever seen (the doctor had one caveat: Christie's luck would "run out real soon" - sort of proving Mariano's point).
Certainly, in his frequent, bombastic speeches and interviews and non-stop touring of his storm-ravaged state, Christie has shown little sign of letting his lard slow him down. He appears vigorous, vital even, and his popularity soars with each doughnut devoured and critic chewed out.
But as an obese man - which he veritably is, rather than just slightly over the insurance-company ordained BMI chart average, like so many of us - should the United States, nay the world, worry about this man's risk of heart disease, stroke or diabetes were he to assume power?
That's one question, but perhaps it's supplementary to the main one: would enough people be prepared to vote for an extraordinarily fat man to become President?
Not if the recent past is any guide. Chester A. Arthur (21st President), Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th) and William Howard Taft (27th) were on the portly side, but more modern Presidents have been mere shadows of those hefty predecessors.
All sorts of maladies could be hidden from public view until recent times (ie, a President with Addison's disease - John F. Kennedy). Even now, in these days of full disclosure, the US has twice voted for a smoker as President (and a socialist of Kenyan descent to boot) but still, obesity remains the last threshold to cross. And not just in terms of presidential elections but also in the everyday; in our workplaces and the schoolyards.
It is perhaps, as many believe, the last type of "permissible" discrimination left, pointing up a basic truth about human nature: we are conditioned to find certain things repellent, we the sheeple, and our visceral fear and loathing of fat is hard to dislodge, no matter what percentage of the population cross the line into obesity.
Women have it much worse. In New Zealand we've had our obese Prime Ministers and business leaders, and even Kim Dotcom is seen as a bit of a cuddly counter-culture figure rather than whaled on for his girth. But we could never have an obese woman as Prime Minister; even our largeish female MPs are subject to constant and needless references to their bodies (Paula Bennett's weight, for example, clearly an ever-present consideration on the mind of John "Front Bums" Tamihere).
It's a sad fact of life that the plump woman is the most vilified of all. But most women can empathise with the struggle against fat, and that might be why Chris Christie, he of the defiant doughnut, is currently enjoying his highest poll ratings ever. When politics and power is a popularity contest, fear of fat might just be pipped by the power of the sympathetic female voter.


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The Legendary Birds contain Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres in the team.
It is shown in the second Pokémon movie, Pokemon 2000: The Power of One , that if the three began to fight each other, Lugia, the trio master who rise and stop them, but it would need the help of the Chosen One, who turned out to be Ash Ketchum.
You can find Moltres in the Kanto Pokémon Championship, while in the GBA game you can find Moltres in either Victory Road or on One Island. While Articuno is where Ash is with the photographer friend of his, while in the game it is in Seafoam Islands. While Zapdos is found during Season 5 near a pond, while in the game you can find Zapdos in the Powerplant of Kanto.
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I never really had a grandfather. My dad's dad was born three days before my birthday and died three days after my third birthday - and that's about the extent of my connection to him. The guy my mother called her dad died well before I was born, and wasn't her dad anyway. The guy who actually was her dad either didn't know it or didn't acknowledge it - she never met him, and neither did we. She knew his address, which was just a few blocks from ours, and I remember this one time he was in front of us in the mall parking lot. We all laughed and shouted, "Hurry up, grandpa!" and that was the most we've ever said to him.
You don't walk into someone's life 40 years later, you just see them at the store or the bank or on the highway and you imagine all the things you will never know about them.
I never even thought about not having a grandfather. Where I come from, men at all are pretty rare commodities. I didn't know anyone who had a grandfather in their lives. We had a dad occasionally, so we were doing better than most, anyways. Count ye blessings and all.
My step-mother, who was just my dad's girlfriend for a lot of years, used to bring us to her parents' house when we were visiting Colorado for the summer. It was years before they thought of us as their grandchildren, or before we thought of them as our grandparents, but it happened eventually. We all learned to trust each other over the summers spent in their backyard and their fridge. My oldest brother and I eventually lived in Colorado, just a few blocks away from them, and we found a way to forge independent relationships with these little Italian people not old enough, or tall enough, to be our grandparents.
Her father, my step-grandfather, had a chair that he sat in, quietly watching the comings and goings of his wife, his children and grandchildren, the neighbors, the kids they took care of during the day, and more John Wayne movies than a body has a right to. I met him after he retired, and occasionally he'd look up at the thermostat, and then over at me, and say, "Hell, it's happy hour somewhere." We never talked about anything important, we never debated ideals or shared our dreams, but we talked all the time, once upon a time, sitting out on his porch at scotch:30 PM.
My first birthday party was at his house. My first wedding was, too. He rolled with everything life threw at him, from the navy to his four kids and a sea of grandkids - including four that weren't technically his, but I don't think he technically gave a shit. He was wonderful when we needed him to be, and let us all bow as quietly out of his life as we creeped into it.
He was a good man, with dry humor and a heart three sizes bigger than his five foot nothing frame could hold. That heart stopped beating at 5:26 am this morning.
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In this process I will explain you what the different Menu options does.
In order to boot the live cd/dvd all you have to do is make sure your bios is set to boot off of your dvdrom drive first. Check with your motherboard manual on how to change the boot order. So power up the computer and place the dvd into your drive. The computer should auto detect a bootable disk and you should be looking at a screen similar to the one to the right of here. Click Images to See Full Sizes
This is the screen where we can enter in your boot parameters aka "cheat codes". We want to hit F5 and now you see the box that is displaying in the options.
We don't want to mess with any thing that is already in that box, we just want to simply add to it, so hit ESCAPE and place your cheat code" at the end of the line. You will adjust that to what ever you need for your hardware, now hit Enter - - Also see Boot Parameters at this page Sabayon_Linux#Boot_parameters_and_workarounds_for_problematic_Hardware and Tips#Cheat_Codes
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Sonatype today released a new version of its Maven-based component repository that supports software developers using the .NET Framework. Version 2.0 of Sonatype's Nexus Professional, a widely used repository manager for Java components, adds support for.NET developers who want to store and manage their components in a repository.
