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Bruins lose to Buffalo in shootoutBy MIKE SHALIN
The Sports Xchange
April 17. 2013 11:54PM
BOSTON - The Boston Bruins paid tribute to those affected by the Boston Marathon bomb blasts, but then handed a game away to the Buffalo Sabres, dropping a 3-2 shootout decision Wednesday night in the first athletic event in the city since Monday's tragedy.
Cody Hodgson tied the game with a power-play goal with 26.6 seconds left and Drew Stafford then scored the only goal of the shootout as the Sabres kept their once-faint playoff hopes alive. Buffalo, winners of three straight, is two points out of the eighth and final playoff spot.
By capping an emotional night with the emotional loss, the Bruins still got a point and moved into a tie with the losing Montreal Canadiens in the race for the Northeast Division and the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference, Boston still owning a game in hand with less than two weeks left in the lockout-shortened season.
With the crowd as loud as it has been since the Bruins' run to the Stanley Cup in 2011, chants of "Let's Go Bos-ton," "We Are Bos-ton" and "U-S-A" could be heard as the home team rallied behind the "Boston Strong" motto that has taken hold since Monday and seemingly was on its way to a win. But Ryan Miller stopped 41 shots and all three in the shootout and the visitors pulled it out.
When the game ended, both teams gathered at center ice and gave a stick salute to the crowd.
Chris Kelly (No. 3, 100 career) and Daniel Paile (No. 9) set each other up for goals and Anton Khudobin stopped 30 shots in 65 minutes, but he gave up one goal on three attempts in his first career shootout.
Tomas Vanek, who had a hat trick and two assists the other time the Sabres were in town, tied the game in the first period with his 17th goal of the year, but Kelly scored with 5:12 left in the second period to break the tie. Vanek then set up Hodgson's 14th goal of the year to tie it, sending Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference from hero to goat.
Minutes after making a sliding stop behind Khudobin to rob Stafford, Ference accidentally flipped the puck out of play and took a delay of game penalty with 48.8 seconds left.
The Bruins, who killed three penalties, one a double minor to Milan Lucic, in the first half of the third period, were bolstered by the return of both Patrice Bergeron (six games) and Brad Marchand (two) from concussions, Bergeron's the fourth of his career. But it wasn't enough.


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Michael J. Gelsick
Michael J. Gelsick, 82, formerly of Wilcox, died Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010, in the Elk Haven Nursing Home, St. Marys.He was born Nov. 27, 1927, in Rasselas, son of the late Peter and Katherine Gomola Gelsick.He was a 1946 graduate of Wilcox High School and was a lifelong resident of the Rasselas-Wilcox area. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U. S. Army in the occupational forces in Japan. He had been employed for more than 40 years at Penntech Papers in Johnsonburg, retiring in 1992. In 1950, he was drafted by the St. Louis (Mo.) Cardinals, and he was a lifelong sports fan. He was a member of the St. Anne's Catholic Church, the Wilcox American Legion, and the Wilcox Sportsmen's Club. He was an avid hunter, fisherman and farmer, and he loved working on the Gelsick family farm, which he did for many years. He also enjoyed year-round hunting and was well known in the area for his own recipe for venison sausage.He is survived by two daughters, Susanne (Richard) Bright of Smethport and Robin (James) Vito of Kane; by a son, Michael (Lucy) Gelsick of Johnsonburg; seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.Besides his parents he was preceded in death by five brothers, John, Frank, Joseph, Edward and Paul Gelsick, and a grandson, Jeremy Owen Vito.Funeral services for Michael J. Gelsick will be held on Friday at 8 p.m. at the Ubel Funeral Home, Johnsonburg, with the Rev. Don Varwin officiating. Burial will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Rasselas.Military honors will be accorded by the Johnsonburg/Wilcox Servicemen's Detail. Members are asked to assemble at the funeral home on Friday at 7:45 p.m.Friends will be received at the Ubel Funeral Home on Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.

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Four Berry Wine Vinegar by Martin Pouret
Slow, old fashioned methods do not fit easily into modern economy but Jean Francois Martin, 6th generation, is convinced that the company has survived solely because of the merits of the product. The vinegars produced by Martin Pouret are made from wines of the Loire Valley, Bordeaux and Burgundy vineyards. The inherent beauty of these wines is brought to the forefront with the Orleans process. Unlike commercial vinegars, which are heated to speed acidification, the slow aging employed by Pouret preserves the original perfumes and minerals of the wine.
Raspberry, red and black currant, and bilberry (European blueberry) juices in white wine vinegar impart vivid fruity aroma and taste; for raw vegetable or fruit salads and vinaigrettes. It is a pantry essential that provides a low-cost, low-calorie, high-flavor ingredient for perfect summer salads. Try it also on fruit salads, raw or cooked vegetables or as a marinade or sauce.
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Another bizarre-0 story for you. This one is about a woman who went to visit her on-again, off-again boyfriend two days before they were to take a trip to the Netherlands. He wasn't feeling her visit, so he refused to let her inside and escaped out the backdoor.
She banged on the door with a shovel and, when that didn't work, went all Santa Claus on his butt and tried getting in his house through the chimney.
Since chimneys aren't actually designed to be human transportation paths, the woman got herself stuck. Her quasi-boyfriend didn't return till the next day and, when he saw her car and handbag, but not her, he reported her missing.
The police stopped by, saw (and smelled) nothing, and left.
A few days later a friend came by to feed the man's fish. Something seemed fishy and it wasn't coming from the tank. The pet sitter poked her head up in the chimney and saw the missing woman – stinky, dripping fluids and dead from lack of oxygen.
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The Home and Garden Challenge
Last year, residents of Sonoma County, California planted over 600 gardens in a single weekend. This year, the grassroots groups Transition US and 350.org are helping their idea go national, with the 350 Home and Garden Challenge on May 14th and 15th. Though plenty of gardens are planned, participants will also be transforming homes and landscapes of all kinds—by weatherizing, installing greywater systems, or planting native, drought-resistant plants—and hosting classes, potlucks, and neighborhood swaps to build community.
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Officials with the Canyonlands Care Center said the extended-care facility is also in the midst of a budget crisis. Officials said that facility is operating $15,000 to $50,000 in the red each month (see related story).
The MRH board's decision to hire Quorum Intensive Resources (QIR) was based on a recommendation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which provides insurance on the hospital's mortgage loan with U.S. Bank. In May 2012, depleted cash reserves forced hospital executives to choose between paying MRH employees or the facility's mortgage. In choosing to pay the payroll, the hospital became two days past the initial grace period on its then-due mortgage payment, prompting HUD to get involved, Barraclough said.
"We agreed to sign a contract with an outside group skilled in these kinds of turnaround situations to come in and help us continue what we've been doing and perhaps raise the bar a bit and look to solutions that will be more effective and would be longer lasting," Barraclough said this week. "We don't want to go through this again. Sustainability is a big piece."
