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Evaluating Modes of Influenza Transmission Observational Study of Community Acquired Influenza (EMIT)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01769430
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 16, 2013
Last Update Posted : April 2, 2018
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|Condition or disease
|Influenza Virus Infection Transmission in Humans
This study is a follow-on to earlier projects funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that developed the sampler and studied the impact of surgical masks on reducing viral aerosol release by persons infected with influenza virus. The funding organizations have no direct control over the study design, execution, or reporting and no access to identifiable human data. The CDC IRB has determined that the CDC is not engaged in human subjects research in this cooperative agreement.
- Fine particle aerosols will contain greater numbers of viral copies than will coarse aerosol particles.
- Clinical symptoms and signs, including fever can be used to predict viral aerosol shedding
- Fine aerosols will contain culturable virus indicating that the fine aerosols are infectious
- Aerosol shedding will correlate with virus load measured by nasopharyngeal and throat swabs
- Presence of active cough during sampling will be associated with increased aerosol shedding with a stronger correlation to be found with coarse than fine particle virus aerosols
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|Actual Enrollment :
|178 participants
|Observational Model:
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|Official Title:
|Evaluating Modes of Influenza Transmission Work Package 1: Observational Study of Community Acquired Influenza
|Study Start Date :
|December 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 2013
Community acquired respiratory infection
Measurement of exhaled breath aerosol
- Viral copy number in exhaled breath aerosol coarse and fine particle fractions [ Time Frame: At enrollment and over 2 days follow-up ]Participants will sit for 30 minutes with their face inside the cone/funnel of the Gesundheit-II (G-II)human bioaerosol collector (McDevitt JJ et al. Aerosol Sci Technol 2013, in press). Subjects are free to tidal breathe, cough, and talking. A conventional slit impactor collects particles > 5.0 μm. Condensation of water vapor is used to grow remaining particles for efficient collection by a 1.0 μm slit impactor and be deposited into a buffer-containing collector. Samples are assayed by RT-PCR and viral culture. The method was previously used to assess effectiveness of surgical masks for containing influenza virus aerosols (Milton DK, et al. PLoS Pathogens 2013, in press).
- Correlation of exhaled particle counts and viral copy numbers [ Time Frame: At enrollment and over 2 days follow-up ]Hypothesis: exhaled particle numbers counted with an optical particle counter (Exhalair, Pulmatrix, Inc, Lexington, MA) during tidal breathing will correlate with exhaled viral copy numbers, especially in the fine particle fraction
- Impact of multiple infection [ Time Frame: At enrollment and over 2 days of follow-up ]Hypothesis: co-infection with other respiratory agents will increase aerosol production
- Correlation of exhaled virus in community acquired and experimental infection [ Time Frame: At enrollment and up to 2 days of follow-up ]These data will be used to compare subjects with community acquired influenza with donor subjects artificially infected with influenza in EMIT-Work Package 3 and with recipient subjects exposed the the donors. We will test the hypothesis that the donor subjects in EMIT-WP3 produce similar amounts of viral aerosol as do community acquired infection cases. We will also examine whether recipients exposed only to aerosols differ from those exposed by contact and large droplet as well as aerosol routes with respect to exhaled aerosol virus.
- RSV and other respiratory infections [ Time Frame: At enrollment ]Hypothesis: RSV and cases with other respiratory infections who are not infected with influenza will have the infecting agent present in exhaled breath aerosols
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|10 Years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
Presence of symptomatic respiratory infection or other evidence of respiratory infection:
During the influenza season, subjects will be enrolled if they have
- influenza-like illness (symptoms of fever and either cough or sore throat) and either
- a positive point of care rapid test for influenza infection or
- objectively documented fever in the setting of a documented local influenza outbreak (presence of rapid test or PCR confirmed cases).
- Onset within the previous 48 hours
- Prior to onset of influenza season and if we have not achieved enrollment of our target population by the end of flu season, we will enroll subjects with cough, coryza (stuffy runny nose, sore throat, sneezing), and malaise (fatigue) characteristic of the 'common cold' often resulting from Human Rhinovirus, RSV, parainfluenza, and to some extent influenza virus.
Exclusion Criteria:
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01769430
|United States, Maryland
|University of Maryland School of Public Health
|College Park, Maryland, United States, 20742
|Principal Investigator:
|Donald K Milton, MD, DrPH
|University of Maryland
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Other Publications:
|Responsible Party:
|Donald K. Milton, Professor of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Maryland
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01769430 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1U01IP000497 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
3U01CI000446 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
RC1AI086900 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|January 16, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 2, 2018
|Last Verified:
|March 2018
Keywords provided by Donald K. Milton, University of Maryland:
influenza virus
aerosol transmission
contact transmission
large droplet transmission
airborne infection
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Influenza, Human
Virus Diseases
Orthomyxoviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Respiratory Tract Infections
Respiratory Tract Diseases


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Daily lauds Pakistani for becoming world snooker champ
Islamabad, Dec 4 (IANS): World snooker champion Mohammad Asif is one of the many unsung heroes of Pakistan sports who fail to make their presence felt in a country that is completely obsessed with cricket, said a Pakistani daily.
Just when it seemed that nothing could go right for Pakistan, Mohammad Asif's stunning title-winning triumph Sunday at the IBSF World Snooker Championship came as a timely reminder that all's not lost for the country, said an editorial in the News International.
No one in Pakistan anticipated that he would go on to become the world champion. Asif began the championship as an underdog but proved to be the proverbial dark horse of the tournament as cruised into the final with eight victories on the trot.
The final that spanned over almost eight hours, Asif displayed nerves of steel on his way to a memorable 10-8 victory.
And Pakistan erupted in joy.
The daily said that Asif has become only the second Pakistani to win the world snooker title after Mohammad Yousuf, who bagged the crown 18 years ago in the 1994 World Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Asif's is a true rags-to-riches story. This hard-working cueist comes from a humble background, has never had much training and isn't even employed.
