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The specter of Palin, not content to haunt our waking hours, has invaded our sleeping ones as well: the other day, Slate editor David Plotz admitted to dreaming of Sarah Palin. "Night after night, she appears in my dreams, always as a scolding, ominous figure," Plotz wrote. But he's not the only one in the Slate microcosm to dream of Sarah. "One Obama-supporting colleague dreamed she had urged her young son to kill Palin with a string bean. Another dreamed she was at a fashion show and Palin served her crème fraîche on little scooped corn chips," he noted. And no wonder so many of these Palin-ponderers are women: according to the BBC, women are far more prone to nightmares and other sleep disturbances than men are, and that part of those disturbances you actually can blame on your period!"In a study of 170 volunteers asked to record their most recent dream, 19% of men reported a nightmare compared with 30% of women," the BBC reports. Additionally, the changes in body temperature that women experience during their menstrual cycle can lead to disrupted sleep, and as a result, "pre-menstrual women report more vivid and disturbing dreams." Not only do we have more vivid and terrifying menses-visions, but we also are more likely to be insomniacs. "In terms of processing emotional information, women may be more prone to taking unresolved concerns into their sleep life," Dr. Jennifer Parker, a sleep researcher, told the BBC. This must be why my Palin-induced terror has led me to more than one night of less than five hours of sleep. Thanks for nothing, ovaries! I Dream About Sarah Palin. Do You? [Slate] Women 'More Prone To Nightmares'[BBC]
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Question of the day: With Ronnie Brewer missing the first 6 weeks of the season, is this a minor bump in the road or the beginning of what will be a painful season? Will we ever see this team at full strength?
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2011 Engineers' Choice Awards – Spotlight on Innovation
The 24th annual Control Engineering Engineers' Choice Awards shines a light on 30 categories of control, instrumentation, and automation products, revealing the best of those introduced in 2010 as chosen by you, Control Engineering's print and online subscribers. Review the winners and honorable mentions revealed here to see if their innovative solutions can help you solve one of your most pressing problems.
Also, join us in congratulating these technological innovators. Let them know you learned about their solutions in Control Engineering, and what problems you need solutions for next. Their continuous improvement ensures that manufacturers, machine builders, and automation system integrators can achieve the levels of agility, efficiency, and effectiveness necessary to compete—and win—in today's global economy.
More than 100 product nominations from 65 companies were listed on ballots for evaluation. Automation professionals from Control Engineering's subscriber lists—all of whom are responsible for or influence technology purchases, or have hands-on day-to-day interaction with the technologies in each category—then voted to identify the products they felt were the most exceptional based on technological advancement, service to the industry, and market impact. The result is a short list of Engineers' Choice Award winners and honorable mentions in 30 categories. A total of 31 winners and 33 honorable mentions were named for 2011, due to ties in certain categories.
Control Engineering staff extend our appreciation to all who nominated products and took the time to vote. Awards will be presented as part of the Manufacturing Automation Summit, a conference to be held March 20-22, 2011, in Chicago. For information or to sign up, see www.controleng.com/summit.
Machine + control, controllers
Machine and Embedded Control – machine vision
BOA Smart Camera from Dalsa Industrial Products
Machine and Embedded Control – PACs
NI CompactRIO from National Instruments
Machine and Embedded Control – PACs – motion
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix L73 and L75 Programmable Automation Controllers from Rockwell Automation
Machine and Embedded Control – PLCs
750-881 Ethernet 2.0 Programmable Fieldbus Controller from Wago Corporation
Motion Control – drives
Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 755 AC drive from Rockwell Automation
Motion Control – motors
DR Motor from SEW-Eurodrive Inc.
Motion Control – robotics
Motion Control – servo drives
IndraDrive Cs Economy Compact Servo Drive from Bosch Rexroth Corporation
Networks, power, process
Network Integration – data acquisition, integration
Network Integration – Ethernet hardware
Allen-Bradley Stratix 8300 Layer 3 managed switch from Rockwell Automation
Network Integration – I/O systems
WMF 2.5 Multi-Functional Terminal Block Series from Weidmuller
Network Integration – signal conditioning/diagnostics
Allen-Bradley Bulletin 931 analog signal conditioners from Rockwell Automation
Network Integration – wireless
WirelessHART gateway from Phoenix Contact
Network Integration -wire, cable, cordsets, connectors
Belden DataTuff 600V Cat 5e AWM-rated Cable from Belden
Power – monitoring, protection
Fluke 381 Remote Display True-rms Clamp Meter with iFlex, Fluke Corporation
Process Control – analysis, optimization, tuning
PlantTriage Control Performance Monitoring from ExperTune Inc.