Financial woes began early on
MRH's financial problems began almost as soon as the facility opened in February 2011. According to Barraclough, the hospital board recognized that the larger facility would result in some "growing pains" for a short time. The business plan took those problems into account and assumed the hospital's financial side would be up-to-speed with the facility's growth and operations within six months, Barraclough said.
"We knew that moving into the new hospital with the different plan and relationships between departments was going to change the way we did things... The physical plant drives how you do a job. But we grew so quickly that we didn't have time make those changes," Barraclough said. "Our billing got behind and our coding got behind, and when you don't bill, you don't collect any money. When you don't collect money, your cash goes away. That's basically what started this whole thing."
With the new facility, the hospital's mortgage increased significantly as did the amount owed on outstanding accounts with vendors. Barraclough said the administrative staff's focus became improving the process for collecting payments from insurance companies and for fees for services provided, and making sure those fees were adequate to cover MRH's expenses. He said the hospital was able to make some headway with those processes until May, when the almost $1 million in reserve funds had been depleted, leaving no money to cover both the payroll and mortgage.
"We didn't know how far down we were. We lost our CFO [chief finance officer] the day after New Year's, and we had no financial reports until we hired a new CFO five months later," Barraclough said.
MRH reached the point of being at one day cash-on-hand, an industry term that Jim Richardson, a executive with QIR, said statistically measures the financial viability of an institution. Being at the one-day cash-on-hand level meant the hospital was spending money as fast as it was bringing it in.
"Today, they are at 20 days cash-on-hand, which is a good number. A standard in the industry is 32 days. So, right now the hospital is stable," said Richardson. "But tomorrow we may have 15... It's a moving number, depending on whether a bolus of cash comes in or... is required to go out on any given day. Collectively, the hospital staff is working rampantly to reconstruct and develop a sound and solid financial accounting system."
Seeking help from city, county
Part of the long-term financial solution could be the Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program run by the federal government, with the assistance of the state as the purveyors of Medicaid programs.
"The DSH fund is intended to provide supplemental payments to rural hospitals, and in some cases larger hospitals, that take care of a disproportionate share of Medicaid, indigent, or uninsured patients...," Barraclough said. "Typically, in a rural community, we are going to take care of a higher amount of those types of patients."
In Utah, the requirements to qualify for DSH payments extend beyond the statistical make-up of the patient population. The regulations require that hospitals must be owned by the local governing agencies in order to receive the money. MRH's predecessor, Allen Memorial Hospital, met that criteria. But in 1995, Moab Valley Healthcare, Inc., a non-profit organization, took over ownership. The hospital was grandfathered into the DSH fund, even though it was no longer district owned, because it was still located in the same building. The move to the new building prompted the state to deem MRH ineligible for DSH funds.
"We didn't think that was fair. We asked the state, 'What can we do to get back on the rolls?' We participated in the past, and we could use those monies to help keep our viability," Barraclough said. "They said if we could get the state health plan changed from government-owned to government-supported, they could get [MRH] back on the rolls. We completed that process and became eligible again."
In order to receive MRH's annual allocation of DSH funds, which is approximately $893,000 for 2012, Moab city and/or Grand County must pony up matching funds totaling about one-third of the DSH payment amount – roughly $280,000 – according to Richardson and Barraclough. The amount would vary, but matching funds from local government, or "seed money," as Barraclough called it, would be required each year for MRH to continue receiving DSH monies.
Grand County and Moab city discussed the issue during a joint meeting on Friday, Sept. 7, although no decisions were made at that time.
"I desperately want the hospital to survive and keep surviving in the future, but as a county, we need more information before we can put any money their way," said Grand County Council member Audrey Graham.
MRH has until Nov. 29 to come up with the matching funds from local government, according to hospital staff. But officials emphasized that the DSH funds are not a panacea for the hospital's financial difficulties.
"Our primary objective is to put into place a set of processes that will allow us to improve our sources of supplemental income, increase our reserve fund, improve our operations, and keep the ball rolling after Jim [Richardson] leaves," said Barraclough. "There are guideposts as far as ratios and targets of numbers compared with other rural hospitals. As long as we maintain those ratios, we should be doing well. This was a temporary disruption of cash, but the future looks bright."


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Brumby Hall & Gardens
Marietta, GA 30064
The first superintendent of the Georgia Military Institute, Colonel Arnoldus V. Brumby, built this lovely Greek revival-style house in 1851 with the institute adjacent to the house. When Sherman's troops occupied Marietta in 1864, the house was used as a hospital. The institute buildings were burned as the army departed on the "March to the Sea," but the house was spared, as Sherman and Brumby were friends at West Point. It is used as a house museum and special events facility in conjunction with the Hilton Atlanta/ Marietta Hotel & Conference Center.
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KQED 9: Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Channels 9.1 • 54.2, 25.1 | XFINITY 9 and HD 709
Schedule is subject to change. Please visit kqed.org/tv/schedules/daily for the most up-to-date info.
12:00 amCharlie Rose [#19092H] (original broadcast date: 4/30/13)
* A discussion about President Obama's press conference on the first 100 days of his second term with Al Hunt of Bloomberg View; Jessica Yellin, Chief White House Correspondent for CNN; Chuck Todd, Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News; and Jonathan Karl, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent.
* David Stern, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association & Adam Silver, Deputy Commissioner of the NBA. duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE
1:00 amNightly Business Report [#32105Z] Tonight on Nightly Business Report - Apple's groundbreaking move that's not a new gadget, but a record bond offering. Plus, as home prices climb and inventory falls, is the fear of an overheating housing market overblown? duration 26:46 STEREO TVRE
1:30 amSpark! [#416] A Few Good Stories Spark gets an insider's look at the intricate process of creation and the discovery of one's voice.
* Experience Jaime Guerrero working at the Bay Area Glass Institute as he and other glass artists coordinate their movements in order to create his detailed pieces. < br />* Lauren Yee and the high school students of the Young Playwrights Festival show us the maturity and talent of first-time playwrights as they see their theatrical creations put into performance.
* The memories of Iranian-Americans are preserved in Taraneh Hemami's work as she prepares for ZeroOne in San Jose.