"The .NET world is kind of where the Java world was five years ago," said Brian Fox, Sonatype's vice president of engineering. "It's just discovering the importance of a centralized management facility for sharing binary components. There is no great solution for sharing .NET components out there right now. Developers share them via source control systems or file systems, but there's no analog to a repository manager in .NET. Until now."
Sonatype Nexus Professional 2.0 allows development teams to store and access .NET components packaged with the NuGet, the Visual Studio 2010 extension. "It makes it easy to install and update third-party components into .NET projects," Fox told ADTmag. "By using proxies of .NET repositories co-located with developers, companies can reduce the time it takes to load a NuGet package into Visual Studio. Using a repository also streamlines the sharing of internal components among enterprise developers, their colleagues, and counterparts."
Sonatype is aiming for the vast majority of enterprises with heterogeneous development environments with this release. The idea is to provide organizations with a single, standardized repository manager for all development, Java, OSGi and .NET.
Among the features available in this release is the Nexus Available Architecture, which is designed to ensure that components are always available for consumption, which "eliminates development delays caused when the network is down and keeps geographically distributed teams in sync."
It also comes with Repository Health Awareness, a bundle of services based on Sonatype Insight designed to identify "problematic components throughout the application development process and into production." The service makes it possible for developers to create white and black lists based on real-time component licensing and security information.
"Nexus has long been the gold standard in the Java world and increasingly our customers are asking us to support heterogeneous environments," said Jason van Zyl, CTO and founder of Sonatype in a statement. "Bringing the advantage of Nexus to the .NET community is a big step for Sonatype and should be very helpful to users."
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When Condi Rice appeared on last night's Daily Show to talk about her new book, Jon Stewart went straight for the real story at hand: the time Condi met Gaddafi. The former Secretary Of State had been warned of the tyrant's "creepy obsession" with her but went he gave up his "weapons of mass destruction" in 2008, she went on a diplomatic visit to meet him anyway. Condi was a little nervous about his "fixation," and explains, "Everything was going fine until all of a sudden he said, 'I have this video for you,' and I thought, 'Uh oh, what is this?'"
Here's what it was: a video tribute to Gaddaffi's crush featuring photos of Condi set to a song the recently-deceased had recorded just for her called "Black Flower In The White House." You cannot make this stuff up. Fingers crossed that we'll someday see it. [Ed: Actually, more than that: We're putting a bounty on that damn tape which probably no longer exists, but hey. I have cash. You know what to do.]


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The Japanese influence in Star Wars is no accident. George Lucas's hero is acclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, and he was inspired by the Japanese director's films, such as The Hidden Fortress.
According to a famous bit of Star Wars trivia, Lucas even wanted actor Toshiro Mifune, who starred in many Kurosawa films, to act in Star Wars. The trivia, which has been repeated for years now, says that Lucas tried to get Mifune to play Obi-Wan Kenobi — something that Lucas confirmed. The choice makes sense. But what if Lucas wanted Mifune to play another character?
This weekend on world history quiz show Sekai Fushigi Hakken! (世界ふしぎ発見!), Toshiro Mifune's daughter, Mika Mifune, recounted how her famous father was first asked to play Obi-Wan Kenobi — an offer he turned down.
Then, Mika continued, Mifune was offered the role of Darth Vader. The villain's helmet was apparently designed with Mifune in mind, and if Mifune had taken the role, his face supposedly would have been visible. The inference is that Lucas really wanted the famed Japanese actor in his movie. But Mifune thought the sci-fi flick was going to be a kid's movie, hence him passing on the project.
Mifune as Obi-Wan Kenobi is a little easier to wrap one's head around. At that time, he was an international superstar and a hero of Lucas'. Vader has become inseparable from the suit and the voice of James Earl Jones, making it harder to see the character any other way.
Mifune daughter wasn't born until 1982, so her account isn't exactly first person — and it's something I don't ever recall hearing. If this bit of trivia is true and if Mifune had played Darth Vader, the character could have certainly developed differently during Lucas' writing process. For example, the Sith Lord might have had a badass beard.
For more on the development of Darth Vader, check out The Secret History of Star Wars.
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Striking a chord: 'Rockin' exhibition spotlights local legends
Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth left the urban madness of Manhattan 30 years ago in search of fresh air, green grass and good schools for their two children.
They also wanted to play their music without disturbing the entire neighborhood.
The couple found just what they were looking for in Fairfield. Settling in a farmhouse-style home (inground pool included) in the town's Greenfield section, they weren't too far away from the train station, but just far enough from their nearest neighbor not to cause a complaint.
As it turns out, they weren't the first musicians for whom the area struck a chord. Disco queen Donna Summer lived just down the road, in Westport, as did Nile Rodgers, the virtuosic guitarist and Chic co-founder, who recently accepted three Grammy Awards alongside Daft Punk. Other notable neighbors were jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, a longtime Wilton resident who died in 2012, "Feliz Navidad" crooner Jose Feliciano, of Weston, and the late Broadway composers Leonard Bernstein and Richard Rodgers, both of whom lived in Fairfield.
"For Tina and I, Connecticut had been a series of exits between Providence and New York," said Frantz, who, along with his wife, co-founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Talking Heads, as well as their own group, Tom Tom Club. "But when we started looking for a house and found out about all the musicians living here, we thought, this is pretty cool."
Frantz and Weymouth, among other illustrious musicians, have contributed to a rich musical legacy that is celebrated in "Fairfield's Rockin' Top Ten," an exhibition on view at the Fairfield Museum and History Center through Monday, April 28.
Jointly curated by Frantz, museum director Mike Jehle and museum library director Elizabeth Rose, the exhibition spotlights 10 outstanding musicians or musical acts who call the greater Fairfield area home. The list is rounded out by R&B duo Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson (former Westport residents), '60s rock group the Remains (frontman Barry Tashian grew up in Westport), Bernard Edwards (the late Chic co-founder) and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards (a Weston resident).
In choosing the top 10, Frantz and Jehle were guided by the same criteria used by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 25 years has to have passed since the release of the artist's first album and he or she must have made a significant contribution "to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll."