"In fact before his heroics in Sofia, Asif had been one of the many unsung heroes of Pakistan sports who somehow fail to make their presence felt in a country that is completely obsessed with cricket," it said.
The daily said that snooker has never been really able to attract much support from the public or private sectors.
"National snooker officials have to run from pillar to post to collect funds to send teams abroad to feature in international events like the World Snooker Championship. But Asif's commendable achievement should prove be a game changer not just for the player but also for Pakistani snooker," it added.


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War Photographer Guy Martin, Who Turned To Less Dangerous Livelihood After Near-Death Experience in Libya, Finds Himself Amid The Fray Again In Istanbul Gezi Park Protests
At first glance, it could be an edgy fashion ad. A young man lies on his back in the grass, shirt torn open, perfectly mussed hair highlighted by the camera's flash. All that's missing, it seems, is a designer logo on the waistband of his briefs.
But as the accompanying caption explains, the scene is painfully real. The young man is a protester in Istanbul's Gezi Park, struggling to remain conscious after being caught in a cloud of tear gas during a violent encounter with police. The strange overlap – the seemingly contrived beauty of the image and the harsh reality it depicts – is by design: It provides a seductive portal into an important story. Though unintended, it also sheds light on the trajectory of the photographer's own life, which nearly ended two years ago during the Libyan revolution.
Guy Martin, who included the Gezi Park photo in a recent Time Lightbox essay, is among the growing ranks of freelance photographers who supply those dramatic images from around the world that dominate front pages and scroll past on our social media timelines. As a freelancer, he has few safety nets when he ventures into a conflict zone, and must take into account intense competition for the public's fleeting attention to news. That means finding new approaches – a hidden, unreported angle or a fresh take on a familiar one.
What is striking for anyone who knows Martin or is familiar with his professional history is not only that he portrays the Turkish uprisings in a unique way but that he was at Gezi Park at all. He was gravely injured, close to death, during the Libyan uprising in 2011 -- and that has profoundly influenced his work since. The last time Martin and I spoke, he had given up conflict photography for good in favor of safer commercial subjects – environmental portraits, travel, fashion and, curiously, Turkish soap opera. The shift in focus, directly related to what he faced in Libya, is evident in his Time Lightbox photos, which are in some cases more stylized than conventional conflict images. His aim at Gezi Park, he says, is "to challenge viewers' perceptions not only about Istanbul but the role of the media, celebrity and photography. News and fantasy are so closely linked."
Before you assume that means Martin is distorting reality, look at his photos. In them, reality is heightened. Choosing to artificially illuminate a scene with a strobe or flash, as he did for the photo of the young protester, is part of a selective process that begins as soon as a photographer frames an image in his mind's eye. Beyond that, the possibilities are endless, which does pose certain risks. Among the myriad photos in circulation on the Internet from various global hotspots are many of questionable veracity, whether because they were deceptively manipulated or due to the possibility that they were staged. Even when the scenes are authentic, the theatrical nature of war tends to create heightened self-image among combatants, unusual (and sometimes exaggerated) displays of camaraderie, and what the late photographer Tim Hetherington described as the "feedback loop," in which the fighting and its artistic and media depictions feed off each other. That's why so many conflict images look familiar. Given that, is there anything wrong with documenting rebels who pose like fighters they've seen in movies, blurring the lines between what's real and what's not? It largely depends upon the photographer's role. But either way, if the photographer isn't careful, he or she can be killed in the process.
I was introduced to Martin while researching a book about Hetherington, a British photographer who was killed alongside American photographer Chris Hondros and numerous Libyan rebels in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya, on April 20, 2011. Martin, who was with Hetherington and Hondros at the time, also almost died in the attack, which injured another American photographer, Michael Christopher Brown. Martin, who is 29, already had a few conflicts under his belt when he first arrived in Libya. He had covered the Russian-Georgian conflict and slipped across the border into Iraq before moving on to the Arab Spring, first in Egypt, then in Libya, which is where he joined the itinerant group of Western photographers including Hetherington, Hondros and Brown. He had previously met Hetherington in the U.K., and had been impressed by his approach and style. In Libya, both recognized that they shared an interest in looking beyond the obvious conflict to document the personal stories of those involved. Hetherington was at once a photographer, an artist and a humanitarian. He had received a World Press photo of the year award and had been nominated for an Academy Award for the documentary Restrepo about American soldiers at a remote outpost in Afghanistan, which he co-directed with Sebastian Junger. Like Martin, he was working freelance in Libya.
During a previous foray to the country, Hetherington had been disenchanted with what he saw as the obsession of many rebels with being photographed, which struck him as false. Only later, back in New York City, had it occurred to him that the posturing was a natural response to being thrust, unprepared, into war. It was part of the feedback loop. So he decided to return to Libya to document that, this time using primarily old-fashioned film cameras of a type normally used for studio or wedding photography, the idea being that he would force himself to carefully frame the images even if the scene itself was chaotic. Notably, some of the photographers in the group worked the opposite angle, using iPhones exclusively, with various software filters such as Hipstamatic, which provided different opportunities for creating stand-out images.
On April 20, 2011, as the group of photographers lingered with rebels on Misrata's Tripoli Street, they were hit by an incoming mortar shell fired by distant Gadhafi forces. From that point until we first spoke last summer, Martin chose not to publicly discuss what happened that day. It was too traumatic. But in the context of telling Hetherington's story he began to open up, and his account was crucial because his memory was so clear, was augmented by photos with time-date stamps, and revealed what had happened at the very center of the action. Martin also had personal insight into what Hetherington was trying to do in Libya, which involved facing the theatrics of conflict head-on.
After the explosion, Martin recalled seeing smoke billowing out around him as if the sidewalk were on fire while he cradled his guts, bleeding profusely. For a few moments he drifted in and out of consciousness, during which two rebels loaded him into the bed of a pickup truck, where they left him. When he briefly came to the surface, he realized that he shared the bed with dead or dying men, so he called out to a rebel nearby, "Wrong truck!" The rebels, seeing that he might be saved, moved him to another vehicle and transported him to a hospital where he underwent eight hours of surgery to stanch internal bleeding and repair deep shrapnel wounds to his thighs, pelvis and abdomen. While he was on the operating table he went into cardiac arrest three times.
