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Sound Works Job Center gets two-month reprieve
POULSBO — The Poulsbo City Council gave Sound Works Job Center a two-month extension to find another home.
Sound Works was expected to move out by June 30, when Coffee Oasis moved into an adjoining space in December.
"I personally am disappointed," Sound Works board member Janetmarie Valiga said. "It still leaves [Bob] Middlebrook back in limbo. In 10 days or two months, he still has to deal with the whole move."
Bob Middlebrook is executive director of Sound Works, a nonprofit employment agency at the corner of 8th Avenue and Iverson Road.
"We really appreciate the two month extension, it gives us time to find another place," Middlebrook said. "Cause we're up against the wall."
Board President Roger Fritz said he thanks the city for their years of assistance, but the reprieve didn't solve their problem.
"Why we are moving is still a question in my mind," Fritz said. "The work [and client needs] are not going to go away."
The city has allowed Sound Works to use a small office in the former public works building rent-free since 1997, and gives a grant for its operations every year. In the 2013 budget, the city granted $2,500, but with a condition: the nonprofit can only use the money to transition to a new location by June 30.
"I think we need employment services in this town," Mayor Becky Erickson said after the council meeting June 12. "I think Bob provides some of those services. [The city] can't afford to support him anymore."
The city previously offered Sound Works space in the Parks and Recreation building on Front Street, but Middlebrook said it lacked handicapped accessibility and electrical plugs.
Erickson also suggested teaming up with Fishline Food Bank. The two agencies share mutual goals, Executive Director Mary Nadar said in a previous interview; however, she cannot commit to the idea while Fishline looks into its own expansion.
"We don't want to dispossess him [but] it's time for another group to step up and help support [Sound Works]," Erickson said.
In the last few months, many people have come forward to offer space for Sound Works, but for a higher rent than Sound Works is able to afford, Valiga said.
Sound Works operates on less than $50,000 a year, Middlebrook said.
Fritz said their "fluid" situation — not knowing where they can set up in a few months — is causing problems in searching for grant funding. Sound Works operates primarily on grants from community groups like Bainbridge Community Foundation and United Way, and from Tribal governments.
"We don't send a check every month to the city, but we have put millions of dollars into this community" through employment, Valiga said.
Sound Works is a partner of WorkSource in Bremerton, but Middlebrook said previously that agency has not offered assistance in finding a new location. He said there is no other employment assistance in North Kitsap. Some of Sound Work's clients are homeless and most get around by bus.
"It takes all day to get [to Bremerton] by bus" to get help from WorkSource, Middlebrook said.
Sound Works saw a 10 percent increase in client visits last year when the county jobless rate peaked at 8.3 percent, according to a Sound Works press release.
More than 98 percent of the organization's funding goes back into operation of the program. Middlebrook estimates Sound Works connects clients with an average of 200 jobs a year.
"It's kind of like going a little bit in a tornado: we don't know how we're going to land, or where we're going to land," Fritz said.For more information or to contact Sound Works, call (360) 779-1160.
— Sound Works was the subject of a North Kitsap Herald video report in 2009. To watch the video, go to www.northkitsapherald.com/news/61467017.html
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WARREN – With many school districts already meeting or exceeding their state-allotted number of calamity days, some districts are pursuing the option of "blizzard bags" to make up additional days as the onslaught of frigid weather continues.
On Monday, Joseph Badger, Warren City and Champion Local schools voted in favor of submitting resolutions for calamity day alternative make-up plans to the Ohio Department of Education. Champion also approved the option of using a two-hour delay to starting school days if needed after today.
With expected severe cold weather for next week, many local schools will likely go beyond five days this school year.
After today's closings, Joseph Badger has used all of its calamity days and Warren has used eight, leaving three days for students to make up later. Today is Champion's fourth calamity day used.
Niles has also used more than five calamity days in the past two months. The Niles school board approved a resolution for an alternative make-up plan last week, and the Maplewood School District and Trumbull Career and Technical Center also are scheduled to meet later this week to consider alternative make-up plans.
The alternative make-up plans, or blizzard bags, allow students to make up missed days by completing homework assignments instead of attending extra days.
Warren Superintendent Michael Notar said if the state department of education approves the blizzard bags, students will be given assignments that they missed while school was closed, which they would have two weeks to complete. The teachers would have three weeks to grade and return the make-up work to the students.
Notar said the resolution passed Monday wouldn't affect two of the three days it needs to make up. It remains to be seen if ODE will approve the resolutions submitted by the districts and, if so, whether today's closing will be eligible.
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Rob and Michelle infuse a passion for tea
Comins Tea House in Sturminster Newton has been sourcing and blending the finest teas for a couple of years. Rob and Michelle, the husband and wife team behind Comins, have spent a long time developing the eye and the taste for a beverage that offers huge variety and complexity, that's missed by most of us when we dunk a tea bag in a mug.
Realising that setting and mood are essential ingredients in the best tea experiences, this year they opened a real Comins Tea House. Here you can choose your black, white, green or oolong tea and enjoy a contemporary take on the traditional ceremony associated with its serving.
Making time for tea
"Tea becomes a personal journey," said Michelle, who from her childhood learned the importance of the tea ceremony in bringing people together. "People come into the tea shop saying they want to stay for ten minutes and they're still here an hour and a half later."
Michelle and Rob want to share their enthusiasm for tea with their customers, by serving it themselves. The tea shop is only open four days a week, giving them time to run their importing and blending business, and to allow space in their busy lives for their young family.
Recently the tea house hosted a visit by Jane Pettigrew, tea specialist and historian who has helped Rob and Michelle find their way around the fascinating world of tea. An author of several books on tea preparation and culture, Jane's visit included a presentation on tea to an enthusiastic audience. The event was extremely popular and with demand for places so high, they hope to run it again.
Allowing everyone to discover the secrets of tea
The tea served in the tea house is personally sourced from single estates. It's served in exclusive tea ware designed by Comins and made by British craftspeople. If you choose, the tea can be accompanied by delicious locally sourced food.
"There are exclusive tea houses in London," said Michelle, "but they can be very intimidating. We want to make tea accessible."
And they're doing just that. Customers are making the effort to seek out Sturminster Newton, and the Georgian building that is home to the tea house. Rob and Michelle's recipe for a successful business based on a product they love is working.
Discover more about Comins Tea House by visiting their website, or you may spot their stand at one of the many festivals held around the area.
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High School: Fremont HS (Sunnyvale, CA)
Schools: Albertson College (Caldwell, ID), DeAnza College (Cupertino, CA), San Jose State University (San Jose, CA)
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 21st round of the 1996 amateur draft.
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Radio personalities Cody Austin and Deb Miles from the "Morning Show" of station B100 (WBYT) in South Bend-Mishawaka visited Riverside Elementary School in Constantine on Friday, Feb. 3.
The station has a goal to collect a million pennies for its Radio Fund to donate to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, by early March.
Riverside School collected money for nearly three weeks, and donated the most money for the fund, 41,815 pennies (or $418.15.)
The radio station came to collect the pennies in special B100 canisters, then did an assembly on St. Jude's for the school.
"Kids get the best care possible at St. Jude's. Parents don't have to worry as much because everything at St. Jude's is paid for, and efforts such as yours bringing in all these pennies count for a lot," Austin said.
"You save lives with acts of kindness like this. Constantine made a difference."
Riverside will be featured on the B100 Morning Show at 7:10 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 6th.
"It's going to be all about you and your school. Give yourself a huge round of applause, because Monday we will talk about how amazing you are," Austin added.