"All of these people are undeniably great and stand out not just in our community, but in the history of music itself," said Frantz, who, along with Weymouth, was put on the list by the museum.
The exhibition digs into the histories of each of the featured artists, displaying quick-read biographies alongside sleek portraits, rare photographs and eye-popping memorabilia, including Ashford & Simpson's glow-in-the-dark performance outfits and Summer's Los Angeles Dodgers track jacket.
Some area residents may be oblivious to the rock royalty living in their midst. With "Rockin Top Ten," curators hope to bring attention to, and instill a sense of pride in, this oft-overlooked dimension of the region's culture and history.
"We're celebrating the 375th year of the town, and the museum had the idea that we should celebrate not just the history of the military and commerce -- things that are usually associated with Fairfield -- but the community's artists," Frantz said.
Musicians flocked to the area for a variety of reasons. Proximity to New York City was a common one, as was the relatively low cost of living. (Connecticut didn't charge an individual income tax until 1991.)
For Frantz and Weymouth, Fairfield represented an escape from the gritty atmosphere of Manhattan's Lower East Side -- a place where they could raise a family while continuing a career in music.
"We still love the city; we lived there for a long time," Frantz said. "But we wanted to live in a place where our kids could play without finding used condoms or see the `F' word written in graffiti."
Nile Rodgers moved to the region in pursuit of the rock `n' roll lifestyle. Westport proved the ideal playground for the "young and crazy" musician, who relocated from his New York City apartment to a waterfront home in the town's Saugatuck section in the late 1970s.
"I was really caught up in the craziness of the late '70s and early '80s," Rodgers recalled in a phone interview last week. "The fact that I could bring my boats right to my house. ... I thought I was the coolest guy in the world."
However, after 25 years of living in Westport, Rodgers "has slowly, but surely fell in love with the town." He has penned many of his biggest hits there.
"I think of it as an artistic and cultural place," said Rodgers "It's a really wonderful place for a musician."
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West Valley City • The former pastor of the Tongan United Methodist Church was charged Wednesday with failing to report child abuse.
Meanwhile, his former congregation, now fractured into two distinct groups the Methodists and the Wesleyan Tongans is headed to civil court to duke it out over who should have access to the property and money that belonged to his former flock.
Filimone Havili Mone, 59, faces one count of failure to report abuse of a child, a class B misdemeanor, in West Valley City Justice Court.
The sexual abuse charge stems from the longtime pastor's failure to promptly report a crime when he allegedly learned that young boys in the congregation had been sexually abused by an older boy several years ago. It ultimately led to his removal by national leaders of the United Methodist Church (UMC) for violating the church's mandatory abuse reporting policy. But local church members say Mone's departure was the catalyst for a deep schism within the congregation of an estimated 600 members.
The frustrations last week caused the Tongan United Methodist Church to split into two factions the Methodists and the Wesleyan Tongans.
That schism has turned ugly during recent weeks as church members found themselves pitted against one another. West Valley City police have been called to the church , 1553 W. Crystal Ave. (2590 South), nearly a dozen times in recent months to keep the peace during Sunday services. Police report there is an active fraud investigation going on at the church and they have broken up at least one brawl in the parking lot between the family of the now-16-year-old abuser and one of his victim's families.
The abuse • Juvenile court records paint a stark picture of sexual abuse that allegedly went unreported for months behind the Tongan Methodist Church's doors.
On one occasion, the perpetrator, then about 14, asked an 8-year-old boy if he wanted to play "a game," which involved performing oral sex on the teen. In another incident, the teen lined children up so each could take a turn performing oral sex on him, according to charging documents.
A 13-year-old boy also reported that he and the abuser had repeatedly performed oral sex on each other at various locations around the church.
The abuser has been sentenced to secure confinement in a juvenile detention facility, possibly until he is 21, for sexual abuse of a child, a second-degree felony.
The Salt Lake Tribune does not typically identify youths charged with crimes. Officials say the teen is related to Mone's family.
When national UMC leaders got wind of the allegations, they reportedly immediately placed Mone on leave and, in November, permanently removed him from his post.
The move infuriated church members because national leaders refused to explain why Mone had been removed and would not communicate with the congregation, said attorney Hutch Fale, who is representing the Wesleyan contingent of the church.
"They were left in the dark," Fale said. "It was a situation they said was unfortunately too familiar. They were basically treated like little children when they asked questions."
Civil suit • About 77 percent of the 400 members of the Tongan United Methodist Church who recently voted in a mail ballot opted to change the church's name to the Salt Lake City Laumalie Ma'oni'oni Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, Fale said.
"[There's] a feeling," Fale said, "that the [UMC] based in another state is not able to relate and meet the needs of this particular cultural congregation the way it should be."
But that move has prompted a battle that's spilled into 3rd District Court over access to the church's money and property as the Wesleyans sued to prevent their former Methodist congregants from access to church funds, typically used for upkeep of church property.
Fale said the UMC leadership knows the congregation is dissatisfied but has taken no steps to attempt to repair the breach.
"I hate to see churches go through this type of thing," said Steve Goodier, a United Methodist Church superintendent in Colorado. "It's about power. It always is."
He said the UMC has brought in a new interim pastor, the Rev. Gary Grundman, who specializes in working toward healing. He's been tasked with helping the youths and the congregation heal from the abuse, re-establishing trust and helping transition the church toward a permanent Tongan pastor.
"This has really been kind of messy," Goodier said of the schism.
He said, that typically if church members are dissatisfied with a decision, they'll change churches or start their own. They don't usually try to take over the church assets in order to start a new church of a different denomination.
Temporary order • Third District Judge Anthony Quinn denied a proposed temporary restraining order that would have made it impossible for the local Methodist members to access church money. Another hearing is set for Jan. 22.
Meanwhile, Fale said, Quinn issued an order regarding three issues:
• The congregation does not have to pay any UMC pastor whom they did not select.
• Church funds can be used only to pay utilities on the church property.
• The two groups must set a schedule when they share the church.