Once he was stable enough to be moved, Martin was evacuated, first to Malta and then to the U.K., where he began a long period of physical and emotional recovery that led to his decision to quit conflict photography for good. He turned his lens elsewhere, and with his girlfriend, Polly Fields, moved to Istanbul last summer. As he wrote in the text that accompanies his Time Lightbox photo essay, "I made a promise to myself, my family, friends and loved ones to never cover war, civil unrest, protests or even a particularly robust political debate ever again." He and Fields carved out a new life on the outskirts of the city, near the Black Sea shore.
Then, on June 1, public discontent over the proposed commercial development of a rare Istanbul green space unleashed a series of escalating protests to which the government violently responded. Conflict, obviously, is where you find it – or where it finds you. Martin felt he had no choice but to document the unfolding scenes. Still, he did so with great trepidation. He wrote: "As I stepped on the metro, I was hit with a knot in my stomach -- that swirling, vomit-inducing feeling that only happens when you are utterly petrified."
Roaming the periphery of the protests, he produced a series of intimate, atmospheric photographs that provide a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a historic moment, when a seemingly random protest tapped into something deeper and wider: A well-dressed couple whose expressions betray a complex mix of emotions as they pick their way through rubble; a woman who has brought a child to see history unfolding; a man who looks like a human Transformer, wearing exposed armor; another posing jubilantly for a friend's camera phone before a burning barricade; and the photogenic young protester being comforted by friends after the tear gas episode. Along the way, Martin recognized that his visual treatment of conflict had changed. Everywhere he looked he saw potentially deadly theater. The time he had spent in the margins, photographing pretty and sometimes prosaic scenes, was clearly influencing his work. So, too, was his own encounter with mortality. Rather than focusing on predictable mob scenes, he zeroed in on the carefully framed faces of those involved – the characters in the drama.
My first reaction, when looking through his Istanbul photos, was to wonder if Martin had decided to return to conflict photography -- to reprise a role that had almost gotten him killed. Had he missed the high that comes from proximity to events of profound, life-changing, historical importance? Though I'm not a war journalist, I had felt an entry-level version of that high in Libya last summer, and afterward, an unexpected sadness upon returning home. Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what. The young man in the Gezi Park photo is no doubt acutely aware of that now, and his relationship with those around him is certainly deepened by the experience and association. The feeling is in many ways addictive, though the rush is not only about adrenaline. It's about feeling more alive, recognizing what and who matters most, and acting accordingly. There's a natural letdown afterward, as you return to normal life and find yourself scrolling through photos posted by family and friends of beloved cats and inexplicable plates of food.
Assimilating those pivotal moments is not always easy, and involves calculating scale. Istanbul, I've observed, is one of those places that defies the traveler's "wherever you go, there you are" syndrome, whereby you feel pretty much the same in Berlin as anywhere else, except for the German details. Istanbul feels truly exotic. One feels different there. But just as a four-hour drive ceases to seem long when it's part of an 18-hour journey, being in Istanbul ceased to seem exotic to me when I was on my way to Misrata, Libya, which was still a conflict zone when I arrived though the war was technically over. Misrata skewed the scale. All of which helps explain how Martin could see exotic, mysterious Istanbul as a safe haven when many people would see it otherwise, if only because it is unfamiliar, with lots of mosques.
Though the Turkish government has at times behaved criminally toward journalists whose reporting it sees as a threat to the status quo, Istanbul has long been a stable place by war journalists' standards. Likewise, the current demonstrations, though more violent than the Occupy protests in the U.S., are fairly tepid compared with what has transpired in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Circumstances in Istanbul are clearly volatile, and its status is subject to sudden change, but for a recovering war photographer, the city-- even in the grips of protests -- represents a kind of halfway house. The question is, halfway to what? For Martin, the answer is not halfway back to covering war. His primary interest now is in exploring and documenting telling scenes -- not in covering violence. It just so happens that the two currently overlap in Istanbul.
Martin took the photo of the semi-conscious protester near the entrance to Dolmabahce Palace, Prime Minister Recep Erdogan's official residence, late at night. "I saw the guy on the ground, surrounded by his friends, as he'd collapsed due to the stronger strain of tear gas that the police were using that night to try and stop protesters building barricades and gathering en masse in that vicinity," he said. He shot two frames, remained with the young man until he heard an ambulance and was sure it was coming for him, then moved on. The image, which illustrates the impact of the ongoing clashes, is otherwise deeply personal, which is also rooted in Martin's personal expericence.
Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict – the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa. Similarly, conflict photographers often see themselves in fundamentally conflicting ways – as vultures, feeding on the travails of others, and as the conscience of the world, revealing what it at stake and who is paying the price. It is not always easy to reconcile such things. For Martin, the Gezi Park protests provided an opportunity to reconcile both. Suddenly home and conflict zone were one place, and he could relate to the injured while seeing them as photographic subjects.
After moving on from the young man near Dolmabahce Palace, Martin eventually came upon a girl who had suffered a similar fate – she had been disabled by the intense tear gas, and was losing consciousness. For the first time in his life, he said, he felt moved to intervene. "I have never done such a thing before, but along with two of her male friends, I picked her up and carried her about 400 meters to safety," he later said. "After that, I called it a night." In typical self-effacing style, he described the two years since Misrata as having been akin to "crawling under a rock and being afraid of my own shadow." Yet his Istanbul photos reveal a different person, one who feels a new understanding of conflict and a deeper sense of empathy for those involved -- both of which were dearly earned.


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All of the five Pinan kata begin with a left nekoashi dachi (cat stance). Facing the front, we step forward or diagonally with our right foot, and pivot to the left into the nekoashi dachi. How far should we step with the right foot?