The idea to collect funds for B100 was initially a class project of Carolyn Niblock and her fourth graders.
The project subsequently took off and the entire school began to collect pennies.
"School is not only about education, it's about life skills too," Niblock said.
"I listen to B100 on the way to work. I told students about the station collecting for St. Jude's."
"I pointed out kids can give of themselves and volunteer, just to do things out of the goodness of their heart."
"I never sent a note home. The kids wanted to do this," Niblock added.
"Kids posted this project in Facebook, took cans around the neighborhood to collect, and asked parents if they could do odd jobs around the house for money," she said. "When they earned a dollar, they would go to the bank and ask to trade it in for pennies."
Niblock said students are still bringing pennies in.
"They brought more pennies in this morning. That's nice, but I think now my count ($418.15) is off," she laughed.
"It sure helped with our math skills, counting and dividing up all those pennies, and we worked a lot on it before and after school," she added.
A dozen St. Jude's tee-shirts were raffled off during the assembly.
A special prize was given by B100 to the first student to answer a trivia question: How much is a million pennies? (Answer $10,000.)
For information on the B100 (107.FM) and St. Jude's Children's Hospital project go to WWW.B100.COM.


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Ladysmith Black Mambazo and other South African artists helped spread the message of racial inequality in their homeland after Ladysmith's appearance on Graceland. Eight years later, apartheid came to an end. Long Walk to Freedom serves the dual purpose of celebrating the group's twenty years on the international scene and the more recent birth of democracy in their homeland. The album features twelve new recordings of classic Ladysmith songs, most of them featuring guest vocal performances by a diverse lineup of popular music artists, plus a bonus track.
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Emmylou Harris joins for "Amazing Grace/Nearer My God to Thee, a tribute to American gospel music, complementing the group as it seamlessly segues from one song to the other and back. Hugh Masekela lends his trumpet to the orchestral vocal magic of "Shosholoza, which features several of South Africa's high-profile vocalists. After the title song, the album ends with "Thula Thula, an improvisational piece which Ladysmith has not previously recorded. This brief track, which features Shabalala without the group's harmonizing backup, provides a delightful closing to an excellent recording.
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Track Listing: Nomathemba; Hello My Baby; Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes; Homeless; Rain Rain Beautiful Rain; How Long; Mbube; Amazing Grace/Nearer My God to Thee; Nkosi Sikelel �lAfrica; Inkanyezi Nezazi (Star and the Wiseman); Shosholoza; Long Walk to Freedom (Halala South Africa); Thula Thula (bonus track).
Personnel: Joseph Shabalala, Albert Mazibuko, Thamsanqa Shabalala, Thulani Shabalala Russel Mthembu, Msizi Shabalala, Sibongiseni Shabalala, Abednego Mazibuko. Guests: Zap Mama-- Marie Daulne: lead vocals; Tanja Daese and Lene Noegaard Christensen: additional vocals; Melissa Etheridge, Joe McBride, Sarah McLachlan, Natalia Merchant, Taj Mahal, Emmylou Harris, Lucky Dube, Bhekumzi Luthuli, Hugh Masekela, Vusi Mahlasela, Nokukhanya, Phuzekhemsi, Thandiswa.
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The call came three days after a massive mudslide wiped much of Oso, Wash., off the map.
Scott Lee, 51, a North Portland arborist who has spent the past seven years training and deploying search dogs in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington, was told to get ready.
So the volunteer and his 4-year-old Labrador, Nexus, waited. At first, officials said the two were needed, then said they weren't. But last Friday, Lee and Nexus got the summons to go.
Their mission was to help search the piles of mud, shattered cars and homes for bodies or partial remains. It was unlike anything Lee's done before -- he was involved in at least 50 searches for Kyron Horman and helped in several "live" finds of people lost in the woods.
On most missions before this one, Lee and Nexus have usually worked in a fairly pristine environment.
But in Oso, "it was such a devastating dump -- with oil and propane and gasoline and everything mixed in, it really makes it hard to pinpoint exactly where the source of the scent is," he aid.
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Other times, workers would use the backhoe to create large piles of debris and have the dog work it over to find a scent.
The work wasn't only dangerous because of hazardous materials, Lee said, but because of the nature of the terrain. Mud that was brick-hard in one place, turned to soup in other places.
"I would be on solid ground one minute, and then up to my waist in mud the next," he said.
In photographs taken during and after their searching at the site, Lee can be seen wearing large boots, closed at the top with duct-tape. Nexus was in his natural state -- covered in mud.
The reward for Lee was making a difference, "and seeing (Nexus) do a good job. A lot of dogs just don't have the stamina and the drive to do it."
Lee never learned if any of Nexus' alerts resulted in the discovery of human remains.
"I never look at it as closure," he said Wednesday. "But I can help someone begin the process of closure."
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Working people on Labor Day 2010 have little to celebrate. Wages are stagnant or falling. Benefits are no longer generous; employees have to kick in a greater share of health insurance costs. Job security is a thing of the past. Of course, the unemployed are faring far worse: they are going jobless for longer periods, in some cases exhausting unemployment benefits, and the jobs they do find are unlikely to match their old salaries.
In this atmosphere, one might expect to find a resurgent union movement.
After all, it was the labor movement that gave workers leverage in their fight for better working conditions: the 40-hour work week, better wages and benefits including pensions, not to mention workplace safety and child protection laws.
But the fact is unions have been in decline for decades. A Rutgers University study of labor released earlier this year found just 12 percent of U.S. workers belong to a union. The percentage is higher in New Jersey — 19 percent — where public-sector unions predominate, such as the New Jersey Education Association.
The authors of the study, Tracy F. H.Chang and Jeffrey H. Keefe, professors at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, spoke with Linda Ocasio of The Star-Ledger's editorial board.
Q: What happened to the labor movement?
KEEFE: The main thing that's happened over the last 40 years is the decline of private-sector manufacturing, a stronghold of American unionism. On the other hand, we had a massive growth spurt in the public sector and service sector between 1963 and 1974.
Q: How have those changes played out in the New Jersey labor force?
KEEFE: At the end of World War II, 55 percent of the state's work force was employed in factories. The peak was in 1968, when New Jersey had 900,000 manufacturing jobs. Those were union jobs. Since then we've lost 600,000 manufacturing jobs and counting. This resulted in a shift where the majority of the state's union members work in the public sector.
Q: How have public policies affected union growth in the private sector?
KEEFE: The federal government encouraged industrywide bargaining for the auto industry, steel, oil and telephone, from World War II through the 1970s. That allowed employers to grant increases that wouldn't undermine competitiveness. Now it's all decentralized, and companies wonder if they're putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage.
We've seen employers toughen up since the 1970s. They're more resistant to unions in the private sector.
Q: How has the face of the labor movement changed?
CHANG: The labor movement has become more diverse, more women, more immigrant workers, more African-American and Asian workers, more educated workers and more older workers.
Q: Your report found more women holding unionized jobs in New Jersey.
CHANG: It's a phenomenon that happened at the national and local level. In New Jersey, women make up 49 percent of the unionized work force; nationally they are 44 percent. The public-sector unions have been growing and there's a large share of women in public-sector unions, such as the teachers union and the administrators and clerical workers unions.
Q: What will it take for unions in the private sector to come back?
KEEFE: What's missing right now is the self-organized community — a group of workers getting together and demanding better conditions in the workplace. That happened in the 1930s.
Q: Where is the potential for union growth?
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Butch Brown turned a relentless offense, solid defense and lock-down pitching into eight West Branch playoff titles in his first 10 years running the New Bloomfield VFW.