That means when the Wesleyan group hires its own pastor, the church will have two pastors and two church services.
"This dissonance group [the Wesleyans] will meet at another time until we get this thing sorted out," Goodier said. "Kind of like dueling banjos. They're going to have to figure out a way to live together until this issue is decided in the courts."
However, Fale said his side hasn't ruled out staying within the established church. He said members just want to have input in their own spiritual future, and that includes helping select the new permanent minister.
"I don't think they have closed the door on anything," Fale said. "They just want to hold their future, their destiny, in their own hands."
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Years go by so fast. 2013 is here in a second. I'd love to say thank you to you all for your love and continuing support. It means a lot to me. You guys are amazing. You're truly the inspiration that keeps me going on and makes this blog live. Without you, this blog wouldn't be a successful one. Big thanks to New York Times, In Style, Vogue US, D Moms magazine, DShopTalk, D magazine, Dallas Modern Luxury, DFW Style Daily, Style Passport Hg2, Fine Decor magazine, Elizabeth Street, Style On, DISfunkshion magazine, Marie Claire, Fashion Magazine-Canada, Glamour, Elle, and Dstylesheet for the press! So cheers for that, to us, to the proud moments that you and I made happen for this blog in the past year! With love.
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One person was hospitalized with serious burns and 18 shops were gutted in a fire at a traditional covered mall in the Bahraini capital, the civil defense force said Sunday.
The injured man was a salesman at one of the shops caught in the blaze on Saturday at a time when most of the souk was closed for lunch.
Fifty-five firefighters battled in the narrow lanes of the covered market for about 90 minutes to put out the blaze, Colonel James Windsor, chief of Bahrain's civil defense, told reporters.
The interior ministry said it was investigating the cause of the fire.
On May 6th, a pre-dawn blaze destroyed the country's largest cinema, which is popular with the expatriate Asian community, and damaged another movie theatre next door.
Until last year, Bahrain was often hit by arson attacks, with the Asian community a frequent target, in a wave of unrest which began in December 1994 and which claimed at least 38 lives.
The opposition's key demand has been the restoration of parliament, which Bahrain's former emir, Sheikh Issa bin Salman al-Khalifa, suspended in 1975.
But the troubles have eased since the death of Sheikh Issa in March 1999, and the accession of his son, Sheikh Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa - MANAMA (AFP)
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|Escarole is a wonderful way to add healthy greens into you diet, mixed in with pasta and shrimp will make you wonder why you took so long to try some. So it's time to try some of these tender greens, tossed with garlicy oil, over linguine and shrimp.
Meanwhile, heat 3 teaspoons oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add shrimp, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cook until pink and curled, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a plate.
Add garlic and the remaining 1 teaspoon oil to the pan and cook till golden.
Add wine and cook until reduced by half, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in tomatoes.
Add escarole stirring occasionally, until the greens are tender, 3 to 5 minutes.
Whisk clam juice (or water) and cornstarch in a small bowl then add to the pan; simmer until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes.
Return the shrimp and any leftover juices to the pan, add lemon juice, the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper and cook until heated through, about 1 minute.
Add the linguine and return it to the pot. Add the sauce, toss to coat.
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I did miss it- seriously, I tell people it's Club Med for Freaks. Obviously I love it & am addicted or I wouldn't be on here, but I do feel sorry for anyone who thinks that this has to be the highlight of their year. It's one of my highlights, but I have many.theCryptofishist wrote:With almost every other post in this thread getting huge amounts of scrutiny, I don't see how this one snuck in under the radar. So, I'll just note that many of us have found that it's not good for the health to take burning man too seriously, and maybe some of us even pity those who do.Parasitoid wrote:LOL.jkisha wrote: Oh please, it's a camping trip with art. Get over it already. And frankly, the more money you can afford to spend in preparation, the more comfortable the experience will be. That's just a fact.
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RAYMOND WEIL Announces Partnership With The Royal Albert Hall
Luxury Swiss watchmaker RAYMOND WEIL today announces a new music marketing partnership with London's most iconic concert hall that sees the Brand take the role as Official Timing Partner to the Royal Albert Hall.
Built to fulfill the vision of Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's consort) of a central hall used to promote understanding and appreciation of the Arts and Sciences, surrounded by museums and places of learning, the Hall has been affectionately titled "The Nation's Village Hall".
Since May 1871, the Royal Albert Hall has become one of the world's most desirable venues due to the vast range of events that it hosts including Opera, Ballet, Classical music and more recently Pop music and film premieres. Possibly the most recognized of these is the BBC Proms, an annual eight-week summer season of daily classical music concerts and other events broadcast live by the BBC.
"We are thrilled to have signed as the Official Timing Partner to the Royal Albert Hall as music has always been at the center of the RAYMOND WEIL universe. Collection names evoke the impassioned stories and brilliant melodies that provide the family with our inspiration: parsifal, maestro, nabucco and more" – Says Elie Bernheim, Director – RAYMOND WEIL.
RAYMOND WEIL plans to celebrate its status as Official Timing Partner of the Royal Albert Hall by using its Music Marketing know-how. The Brand will launch a multi-channel media campaign that utilizes its global marketing reach – capitalizing on its extensive social media footprint, advertising and PR power – to communicate the iconic offerings of the Royal Albert Hall to its global customer base.
"Music and luxury watchmaking have a lot in common: the creativity of the artist – musician, composer, designer, watchmaker – and the precision needed to achieve the highest performance. This new partnership with the Royal Albert Hall symbolizes everything that our Brand stands for and brings to life the multi-faceted personalities of both RAYMOND WEIL and the Royal Albert Hall in terms of supporting all music genres and using these as inspiration" – Says Olivier Bernheim, CEO & President – RAYMOND WEIL.
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Lucky in love: How media giant IAC won online daters' hearts
Brian Schechter and Aaron Schildkrout thought that they had found the one.
Online dating is a saturated marketplace in which one behemoth - Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp - has staked out a near monopoly.