* Finally, Rebar Encanment project reminds us that a little humor can help in a time of transition as Southern Exposure revamps their gallery space. duration 28:39 STEREO TVG
2:00 amDust Bowl [#102#] Reaping The Whirlwind In the second episode, experience the gradual relief as the families of the plains seek new lives in California and government conservation efforts - and a break in the drought in 1939 - eventually stabilize the soil and bring the farms back to life, but with dangers of another Dust Bowl facing future generations. duration 1:55:45 SRND51 TVPG-L (Secondary audio: DVI)
4:00 amFrontline [#2918H] Top Secret America - 9/11 to the Boston Bombings In the years after September 11, Frontline produced more than 45 hours of award-winning films documenting the 9/11 attacks and America's response to them. Now, on the tenth anniversary of September 11, the Frontline team that produced "Bush's War," "The Torture Question" and "Cheney's Law" teams up with Pultizer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest to investigate the dramatic changes that have reshaped America in the last decade. Over one hour, the film examines the history of the dark side of America's "war on terror." From the creation of black site prisons abroad and super-secret facilities here in America, to targeted killings and covert wars waged by special forces, to a multibillion-dollar terrorism industrial complex, Frontline and Dana Priest ask how a decade of fighting terrorism has reshaped the country and whether it has made us any safer. duration 56:46 STEREO TVPG
5:00 amFrontline [#2804H] Alaska Gold The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild Sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It's also home to enormous mineral deposits - copper, gold, molybdenum - estimated to be worth some $300 billion. Now, two foreign mining companies are proposing to extract this mineral wealth by digging one of North America's largest open-pit mines, the "Pebble Mine," at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. Frontline travels to Alaska to probe the fault lines of a growing battle between those who depend on this extraordinary fishery for a living, the mining companies who are pushing for Pebble, and the political framework that will ultimately decide the outcome. duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE
6:00 amRaggs [#150] Slow The dogs test the difference between fast and slow when Trilby moves around the house in slow motion after reading The Tortoise and the Hare. During Slow Sports Day at Puppy Preschool, the dogs have to help Pido learn to slow down. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
6:30 amCat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! [#130H] Help with Kelp/Treetop Tom * Help With Kelp - It's Fish's birthday and Nick and Sally want to get him a special present, but who can they ask for ideas? Cat's friend Gary the Garibaldi fish might have an idea! Off to the Briny Blue Sea where they meet a variety of creatures in a kelp forest who use the kelp for both food and protection. Back at home they make a picture of the kelp forest for Fish. It's the best present he could ever hope for!
* Treetop Tom - Nick and Sally are playing when their ball gets caught up high in the branches of a tree. Oh how they wish they were tall! Being tall is something Cat's friend Treetop Tom knows all about. They meet the giraffe in the So Sunny Savannah, and with the help of Cat's "tallerizers", Nick and Sally are as tall as Tom! They soon learn that being small has its disadvantages. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
7:00 amDaniel Tiger's Neighborhood [#121H] You Are Special/Daniel Is Special * You are Special: The children are putting on a show at school today, each doing something that makes them special. O the Owl wants to be just like the others and, with a little encouragement, he learns that owls are special too.
* Daniel is Special: Daniel and Dad take a fall walk through the neighborhood, admiring the colors of the leaves. On their way, they meet Miss Elaina and O the Owl who each do special things that make Daniel wonder if he is as special as they are. Dad reminds Daniel of the things that make him special, like his whimsical imagination! duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
7:30 amCaillou [#505] Big Time Caillou Big Kid Caillou: Caillou's older friend Andre is coming over to play, but Caillou is a little worried that his toys are too 'little kid-ish". He quickly hides his toys, filling his room with big-boy stuff (like car magazines and grown-up games)...only to find out Andre isn't quite ready for big-boy stuff either. Educational Objective: The importance of not hiding who you really are. Caillou's Glasses: When Mommy gets a new pair of specs, Caillou wants glasses too. He pretends he has bad vision, tries to make a pair out of pipe cleaner, and even borrows an old pair of Mommy's glasses (minus the lenses). When Caillou tapes 'pretend lenses' to the frames - and can't see where he's going around the house - he finally realizes the importance of having good vision. Educational Objective: The importance of good vision - with or without glasses. Caillou's Dance Party: Miss Martin is throwing a dance party. Caillou is excited, only...he doesn't know how to dance! Caillou elicits advice from various family members, and feels more confused than ever when they each show him a different way to dance. When Caillou sees Miss Martin dancing any ol' (silly) way she wants, Caillou realizes it's more important to have fun than to worry about dance steps and styles. Educational Objective: There's more than one way to do things - like dancing! duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
8:00 amCurious George [#307] George Digs Worms/Everything Old Is New Again * George Digs Worms - Why is Bill yelling at a mound of dirt? He's worm racing! George turns to a pile of decomposed leaves to find his own prize worm and challenges Bill's "Fast Freddy" to a race. Pretty soon, the entire countryside catches worm-racing fever and watch as George's worm, named "Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh," races its way to the championship. But when Mr. Quint takes the wrong lunchbox on his fishing trip, George's worm farm is in danger of becoming fish bait! Can George save his slimy friends in time for the championship race?
* Everything Old is New Again - The city is awarding the "Golden Arrows Award" to the building that collects the most recycling. George is eager to help-once he learns what recycling actually is, of course. The building's Doorwoman next door turns out to be tough competition, so George hunts down recycling materials from everywhere he can think of. The only problem is, he doesn't know that he only recycle products after they've been used! Will the tenants with the missing recyclables forgive a monkey who's not just trying to win a contest, but also save the environment? duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
8:30 amCat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! [#207] Tough Enough/How Cool Is Coral Tough Enough - Nick and Sally are trying to guess what animal is the toughest one - is it a lion? Oh no, it must be the enormous elephant! Why not at all, says The Cat. The toughest of all is a teeny tiny Waterbear. Huh? Off to meet Cat's friend Wally the Waterbear. After shrinking down in the Thingamajigger, they find Wally and start to play the Tough Enough game! Wally is tough enough to live anywhere, so it's off to Freeze Your Knees Snowland to test it out. Then they go to the super hot Gritchity-Gratch Desert, then even a trip into space! Wally can live anywhere! He really is the toughest of all! How Cool is Coral - The Cat needs help! He needs to get his fish friend Ting Tang Tony back to his family. Off to Scoobamareen they go! Tony and Cat got distracted while he was drawing pictures of the beautiful coral that's all around them. Using Cat's drawings as a map, they swim to get Tony back home. Along the way they meet little polyps that live in the coral and learn that they actually helped to make it! They learn about how long it takes to make and how delicate it is. Luckily they soon find Tony's family and they're reunited. Back home Nick and Sally make their own coral drawings, cause you never know when the Cat might need help again! duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
9:00 amSuper Why! [#116Z] The Princess and the Pea It's the Annual Junior Princess Competition, and Princess Pea is worried she won't be able to pass the test and win her very own Golden Crown! The Super Readers soar into the fairytale adventure of the Princess and the Pea, and learn all about Princess Priscilla - Princess Pea's mother - and her Princess test. Princess Priscilla surprises everyone with her quick thinking, and inspires Princess Pea to follow in her mother's footsteps.
Educational Objectives: To learn about thinking things through. Interactive games and activities model how to build the alphabet and rhyme with UN words. The power to read changes the story. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
9:30 amDinosaur Train [#127H] Iggy Iguanodon/Shiny Can't Sleep * Iggy Iguanodon - The Pteranodon family continues their World Tour and meets Iggy Iguanodon, a funny chap who shows them his unique way of walking while leading our family to some white cliffs where Dad is very excited to fish and dine!