He used that sparkling combination again to deliver a ninth — and sixth in a row.
On Aug. 7, in Cocolamus, a day after the scheduled start was delayed by storms, Brown and the Vet schooled a quality, but not-quite-ready-for-primetime McAlisterville ballclub, in the finer points of playoff baseball, sweeping a doubleheader to win the best-of-five championship finale three games to one.
New Bloomfield backed a dandy three-hit, six-strikeout pitching performance by Kyle Sayers with an efficient seven-hit attack to win the first game 8-0.
In game two, the Vet exploded for 14 hits — three apiece from Jimmy Baum, Jared Frey and Cale Rafferty — and Rod Nace shook off a shaky three-run first inning leading New Bloomfield to an easy 13-3 title-clinching win.
"There's not a whole lot to say about my team. The guys were ready to roll," said Brown. "We played a very good team, but I've got a heck of a ballclub. They played their hearts out all year."
"You have to play your best game to beat New Bloomfield and we didn't. But I can't take anything away from them," said McAlisterville skipper Rod Brandt. "They hit, top-to-bottom and they play great defense."
Brandt sent ace Josh Haines out for game one, hoping for the kind of magic the left-hander had in his 4-1, one-hit win the previous week. There were no rabbits left for Haines to pull out of his hat.
Baum, the Vet's leadoff hitter, worked the count to 3-2 before lining a single to right-center. Baum then stole second, went to third on a ground-out and scored when Frey's bouncer to first was bobbled for an error. Frey scored when Derek Morrison tripled to the gap in right-center and Morrison scooted home on a wild pitch to put the Vet up 3-0.
Handing Sayers a three-run lead in the first bordered on criminal.
The right-hander, whose style borrows much from his background as a high school wrestler, grinds opponents into submission with a never-give-in presence.
Sayers gave up a leadoff single to Todd Grimm in the first, but quickly served up a 4-6-3 double play to erase that threat. He walked the leadoff batter in the second then faced runners at first and third with no outs when Dexter Herman laced a liner off the fence in left.
Not really.
Sayers simply fanned the next three hitters — on nine pitches.
"I don't (get excited) when there's runners on base. I have trust in myself and my teammates," Sayers explained. "With the team I've got behind me, I know if I can get a ground ball, it's (a double play)."
Sayers, wilder than usual, went to a three-ball count six times, issued four walks and threw 86 pitches — 45 for strikes — in completing his three-hit gem. He stranded five, allowed only one runner to reach third base and got a second doubleplay, an inning-ender in the fifth.
"Kyle was in control. He showed the promise we saw in him when we signed him," Brown said. "They really didn't hit many balls hard."
Haines, on the other hand, was punished.
After the Vet hitters put him through a painful 28-pitch first, they forced him to throw 17 more in a two-run second. After his 69th pitch, which Frey launched over the rightfield fence for a leadoff homer in the fifth, Haines was gone, trailing 6-0.
"We wanted to be patient with Haines, make him work harder," Vet assistant Tom Gehers said. "We thought if we could make him throw more pitches, he'd be gone by the fourth."
Bloomfield's offense wasted little time seizing control of the second game and, ultimately, the championship.
Baum doubled to right-center to start the first and took third when McAlisterville, acutely aware of his speed, misplayed the ball. Kenny Baum was then hit by a pitch and promptly stole second. One out later, Morrison plated Jimmy Baum with a sac fly to center. Kenny Baum, who had advanced on the fly ball, scored on Scott Fisher's single and successive singles by Rafferty and Ryan McMillen scored Fisher to give the Vet a 3-0 jump.
Rod Nace, who had lost his duel with Haines the week before, got the nod from Brown and suffered a scuffling first inning, though his defense didn't help.
Tyler Ritzman walked with one out, Ben Allen singled and both runners moved up a base on a wild pitch. Ritzman scored when Chris Baker bounced to first and the throw home was up the line.
"We probably should have gotten the out at first," Brown said. "But, a good throw gets (Ritzman)."
Herman followed with a sac fly that scored Allen and Dakota Zook doubled to drive in Baker with the tying run.
"I was thinking, 'Here we go again,'" Nace said to Brown after the game, referring to his troubles the previous Saturday.
Nace had little to worry about.
The Vet got one of those runs back in the top of the second.
Jimmy Baum was hit by a pitch with one out in the frame and eventually scored on Frey's two-out single up the middle, a common theme for the day. Over two games, Bloomfield connected for eight two-out hits that contributed nine of its 20 runs.
Brown's unruly crew broke the game open with five runs in the third. Jimmy Baum provided the closer.
Singles by Fisher and Rafferty, and a McAlisterville error got it going. Justin Zitsch singled to left to score the first run and keep the bases loaded. Baum then drilled a line drive to right center that cleared the bases and he scored when the throw to third was kicked out of play.
"That five-run inning broke the camel's back. We fell flat after that," Brandt said. "(New Bloomfield's offense) puts the heat on. They are such a good-hitting team, you can't give them anything."
Baum finished the day with a monster set of games. He went 5-for-8 with two extra-base hits, six runs — three in each game — and four RBI. He was also stranded once at third base.
"Five hits, six runs and four RBIs ... that's a great day," said Brandt. "I really like Jimmy Baum. He's a nice kid and a nice ballplayer.
"With the Baum boys, Frey and (Morrison) the kid they call D-Mo, that's a tough first four (batters to face). The rest of their guys are pretty good, too."
The Vet popped for three runs off Ritzman, who was on in the relief, in the fourth, then added its final run in the seventh on Rafferty's third base knock of the game.
Nace scuffed his way through six scoreless final innings, finishing with a nine-hit, two-walk performance. Frey made a diving catch in left with the bases loaded to end the fourth. Nace's catcher, Kenny Baum, picked a runner off second for the third out in the fifth. Nace himself speared Ritzman's wicked liner up the middle with one on and two out in the sixth. In the seventh, Allen singled and Baker doubled to put runners on second and third with no outs. But Fisher ran down a blast to center, Nace recorded his eighth K and McMillen made a leaping catch of Kyle Pannebaker's liner over second to preserve the win.
"We had a great summer, but you have to play your best ball to beat New Bloomfield," Brandt said. "When the playoffs come around, they get tougher. I'm hoping today we learned what it takes to win a championship."


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WMSE Music News
Tune into the Melissa Show today at 2:30 p.m. for a special acoustic set from Milwaukeean Trapper Schoepp as he prepares for his Milwaukee Unplugged set tomorrow night at UWM's Zelazo Center (2419 E. Kenwood). Schoepp will be joined by Macyn Taylor and will be featuring songs from he and his band's ('The Shades') new album, Run, Engine, Run, out on SideOneDummy Records next week, Tuesday. The album has already been garnering some pretty sweet press from the likes of the Alternative Press and Rock Sound UK Magazine, which recently wrote, "[Run, Engine, Run] is a gleaming collection of Midwestern rock 'n' roll tales that are wide-eyed, sincere and poetic". Listen in on Schoepp's stripped-down versions on WMSE today — tune in at 91.7 FM on your radio dial if in the Milwaukee area or stream live or in the archives at WMSE.org.
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Talks between Capital Area Transit and the union representing its bus drivers were called off today after CAT said drivers continue to call off.
On Saturday, CAT canceled four bus trips for today due to lack of drivers.
John Keller, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1436, said drivers calling off "has nothing to do with the contract," and said CAT officials are "trying to distort the situation."