Imagine that you are standing in the beginning position for the Pinan with your toes behind a horizontal line. How far beyond the line will you step with your right foot? Think about it. Go try it.
My personal answer is about 2 inches. I suspect that most people will have stated a larger number -- I know that I used to step much farther. (For your reference, I am 5 feet 8 inches tall.)
What shortened my step and thus narrowed my stance, was the use of hanmi. In hanmi (the shoulders and tanden are diagonal), a narrow stance is possible. With the shoulders square and the tanden facing the left, a wider stance is needed. Otherwise, the legs will buckle or pinch the groin.
You might also notice this. If you are standing with your toes on a line, try pivoting to the left with no step at all. Your left foot will now be 2 inches or so behind the line. This is because we piviot on the ball of the foot, not the toes. Thus, even without a step, the stance will have some width. With a 2 inch step, there might be a 4 inch width.
One error I notice among my students is stepping too far to the right. This makes a fading nekoashi dachi. When you pivot, the left foot should stay in place, not slide to the right (away from the attack).
Part of the reason for the fade/slide is that most students take a nekoashi dachi with only 10 or 20 percent of the weight on the front foot. In Kishaba Juku, we tend to put much more weight on the front foot -- sometimes up to 50 percent. You will notice that none of the Pinan kata begin with a kick. The first movements are all blocks. This is why the weight distribution is about equal for the first movement. Again, this weight distribution is characteristic of Kishaba Juku. Other forms of Shorin-Ryu use other distributions.
Not all nekoashi are the same. One used for a block will differ from one used immediately before a kick.
Getting back to the step, the shorter the step, the faster the pivot. The longer the step, the longer it will take to pivot. Keeping close to the line will optimize our speed. Kata is like walking a tightrope (or series of intersecting tightropes).
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All of the five Pinan kata begin with a left nekoashi dachi (cat stance). Facing the front, we step forward or diagonally with our right foot, and pivot to the left into the nekoashi dachi. How far should we step with the right foot?
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Hmmm... let me say this. it used to be a great strain, it even won the Cannabis Cup here, until it got over popular and the coffeeshops over here started calling every little garden weed "white widow"and sold it to all the tourist way overpriced. So IMO now here the name white widow doesn't mean shit anymore, it went from a cannabis cup winning strain to an overpriced mediocre weed.
What strains are pure anymore anyways though? I've smoked several sacks that were labeled white widow, sure, but one or two of those bags actually WERE white widow, and damn was it good!
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Hoping for a bit of advice on spoke fixing. Busted one on the ride home today on my Shimano R500 rear wheel. Wondering a few things:
- how hard are they to fix;
what tools do you need to fix them; and
if you have to true the wheel after is that difficult and do you need any further tools to do that
So far thanks to youtube and this forum i've been able to get my way around changing tyres, fixing brakes, changing a stem over, but this is a new one for me.
Also does anyone know how much an LBS might charge to get it done if I won't to get it done quickly.


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Wright State scored two batters into the game and added insurance runs in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings on Friday afternoon to snap Valparaiso's six-game winning streak with an 8-1 victory over the Crusaders at Emory G. Bauer Field.
R.J. Gundolff led off the game with a triple to the wall in right to lead off the game for the Raiders and scored a batter later on Jake Hibberd's squeeze bunt to jump on top 1-0 right away.
"I thought the first play of the game set the tone for the day," Valpo head coach Tracy Woodson said.
Wright State added to its lead in the fourth with a pair of runs. With runners on second and third, Aaron Fields hit a sacrifice fly and Ryan Ashe added a RBI single to increase the lead to three.
Valpo got on the scoreboard in the fourth as with runners on first and third, the Raider catcher Gerald Ogrinc tried to pick Josh Wallace (Bellefountaine, Ohio/Bellefountaine H.S.) off third base but the throw sailed into left allowing Wallace to score.
The Crusaders threatened again in the fifth, loading the bases with one out, but Ryan O'Gara's (Buffalo Grove, Ill./Buffalo Grove H.S.) line shot up the middle was snared by starting pitcher Michael Woytek, who doubled Matt Lenski (Milwaukee, Wis./Marquette University H.S.) off second base.
Gundolff's RBI single in the seventh made it 4-1 Wright State and the Raiders added two more in the eighth on Kory Twede's single that chopped over a drawn in infield. The Raiders added two more unearned runs in the ninth on a triple by Casey McGrew to cap the scoring.
Valpo loaded the bases again in the ninth with no one out, but a ground ball double play and a strikeout ended the threat without the Crusaders scoring.
"We need to be more aggressive at the plate," Woodson said. "We take too many good pitches and fall behind in the count."
Woytek went five innings to earn the win (3-2) for the Raiders, allowing one run on four hits. He struck out four and walked five. Michael Schum earned the save (7), pitching the final four innings allowing four hits and fanning four. Jon Gulbransen (Appleton, Wis./Fox Valley Lutheran H.S.) suffered the loss, allowing four runs and five hits in 6.1 innings of work.
Lenski and Steven Scoby (Delton, Mich./Kellogg H.S.) each had two of Valpo's eight hits in the game while McGrew went 3-for-5 to pace Wright State offensively.
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- Superb 2D and 3D pictures
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- Evidence of jaggedness over small objects and bright edges
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When we first found out about LG's 'Nano' TV series at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show way back in January 2011, there was no doubt in our mind about its main attraction: direct LED lighting.
This system involves illuminating LCD TV screens with clusters of LED lights positioned directly behind the screen rather than the more common approach of using LEDs ranged around the edges of the screen. Add to this configuration as the 55LW980T does local dimming, where the clusters of LEDs can have their luminance levels individually controlled, and experience has shown that you've got a potential recipe for serious picture quality success.
The fact that the Nano TVs delivered its direct LED tech in a body as slim if not slimmer than most edge LED TVs was just the icing on the cake.