* Shiny Can't Sleep - Shiny gets homesick while the Pteranodon family is away from home on their World Tour. She cannot sleep, so Mr. Pteranodon takes her around the Dinosaur Train and they observe the train at night and the activities of various nocturnal creatures. duration 28:46 SRND51 TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
10:00 amClifford The Big Red Dog [#139] Forgive & Forget/Mimi's Back In Town * Forgive & Forget - When Clifford forgets a play date, Cleo gets really upset. After all, she would never do that to a friend. Cleo wont even accept Clifford's apologies. But T-bone points out to Cleo that maybe she is the one who isn't being a good friend. After all, Clifford did apologize and a good friend would never hold a grudge. Cleo learns that good friends forgive (and forget!).
* Mimi-s Back in Town - T-bone really likes Mimi, the little brown poodle who visits the Island on occasion, and is very excited to hear she's coming back again! But when Cleo starts teasing him about how much he likes Mimi, T-bone feels embarrassed and uncomfortable. He finally confronts Cleo about it and Cleo learns that teasing can be anything that makes someone feel uncomfortable. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
10:30 amClifford's Puppy Days [#206] Clifford The Scary Puppy/Things That Go Bump Clifford the Scary Puppy: Evan goes a little too far when he's playing spooky tricks on the kids, until Clifford accidentally gives him a good scare. Things That Go Bump: There's a costume camp out party in the courtyardon Halloween night. Everyone drifts off to sleep but Clifford, who's too spooked by unfamiliar sounds to close his eyes. Norville comes to his rescue, and together, they nervously uncover that the "things that go bump" are only frightening in their imaginations. duration 28:55 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
11:00 amSesame Street [#4273H] A Prince of a Frog There is a princess in distress on Sesame Street! She cannot meet her prince without kissing a frog, but the frog keeps hopping away! Elmo and Abby try to help by learning a little more about frogs on Alan's computer. The first thing they learn is that frogs are amphibians and like to gather in groups and croak together. Abby and Elmo pretend to be croaking frogs to attract the frog. It works, and the frog hops over, but before the princess can kiss him, he hops away. Next they learn that frogs like to eat flies and catch them with their long sticky tongues. They convince Allan to buzz like a fly while they croak. It works! The frog comes back, the princess kisses him, but nothing happens. The frog is still a frog. The princess convinces Abby to work her magic and turn the frog into a prince. She does, and after a few tries, poof - the frog becomes a prince. But the frog prince has no idea what it means to actually be a prince. He still wants to hop, eat flies, jump on lily pads, and croak all night. The prince is sad and sings a song about missing his life as a frog. The princess finally understands that the prince can't be happy as a prince if he was meant to be a frog, and she asks Abby to change him back. The frog happily resumes his life, but this time, the princess is so amazed with all of the things he can do that she decides to forget about looking for her prince and just enjoy being with her friend the frog. duration 58:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
12:00 pmCharlie Rose [#19092H] (original broadcast date: 4/30/13)
* A discussion about President Obama's press conference on the first 100 days of his second term with Al Hunt of Bloomberg View; Jessica Yellin, Chief White House Correspondent for CNN; Chuck Todd, Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News; and Jonathan Karl, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent.
* David Stern, Commissioner of the National Basketball Association & Adam Silver, Deputy Commissioner of the NBA. duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE
1:00 pmCheck, Please! Bay Area [#803H] Maverick, Izakaya Yuzuki, Souk Savanh * For an elegant twist on comfort food, good wine and hospitality we go to Maverick in San Francisco.
* We stay in the City and visit Izakaya Yuzuki, a sake house with fine Japanese food made from the freshest of local and imported ingredients.
* Lastly, Souk Savanh's calm gentle vibe and bold Lao and Thai flavors are a hidden gem in Oakland. duration 26:46 STEREO TVG
1:30 pmAmerica's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated [#1313H] Turkey on the Grill Test cook Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make a Simple Grill-Roasted Turkey and serves it with Cranberry Chutney. Next, Chris reveals the Test Kitchen's best tips for taking the temperature of a turkey. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top pick for All Purpose Cleaners in the Equipment Corner. duration 26:46 STEREO TVG
2:00 pmMartha Bakes [#104H] Pound Cake Pound cake makes excellent use of the basic building blocks of baking - butter, sugar, eggs and flour - and offers nearly unlimited opportunities for adaptation (incorporating cream cheese or semolina, for example). Martha takes the viewer through variations, starting with the most traditional and finishing with a version inspired by her travels through Asia. duration 26:46 STEREO TVG
2:30 pmBBC World News America [#17121H] duration 27:18 STEREO TVRE
3:00 pmPBS NewsHour [#10618] Three Suspects Taken into Custody in Boston Marathon Bombing Case * May Day Protests in Europe * The T-Shirt's Tale * California Oysters *The "Sisterhood" that Chased Osama Bin Laden duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)
3:59 pmBBC World News America [#17121H] duration 27:18 STEREO TVRE
4:28 pmDaniel Tiger's Neighborhood [#122H] Clean Up Time/Neighborhood Clean Up * Neighborhood Clean Up: A wind storm has made a mess of the Neighborhood playground and no one can play. When King Friday proclaims that it is Clean Up Day, everyone helps restore the playground by throwing out and recycling the trash. The children learn that by working together, the playground can be ready for play again in no time
* Clean Up Time: Daniel and O the Owl are playing "farm" at Daniel's house. They are having a lot of fun, but are making quite a mess! After losing his watch in a messy room, Daniel realizes that cleaning up and putting his toys away will help him find it. duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
4:58 pmCat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! [#209H] Little Lemmings/Keep The Beat * Little Lemmings - It's cold outside, but Nick and Sally want to keep playing. Is there a way to stay warm out in the cold? Cat's friend Lars the Lemming will know! He lives in the Wundra-Bundra-Tundra. It's cold out, but with Lars' fur coat, he doesn't even notice! They help Lars find a new home, one where there's more food for him and his family and they discover that he uses the snow to help keep him warm! Back at home the kids wear two winter coats to help them keep warm. But what's even warmer than that, hot chocolate
* Keep the Beat - Nick and Sally have been running around the backyard and now their chests are thumpity thumping! The Cat explains that that is their hearts boom boom booming! But why? wonders Sally. A visit to Dr. Giggles will answer that question. By shrinking down super small, they follow Dr. Giggles' directions to follow the path that blood takes, learning about how the heart is a pump. They watch Thing 2's heart beat faster when he runs, and slows down when he stops. With all this running around, their bodies are now making another sound - rumbling tummies! duration 28:46 STEREO TVY (Secondary audio: DVI)
5:28 pmWild Kratts [#127H] Zig-Zagged Chris and Martin get caught in the middle of a Zebra stampede, and when the dust clears, a lone baby Zebra is left behind. The Wild Kratts must find the young zebra's herd and return him to his mom. Along the way, they learn the secrets of patterns in the creature world and how the zebra's stripes are critical to a special defense called "confusion camouflage." duration 28:46 STEREO TVY