Process control systems
Experion R400 from Honeywell Process Solutions
Process Sensors – flowmeters
Elite High Capacity Coriolis Meter – Micro Motion, a division of Emerson Process Management
Process sensors – other
Raytek MI3 Infrared Sensor, Raytek Corporation
Safety, hardware, software
Safety sensor
Harmony Biometric Switch from Schneider Electric
Safety System Software
Simatic Safety Matrix Version 6.2 from Siemens Industry Inc.
Safety controller – tie
Allen-Bradley Compact GuardLogix PAC from Rockwell Automation from Rockwell Automation
Siemens Simatic ET 200pro Fail Safe Controller from Siemens Industry Inc.
Hardware – Handheld testing, calibration
Fluke 365 Detachable Jaw True-rms AC/DC Clamp Meter from Fluke Corporation
Hardware – HMI, operator interface, displays
Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 6 HMI terminal from Rockwell Automation
Hardware – industrial PCs
C6930 Industrial PC from Beckhoff Automation
Hardware HMI – bar code and ID readers
DataMan 8000 from Cognex Corporation
Software – application software
FactoryTalk AssetCentre from Rockwell Automation
Software – connectivity, integration software
KEPServerEX v5 from Kepware Technologies
Software – design, simulation, diagnostics
SolidWorks 2011, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp.
Software – HMI software
Monitouch V-SFT from Fuji Electric Corp. of America
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A.J. DeLaGarza was given his second consecutive start for Guam as the Matao defeated Cambodia 2-0 in Phnom Penh.
New England Revolution attacker Ryan Guy gave Guam the lead before they doubled their advantage on an own goal from the home side. The match was DeLaGarza's first victory for the Matao.
During his time in South East Asia, DeLaGarza received a firsthand look at the LA Galaxy's presence abroad after he spotted a pair of Galaxy uniforms during his time in Phnom Penh. That wasn't the only lesson that DeLaGarza received as he also got a taste of the customs of his new national team. Check out DeLaGarza performing Guam's answer to the New Zealand Haka "the Inifresi" a native pledge to the country that the Matao perform before each game.
Finished the trip off with a 2-0 win. Looking forward to visiting Guam and seeing my family now..
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Thursday night's "Battle of the Boulevard" will not be included in those talks. The Bisons fell 88-52 to Belmont at the Curb Center.
The Bisons are 9-7, 4-3 in the A-Sun. Belmont is 15-3, 7-0 in the conference.
"I've never been beaten like that for 40 minutes," Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson said. "We never were in the game. It was never in doubt."
It was the biggest loss for the Bisons in the NCAA era. The previous worst was a 92-56 defeat at Furman Dec. 20, 2003.
It was also the worst Atlantic Sun defeat for the Bisons. Two times they lost games to Troy by 28 points with a 100-72 decision on Jan 10, 2004 and a 96-68 loss Feb. 17, 2004.
The Bisons never led in the game. Belmont opened a 20-3 lead in the first six minutes and never looked back. Their biggest lead was 42 points with 4:46 left in the game.
"It's all about how you start the game," Sanderson said. "Belmont played the way they have been playing and we played the way we have been playing."
The loss ended a three-game winning streak for the Bisons in the series. it was also the biggest points differential in the series. The Bisons beat Belmont 105-68 at Lipscomb Nov. 21, 1986. The previous biggest winning margin for Belmont in the series was 31 points in a 119-88 win Jan. 14, 1995.
Another streak that also ended was the double figures scoring streak by Bisons' center Adnan Hodzic. He scored only seven points. His streak ended at 72. It is the longest double figures streak in NCAA since UNC Greensboro's Kyle Hines went 81 straight games from Dec. 19, 2005 to March 9, 2008.
"Adnan's energy level has not been where it needed to be for the last three games," Sanderson said. "We had some role guys step up and take some shots early. But their shot s weren't going so Belmont just closed down tighter on Adnan."
Guard Brandon Barnes was the only Lipscomb player to score in double figures with 11. Barnes also recorded 10 rebounds, a season-high. He tied for the game high with Belmont center Mick Hedgepeth. It was the first double-double of the season for Barnes.
Hedgepeth scored 15 points to also record a double-double. Guard Drew Hanlen led with a game-high 17 points.
Also in double figures for Belmont were Ian Clark and Kerron Johnson with 12 each and Scott Saunders with 11.
The Bisons shot 29.7 percent from the field. Belmont shot 47.6 percent.
"We've got to learn from this," Sanderson said. "It's a mental thing for some of our guys. They have to see the video. "They can see it. They can talk about it. But they have to do something about it. And the moment to do that is at the tip-off."
The Bisons will be back in action Monday at Allen Arena when Campbell visits.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - During the seven years he was retired, one of the things that kept nagging at U.S. Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens was the fact he won the Dubai World Cup only once.
A three-time Kentucky Derby winner, Stevens said the prospect of riding one more time in the world's richest horse race helped to convince him to launch a comeback at 50. He won here with Silver Charm in 1998 and came in second behind Cigar in the inaugural race in 1996 on Soul of the Matter.