CAT's board of directors Thursday authorized the transit agency to meet
with the union to forge a temporary contract. Drivers have been working
under the terms of the old one since July 1.
Keller said drivers call off for various reasons, which could have included snow delays at schools today or other reasons. But he maintains drivers aren't deliberately calling off or refusing to work overtime because of the contract issues.
"Drivers never were calling off because of the contract. It's because they don't want to work overtime," Keller said. He maintains CAT is understaffed and needs to hire more drivers.
Keller said drivers don't want to work overtime because "They're tired…It's winter, they've got families," he said. "They did before when they felt like it. There's no such thing as mandatory overtime."
Eric Bugaile, chairman of CAT's board, said the authority has enough staff, and problems arise when drivers call-off and other drivers refuse to work overtime.
Bill Jones, CAT executive director, said the authority can't afford to hire more full-time drivers, but is adding some part-time staff.
Robert Philbin, CAT spokesman, said the authority will begin "temporary pre-arbitration negotiation when the union provides drivers to fully service the capital area region's transit needs. CAT had to cancel four trips this morning because of driver absenteeism."
"We won't begin negotiating until there's full service – not canceling trips because of driver shortage," Philbin said. Binding arbitration is to begin in June, Philbin said. But CAT and the union were planning to start pre-arbitration talks to negotiate a temporary contract, he said.
Keller maintains CAT needs to hire at least four more full-time and three more part-time drivers. He said the union was originally asking for a 4 percent raise, but said his latest offer was 2 percent.
Jones said Thursday that CAT drivers, averaging $24.80 per hour, make $5 per hour over the regional average.
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Malbec an unusual grape variety?
Not for those who purchase their wine from a retail outlet in the four-state area, where table and reserve malbecs fill the shelves. Indeed, much of what's imported from Chile and Argentina is malbec.
But malbec produced locally? Impossible to find now, a situation that Dave Collins at Big Cork Vineyards in western Maryland would like to change.
"I really like malbec, it's a a great wine," he said by phone Saturday. "It's a good standalone wine, it just adds a nice touch for some other Bordeaux-style blends.
"We had 2 or 3 acres at Breaux. A lot of people don't want to
get near it because [they] are afraid of the thin skins and the early rots and everything. But I really haven't had any difficulty with it. It
ripens well, nice dark color and great fruit. Really nice, dark cherry fruit if
you can ripen it well, and it comes in pretty early."
Collins said he'll use the grape as a varietal or in blends. "And our club program is going to be pretty significant, too, so we'll have things like . . . barrel selections, things like that."


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* Left-hander Zach Duke will pitch against the Marlins on Sunday and then miss a couple of days to attend the funeral of his grandfather, B.J. Duke, who passed away Friday at the age of 87.
"He was a Marine & Battle of Iwo Jima Veteran who I had the pleasure of learning life lessons from. He was my Grandpa," Zach Duke said on Twitter.
* Right-hander Christian Garcia still doesn't know what's wrong with his right forearm. He hopes to get the results sometime Saturday. Garcia is waiting on a second opinion from Baltimore.
In the meantime, Garcia said he will rest for a few days and hopes to be back on the mound soon thereafter.
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Predicting the Oscars -- which airs Sunday at 4 p.m. Pacific time -- has a lot in common with that other annual festival of American prognostication coming later in March: the NCAA basketball tournament.
Whether filling out ballots or brackets, you can count on heavily favored front-runners to dominate almost all of the time. The trick lies with that "almost." Knowing when to go out on a limb and defy conventional wisdom can make all the difference in those office pools or home-theater parties.
Actually seeing the films in question is almost entirely beside the point. The truly cutthroat Oscar predictor avoids it, in fact, lest personal taste or sentimentality get in the way of an objective conclusion. Personally, I've had many a ballot spoiled by a subconscious tilt from "what will win" to "what should win." (I'm looking at you, "Hugo.")
In this year's Oscar race, you don't have to look far for some real suspense to emerge. Without a clear-cut front-runner, the Best Picture prize seems to be coming down to a three-way race between "Gravity," "12 Years a Slave" and "American Hustle." Interestingly, you could argue that each of them represents a different avenue of cinematic genius: technical virtuosity and spectacle, social and historical consciousness-raising, and the sheer narrative pleasures of character and story.
There are snubs every year, and they usually feel less unjust (or at least less relevant) with time, but the exclusion of "Inside Llewyn Davis" and "All Is Lost," both among this correspondent's top five films of 2013, especially rankles. Less dander is elevated when it comes to the exclusion of other favorites from last year, such as "Upstream Color" or "Computer Chess." It's important to remember what the Oscars are and what they most certainly are not. ("American Hustle's" lack of a Best Makeup and Hairstyle nomination among its 10 is surely the most shocking omission of 2014.)
But, just as in March Madness, it's about picking your upsets. I'm going with Amy Adams to win Best Actress for "American Hustle" because (a) she's the only nominee who's never won, (b) the movie will lose Best Picture but voters will want to recognize it somehow, and (c) the recent re-airing of abuse allegations against Woody Allen will, fairly or not and perhaps only subliminally, cost favorite Cate Blanchett a few crucial votes.
In any case, what follows are my predictions and preferences, and a notable non-nominee in each of the major categories (and a few semi-major ones, too):
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South Hackensack-based firm Boswell Engineering was selected by the Hoboken City Council to begin work on the waterfront walkway. Wood-eating mollusks have caused rapid depreciation to piers at Sinatra Park and Castle Point Park. The resolution to go with Boswell was passed by a vote of 7-1, with First Ward Councilwoman Theresa Castellano voting 'no.'
At a special council meeting on March 10, the $12 million bond was approved. The Council had chosen Maser Consulting Group, a consulting engineering firm based in Red Bank, N.J., at that time, but it was later revealed that the firm had a pay-to-play violation. The breach of contract was evident in its contributions to Hoboken mayoral candidates.
Steve Boswell, president and CEO of Boswell Engineering, attested to the Council that he is clean of pay-to-play connections. Though he is a graduate and trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology, he said his firm does no work for them.
The contract, which expires at the end of the fiscal year, is for $50,000.
The firm has done work locally in the past, such as fixing traffic signals on Willow Avenue in Hoboken and inspecting almost every pier along Hudson River.
Hoboken resident Lane Bajardi decried the Council's initial selection of Maser as the de facto engineering firm prior to a thorough investigation of pay-to-play ties.
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West Shore: Mental health education series. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) sponsors a free, 12-week educational series on Friday afternoons for families of individuals diagnosed with a serious mental illness at 1 p.m. The program focuses on topics like schizophrenia, mood disorders, coping skills, medications, recovery and rehabilitation. For more information, call NAMI at 718-477-1700 or visit www.nami.org. ELIZABETH CONNELLY CENTER, 930 Willowbrook Rd., Willowbrook, 718-983-5200.
North Shore: Mental health support group. The Staten Island chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offers a new support and recovery group for people with mental illness on the first, third and fifth (if there is one) Saturday of each month, 1:30-3 p.m. For more information, call 718-477-1700. BROADWAY YMCA, 651 Broadway, West Brighton, 718-981-4933.
Alcoholics Anonymous, AA meetings are held seven days a week at various times and locations throughout the borough. Go online or call for more information. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS STATEN ISLAND, P.O. Box 140591, 212-647-1680; www.statenislandaa.org.
West Shore: Blood drive. Donors must be healthy, at least 16 years old (with parent's written consent) and must weigh a minimum of 110 pounds; donors should eat prior to donation and bring photo ID. Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:30-7:30 p.m.; Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. BROOKLYN/STATEN ISLAND BLOOD SERVICES, 2791 Richmond Ave., New Springville, 800-933-2566.