6:00 pmPBS NewsHour [#10618] Three Suspects Taken into Custody in Boston Marathon Bombing Case * May Day Protests in Europe * The T-Shirt's Tale * California Oysters *The "Sisterhood" that Chased Osama Bin Laden duration 56:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)
7:00 pmNightly Business Report [#32106] Tonight on Nightly Business Report - The Federal Reserve keeps the pedal to the metal and sticks with its easy money policy. NBR will speak with former Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner. And with five months to go, will the new health exchanges be up and running in time for open enrollment? duration 26:46 STEREO TVRE (Secondary audio: none)
7:30 pmQUEST [#219H] Ice Age Bay Area/Eclipse Chasers Visit the Bay Area at the end of the last Ice Age, when camels and lions roamed the landscape. And meet the eclipse chasers - adventurers who travel the world to document solar eclipses. duration 26:21 STEREO TVG
8:00 pmNature [#3011H] Legendary White Stallions This story of the world-famous Lipizzaner stallions focuses on the bond that develops between the horses and their caregivers, beginning at the moment of their birth and culminating in the perfect harmony between horse and rider demonstrated at the famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria. Their carefully choreographed movements were originally developed for the training of war horses; only the strongest and most athletic horses qualified. The Lipizzaner stallion is bred for its courage, strength and character, but the horse is also gentle, sensitive, and exceptionally responsive to praise. duration 55:46 SRND51 TVPG-S (Secondary audio: DVI)
9:00 pmNova [#4012H] Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures Of all the continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of its origins than Australia. Nova's mini-series takes viewers on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. With help from high-energy host and scientist Richard Smith, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids. This is the untold story of the Land Down Under, the one island continent that has got it all. duration 56:46 STEREO TVPG
10:00 pmSecrets of the Dead [#1202H] Bugging Hitler's Soldiers Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW's revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. Based on groundbreaking research conducted by a team of leading German historians and scientists, the film will tell the story of how those confessions were stolen, how they changed the outcome of the war and how they can now reveal, in more shocking detail than ever before, the hearts and minds of the German fighter. The evidence that supports this extraordinary new chapter in the history of WWII will be told through powerful dramatic reconstructions. Acted by German actors, speaking both German and English, they will quote directly from the highlights of over 100,000 hours of secretly recorded and therefore unguarded conversations between German POWs held in Britain. These long lost voices of the past are being brought back to life, bringing with them unique and exclusive insights into What the Nazis Really Thought. duration 54:16 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: DVI)
11:00 pmGlobe Trekker [#1204] Around The World - Pacific Journeys: Santiago to Pitcairn Zay Harding begins his Pacific journey in Santiago de Chile, gateway to the culturally unique Easter Island. From here he heads to Tahiti, the Polynesian paradise that enticed Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Captain Cook and Captain Bligh and his Bounty mutineers to stay longer than planned. Zay embarks on an ocean voyage along the waters charted by these famous explorers, including a perilous crossing to Pitcairn Island, which the descendents of the Bounty mutineers call home today. duration 55:29 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: DVI)
12:00 amCharlie Rose [#19093] (original broadcast date: 5/01/13)
* 125th anniversary of the Financial Times with Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times; Gillian Tett, assistant editor and Martin Dickson, US managing editor
* Bobby Knight, retired college basketball coach. duration 56:47 STEREO TVRE


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Recreate the Openlink distribution using buildroot
This project aims to recreate most of the Openlink distribution using buildroot so that it is possible to easily cross compile the whole of Openlink on a Linux workstation. This will provide a clear cut way of maintaining Openlink and be useful to those who want to customise a Linux distribution for their own projects.
Buildroot has been patched to use toolchains produced by crosstool so that it is possible to use glibc instead of the usual uclibc support provided by buildroot. Note that this is intended as a way of maintaining Openlink, not as a package management system.
Project Status
The buildroot project is still in the initial stages of construction. Currently it will not create a bootable image. If you want to contribute or try it out read the howto then checkout the subversion trunk.
Subversion Access
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News, commentary, and insights on adventures, and adventurers, from around the globe.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Man Crosses English Channel In Chair Lifted By Helium Balloons
36-year old American Jonathan Trappe has crossed the English Channel today in a chair that was lifted into the sky by several dozen helium filled balloons. He is the first "cluster balloonist" to complete that crossing.
Trappe set out from a field in Kent, England early this morning, rising to a height of 2000 feet and moving at a speed of up to 19 miles per hour. It took him roughly an hour to reach the coast of Britain, and then roughly another 2 hours to sail across the channel before reaching the Dunkirk. From there, the experienced pilot began to cut away a few balloons at a time, which gently lowered him to the ground. He would eventually land in cabbage patch, completing his flight. He risked landing in the channel, and possibly drowning, as well as hitting power lines while descending in France, to make this voyage.
Trappe is use to making these kinds of flights, and even holds the record for covering the longest distance. Earlier this year he flew 109 miles over North Carolina in setting that new mark.
Check out some video from Sky News this morning that captures the balloon chair in flight.
2 comments:
- Vinyl Banners said...
This begs the age old question, which came first the attempts to cross the english channel or the movie "Up"?
- Adventure Junkie said...
I thought of up immediately as well. I only need a few hundred (thousand) of these balloons to get my house aloft! :)
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Reviewed By Lane R (Santa Barbara, CA) Reviewed for a 2007 Lexus RX 400h —6/1/2012 7:48 PM
Seems good so far. Lightweight and rolls up pretty small and easy to stow in its bag. We've had some very windy nights and the elastic seems to hold it securely in place. It seems over priced for such a simple product, but beyond that, we have complaints.


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And yet they disqualify peeps for running during each event.
And yet they disqualify peeps for running during each event.
1) Ross is Boss.
2) See point 1.
Leading the charge against nuances being used in posts.
Overrated XI M Bracewell, Burns, Rahane, Don Voges, Bairstow, Alecz Day, Donovan Grobelaar, Luke Ronchi, Faulkner, Dan Christian, Permaul
WWCC - Loyaulte Mi Lie
The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - JK Galbraith
#408. Sixty three not out forever.
haha wait until smiley finds this thread.
The keirin would be so much better if it was like Capture the Flag. Whoever crosses the finish line on the stupid ****ing bike at the front wins.
Hmmm, we've let one slip through the net guys
Modern Pentathlon.
Pistol shooting, Fencing & Show Jumping in one.