It's one fine-looking TV
So intrigued were we by the idea of an ultra slim direct LED TV, in fact, that the Nano sets' 3D capabilities rather passed us by. Especially when we learned that the Nano sets were going to have tried and tested active 3D technology rather than the controversial new LG passive 3D system employed on all of LG's other LCD TVs.
As the year progressed, though, and LG's attempts to position passive 3D as the superior 3D option became almost scarily aggressive, the decision to use active 3D on the Nano sets started to look increasingly awkward, potentially undermining the brand's entire 3D marketing thrust. So it was no great shock when LG ultimately decided to shift to passive 3D for the Nano sets.
And when we found out, we couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed, feeling that the decision could have robbed us of what had the potential to be one of the most all-round desirable TVs of this generation.
Here's the thing, though: We were wrong. For LG's decision to make the 55in 55LW980T a passive 3D TV has turned out to be a masterstroke. Far from exposing passive 3D's potential weaknesses as feared, applying it to such a high quality core TV as the 55LW980T has actually underlined passive 3D's strengths.
We'll get into detail on why this is so later. But for now it's high time we hit our usual review stride. Starting with the fact that the 55in 55LW980T Nano set is one darned attractive TV. From its single-layer fascia to its trim bezel and slim rear, it oozes high-end class and build quality.
It has all the connections that matter too, including four v1.4 HDMIs, two USBs, plus built-in Wi-Fi. The USBs can be used to record from the built-in Freeview HD tuner or for playing back a pretty expansive suite of photo, video and music multimedia file formats.
The Wi-Fi (or a LAN) adds file-streaming from DLNA PCs to the TV's capabilities, as well as access to LG's increasingly admirable Smart TV service. We did a recent update of the content now carried by LG's online TV platform in our review of the LG 50PZ950, so we won't go into the same level of detail again here. Suffice it to say that as well as a startling number of relatively basic information and gaming 'apps', there's now a considerable amount of our preferred video streaming content, including the BBC iPlayer, the AceTrax movie rental/purchase site, and Blinkbox.
The 55LW980T also reminded us of just how well designed and attractive LG's Smart TV menus are. And it was a massive relief to find that although its online services are a bit sluggish, the 55LW980T suffered from far fewer crashes and dysfunctional online services than we experienced with the 50PZ950T.


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1329.0 - Australian Wine and Grape Industry, 2004
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Fruitful year for the wine industry
Wine producers had their best year ever in 2003-04 with a bumper grape harvest eclipsing the previous 2002 record, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The record grape harvest of 2.015 million tonnes was over a third higher (35%) than the drought affected previous year and exceeded the 2002 previous high of 1.754 million tonnes.
The red grape crush benefited the most from the good seasonal conditions in 2003-04, with an increased crush of 38% (to 1.141 million tonnes). In comparison the white grape crush increased 35% (to 0.777 million tonnes).
The vintage grape crush reached a new record being well over a third higher (37%, up to 1.917 million tonnes) than the previous year and almost a fifth higher (19%) than the record set in 2002.
Winemakers increased beverage wine production by over a third (35%) to a record 1,401 million litres. Table wine inventories rose by almost a fifth (18%) to 1,698 million litres at 30 June 2004.
Domestic sales of wine maintained steady growth rising 4% on the previous year to 417 million litres.
Sales of white wine topped sales of red/rosé table wine again by well over a half (59%) of the domestic table wine market.
Overseas exports of Australian produced wine increased 13% on the previous year (584 million litres) with a total value of $2,494 million. However, the average price per litre fell 9% to $4.27 (down from $4.67 in 2002-03).
The United Kingdom was the main country of destination for exports of Australian wine, taking 225 million litres (38%), followed by the United States of America at 175 million litres (30%). Other major markets included Canada (33 million litres), Germany (28 million litres) and New Zealand (27 million litres). In terms of the value of exports, the US market was the most lucrative at $874 million while the UK was $849 million.
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I'm a Democratic Precinct Chair in Harris County, Texas. I have no desire to run for office, as it's hard enough for me to find time to feel like I'm doing my duty as a precinct chair. I do have a great interest in political matters, however.
I'm currently running unopposed for an alderman position in a village in north Louisiana. Louisiana doesn't allow write-in votes, so I am already "elected" and will be taking office at the end of the year.
I moved to Broadwater, Nebraska less than two years ago, at the time still an atheistic Wiccan. This village has 128 people, but does have a city government.
Not too long afterward, I rejected the "Wiccan" part of atheistic Wiccan. The village was aware of this (they know everything you will do before you do it), and several were dismayed that I no longer "believed in anything." (sigh)
Last September, my neighbour, one of the village trustees of thirty years service, resigned his post with two years remaining in his term. He died October 2, only a few days before the monthly city meeting. The church across the street was packed with people from across three states that knew him, for his funeral.
Though officially Nebraska on its ballots is non-partisan in state offices and below, I am openly a third-party member (Modern Whig). Worse, I was openly an atheist. So when the chairman asked for folk to step up to fill the remainder of his term at the October meeting, I volunteered.
So did four others later.
Before the November meeting, the chairman said privately to me he was going to advance my name in nomination, as he thought me the least divisive of the candidates (!).
At the December meeting, I officially entered politics, by taking the affirmation of office. Now starts my promising political career.
A photographer from the local paper took my photo; it ran on the front page. A couple weeks later, needing paperwork from my lawyer witnessed and not having the right folk available in his office, we went across the street to the Sheriff's office to get him and his deputy to witness.
Sheriff Milo peered at me (hippie hair, scruffy-looking, the sort of person he might find on the other side of the bars in his office) and said "I know you, I saw your picture in the paper." I assured him it was not as a criminal, but as a respectable City Trustee.
It occurred to me right before I stood up at the board meeting and placed my name before the board that part of the reason Evangelicals have done so well in politics in the last thirty years or so is because they had a plan: they started at the bottom, taking offices that were uncontested or that no one cared about, building their base, until they became an overwhelming force in the GOP.
With the so-called "nones" now 20% of the populace (much larger group than Evangelicals), and 30% of those under twenty-six, there is no reason we could not do the same.