Gamblers Anonymous, GA meetings are held most days of the week at various times and locations throughout the borough. Visit www.gamblersanonymous.org or call for more information. GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS, New York Intergroup, P.O. Box 7, New York, NY, 877-664-2469.
East Shore: Free cardiac screening. Staten Island Heart Imaging will perform free cardiac screenings for congenital heart diseases, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which causes sudden cardiac death, Tuesdays, noon to 3 p.m. Call 718-351-0500 to make an appointment; a physician's order is required. STATEN ISLAND HEART IMAGING, 1497 Richmond Rd., Dongan Hills, 718-351-0500.
Prince's Bay: Alzheimer's support group. A new evening meeting for caregivers, spouses and adult children of Alzheimer's disease patients on the first, second and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. For more information, call 718-667-7710. STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTH, meeting room in lobby, 375 Seguine Ave., Prince's Bay, 718-226-9428.


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Texas Ranger fans got a chance to see a glimpse of highly-acclaimed prospect Jurickson Profar in September of last year. He sure set the bar high in his first game, didn't he? Profar's first MLB start was a memorable one. He became just the third teenager to homer in his first career major league at-bat, hitting a long ball off Cleveland starter Zach McAllister.
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LSU/VA Medical Complex: IS IT REALLY A DONE DEAL?
Over 70 acres of lower Mid-City cleared.
Over 200 historic buildings demolished.
Over 1,000,000 square feet of downtown buildings abandoned.
Come hear why one of the biggest economic development projects proposed for the city is also one of the most controversial, and learn about the issues, the alternatives, and why this matters to every New Orleans neighborhood. You can also read TP columnist Lolis Elie's piece on the subject here
TODAY - Wednesday, January 21
Bourbon Orleans Hotel - 717 Orleans St.
6:00--6:30 reception
6:30--8:00 presentation
Speakers include:
Bill Borah, attorney and author
Walter Gallas, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Sandra Stokes, Foundation for Historical Louisiana
Bobbi Rogers, Lower Mid-City Resident
Sponsored by:
Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates
Foundation for Historical Louisiana
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Last night's meeting focused on the restoration of Charity Hospital as the fastest, most cost effective way to bring healthcare back to New Orleans. This would in turn save a historic neighborhood that homeowners and business owners have worked hard to restore over the last three years since our city's devastating flood.
This video presentation is produced by the architectural firm hired by Foundation for Historical Louisiana which recommends rebuilding Charity Hospital.
There were several compelling issues brought to light at last night's meeting:
* Rehabbing the current structure of Charity can be done faster and for less money than the current LSU/VA plan. The RMJM study estimates that the 70-year-old Charity Hospital building could be rehabilitated in three years at a cost of $484 million. Building a new hospital would require two extra years and an additional $124 million. BTW, the independent study was commissioned the Foundation for Historical Louisiana on behalf of the Louisiana Legislature. The firm they hired, known internationally for their prestigious work in healthcare design and preservation, is the 7th largest architectural design company in the world - so their opinion is not for nothing. Check out their website here
* The funding is not there for the LSU/VA hospital plan:
Louisiana faces a projected $2 billion deficit in the 2009-10 budget year. FEMA has said it will not give the $500 million asked for by local leaders to pay for LSU/VA's proposed project - to date, FEMA's pledged only $150 million.
* The current LSU/VA hospital plan will destroy 250 homes and businesses, many of which were rebuilt since Katrina using preservation and Road Home grants. See the stories of some of the home and business owners who fought to come back after the storm only to face a different type of wreckage courtesy of local politics at the squandered heritage website.
* Next Wednesday there will be a citizens meeting to support the restoration of Charity Hospital and to protect Lower Mid City from the wrecking ball. Please come and show your support:
Wednesday, January 28 at 6pm
St. Joseph Catholic Church Rebuild Center
1803 Gravier St. near Tulane and Claiborne. (free parking in church parking lot)
* You can sign the petition to build the new state of the art LSU teaching hospital while saving the historic one, an option that would be both faster, cheaper and much less destructive than the current plan proposed by LSU and the VA. Go to petition here.
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Homicide record
Flint has set a record for homicides in 2012 after a November shooting victim died earlier this month. The death puts the total number of homicides for 2012 at 67. Previously, the city had tied it's most violent year with 66 homicides.
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MADISON, Alabama -- Taylor Ziak learned firsthand that injuries can happen in the oddest ways.
A middle linebacker at Madison Academy, Ziak made a tackle along the sideline near the end of a 28-7 win over Deshler in Week 4. While Ziak was on top of someone, another player landed on his knee.
"I stayed out there for a few plays, was kind of weak and was limping around on it," said Ziak, a junior and the team's leading tackler with 105 stops. "I wasn't able to go quite full speed.
"I didn't think it was as bad as it was."
Ziak went on to play three more weeks, but his condition got progressively worse, said Mustangs coach Eric Cohu. Ziak went to a doctor, who initially thought the injury was a sprain, but it turned out Ziak had torn cartilage in his knee.
Ziak underwent arthroscopy, a procedure that he estimated lasted 30 to 45 minutes. He often did rehab twice a day following the surgery.
One of the most challenging aspects of recovery for Ziak was not being able to take the field for Madison Academy's region games in Weeks 8 and 9.
"It was pretty difficult not being able to contribute if they needed any help," he said.
Ziak's return was projected anywhere from the first round to third round of the playoffs, Cohu said. But Ziak defied expectations and was back on the field for last week's regular-season finale, recording 11 tackles as the Mustangs defense shut down previously undefeated Central of Clay County in a 33-7 win.
"He came back and had an awesome game," Cohu said. "We were very, very excited and blessed to have him back in Week 10."
From his middle linebacker spot, Ziak receives defensive play calls from the sideline and relays them to his teammates. He entered the year a seasoned defender, having finished second on the team with 120 tackles as a sophomore while helping the Mustangs advance to the Class 3A state championship game.
"He's smart, physical, intense and hard-nosed," Cohu said. "He's going to make a good linebacker at the next level. He's a student of the game and committed to learning the other team's offense."
Ziak and the fifth-ranked Mustangs (8-2) begin their quest for a return to the 3A championship game - and the program's first state title - when they host Winston County (5-5) in round one Friday night.
"It drove us the whole summer and through the year," Ziak said of the MA's 20-14 loss to Handley in last year's final. "We started out 0-2 last year; we knew we had some tough games this year. We didn't panic. We just kept going and driving forward."
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MADISON, Alabama -- Taylor Ziak learned firsthand that injuries can happen in the oddest ways.


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s you surely know, Google has accused China of hacking into its systems and is considering pulling out of China altogether. The U.S. government is taking this seriously, and Google has partnered with the NSA (National Security Agency) to get to the bottom of this. What you may not know is that the United Kingdom's MI5 -- Americans can think of this as a combination of the FBI and CIA -- has reported that the Chinese government has been giving UK executives electronics with built-in security holes.
According to the Sunday Times, "A leaked MI5 document says that undercover intelligence officers from the People's Liberation Army and the Ministry of Public Security have also approached UK businessmen at trade fairs and exhibitions with the offer of 'gifts' and 'lavish hospitality.' The gifts -- cameras and memory sticks -- have been found to contain electronic Trojan bugs which provide the Chinese with remote access to users' computers."