Official IOC minimum qualification is a baroncy
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce
Langeveldt: I of course blame their parents.. and unchecked immigration!
GingerFurball: He's Austrian, they tend to produce the odd ****ed up individual
Burgey: Be careful dealing with neighbours whose cars don't have wheels but whose houses do.
Uppercut: Maybe I just need better strippers
Yeah but we won a silver in it so sshhhh
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Lung Cancer
Duke's lung cancer program is nationally recognized for its innovative, aggressive and personalized approach to detecting and treating lung cancer. Our lung cancer experts in Raleigh and Durham treat more patients than any other center in the country. We offer you more treatment options and better care, while striving to improve your quality of life.
Dedicated Lung Cancer Experts
Our nationally ranked lung cancer program can guide your treatment decisions, whether you are newly diagnosed or seeking a second opinion. Our skills and experience come from working only with lung cancer patients every day. Duke Cancer Center is the only place in North Carolina staffed with lung cancer experts who provide surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy in the same clinic, five days a week. Very few centers in the nation provide this level of commitment and service.
As a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, we helped pioneer minimally invasive surgery techniques that are now used in medical centers around the country. These treatments are proven to reduce pain and shorten your recovery time. Our goal is to improve your health and well-being as soon as possible.
If you at risk for lung cancer, we use the latest digital imaging technology to screen for and detect lung cancer at the earliest possible stage. These 3-D images show early-stage lung cancers that may be too small to be detected by a traditional chest X-ray.
Choose Duke for your lung cancer treatment because we offer:
- Top-ranked program. Our pulmonology program is ranked among the top five in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. We are also part of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), an alliance of the nation's leading cancer centers dedicated to improving patient care.
- Surgical expertise. Because we are international leaders in minimally invasive surgery, we are able to provide treatment options and hope to patients who have been deemed inoperable or incurable by other medical centers. We perform more than 1,600 minimally invasive surgeries every year on all types and stages of lung cancer.
- Lung cancer expertise. Our doctors at Duke Cancer Center work exclusively with lung cancer patients, providing you with personalized care specific to your condition. Diagnosing and treating lung cancer is all we do.
- A team of specialists. Our oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, nutritionists, counselors, pharmacists and nurses meet to discuss each individual case and work together to develop a comprehensive and personalized treatment plan for every patient.
- Direct point of contact. You are assigned a nurse navigator who will be with you at every clinical appointment and help to maintain open communication throughout your treatment.
- Whole body approach to care. We know that treating cancer means treating the whole person — body and mind — not just the disease. We offer a wide variety of educational and psychological support groups, including the Thoracic Oncology Support Group, to help achieve the best quality of life during and after your treatment. Learn more about our cancer support services.
- Access to clinical trials. Every day our researchers are conducting approved clinical trials to develop new treatment options and give more insights into curing lung cancer and improving our patients' quality of life. You may be eligible to participate in our clinical trials, which help advance treatment guidelines and enhance your care.
- Advanced treatments from decades of research. Our doctors use a large tissue bank and database of patients treated for lung cancer at Duke since 1995. We study why some lung cancer patients respond to treatments better than others in order to reduce your symptoms and treat your cancer. Our medical oncologists have developed several drugs that have received FDA approval. These drugs help improve patient outcomes.
- Comforting environment eases anxiety. Duke Cancer Center features spacious waiting areas, a Quiet Room, large infusion rooms, and an outdoor rooftop garden area where you — based on their treatment regimen — can receive chemotherapy outdoors.
- Our doctors work with your doctors. If you seek care at Duke and continue your radiation or chemotherapy closer to home, our doctors will coordinate your treatment plan with your doctors. We also provide second opinions and share information with your doctors close to home.
- Advanced training in lung cancer screening. Our board-certified lung imaging specialists undergo advanced training in the early detection of lung cancer and have a wealth of experience detecting and working with the specialists who have experience treating lung cancer.
- Support for you and your loved ones. Our comprehensive support services range from helping patients minimize the side effects of treatment to coping with the emotional and psychological effects of diagnosis and treatment. View all of our lung cancer support groups in our event calendar.
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We are nationally recognized for treating all types and stages of lung cancer. Our surgeons are international leaders in minimally invasive surgery. No other program has performed as many surgeries or published in more medical journals on lung cancer than our doctors. We take a personalized approach to provide you with the best treatment recommendations and the highest level of care.
Our skilled surgeons focus exclusively on lung cancer, and are trained and experienced in minimally invasive techniques. Minimally invasive surgeries employ less invasive techniques to minimize pain, shorten hospital stays and speed up recovery. We are international leaders in lung cancer minimally invasive surgery research, and nationally recognized for offering more options to patients with late-state lung cancer. We perform more than 1,600 minimally invasive surgeries a year, and offer clinical trials to test new therapies and techniques.
Our team uses imaging tools, including MRI and CT scans to view the precise location of the tumor and focus the radiation directly on the target while preserving healthy lung tissue.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery. A nonsurgical minimally invasive procedure during which high doses of radiation are delivered to a precise location in the body. Advanced imaging technology is used to determine the size and location of the tumor. The radiation is focused directly at that area, sparing nearby tissues. You may be eligible to participate in a clinical trial that is testing new radiation therapies and techniques.
Medication that kills cancer cells or stops them from growing and are used to treat many types of lung cancer. We consider your specific type of tumor, and assess the risks versus benefits before recommending chemotherapy as part of your personalized treatment plan. We also offer access to clinical trials that are testing new type of chemotherapy.
Depending on the stage of your cancer and your condition, we may also recommend:
- Photodynamic therapy (PDT). A light-activated drug absorbs cancer cells. Surgeons then shine a laser on the tumor to "turn on" the drug which kills the cancer cells. Because PDT has minimal side effects, it can be used as often as needed (unlike chemotherapy and radiation treatments). We were among the first nationwide to successfully use PDT to treat early-stage lung cancer, and have since trained colleagues around the country in the technique.
- Cryosurgery (cryotherapy). Liquid nitrogen freezes and kills abnormal or cancerous cells. Cryosurgery is a minimally invasive procedure and may be used to treat non-small cell lung cancer.
- Ablative therapies. Radiofrequency ablation (RFA), microwave ablation and cryoablation are minimally invasive image-guided techniques that utilize extreme heat or cold to kill lung cancer cells. Ablation therapy is typically reserved for patients who are unable to have surgery or undergo radiation.
We conduct more comprehensive imaging tests than most medical centers in the region because they play an important role in detecting and diagnosing lung cancer, as well as developing the best treatment plan. You may be able to see your physicians and undergo these imaging tests on the same day.
Duke's Lung Cancer Screening Clinic offers low-dose CT screening to individuals at high risk for developing lung cancer. Smoking cessation evaluation and counseling is provided as well as follow-up treatment, if needed.