Schechter and Schildkrout had co-founded HowAboutWe, an 85-employee Brooklyn dating startup. IAC was their primary competition. And they were going to take it on.
The dating space, they realized, was already spoken for - IAC counts heavyweights Match.com, OkCupid and Tinder among its portfolio. So HowAboutWe would offer something IAC didn't.
"IAC owns online dating," Schechter told Fortune in January. "So what we're trying to do is build a media company whose sole focus is love. And we think that's the way to beat IAC."
It acquired Nerve.com, the early Web magazine pioneer, and planned to run a set of websites offering articles on sex and relationships. HowAboutWe didn't just want to get you a date - it wanted to give you date ideas and relationship advice, too.
In July, IAC purchased most of HowAboutWe for an undisclosed amount. It appeared no beating would be taking place. HowAboutWe had amassed 2.3 million users between its singles and couples websites, but it became clear that with so much competition it couldn't grow fast enough.
For IAC, it was just another day at the top of the digital dating food chain. HowAboutWe needed an exit; IAC was the only one buying.
"It was opportunistic," said Sam Yagan, CEO of IAC's dating division, Match Group. "It wasn't like, 'Oh my God, we need to have HowAboutWe.' It was an attractive financial transaction."
If love in the time of algorithms happens online, then Hollywood impresario-turned-Internet media mogul Barry Diller owns romance - or at least a major stake in it.
The entire online dating industry brings in about $2.2 billion in annual revenue, according to IBISWorld. Last year Match Group, which also includes a few non-romance-related sites, generated sales of $788 million.
IAC controls about 27 percent of the U.S. dating services market. Its next closest competitor, eHarmony, has half that. Nobody else comes close.
A recent University of Chicago study found that about 35 percent of married couples meet online. Assuming his couplings are as successful as those of his few other competitors, that means Diller is the matchmaker for roughly 1 in 10 American marriages.
Aggressive strategy
Since its purchase of Match.com in 1999, IAC has protected its top spot by aggressively launching new products and snatching up companies that might one day threaten its dominance.
Match Group has become the fastest-growing revenue stream in Diller's strange mishmash of media properties, which includes the Daily Beast, Vimeo and Dictionary.com. Last year it accounted for a quarter of total revenue.
"They have been very aggressive and bought companies that were very well-placed strategically and by design. That is a big part of how they have grown," said Mark Brooks, an online-dating analyst. "They are at this point running out of companies they can buy."
Back when IAC, then operating as Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch Inc., purchased Match, meeting people online was still a new idea.
When Match went live in 1995, only 20 percent of Americans had ever used the Web. Cendant purchased Match for $7 million in 1998, then flipped it to IAC a year later for $50 million.
By then, the movie "You've Got Mail" had helped erode some of the stigma of meeting online. With its tickets and guides business still in the red, IAC saw huge potential in the already-profitable Match.
"It was obvious by that point that the Internet was a revolutionary way for people to meet each other," said John Spottiswood, president of Match during the site's transition both to Cendant and IAC.
What set Match apart from chat rooms and free online personals of that era was that its users were willing to pay to meet each other.
When IAC bought Match, the company already had its sights set on building "a big enough lead that no one could get close," Spottiswood said.
That vision, those close to the deal said, came straight from the top. Diller was San Francisco-born and Hollywood-bred, having spent more than a decade as a studio chief at Paramount and Fox. He was known for being bullish and no-nonsense, with little tolerance for aspirational fantasies about the future of the Internet. He liked a plan that came with a dollar sign in front of it. One of the problems with Citysearch was that it wasn't interactive enough. Diller thought dating was the opposite.
As most other Internet companies collapsed with the dot-com bust, IAC began a land grab, buying up smaller dating sites including One and Only, uDate and SinglesNet.
"There was abundant consideration of potential competitors," said Trish McDermott, who was head of communications at Match for a decade, until 2004. "The strategy was build or buy."
Playing the field
As the online dating landscape changed, Match stayed aggressively ahead of the curve. In 2009, it acquired PeopleMedia.com, adding 27 niche dating sites that allowed it to conquer both the black and the senior dating scenes. It launched Chemistry.com to compete with eHarmony, launching an ad campaign featuring daters who had been rejected by its competitor (one featured a gay man at a time when eHarmony would not match same-sex couples). It partnered with Yahoo Personals - a major competitor - to provide Yahoo content. As free dating sites started to gain traction, IAC purchased the ad-supported site OkCupid for $50 million in 2011. It was a media darling with a hip vibe, and the only viable competitor to the massive free site Plenty of Fish.
OkCupid emerged as a second flagship brand for IAC. The site brought IAC a hefty stream of revenue and a younger consumer base. It also brought the company Sam Yagan, who was a co-founder of OkCupid. Yagan lobbied hard to keep OkCupid completely separate from Match.com, and to expand the company's portfolio approach to dating by offering a variety of sites.
"It's like why people go to certain bars or gyms," he explained. "You think there's something about those places that's going to appeal to you and to the person you'll like. Dating sites work the same way. On OkCupid and Match, people have different pools of people and different algorithms." For Yagan, the way to win is not with one killer product. It's with a bunch of totally different products. That's why the companies IAC acquires tend not to change very much, other than in size. Because the same person might be out there looking for love on Match, OkCupid and Tinder - the company's latest hit, a mobile-only matchmaking app.
Tinder promised the kind of simplicity popular in the mobile era: swipe right if someone is hot, left if not. Tinder wasn't a new idea - it was a version of what Hot or Not pioneered a decade ago and what the app Grindr had perfected for the gay community. "Basically, they are shaking trees," said Brooks.
Tinder has yet to turn a profit, but Yagan said what's more important is that the app has brought a new generation of daters online.
"We're in no rush," said Yagan. "I can imagine so many ways to monetize it right now. It's not like I'm losing sleep over it."
At the same time, IAC has expanded in Asia, Europe and Latin America. It has a majority stake in the French service Meetic and a 20 percent interest in the Chinese site Zhenai.
Its revenue growth consistently outpaces the rest of the industry, largely because of the increased user base its acquisitions have brought the company. In 2014, its dating-related profit is expected to grow by 14 percent.