That's bad. But why, if these stories are true, should the Chinese government stop there? U.S. and British citizens buy billions of dollars every year of Chinese-made USB memory sticks, computers, hard drives, and cameras. Why not just add security holes as a matter of course to the firmware of all of them?
It's not hard. Heck. It's trivial.
Backdoors, systems with a deliberate security hole that allows its creator full access to a system, have been around for ages. Indeed, back in 1983, Ken Thompson, one the creators of Unix, admitted that he had included a backdoor in early Unix versions. Thompson's backdoor gave him access to every Unix system then in existence.
If China's government really is hell-bent on keeping an eye on American and European businesses, why not just incorporate 21st century backdoors into their products? Then, you could just have them automatically call home to do a data dump of documents. If there's anything interesting in the files, it can be set to monitor its user on a regular basis.
There's nothing difficult about doing this. Not only are backdoors easy to create, running an automatic check for words of interest, even in terabytes of documents, just requires some servers. After all, Google does it every day with far more data than such a plot could ever uncover.
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Where do all those Syracuse parks' flowers come from?
on February 16, 2010 at 5:00 AM
on February 16, 2010 at 5:00 AM
Spring is here... At the city greenhouse. "Things are just starting to pop," according to Jim Cowburn, the team leader at the greenhouse. Jim's the man responsible for turning our city into one big bouquet of flowers, once the season turns. Spring officially arrives March 20, more than a month away. Things were popping on Onondaga Avenue at the greenhouse the other day when Jim hosted an after-school class from Roberts School, a neighbor from the Strathmore district on Glenwood Avenue. The pupils were in the charge of Jessica Earley, who is program coordinator of the Roberts Say Yes to Education program. Tom Zaborsky, Roberts science teacher, was there, too. And Stephanie Miner, the mayor of Syracuse. The kids were there for a tour of the greenhouse and to plant sunflower seeds and watch them grow. That's the work here in the weeks before spring; I see rows and rows of plants pushing through the soil in cardboard trays resting on the overturned tops of clay flower pots. The plan is to replant the sunflowers in beds around the school once they take hold. Each youngster gets a stake marked with a name to stick in the little box of hope they have going. Jim says every plant we see in beds around Syracuse starts as a seed in a box at the greenhouse. Just now he's fussing with a tray of coleus. Last fall, Jim and his helpers planted about 80,000 tulips in beds across town. They'll bloom, then die. "That's when we get to work, yanking out the tulips," Jim explains. That's usually the first week in May. ''Right after Mother's Day," Jim says., "We go crazy." The man learned to flower our city from the ground outward. What Jim lacks in the study of plants, he makes up in enthusiasm. It's catching. This is the time of year when the greenhouse attracts folks from the neighborhoods, who come in to plant seeds for the seasons ahead. Shawn Fiato, of the Park Avenue Neighborhood Association, is there to get things started for her neighborhood. Jim shows me what he's got going at the greenhouse as the pupils crowd around us, and the mayor, who looks to have caught the spirit. She's posing for cell phone cameras and showing the kids around the beds. Let's see, we've got strawflowers, zinnias, marigolds, begonias, spider plants, wandering Jews...not to forget the shamrocks plants, which are headed for desks at City Hall, in about a month. Toward the back, we see one of the star of the greenhouse, a 50-year-old lemon tree that's overburdened with fruit. These lemons are way beyond the fruits we buy at the supermarket. The fruit is grapefruit size. Jim passes out samples. He says "we're trying to grow a coconut tree." The boss praises his crew at the greenhouse: John Bialy, Paul Russell and Barry Dixon. "They care, they really do," Jim says. John's the main man here: he has close to 35 years on the job. His uncle was Ben Kuppel, who was greenhouse superintendent more than 30 years. One of the realities of urban gardening is that not all of the seeds end up mature plants. Jim has about 800,000 seeds in the soil. He's looking to put about 200,000 in the ground. That's one of the lessons he hopes the pupils from Roberts learn. Jim's enthusiasm right now for his more than 400 beds across Syracuse is rocks, boulders actually. He experimented with adding rocks as a decorative element last year – sometimes hauling the heavy leftovers of nature himself - and he's looking forward to a new load of stones arriving from a lot owned by Onondaga County at Loomis Hill soon. Dick Case writes Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Reach him at 470-2254, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Results tagged ' 2011 Draft '
Draft review (1st round) & Day 2 links
I almost titled this post: JUST GO OVER TO BERNIE'S CREW because that is where I am sending you.
Here is Jim's post on Milwaukee's two top picks from Monday night.
Brief Scouting Reports. Click the link for the full deal:
RHP Taylor Jungmann
The right-hander is one of the most accomplished pitchers in the NCAA. He compiled a 0.95 ERA prior to the postseason and was the undisputed ace on a very talented University of Texas pitching staff.
At 6-foot-6, Jungmann gets very good downhill movement on his pitches. His fastball sits 91-93 MPH and can touch higher. He works it down in the strike zone very well and generates a good amount of groundballs. That plus-fastball is complemented by a very good curveball that has defined, two-plane break and a changeup that has reportedly improved throughout the spring.
LHP Jed Bradley
Milwaukee drafted a 6-foot-4 lefty to pair with Jungmann in this draft class, and Bradley is also considered one of the more advanced and safe pitchers in the draft. Unlike Jungmann, however, Bradley put up disappointing numbers for much of his collegiate career and has only come on the scene recently.
He improved dramatically over the past year — especially in Cape Cod — and posted a 3.49 ERA with Georgia Tech. This includes a 9.73 K/9 strikeout rate and a 2.85 BB/9 walk rate. His fastball sits comfortably in the 91-94 MPH range and has reportedly touched 97 MPH. Bradley maintains his velocity deep into games due to his big frame and even has a bit of projection left in him.
And Day Two has begun. Here is the Bernie's Crew thread for the day.
To follow the draft LIVE! here is the MLB.com draft tracker.
Milwaukee has already taken Pitcher Jorge Lopez from the Caguas Military Academy in Puerto Rico with the 70th pick of the draft.
Draft, 2011: Day One
The "First Year Player Draft" starts tonight. At 5pm CDT. It continues for 50 rounds over the next three days.
The Brewers draft 12th and 15th in the 1st round, 70th in the second round, 100th in the third round, & 131 in the 4th round.
MLB.com has a website devoted to the draft. They also have a video preview with Jonathan Mayo.
Draft tracker will have all the picks.
Okay, you are most interested in the Brewers picks and which of those picks will be with the Rattlers at some point in 2011.
Here is your required reading:
Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has this article.
Bernie's Crew….Just…Bernie's Crew…or, if you want just one post over there try the Bernie's Crew draft day thread.
That thread is where I found the link to this Jonathan Mayo article that projects the Brewers taking Sonny Gray, a pitcher out of Vanderbilt, and Tyler Anderson, a pitcher out of Oregon, with their first round picks.
I'm reluctant to send you to this mock draft at Baseball America because it's from April 25…Come ON, guys…There's gotta be a more recent one than that. They have the Brewers taking George Springer (a pitcher out of UCONN) and Blake Swihart (a high school catcher out of the Cleveland area).
Round One is tonight. Rounds 2 through 30 start tomorrow at 11:00am CDT. Rounds 31-50 are Wednesday beginning at 11am CDT.


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|Vintage Auto Parts sold and reopened in Denver
|Todd Gold and Terry Jarvis, new and old owner of Vintage Auto Parts
|Vintage Auto Parts,
owned by Terry Jarvis and a part of the Woodinville business community since
1960, has been sold to Todd Gold, owner of Streamline Inc. This past week,
the business has been relocated to Gold's 30,000 square foot store
in Denver.