Specialized imaging tests help detect and diagnose your type of lung cancer tumor. These tests include chest X-rays, CT or CAT scans, MRI scans, and PET scans. Imaging studies are performed and interpreted by radiologists who have special training in thoracic and pulmonary conditions, including lung cancer.
Our specialists may also perform a biopsy, removing a small sample of the tumor or fluid in the lungs in order to confirm the diagnosis.


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In Defense of Slow Reading
Has the relentless cacophony of Google culture made us dumb? An Internet junkie picks up a book and finds out.
By Paul Davis
TO PARAPHRASE Rick James via Dave Chappelle, "Internet's a hell of a drug." Like James' storied cocaine habit, it's addictive and alluring, its benefits debatable. I speak as someone intimately experienced with addictive drugs: two years ago, I quit smoking. To this day, I find myself smoking in dreams and occasionally sneak them from friends at the bar. The rest of the time, the Internet serves as a proxy.
Addictive personalities often replace one addiction with another. My new worst friend is the social web, the endless stream of information constantly streaming down Sen. Ted Stevens' infamous "series of tubes." Here's a short list of Internet services that I use and check with half-hourly frequency: email, Facebook, Tumblr, del.icio.us, Evernote, Twitter, Remember the Milk, Google Reader (tracking some 180 RSS feeds), and Yahoo News. I back up longer articles using Instapaper to read on the bus; at the office, I work with two web browsers open at all times, 10 individual tabs loaded in each, spread over two monitors. On the commute home, I'm checking text messages via my Internet-enabled phone and reading archived blog posts on my iPod. At times, it seems like a type of digital schizophrenia, or if nothing else, a hell of a drug.
I'm what pencil-necked social media experts and Web 2.0 carpetbaggers would call a "power user." I dine on a constant, movable feast of information.
Scolds might suggest that this is a symptom of a larger Internet addiction, but when your day job involves managing web content and your night jobs are web design and freelance writing, it's impossible to avoid spending 12 to 14 hours a day online. My habits are far from unusual; as we sit in offices for eight hours at a desktop computer, only to leave the office with iPhones, Blackberries and Kindles in tow, it's clear that the moment futurists have predicted is upon us: the Internet has become pervasive, and it's only going to become more so in the years to come.
With so much information streaming at once, most of it with all the panache of a poorly organized corporate database vying for attention with hard news and gossip masquerading as political analysis, there's little room for critical engagement; there's barely enough time for basic reading comprehension. I could read 50 news articles in a day about the Middle East and return with no deeper understanding of what happened in Iraq on that given day. My mind has become a decontextualized database of ephemeral facts, equipped with only the most rudimentary of search functions. It's not exactly cheering to realize that I'm not alone.
It's a phenomenon that author John Lorinc bemoaned in his 2007 essay "Driven to Distraction" for the Canadian magazine Walrus. "We have created a technological miasma that inundates us with an inexhaustible supply of electronic distractions," Lorinc wrote. "The deluge of multi-channel signals has produced an array of concentration-related problems, including lost productivity, cognitive overload and a wearying diminishment in our ability to retain the very information we consume with such voraciousness. It may be that our hyper-connected world has quite simply made it difficult for us to think."
Lorinc's far from alone in his alarm. In the past year, a cottage industry has sprouted up around the warning that Google--and the Internet at large--is making us stupid. The most infamous of the bunch has been Nicholas Carr's cover story for the August 2008 issue of the Atlantic. Citing the work of Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University, who warns that online readers become "mere decoders of information," Carr editorializes that "our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains disengaged." I'm dubious of the argument that Google is making us stupid, but Carr makes a key observation in the piece, writing that "deep reading ... is indistinguishable from deep thinking."
Binding Resolution
Feeling disenfranchised from that sort of deeper engagement, my resolution for this year was to step away from the stream--at least for an hour a day--and return to trusty old print. I decided to read more books--not on a Kindle or the e-Book reader on an iPhone, where the temptation for distraction via a rudimentary browser is a mere hand gesture away--but in bound, linear, paper form. It's been a revelation. I've rediscovered an ethic of attentiveness, an intellectual silence and focus, that I lost in recent years as I jumped from one link to another, juggling countless browser tabs at all times. My process of reading had ceased being linear and had morphed into a cacophony of facts, data, opinions and animated Flash video. Since I've rediscovered slow reading, I find myself thinking more clearly, perusing linear paths of critical engagement with topics. It's a relieving contrast to the multitasked intellectual inattentiveness that the online world encourages and demands.
One of the things I've been rereading is the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, an author many consider a prophet of the discursive, hypertext era of the Internet. Borges' work--elliptical, playful and rife with allusions--is stunningly contemporary in its metanarrative and referential play. Yet even a writer as prescient as Borges demands the engagement of slow reading: those elliptical routes are far more rewarding when confined to the particular context of the linear narrative. His work demands a depth of engagement that cannot be replicated by reading his work on a web browser, just one in 10 tabs of content in a web browser, with billions of other off-topic distractions a mere Google search away.
Yet even for a print-native reader like myself, rediscovering the pleasures of slow reading and returning to the printed page is a struggle. Given an hour of free reading time, habit will compel me to the LCD screen rather than a book. I must make a concerted effort to sit down on the couch, book in hand. Once I open the book, keeping focused on that single linear feed of information is a constant challenge: I find myself twitchy, distracted, desperately in need of a reading discipline that I unlearned at some point in the past decade as my attention turned to online media. It's as if I have not only forgotten an important mode of critical thinking, but basic reading comprehension. The state of concentration required to truly engage with the printed word can be attained, and is indeed rewarding, but it requires one hell of a concerted effort in this day and age.
Pundits like Jeff Jarvis, who collect healthy speaking fees by telling aspirational bloggers and new media entrepreneurs what they want to hear, might scoff at an appreciation of slow reading as being the rear-guard defense mechanism of a cultural dinosaur. They'd be half right. For all of slow reading's continued rewards, it doesn't take an oracle to acknowledge that print is doomed to a future as a niche product that will command a premium from a small group of enthusiasts, not unlike vinyl or free-range meat. Which is a damned shame, in a certain sense. Clearly the human mind benefits from a type of close, engaged reading that print encourages. And while there are a handful of services that attempt to replicate that experience on a screen, to varying degrees of success--Amazon's Kindle, the web content archiving service Instapaper that accompanies me on the bus--the temptation of distraction is always near. Faced with that inevitability, something needs to change: either the way we consume content on screens or the way our brains process information. Futurist Ray Kurzweil argues that it may be our brains.
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The Adaptive Brain
Speaking recently on New York Public Radio's On the Media, Kurtzweil suggested that the human mind will evolve to synthesize this new form of information gathering. "Over time, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate, and that's basically what we mean by the singularity," he said. "When you get out to 2045, we'll have multiplied the overall intelligence of the human/machine civilization a billionfold, and that's such a profound transformation that we call it a singularity." Kurtzweil considers the wired brain as an inevitable--and advantageous--next evolutionary step for the human race, one that is consistent with the development of our minds over time. "There is something unique about humans in that we're the only species that we know about that actually extends our reach with our tools, ever since we picked up a stick to reach a higher branch," he explained. "We're already a human/machine civilization. Our tools are part of who we are. They always have been. And that's what unique about human beings."