The difference between an atheistic, secularly-minded group of government officials and religious ones is we are unlikely to ram our religious beliefs (having none) down anyone's throats.
I suspect that atheists would be far more likely to honour the religious freedom protections for all in the Constitution than the Evangelicals and Charismatics. I cannot say for sure, but I just think so.
Here in Nebraska, there is a hooraw over the state social studies standards for schools; the religious, having failed to overturn science standards in other states, are trying a different tack. Social studies is far less a "hard science" than science itself, so injecting politically- and religiously-motivated concepts into social studies is the tack they are trying here.
Atheists can bellyache all they want about politics and how the religious seem to dominate the field, but unless we get out and -do- something about it, they will continue to dominate.
Too many atheists "don't want to get involved." Well, the religious do, and are. The only effective way to counter them in a democratic republic is to counter them on the ballot, in cities and counties and villages across the nation, to let them know this is still a country that values freedom of religion.
Because if they get their way, it will not be, and our grand experiment for over two centuries in a system of government that values the individual and his beliefs will die a theocratic death.
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While Google leads the way in web search and Yahoo leads the way in answers, many upstart services are attempting to help you make decisions by giving you smarter answers to your questions. Microsoft has billed its new search offering Bing as both a "decision engine" and an "answer engine." Now there's Hunch, a new start-up founded by Flickr's Caterina Fake, which also aims to be a decision engine, but using a very different model. By first asking the user questions ranging from food preferences to pet peeves, Hunch tries to provide answers to questions that best match the user's interests based on crowdsourced data collected from other users.
Like other new search and answers services with APIs like the Bing API and Wolfram Alpha API, there is now a new Hunch API. The API is currently available in two forms, client-side and server-side. The Hunch developer's page discusses the differences in detail:
There are two different Hunch APIs. The first is the client-side JavaScript API, which you use if you want your users to connect with Hunch directly from your own Web site. The second is the server-side JSON API, which you use if either your server needs to pull data from Hunch, or if you are developing an application that is not web-based (such as a desktop or mobile device application).
Hunch's client-side JavaScript API provides two functions which allow developers to embed ready-made Hunch interface widgets inside of a DIV on their webpages. The API also gives developers access to many lower level callback functions to provide greater control over things like the amount of questions a user needs to answer before the system is sufficiently trained to make suggestions. The server-side version of the Hunch API is a RESTful interface accessible using HTTP GET requests, which only returns data encoded in JSON format.
One very intriguing feature available to users of Hunch's API is direct access to the correlation data that it uses to provide decision results. Hunch claims that this data is "anonymized and aggregated to protect" user privacy. The Hunch API page gives an example of what a developer could use the interface to discover:
...you could ask our taste database for the correlation between people who own guns and the people who like SUVs, or what the most salient personal trait is for predicting whether someone likes the movie Napoleon Dynamite. Over time we hope to provide a complete database of people's aggregated taste preferences.
Currently, use of the Hunch API comes with several conditions. As the Hunch API page states, "our API is free for non-commercial use. We ask that you attribute Hunch by providing a link to our Web site wherever you use our API." In order to use features of the Hunch API, developers must sign up for an access key. While there is no limit to the total amount of users making requests with the server-side API through a particular public developer key, each user can only make 1000 requests per day per IP address.
Hunch might not be the perfect tool for answering every question, but its interface is certainly fun and easy to use. And by creating a powerful API that gives developers the ability to build on this service and data could turn out to be just the right decision by Hunch.


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Given the positive performance of its "Star Wars" merchandise last year, Hasbro's chief financial officer David Hargreaves told analysts that he expects the toys and games linked to the epic to "be a profitable line for us this year."
The company struggled with sales of Star Wars toys in 1999 after Hasbro originally paid about $590 million for the exclusive worldwide rights.
I think at some point Lucas will rerelease all the films again. Probably at a time when he thinks the franchise has died down a bit. That or they will whip up an animated Star Wars movie.Bottom line is that there is too much money to be had with this franchise. It's going to continue in some way shape or form. Otherwise I doubt Hasbro would stay on until 2018.
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DOVER — Residents of the Garrison City had plenty to say about a suggestion raised during the School Board's meeting Monday evening to eliminate football throughout the district.
Paul Butler, a retired physician, expressed his views during the meeting on the effects of serious injuries sustained by players during football games, such as concussions. The aftereffects, he said, were severe enough to consider removing football from the city altogether, calling it the "moral obligation" of School Board members to see that the sport ceases.
Those willing to speak with Foster's on Tuesday regarding the matter were not pleased with the idea, something at least one resident aligned with the "wussification of the country."
Parents, students, and Dover High School alumni all agreed football is a loved part of the city as well as school spirit and should stay.
"I would not like to see that," Lori Carper, of Dover, said Tuesday afternoon in Henry Law Park.
Wearing a Green Wave volleyball T-shirt, she said she thought the concerns raised by Butler were valid to a point, but an injury such as a concussion could happen during a lot of other sports as well.
She said there are a lot of youngsters who rely on the sport for a variety of reasons and it brings people together.
"I think it's a great community sport."
In response to the issue, the School Board released a statement.
"A story about dropping football from Dover High School has caused quite a stir in our community and it seems the entire seacoast. We need to be clear that the comments from Dr. Butler were his reaction to various studies he has read (and is) not the opinion of the Dover School Board. Termination of the DHS football program has not come before the board and is not on any agenda at this time. Dr. Butler's opinion was brought as a matter of interest only during our Oct. 1st meeting."
Jay Curcio, of Dover, said he thinks football is a dangerous sport, but so are a lot of things and removing it from the School District and city isn't the way to approach injuries.
He said car crashes and other tragedies, in comparison, kill a higher number of people. And, he said, knowing the risks of the game and being aware injury might occur, is all part of playing it.
"If you know the risks, that right there should completely exonerate the school or anybody from responsibility," he said.
"We're taking away everything," said Cara Cals, of Dover, who was chatting near the mills at One Washington Center with Curcio.