In December, the company said it would turn Match Group into a separate business, prepping a spin-off as it has done with Expedia and Ticketmaster before. The announcement in December sent IAC's stock soaring.
"Match has its eye on the long haul and that's its strength right now," said David Evans, an industry analyst. "Match will be a $1 billion-a-year company."
Outfoxing competitors
Match's industry dominance has also meant that it is hard for startups to make it in online dating. If a site starts gaining traction, Match will attempt to crush it or buy it. HowAboutWe was founded by two former high school teachers in 2010. Its pitch was that it took online dating offline, with a subscription-based singles site on which users pitched real-life first dates. It later added a couples site that suggested dates for those already matched (either online or off) and launched its editorial arm.
Former HowAboutWe employees said IAC frequently tried to poach the vendors it used for dating events. IAC launched its own take on a couples service, Delightful, in January, and then killed it shortly thereafter.
By 2013, HowAboutWe had raised $23 million and was growing at a steady clip. Employees were surprised that the company had managed to grow as much as it had considering IAC's dominance in dating.
"It's crazy how far they took HowAboutWe, to be honest," said one former employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she is still in the industry.
Startups intimidated
Other startups have also felt the crunch.
Soul2match, a San Francisco dating startup with 15,000 users that uses facial-recognition technology for matching, said that a partnership or acquisition by a big company like IAC is probably its only long-term hope.
Tagged, a social discovery startup based in San Francisco, killed its dating app, Swoon, this year, in part because of the saturation of IAC dating products.
"Any company should be cautious in innovating in the dating market," said Steve Sarner, the company's vice president of marketing.
Evans, the analyst, said that IAC's market share has led to a dearth of truly game-changing innovations in online dating.
Yagan disputed that idea, pointing to HowAboutWe.
When reminded that IAC purchased HowAboutWe in part because of the company's difficulty growing, he conceded that was true.
Despite the acquisition, Aaron Schildkrout, the HowAboutWe co-founder, decided to hold onto the couples service, which he continues to run as an independent company.
It's a decision Yagan supports - for now.
"The couples product is still super young - it's probably better off on its own," he said.
"I really hope they build a good product. We'll be around to buy it."
Kristen V. Brown is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @kristenvbrown


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An unqualified executive at an Owings Mills medical firm allegedly reviewed X-rays and other tests, potentially endangering patients, according to court documents filed by federal authorities.
The allegations were laid out in the documents by the FBI, which has accused Alpha Diagnostics officials of defrauding Medicare by at least $3.3 million. The FBI raided the firm's offices in Owings Mills and Harrisburg, Pa., in October but declined to characterize the investigation at the time.
According to the FBI, the executive reviewed the diagnostic tests and lied by saying they were being reviewed by a team of doctors at a separate firm. That led to medical conditions of some residents at a Virginia nursing home being overlooked, an FBI agent wrote in the court filings.
The FBI agent said the company also routinely overbilled Medicare by claiming technicians carried out additional X-rays.
Jeff Ifrah, an attorney for Alpha Diagnostics, said the company disputes the allegations and has been carrying out an internal investigation in addition to cooperating with federal authorities.
"Health care is an intensely regulated industry," Ifrah said. "It is not unusual for even brand-name organizations to be subject to government inquiries like this one.
"It would be absolutely against all the policies Alpha has in place" if an unqualified person was interpreting the exams, he added.
No charges have been filed in the case. FBI agents working with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seized $1 million from the company's bank accounts at the time of the office raids, court records show.
The forfeiture filings name Rafael Chikvashvili, the company's chief executive officer, and Timothy Emeigh, a vice president who is accused of performing the improper reviews, as targets of the investigation.
Ifrah said that Chikvashvili "is very focused on defending his reputation" and that Emeigh resigned shortly after the federal investigation began.
Emeigh could not be reached for comment, and Elizabeth Oyer, a federal defender representing him, declined to comment on the allegations.
Alpha Diagnostics provides X-ray services and other diagnostic tests at the order of doctors. Typically, the test results are reviewed by another doctor, who describes the findings in a formal report that can then be used to help diagnose an illness, according to a summary of the process described in the legal papers.
Details of the process must be accurately noted in a claim filed with Medicare.
Emeigh is a licensed radiographer — also known as an X-ray technologist — but is not licensed as a doctor in Maryland or Pennsylvania and not qualified to interpret X-rays, according to the FBI.
He said in reports written to help physicians make diagnoses that the company's exams were being sent for review by a separate firm called Alpha Rads and evaluated by a crew of doctors, according to the court filings.
"In actuality, Emeigh is 'Alpha Rads' and is the person reading, interpreting and writing the reports for studies," the FBI agent wrote.
Authorities asked one doctor to review 116 reports filed in his name, and he said 97 of them were "definitely false reports," according to the filings. The doctor told authorities that he had reviewed tests for Alpha Diagnostics until he closed his office in February 2012, but only five of the reports looked like ones he had produced.
The physician, who is not named in the filing, told agents that having reports not reviewed by a qualified doctor could lead to bone problems from overlooked fractures, organ failure from missed kidney stones, cancer going undetected and gall bladder problems.
The Virginia nursing home, which is not named, stopped using Alpha Diagnostics after a radiology report by a hospital contradicted one of its reports, and other facilities called the company to complain about similar problems, according to an administrator at the nursing home and an unnamed former company employee interviewed by investigators.
Emeigh, who has been licensed as a radiographer since 1993, was fined $1,200 by the Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance in 2002 for promoting an unqualified man to the position of X-ray technician at Alpha Diagnostics.


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City of Eau Claire, WisconsinHome Menu
Snow and Ice Control
Maintaining safe driving conditions during the winter months is a priority for the Streets Division of our Community Services Department. Snow removal and plowing are prioritized by a three-tiered system: ice control routes, secondary streets, and residential areas. Completion of plowing is dependent on snow consistency and accumulation.
Do you have questions about the process? You aren't the only one! Visit our FAQ Page to see if you can find the answer you are looking for!