Vintage Auto Parts sells parts throughout the USA and to customers in many foreign countries. They specialize in selling new old parts still in the original boxes for antique and older cars.
Thirty semi-trucks moved the millions of parts inventory, counters and memorabilia. As fast as the trucks were loaded, they were on their way to Denver, and the contents immediately barcoded, inventoried and put up on the shelves.
"Streamline Inc. is a one-stop hot rod restoration, parts and service center," said Gold, who grew up fixing tractors and cars on a ranch outside of Denver. A mechanic since he was16, Gold started his first shop in a gas station in 1998 and expanded quickly. His personal auto is a 1930 Model A, but he also owns 15 other cars dating from 1927 to 1960.
"Todd is very involved in the industry and has an efficient and well-run company," said Jarvis. "There are only a handful of players in this market and Streamline, Inc. and Vintage Auto Parts are among the top and complementary businesses."
Gold will continue the name of Vintage Auto Parts, the phone number, Internet site, watts line and maintain the existing customer base.
"The interest in vintage cars and hot rods is growing and cuts across every customer profile," said Gold. "We serve the average guy rebuilding his car in the garage to the rich and famous who have hired others to rebuild and customize the cars for them."
"In the last 15 years, old new parts for old cars has become a recognized industry. With the Internet, the business is on fire," said Jarvis. "In fact, it is the only growing division of the parts business with 99 percent of the independent parts stores going out of business."
Jarvis, an active community leader and the Mayor of Grace, will keep his office and property on Highway 9.
You can visit Vintage Auto Parts at www.vapinc.com and Gold's web site at www. streamlinedenver.com.


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NAMM Report: TASCAM DR-1 PORTABLE RECORDER
NAMM Report: TASCAM DR-1 PORTABLE RECORDER
Affordable Recorder Captures to 1GB SD Card
The market for handheld digital field recorders heated up at this year's NAMM show with new products from TASCAM, Olympus, and Sony, among others, as well as a new model of M-Audio's popular Micro-Track. Anyone who has used these popular recorders knows that you can make surprisingly good live or club recordings using their microphones or plugging into a board.
TASCAM's DR-1 Portable Digital Recorder, is a compact unit that captures hours of music using built-in mics to its 1GB SD card. A pair of microphones is mounted on a variable angle mechanism, which allows the recorder to record from almost anywhere. The unit includes a generous 1GB SD card for hours of recording at MP3 or WAVE file formats. The DR-1 also includes auto gain control and analog limiting for easy setup and a low-frequency cutoff to eliminate handling or wind noise. And with a MAP (minimum advertised price) of only $299, every musician is going to want one.
"The DR-1 is the portable recorder that everyone's been waiting for," said Paul Jenkins, Director of Sales and Marketing for TASCAM. "It's the first to include a card big enough for serious recording, and the price point is a wake-up call for the entire industry. TASCAM has a thirty-year history of creating the recorders that musicians want, and the DR-1 is sure to be our latest hit recorder."
The DR-1 packs a mobile truck full of equipment into a recorder compact enough to fit in your pocket:
- Portable, Handheld Recording
- Included 1GB SD card media
- Built-in High-quality Stereo Condenser Microphone
- Variable Angle Microphone Mechanism with A/B Configuration
- 48 or 44.1kHz / 24-bit Recording Resolution
- MP3 and WAVE file Recording and Playback
- Switchable Low Cut Filter
- Analog Auto Gain Control
- Analog Limiter
- Rechargable Lithium-Ion Battery
- USB 2.0 Connection to Computer
- Built-in Tuner and Vocal Cancel Features
- Overdub Feature to record narration, singing or instruments over an existing recording
For more information contact TASCAM • 7733 Telegraph Road • Montebello, CA 90640 USA (323) 726-0303 • http://www.tascam.com


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One of the biggest challenges for new parents is getting used to the changes that a baby will bring to their night-time routine. This leaflet, endorsed by the CPHVA, the RCM and The Lullaby Trust, is designed to offer helpful, practical advice on coping at night. It covers getting some rest, night feeding, safe sleeping environments and helping baby to settle. Click here to download a copy.
Printed copies are available. Click here to download an order form.
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This guide has been written to help health professionals who will be using Caring For Your Baby At Night with new parents. It looks at the evidence underpinning the recommendations in the leaflet and offers guidance on discussing these issues. Click here to download a copy.
These leaflets were published in November 2011.
You can read further research about bed-sharing and infant sleep here.
Click here to visit the Infant Sleep Information Source (ISIS) Online - a collaboration between Durham University Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, La Leche League, NCT, and UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative.
Donations to UNICEF UK do not fund the Baby Friendly Initiative, the expenses of the Baby Friendly Initiative are covered by the costs of training and assessment. No element of profit for UNICEF or the baby friendly initiative is included in these costs. © 2010 UNICEF UK.


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Friday's second round of the Portland Classic turned into a farewell party for one of the tournament's former champions.
Hee-Won Han announced that the tournament at Columbia Edgewater Country Club would be her last on the LPGA Tour, as she has decided to retire from professional golf, and Friday almost turned into a her swan song.
Han's six victories on the LPGA Tour include the Portland Classic in 2004, when she birdied the 18th hole in the final round to tie Lorie Kane for the lead, then birdied the hole in a playoff to win. She said there's plenty she will miss about the tour.
"All my friends here, and (memories) I have winning this tournament especially," she said. "Yeah. It's great memories."
Han's last win on tour came in 2006, and her life changed the following year when she and husband Hyuk Son, a former professional baseball players, had a son, Dale.
"Actually I just think about the last year, and my (son) growing up and then thought it was perfect timing for retire," she said.
Han made a long par putt to finish her round, a 1-under 71 that left her at 1 over, which at the time was outside the cutline.
With the belief that her week was done, Han received heartfelt hugs from her caddie and playing partners Christina Kim and Pat Hurst, and a member of the tour staff presented her with flowers after she signed her scorecard.
It turned out, however, that the cut line moved in the afternoon to 1 over.
Her fellow South Korean, Jeong Jang, also announced that the Portland Classic would be her final tournament. Jang almost won her, too, losing in a playoff to Mi Hyun Kim in 2000. Jang has a daughter, Sam, who turns 3 in October, and has also been fighting a long-term wrist problem that has made it difficult to practice.
"I just can't practice as much as all the girls, so I'm just thinking it's time," said Jeong, who has two wins, including a major, the 2005 Women's British Open.
Jeong's final round, however, will be Sunday after she shot 70-71 in the first two rounds to make the cut.
NOTE: This story was edited from the original version to reflect that Han made the cut.
-- Mike Tokito | @mtokito


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It's Sunday in Greater Cleveland, downtown might be a little slow, time to escape into the suburbs for a nice relaxing brunch. Question is, where do you go? One recommendation is M Bistro in Westlake.
M Bistro is one of those nice little restaurants that seem to not get talked about nearly enough, especially when it comes to their Sunday brunch. This fine dining establishment offers a wonderful brunch special that will fill you up for the rest of the day. Trust me, you will have so much great food you probably won't want anything more than a snack for the rest of the day.
Many of M Bistro's customers are "regulars, and have no problem telling you that, eating brunch there every Sunday, almost as scheduled as going to church.