As both are parents, they said they understand the fear of a child being injured, but they were strongly against dropping the school's program.
"You can't eliminate football. It's the biggest thing in this country," Curcio said.
A 1977 DHS alumnus and current Dover resident Steven Strong was enjoying the day Tuesday sitting in Henry Law Park and shared a view similar to that of Curcio, saying as long as risks of the sport are known then it's fair game.
He did note, however, a lot changed in the National Football League over the years in response to the effects of injuries and concussions. When asked if he thought risk of injury had increased or changed since his years cheering on the Green Wave from the bleachers, Strong said he didn't really think so.
"Back then they hit pretty hard."
Josh Jumper, a Dover High School senior who's enjoyed some of the games over the course of his academic career, didn't like the idea either.
"I think that's stupid because we have one of the best football teams," he said recalling a game he attended where the Green Wave played the Spaulding Red Raiders and, as he put it, "crushed them."
He also said football is one of the ways some of the players achieve their post-high school plans, obtaining an academic scholarship to a certain university or college, drafting them for their own football team.
His friend Marissa Adams, a senior, said one of her teachers brought the topic up in class on Tuesday following the article in Foster's.
"He was mad," she said. And she agreed that doing away with football would be unfavorable.
"Everybody likes football. Why take it away?" she said.
Butler's points raised during Monday's School Board meeting were related to the severity of the aftereffects of a player being injured and suffering a concussion.
"I think that could be a reason to take it away," Ariana Vazquez said, but added that she disagreed with doing so because football is one of the most popular activities at the school.
Adams said her teacher told the class about how baseball has always been seen as the country's pastime, but that things have changed over the years and football reigns as king of sports.
"Football is an American pastime," she said.
Dover residents say risks of football are 'fair game'
DOVER — Residents of the Garrison City had plenty to say about a suggestion raised during the School Board's meeting Monday evening to eliminate football throughout the district.


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Hi! We just received our football Jerseys for Canines. Also Basketball and Baseball available. The are adorable. We also have Puppia soft collar Harness which are the best. All kinds of dog clothes and toys. Also their is a free Pet Photo contest, so submitt your pet since the winner receives a great basket full of toys and goodies. All Photo's for our new Photo contest will be up on October 31,2005 and this contest is over Dec 15,2005. This way we can get our prize out to the winner for Christmas. Lots to see. We also sponsor Second Chance Cat Adoption if your intrested in getting your dog a friend.


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Cowboys rank up there with God, family and country in San Antonio
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It didn't take Jim Mery long to respond Thursday when asked his thoughts on the love San Antonio and South Texas have for the Dallas Cowboys.
"People pretty much plan their Sundays during the season around Cowboys games, so what does that tell you?" said Mery, who is assistant director of San Antonio's convention and sports facilities department. "You see that even at church.
"I have a cousin, a big Cowboys fan, who either goes to Mass at 8 o'clock or 11 o'clock, depending on when the Cowboys are playing. If they're playing at 12, he'll go to Mass at 8. If they're playing at 3 o'clock, he'll go at 11."
Mery's cousin is not alone. There are thousands of Cowboys fans like him from San Antonio to Brownsville, and that's why team owner Jerry Jones will feel at home when the franchise opens its fourth training camp in San Antonio on July 29.
Given the Cowboys' history in the Alamo City, fans will pass through the Alamodome turnstiles in droves and jockey for position to get photographs and autographs of their favorite player.
"That's one of the key components in why we wanted to have the Cowboys' training camp in San Antonio," Mery said. "People in San Antonio and South Texas love their Cowboys. Call me crazy, but that's how important it was for us to provide this for our citizens."
A "kickoff event" at the Alamodome, where the Cowboys trained in 2002, 2003 and 2007, is scheduled the night of July 28. The team will work out for 15 consecutive days before opening their preseason schedule against the Raiders in Oakland, Calif., on Aug. 13.
San Antonians love their Spurs, but their passion for the Cowboys is, well, different and transcends sports.
"It's a phenomenon," Mery said. "I was talking to my family about that just the other day, trying to explain why people in San Antonio are so fanatical about the Cowboys. You're talking about something that's been there for a long time now. That loyalty is so strong."
San Antonio has been a Cowboys stronghold since the mid-1960s, when Tom Landry's up-and-coming team lost heartbreakers to the Green Bay Packers in memorable back-to-back NFL championship games.
Vince Lombardi's Packers held on for a 34-27 victory in the 1966 title clash and carved out a scoring drive for the ages on a frozen field to prevail 21-17 in the storied "Ice Bowl" a year later.
My memories of watching those two classics on TV with my father have crystallized with time, still incredibly vivid more than 40 years later.
Dubbed "Next Year's Champions" because they came close but couldn't win a championship, the Cowboys finally got the 800-pound gorilla off their back with a 24-3 dismantling of Miami in Super Bowl VI on Jan. 16, 1972. What Cowboys fan old enough to remember ever will forget defensive tackle Bob Lilly chasing down Bob Griese for a 29-yard sack?
Dallas won another Super Bowl under Landry six years later. Somewhere along the way, they went from Next Year's Champions to "America's Team." The name stuck even after Jones, who bought the Cowboys in 1989, ousted Landry and replaced him with Jimmy Johnson.
Dallas won Super Bowl titles after the 1992 and 1993 seasons under Johnson, and captured another after the 1995 season with Barry Switzer at the helm. Although the Cowboys haven't been to a Super Bowl since then, they still remain one of the NFL's marquee franchises.
Longtime San Antonio broadcaster Gary Delaune attributes the Cowboys' staying power to the late Tex Schramm, who was the team's president and general manager from its first season in 1960 until getting canned by Jones in 1989.
"Tex was a promotional genius and molded the Cowboys' image," said Delaune, who worked for the Cowboys as a radio broadcaster during the 1963, 1964 and 1966 seasons. "He understood the way the media worked and had charisma."