Ice Control Routes (First Priority)
The city is divided into 13 Ice Control Routes which represent major thoroughfares essential to emergency transportation.
- 87 miles of streets (about 6.7 miles per route)
- Snowplow with salt spreader assigned to each route
- Deicing and plowing commence when streets become slippery
- Goal: Keep major roads, hills, and bridges open during snowfall, ultimately achieving bare pavement
Secondary Streets (Second Priority)
Secondary Streets are part of the ice control operations unless a full residential plow operation is initiated. If a full residential plow operation is initiated, the secondary streets will be plowed at that time. Secondary streets provide access to schools, churches, businesses, and commercial areas that attract higher volumes of traffic.
- 63 miles of streets
- Plowing and sanding of secondary routes undertaken for most snowfalls accumulating more than 1/2 inch
- Goal: Keep streets open for travel; compacted snow an acceptable driving surface.
Residential Areas (Third Priority)
The city is divided into 26 Residential Areas.
- 197 miles of streets (about 7.5 miles per area)
- Snowplow or motor grader assigned to each area
- Starting points for plowing alternate throughout the winter
- Plowing initiated after 3 inches or more accumulation
- Goal: Plowing completed 8-10 hours after snow has stopped falling, depending on type and depth of snow. Expect compacted snow driving surfaces. Sand is applied for traction to hills, intersections, and curves.
- Alleys. The City plows 14 alleys that serve as front door access to homes and is the primary method used for mail delivery. The remaining 255 blocks of alleys are the responsibility of the adjoining property owners.
- Parking Lots. City-owned lots typically are cleared at night after a full plow operation has been completed.
- Sidewalks. Sidewalks adjacent to City-owned property are cleaned by City crews the day following completion of a plowing operation, except Sundays. Remaining sidewalks are the responsibility of adjoining property owners and should be cleared of snow and ice within 24 hours after a snowfall (Section 13.20 of City Code of Ordinances).
- Paths. The Parks Division plows, salts, and maintains the 25 miles of multi-use paths throughout the city.
Alternate Side Parking Process
Whenever the City declares a snow event to permit a full residential plow operation, then for a period of 72 hours, alternate side parking regulations will be in effect on all streets in the city of Eau Claire. Such regulations shall apply as follows:
- On odd-numbered days, vehicles shall only be parked, stopped or left standing on that side of the street having odd-numbered addresses.
- On even-numbered days, vehicles shall only be parked, stopped or left standing on the side of the street having even-numbered addresses.
- These provisions shall only be in effect between midnight and 5:00 p.m.
- These provisions shall not supersede more restrictive parking regulations in effect in the city.
- Notice of the snow event shall be provided at least 6 hours prior to the regulations taking effect, meaning notice must be provided prior to 6 p.m. in order for alternate side parking to commence that night at 12:00 midnight. Notice shall be given by public press release to all interested media outlets and posted on the City's website.
- Alternate Side Parking Fact Sheet
Anti-Icing and Use of Salt Brine
This is the second winter the City of Eau Claire will be including salt brine as part of its snow and ice control program. Salt brine is an environmentally safe liquid solution consisting of water and dissolved salt. Salt brine is applied to pavement prior to receiving precipitation, preventing it from freezing and bonding to the pavement.
A salt brine solution also will be added to rock salt during ice control operations on primary ice control routes to speed melting and achieving bare pavement.
Using salt brine as an anti-icing and pre-wetting agent has been found to be a cost-effective way to treat city streets, provide a safer driving surface, and reduce the amount of rock salt needed to melt ice and snow. Salt brine is expected to reduce City rock salt use by 20 percent.
Sidewalks must be kept reasonably free of snow and ice and must be cleared within 24 hours following a snowfall or the development of icy conditions per City Ordinance Chapter 13.20. Icy or snow-covered sidewalks can be reported to Street Maintenance at 839-4963. Residents will be notified by door hanger and, if the walks are not cleared, the owner will be issued a citation and the City or private vendor will clean the sidewalk and bill the property owner. Note that only one door hanger notification will be given for the season.
Sand for slippery sidewalks can be picked up free of charge at the Central Maintenance Facility, 911 Forest Street. The sand is kept outside of the gated area and can be picked up anytime at your convenience. Bring your own container and a shovel. Each residence is limited to a 5-gallon pail.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pledging to rebuild the miles of beach boardwalks destroyed by Sandy — but he says the new models aren't going to be made of wood.
For years now, city officials have talked about wanting to replace the hardwood in the boardwalks with more durable and environmentally friendly materials, like concrete and plastic composites.
Nostalgia buffs have protested, but the mayor told The Wave, a neighborhood newspaper in the devastated Rockaway Peninsula, that the storm settled the issue for good.
He told the paper "there will be no more wooden boardwalks in Rockaway or anywhere else."
City parks officials say concrete sections of boardwalk in the Rockaways and Coney Island held up much better in the storm.


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Homemade butter recipes
Homemade Butter
Anchovy Butter
|100 g
|Butter, freshly made
|Anchovies, With no salt added
|1 pinch
|Ground nutmeg
|1 pinch
|Cayenne pepper
|1 pinch
|Ground mace
|1 pinch
|Ground nutmeg
Herb Butter
|100 g
|Butter, freshly made
|2 Tbsp
|Fresh herbs, such as chives, parsley and thyme mixed together
|1 to taste
|Lemon juice
- Homemade Butter: Simply pour the cream into a bowl and whisk it with electric beaters until lumps of butter appear, and eventually form a big lump. This takes about five minutes on a medium speed.
- Remove the butter and dunk it in a bowl of cold water, squeezing it gently.
- Rinse butter under a cold tap and put in a bowl. Salt to taste.
- The liquid left in the bowl after the butter has appeared is called buttermilk and makes scones very light and delicious if you use it instead of milk in your usual recipe.
- Anchovy butter: Mash the ingredients together.
- Roll into a log shape, wrap in greaseproof paper and put in the refrigerator.
- You can also add 1 tsp of finely chopped capers
- Herb butter: Mash the ingredients together and add a few drops of lemon juice.