Your eyes will for sure be delighted as it walks around the buffet style set up in the middle of the restaurant under a beautiful high ceiling skylight around what is usually their internal fountain. As you move around the room you will find sea food, fruit dishes, freshly made deserts, cereal, waffles, scrambled eggs, egg benedict, ham, sausage, and much, much more. That is all in addition to the pasta and omelet station where their chefs will toss together a great little pasta mix or omelet made to order just for you, just the way you like it.
This little gem of Westlake is the perfect way to kick back on Sunday morning with family and friends, relax and get a nice meal as you prepare to tackle another busy work week.
If you want to visit M Bistro, it is located at the corner of Clague & Detroit at 23800 Detroit Ave., Westlake OH. If you are going to arrive before 12-noon you will probably be ok, but the closer you get to noon or after you better call to make reservations. Their number is 440-250-5550.


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06-11-2004, 01:28 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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mail system in cpanel
can anyone tell me how can i stop users to use my outgoing server?
and by the way what wil be outgoing mail server addres? i am using cpanel. will it be mail.mydomain.com ??
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I'm not sure you can use cpanel and completely disable the outgoing mail server. You can try changing the 'max emails a user can send out per hour' to 1 and that would severely limit them.
The address is mail.domain.com


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Back in March, I nearly sheared off my foot in a motorcycle crash. A highly specialized orthopedic surgeon named Richard Schenk put my ankle back together during a fairly long, complicated surgery at Morristown Memorial, one of the state's premier trauma centers. The cost: $5,150, which included months of follow-up care. A bargain, surely, and insurance paid most of it.
A couple of years ago, one of my cousins split a finger down the middle with a radial saw. A highly specialized hand surgeon came to the local emergency room, and decided the finger could not be saved. He snipped it off right there, with nothing more than a pair of sterile garden shears and a little local anesthesia. The cost: $22,000. Insurance paid it. The surgeon later billed my cousin for an additional $16,000. Insurance paid that, too: $38,000 for a procedure a Civil War field doctor once did in a tent with a meat cleaver, and a shot of whiskey and bullet to bite for the patient.
You see where I'm going with this?
We don't need health care reform. We need health insurance reform. And malpractice insurance reform. We can start with standards of practice and procedure. And payment.
It's the kind of "common sense" solution the president and Congress all agree we need. Streamlining the process saves money. Standardizing payments ends bilking and abuse. Make a set of rules everyone must follow, and let "competition" be decided by skill and service.
"It's only one piece of reform, but it's a good place to start," said Joseph Trunfio, the CEO of Atlantic Health, which includes Morristown Memorial and Overlook in Summit. "It can be done, and it can bring an efficiency that can drive quality and control costs. We can save 10 percent in the paperwork alone, at a minimum."
Of course, the minute anyone mentions "standard fees" for doctors, the word "socialism" isn't too far behind. The logic goes like this: If government sets fees, it kills the medical marketplace and doctors will revolt. And they'll ... what? Go practice in Sri Lanka? Become personal trainers? That argument is actually insulting to doctors, most who practice -- believe it or not -- not to get rich, but to help people.
But let's ask a doctor.
Arnold Pallay runs a large family practice group called Changebridge Medical in Montville and is also on the finance and insurance committee of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He has been advocating standards for a decade now because, while he may make less for services, he'd spend less -- money and time -- dealing with the insurance "mess." His word, not mine.
"We've been arguing for a standard system since 2001," he said. "One card, no matter what insurance carrier supplies it, one set of forms. It makes perfect sense. It would cut office overhead enormously. But the insurance companies will never let it happen, and Washington isn't listening to us.
"Right now, as doctors, we have no idea what we're being paid for my services," Pallay said. "How can we figure out our office expenses if we're being paid 100 different ways for the same service?"
If at all. Pallay says many claims end up in a black hole of non-payment because of clerical errors or time lapses or insurance company three-card monte. Pallay gave an example of an insurance company that refused to pay for emergency thoracic surgery because the patient did not have a referral. What he had was a moving blood clot at 3 a.m.
But in our broken system, every health insurance company has a different set of forms, of rules, of procedures, of treatment standards.
The industry promises to come up with a plan for standardization -- for themselves. America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the umbrella lobbyist, says insurance companies are working on "a model for personal health records" so they can track your medical history easier. A July 30 meeting of AHIP members produced a plan to get everybody's computers talking to each other. But simplifying paperwork for providers is not on the agenda.
Every medical care giver, from your family GP to the giant UMDNJ, has to hire an office staff or full department or outsource to another company just to keep up with it. From Aetna and AFLAC to Blue Cross/Blue Shield, from Horizon to Humana, from United to UniCare, from Cigna to Mega. Different forms, different rules. A labyrinth of forms, faxes and phone calls.
The doctor's office has become a business office. All those forms and rules need more people to sort them out. At the Atlantic Health rehab center, where I was a patient for a month after I crashed, five full-time nurses were needed just to handle the insurance claims -- and subsequent negotiations -- of about 100 patients. One nurse for every 20 patients, just for insurance.
Pallay says the great irony lies here:
"As an employer who pays insurance premiums for my staff, my costs are going up 20 percent a year," he said. "As a provider, my reimbursements are being cut every year. Where is the money going?"
To insurance companies, and their lobbyists. Some of it ends up as campaign contributions for the people looking for the "common sense" solutions.
The health insurance industry spent $166,640,619 in and on Congress in 2008 as it geared up for the reform battle. You read that right: more than $166 million in one year alone. It was a bipartisan effort: 54 percent went to Democrats, and 46 percent went to Republicans.
You see where I'm going with this?
And if that's capitalism, call me a socialist.


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Berg Insight says 2.8 million patients are remotely monitored today
According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, around 2.8 million patients worldwide were using a home monitoring service based on equipment with integrated connectivity at the end of 2012.
The figure comprises all patients that were using dedicated devices for remote monitoring. Patients using their personal mobile phone, tablet or PC for remote monitoring are not included in this figure.
mHealth enables more efficient care delivery, decreased costs and improved sustainability of the healthcare system. The new care models enabled by these technologies are often consistent with patients' preferences of living more healthy, active and independent lives.
Berg Insight forecasts that the number of home monitoring systems with integrated communication capabilities will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.9 percent between 2011 and 2017 to reach 9.4 million connections worldwide.
"Widespread use of remote patient monitoring is still years away, but we are moving towards an age where mHealth solutions will become part of standard care pathways. Financial incentives are now coming into place and new mandates are formed that favourably affect the adoption of mHealth solutions. ", says Lars Kurkinen, telecom analyst, Berg Insight.
The number of devices with integrated cellular connectivity increased from 0.73 million in 2011 to about 1.03 million in 2012, and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 46.3 percent to 7.1 million in 2017.
Several new developments in the mHealth industry will ensure strong market growth in 2013 and beyond.
In the US, the progressive increases of readmission penalties set by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will drive hospitals to adopt telehealth solutions for monitoring post-discharge patients.
In the UK, the positive results from the Whole System Demonstrator project led the National Health Service to issue a mandate for 100,000 additional patients to be monitored with telehealth solutions by March 2014.
In France, a new mandate on compliance monitoring will ensure that all new sleep therapy patients will be remotely monitored from 2013 onwards. This new mandate is expected to result in more than 600,000 connected sleep therapy devices by 2016.
"Today cardiac rhythm management (CRM) is the most important segment of connected medical devices. However, we believe that connected sleep therapy devices will become the largest segment of connected medical devices by 2017, followed by the CRM and telehealth categories.Connectivity is at the same time gaining momentum in several other segments such as blood pressure monitoring, glucose monitoring, ECG monitoring and medication adherence", adds Mr. Kurkinen.
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