Delaune also praised original team owner Clint Murchison, Landry and Gil Brandt, who was the Cowboys' director of player personal from 1960-89.
"Clint Murchison turned it over to Tex and that was a big key to the team's success," Delaune said.
Of course, the best marketing in the world wouldn't have mattered if the Cowboys hadn't won. But Landry molded a consistent winner and Brandt helped him with a scouting system that was ahead of its time.
"The Cowboys were John Wayne, Tom Landry and Bob Lilly," Delaune said. "Landry grew up in Mission, so there was that connection to the Valley and South Texas. I'm sure that had a lot to do with the Cowboys' popularity in this area."
Mery offered more proof of the Cowboys' allure while describing what he saw after the team's iconic star was painted on the Alamodome field this week.
"People kept going to the middle of the field to look at the star," Mery said. "What's that about it?"
A phenomenon.
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Jerry's only reason for bringing training camp to SA was because of the quest by many in SA to wanting their own NFL franchise.
He's got to keep the love in this part of Texas in order to quelch any real push of getting an NFL team in SA and losing that base.
I've been a Cowboy fan since..well not lets get into age...but I would support an NFL team in SA.
most accomplishments are made because you visualize it before it happens...RMS
I'm a native to San Antonio and I love the town but I will NEVER cheer for the Cowboys and I will NEVER get tired of watching them lose.
That which is done out of love, is always done beyond good and evil.
-Fredrich Nietzsche
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This is a Press Release from Governor Bobby Jindal:
Governor Bobby Jindal released the following statement today on the Supreme Court's ruling on President Obama's health care law:
"Ironically, the Supreme Court has decided to be far more honest about Obamacare than Obama was. They rightly have called it a tax. Today's decision is a blow to our freedoms. The Court should have protected our constitutional freedoms, but remember, it was the President that forced this law on us.
"The American people did not want or approve of Obamacare then, and they do not now. Americans oppose it because it will decrease the quality of health care in America, raise taxes, cut Medicare, and break the bank. All of this is still true. Republicans must drive hard toward repeal, this is no time to go weak in the knees."


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Barcelona assistant Jordi Roura feels his team and AC Milan will go into their last-16 first-leg Champions League tie with an equal chance of success.
Neither team were able to navigate through the group stages with a flawless record, as the Catalan giants recorded a 2-1 loss at Celtic and the Rossoneri came out second after suffering defeats to Zenit Saint Petersburg and Malaga.
And despite their dominant display in La Liga this term, which sees them in first place with a 12-point lead over Atletico Madrid, Roura is reluctant in accepting the favourite tag for his side.
"Are Barcelona favourites? You know the way I see it," the 45-year-old told reporters.
"Milan are a great team and it is not easy to play against them. The qualification will be decided in Barcelona. You cannot talk about favourites in a tie like this.
"In recent games we have been conceding goals, but fortunately we always scored a few more. We have tried to resolve certain situations in defence, as you can't always fight back to win.
"Everyone wants to get through to the quarter-finals, but we know it won't be easy. The Champions League is missed by Barcelona and the players are happier when they can face big clubs."
Roura then took the time to praise his opponents, who he believes are still one of the top-class sides in Europe.
"We studied the team, though it is different to last year. It is always wonderful to come here, as San Siro is a marvellous stadium. Milan remain one of the big European clubs and it is always frightening to face them."
Milan will face the Blaugrana on Wednesday, February 20 at the San Siro.


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Kid Cudi Goes After Universal Again, Wonders Why His Millions Of Video Views Aren't Translating Into Radio Airplay
from the umg-is-still-there-to-take-a-cut-of-whatever's-earned-WITHOUT-its-help dept
Cudi took to Twitter to express his displeasure and became his own promotional team. The result? "WZRD" debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart -- all without label support. Now, something else has caught Cudi's attention and (re)raised his ire at his label. Apparently, he's racking up millions of views at Vevo -- but his latest singles (which are the "return to form" Universal seemed to be seeking) are getting no radio push from Universal, unlike other artists with similar view totals.
"King Wizard 3.4 million views on Vevo, Just What I Am has 4.3 million and my shit is not on regular rotation on radio. Hmmm," Cudi Tweeted from his account, @ducidni.It must be noted that Cudi has racked up three million views in a little less than a month. His previous track, "Just What I Am," has 4.5 million views in two months, all without label support or radio airplay. Here's Cudi's Twitter rant in full:
"Trinidad James got 4.1 million views on his hit (rightfully so), and I hear that jam EVERYWHERE. Wheres my fuckin spins???" the rapper born Scott Mescudi added.
Interestingly, Kid Cudi's official site (which is owned by Universal Music) includes his Twitter feed and it appears that UMG has decided to edit out any disparaging tweets. His "Im talking numbers..." tweet now floats freely in a context-free void, following his last, pre-rant tweet of "Dentist :("
UMG's not actually putting words in Cudi's mouth, but it's certainly taking quite a few out of it. Fortunately for Cudi, UMG doesn't control his actual Twitter account, but after the events of the last several months, I'm willing to bet it wishes it did.
If Cudi can push this volume with little to no support, it's probably a good indication that he could strike out on his own and move on from UMG. Of course, nothing in the major label world is quite that easy, what with contractual obligations and the fact that the third party that controls his creations would be more than willing to hang onto his catalog in perpetuity, even if it feels it's not worth supporting.


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Mobile malware has been skyrocketing, according to security vendors monitoring the threat landscape. Trend Micro's latest quarterly threat report, "Mobile Threats Go Full Throttle," outlines some of the most dangerous threats, such as SMS Trojans and spyware. The threats are riskiest for Android device owners in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, according to the threat statistics provided by the security vendor. Many of the malicious applications spoof legitimate mobile apps and are downloaded from third-party application stores. Trend Micro also highlighted some of the latest threats, such as the Master Key Vulnerability, a security flaw in Android that could be used to weaponize a legitimate application by bypassing a verification check in the Google Play store.
Here's a look at the top 10 Android malware threats, according to Trend Micro.