- Roll into a log shape, wrap in greaseproof paper and put in the refrigerator.
- When you need it, simply slice a piece off the log.
- You could also add basil, mint or rosemary, but choose only one, as all of them together would produce a very strong flavour..
- Brandy butter: 100g icing sugar 100g freshly made butter (with no salt added) 3 tbsp brandy; you can also use rum
- Stir the icing sugar into the butter and mix well.
- Slowly stir in brandy or rum.
- Put brandy butter in attractive little dishes on the table when you serve hot puddings.


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The court case between Take-Two and 3D Realms is starting to edge away from being simple drama and into Lifetime Channel levels of insanity. In the newest wrinkle, Take-Two is claiming that 3D Realms has large amounts of money hidden in offshore accounts, and the company should use that cash to fulfill its obligations. 3D Realms, of course, disputes this.
"Do readers here realize that filed lawsuits are entirely one-sided statements, based on knee-deep BS and with more spin that a top?" 3D Realms/Apogee Ltd. founder Scott Miller wrote to Shacknews. "3DR has been in nearly a dozen lawsuits (including against Warner and Fox). We're always innocent, and we always win. This one is no exception. Give it a year, then the truth will come out."
Take-Two wants an Xbox 360 version of Duke Nukem Forever, but it doesn't look like the two companies are going to be able to amicably reach an agreement to allow that to happen. Take-Two also wants the incomplete source from the PC version of the game to use to create the console version of the game, and it also doesn't seem as if 3D Realms is going to give that up without a fight.
You can read the details on the whole mess at Shacknews, but the takeaway is that both companies can't come to an agreement as to who should fund what, and what's the best outcome for themselves. So now they grind it out in court, which seems like the worst thing for everyone involved.
One can only image a young Duke Nukem, crying in the basement, hoping his parents get back together.


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Daneco necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 80 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
I am the project coordinator for an online marketing company....and we are developing a site with limitless potential because of its untapped market niche.
I can't get too into the functionality details of the site, but I can tell you about the personality of the company. We're a small, young, energetic team and our entire drive is aimed on creating more fun in this world.
So of course, the site we are building focuses on a functionality that will add a ton of fun to peoples lives and the logo needs to reflect that. We want it to be loud, energetic, upbeat, fun, positive, optimistic, and of course, really stand out!
The site and its corresponding apple apps are going to be new to the world, and so we need the logo to really portray the functionality and value that the website service can add to their lives.
Technologically savvy, fun people.
The site is a service to internet/iphone/ipad users to share with their friends, and so our audience is people who use these mediums to socialize.
I know this does not narrow the field down, but our audience can literally be anyone who uses the computer, has an iphone or an ipad, and sees the benefit of the site. Any age, any sex, anywhere in the world.
We are looking for a logo to represent our new online website and its corresponding apple applications.
The website name is WAKE UUUP!
The website slogan is either "get your friends to get you up," or "a friendly wake up." (use either, both individually or none in your mockups)
The 3 U's in the title are to represent someone yelling at you. Not just "wake up," but a loud "WAKE UUUP!"
Use the exclamation after the 'p' in the logo.
Things to avoid:
-nothing childish
-nothing too elegant
-nothing boring
-no stock images
Things to incorporate:
-vibrant colors (make it work well with the attached photo of the color scheme of website)
-modern, neat, clean
-make it stand out
-make it loud
-make it explain the purpose of the website...friends waking you up through personal video. So try to make it explain that your friends face could be the first thing yelling at you in the morning to get up, and that this is done on your laptop screen or iphone. - by any way you think.
-it is an alarm service with your best friends as personal concierges giving you a wake up call in a video format.
-does not necessarily need imagery, whatever works.
The files we require:
-Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
-Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Have some fun with it!
Simple, unique, and gets the point across!
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Pretty devastating opening paragraph in Roger Cohen's review of Flynt and Hillary Leverett's new book on Iran:
Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett are unusual among former staffers of the CIA, the State Department, and the National Security Council in their deep affection for the Islamic Republic of Iran. This attraction, which knows few bounds, finds its apotheosis in Going to Tehran. Their stated goal is "the most objective analysis of Iranian politics." Yet they find that Iran embraces, "more fully and openly than Turkey, the project of building a state that is simultaneously Islamic and democratic." (The greater openness of Tehran than Istanbul should, they seem to think, be apparent to any objective analyst.) Iran's government "of the Shi'a, by the Shi'a, and for the Shi'a," they suggest, may well produce "a wider range of choice for Iranian voters than the United States' two-party system offers American voters."
Not a book you want to have out when the religious Supreme Leader of Iran has just decreed that the two top presidential candidates from outside his own network should not be allowed to run. Cohen writes a little further down: "The eerie effort to whitewash the Islamic Republic in Going to Tehran is so extreme that it would be comical if it did not stray close to obscenity."


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Witteberghoek self-catering guesthouse, situated in the heart of the Langkloof offers a unique getaway experience with the perfect balance between rustic nature and developed farm land. The three guesthouses are placed on a working farm overlooking the majestic Witteberge. The farm is owned by the Strydom family and has a rich history as the farm is now managed by its fourth generation and stretches back over 100 years.Together with the three fully equipped guesthouses, Witteberghoek offers a wide range of activities including marked walking trails, Bird watching, Horse riding, Mountain biking,a Cave, Fishing and Swimming. In season produce can be purchased directly from the farm, this may include apples, apricots, nectarines, prunes, pomegranates and pears. The farm also produces a range of bottled water, energy drinks, flavoured water and honey bush tea. These products are available throughout the year.The Witteberghoek experience is aimed at people whom enjoy and respect nature. Whether appreciating the view from the porch or being busy with the range of activities offered, Witteberghoek promises to fulfil your needs. So what are you waiting for? Whether you are looking for an adventure or much needed rest, Witteberghoek can and will accommodate you.We have solar as well as electrical geysers"NEW EDITION"CAMPSITE WITH ABLUTION.S33'43.272 E.023'22.390
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