Kurtzweil's predictions have a good rate of accuracy, and I imagine he's right. But even the overclocked evolution of the mind that he speaks of is a slow process, and neither the Internet nor the brains we currently have are doing the trick. No matter how many lauded new web tools I use to pull disparate information together, there is nothing that can effectively organize and synthesize the sheer wealth of information, leaving me with discrete pieces of data in an endless stream of facts, statistics, news and trivia. This information may reside on our hard drives or in the cloud, but only nominal amounts of it reside in our brain. And until the mind takes that evolutionary leap Kurtzweil speaks of--or we begin injecting Google nanobots in our minds to better tie together the brain's rudimentary search engine--this new system of thought does little to help the process of analysis, of synthesis, of pulling pieces of information together to reach an informed conclusion.
Kurtzweil's singularity may be decades away, but I suspect that this change has slowly begun, if not through evolution or nanobots, then through a change in practice. Even after rediscovering the value of slow reading, falling in love with print all over again, I find myself drawn by the allure of the screen. At times, slow reading seems almost too slow, and that intellectual quiet unbearable. My mind craves that discursive frenzy--maybe, like any other hard drug, the Internet has rewired my brain.
Perhaps we're missing the point harping upon some arbitrary distinction between how we read in print and how we read online. No matter the media, we need to rediscover the discipline of slow reading that has been lost in the frenzy of never-ending RSS feeds and social network life streams. No matter how we're engaging with information--in print or onscreen, in a web browser or on a phone--it is, as it's always been, essential for us to read slowly, be engaged with what we read, to constantly challenge ourselves to relearn how to think, to be critically engaged. That never-ending data stream isn't going anywhere, and the fact is, we may need its addictive distraction more than it needs our attention.
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MWW Automotive Reports Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2012
Jan 15, 2013, 05:19 EST
HOWELL, Mich., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MWW Automotive Group (OTCQB: MWWC), a global automotive firm providing OE manufacturing of accessories and complete logistics services to many of the world's leading automotive and industrial manufacturers, issued today its financial report for the Fiscal Year 2012, ending on September 30, 2012. The full text of the Company's audited Annual 10K Report can be reviewed on the Company's web site at www.mwwautomotive.com or at the SEC website www.sec.gov.
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"The last twelve months have been a crucial and complex year in MWW's business history, dealing with the consequences of the loss of our largest Toyota customers moving their accessory business back to Japan and Toyota Motor Services," states Chuck Pinkerton, CEO of MWW Automotive. "These customers represented the majority of our revenues for many years. Accordingly, our income decreased further during 2012 in comparison to 2011, although we were able to come close to meeting our revised projections. We have aggressively reacted to these changing market conditions and have reorganized the Company, so it would not only help us to survive these difficult times, but also re-focus on the core strength of MWW. Restructuring the company and revising its capitalization, rebuilding a strong roster of new major clients and expanding into different industries was the focus during 2012."
Mr. Pinkerton continues: "Based on our track record for high-quality OE production and customer satisfaction, we are now taking advantage of the increasing demand by large manufacturers for smaller, but more frequent production runs, a core competency that we have been focusing on over the last few years. We have been able to further reduce our overhead, while at the same time expanding our production capacity and secure a substantial amount of new business with new large customers in the automotive market as well as in the industrial machinery markets. During 2012 we still experienced significant delays with the launch of several of our new projects, especially with our new industrial client. Consequently we still generated limited revenues during FY 2012. With several of the new programs from our major clients now in production, we are confident that beginning in Q2 of 2013, revenues will start to increase again, with a moderate increase already expected during Q1 2013. We hope that our expected improving financial performance, combined with the reduced need for unfavorable financings and the appropriate marketing campaigns going forward, should have a positive impact on MWW's share price."
Net revenues were approximately $790.211 for the year ended September 30, 2012. Our revenues decreased $1.1 Million from the year ended September 30, 2011. This decrease is attributable to the fact that during 2011 we lost our largest customer, Toyota, who represented a majority of our total revenues. Since then we have been focused on restructuring our entire organization, reviving product selection, re-focusing on our core business and acquiring new customers in the automotive as well as in the commercial industries.
In an effort to return the company to profitability, we have reduced operating expenses without sacrificing production capacity and/or quality. Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $1,413,139 in 2012 compared to $1,712,760 during 2011. The decrease of $299,620 in costs is attributable to management's stringent efforts to reduce overhead costs while further streamlining operations.
Reconciling our net loss to cash we produced a net loss of $515,077. While the loss attributable to the Company is reported at $11,116,725, the loss from operations was $1,723,232. The largest positions of the loss attributable to Company and operations consists of several large NON-CASH positions, such as the change in derivative liability, change in operating assets and liabilities, non cash interest and other non-cash items. Based on significant cost-down exercises and the streamlining of several crucial processes and positions throughout the company, reconciling our net loss to cash produced a loss of $515,077. With the anticipated increase in revenue and improving cash flow, beginning in Q2 of 2013, there should be a decreasing need for additional unfavorable financing and accordingly a positive impact on the company's share price. Please see a detailed breakdown in our 10K financial filings with the SEC.
About MWW Automotive Group (MWW)
The MWW Automotive Group's (OTCQB: MWWC) administrative offices are located in Howell, Michigan, with a 40,000 square foot Class A manufacturing and logistics facility in Baroda, Michigan for the production of high quality OE automotive and industrial products. MWW delivers its products and Class A painting, assembly and logistics services directly to major US and Foreign automobile manufacturers' Vehicle Processing Centres (VPC), leading edge show car and performance accessory design firms, and/or assembly lines in North America. MWW's industrial products are delivered directly to the industrial manufacturers for installation in their facilities. MWW provides substantial added value to the sale of vehicles and industrial products for leading international automobile and industrial manufacturers such as Toyota, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Kia Motors, MAZDA, GM, Ford, FIVE AXIS and their strategic partners ROUSH Performance and Polytec/FOHA. For more information visit www.mwwautomotive.com or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Safe Harbor Statement: Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements may be identified by the use words such as "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "future," "may," "will," "would," "should," "plan," "projected," "intend," and similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements, involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company's future operating results are dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to the Company's ability to: (i) obtain sufficient capital or a strategic business arrangement to fund its expansion plans; (ii) build the management and human resources and infrastructure necessary to support the growth of its business; (iii) competitive factors and developments beyond the Company's control; and (iv) other risk factors discussed in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov under "Search for Company Filings."
SOURCE MWW Automotive Group


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