Stevens will mount Dullahan in the Dubai World Cup and Little Mike in the Dubai Duty Free on Saturday.
"I would love to win another Dubai World Cup," Stevens said. "I didn't want to be 70 years old sitting at home with my children and saying, 'Man, I wish I would have done this when I was 50.' "
Having overcome long-running knee problems, Stevens said he was "thriving now" since returning to the track in January and feeling better than before he retired.
The results speak for themselves - he has $1 million in purse earnings, mostly at Santa Anita, and finished in the top three 54 percent of the time, according to Equibase, a thoroughbred racing database.
"To go out there and ride a race and not to have pain, I am thinking mentally much more clearly than I did for the last five years I was riding competitively," he said. "When I go into the stalls for a race, my mind is very clear and focused on what I need to do."
Stevens, a father of five whose 53-year-old brother also rides, said he had to convince his wife and his mother that the return was worth the risk - considering dangerous falls are a hazard of the business.
His mother still refuses to watch his races on television <0x2014> his father watches and gives her live commentary. But he convinced them it was something he needed to do for at least another five years.
"I knew it would be difficult on her and difficult on my wife as well," he said. "My wife was relieved when I retired, but she also knows I won't say how miserable I've been but that something was lacking in my life."
During his time away, Stevens worked as a TV commentator which allowed him to study scores of races and the tactics of jockeys. It is helping him now, since most of the young jockeys "don't know my tendencies so I have a bit of an edge."
Dullahan's trainer, Dale Romans, said he never thought twice when Stevens became available for the Dubai World Cup.
"If you look at his credentials, he is one of the greatest of all time, so you know he won't crack under the pressure of the big race," he said. "If something unforeseen comes in the race, he will be able to handle it. I don't think we could have gotten a better rider for this day."
Another U.S. Hall of Fame jockey, Mike Smith, who is riding American contender Royal Delta in the Dubai World Cup, welcomed Stevens back to the fold.
"That is what is great about riding with great, great riders. They bring your game to another level," he said. "Gary does that to me. I like when I get the opportunity to ride with him. He doesn't make mistakes so I can follow him and trust him or stay in front of him."


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Monarch Insider - After Redshirt Year, ODU's Larsen And Hicks Ready to Charge the Court
By ODU Athletics
Sept. 19, 2010
After redshirt year, ODU's Larsen and Hicks ready to charge the court
By Brendan O'Hallarn Monarch Basketball Insider
They're a bit of an unmistakable pair ... the stocky, six-foot North Carolinian, and the long-limbed, seven-foot Dane. For the past year, you typically don't run into one around campus without seeing the other.
Last season was tough for Josh Hicks and Anton Larson, the redshirts on the ODU men's basketball team. But after a season getting faster, stronger and learning the university game, both are eager to contribute to ODU basketball on the court.
"I've been counting down the days ever since I decided to redshirt," said Hicks, who was a guard on a state champion team in North Carolina his last year of high school. "It was tough going from basically playing all game to having to sit on the sidelines, not playing at all, not dressing out with the team, having to watch."
Larsen's transition -- from the less-physical, more shot-heavy European style of basketball he played growing up in Denmark to the faster, more physical brand of hoops played in the States - meant he was glad to spend a year on the sidelines learning.
"I definitely needed that year. It did me good. It made me understand the game a little better. Getting used to the tempo, the speed, the strength," Larsen said. Not that it was easy, working hard in practice and the weight room, but not having the reward of playing in the actual games.
"I think it was good thing that there were two people redshirting ... we were going through the same things, and could help each other," Larsen said.
Hicks said they'd often pick each other up if one or the other had a tough practice, reminding the other of the things that had gone well. Which led to the other byproduct of a shared season on the sidelines: despite their different upbringings, Larsen and Hicks have become good friends.
"We're roommates, so we spend a lot of time together," Josh said. "At the start of last year, we didn't really know each other. But then as the school year went along, we started hanging out a lot more."
The difficult academic transition of living away from home was helped by the fact they didn't have the extra time preparing for games, Hicks said. Larsen said he'd never done a multiple choice exam before coming to Old Dominion. After a rocky start, the grades for both have stabilized, and they're looking forward to a good academic year.
On the court? They can't wait.
Old Dominion has a history of redshirting players, and Hicks and Larsen need look no further than three of this year's projected starters - Kent Bazemore, Frank Hassell and Keyon Carter - to see the value of a redshirt year.
Bazemore, a blossoming star guard, said it was tough to go from being "the man" to having practice as his only competitive outlet.
"But after a while, I felt myself getting better, getting stronger, getting faster, learning the game," he said. "I used to love practice. Practice was the games to me. The players would be tired, I'd be running around like a chicken with my head cut off."
I asked Kent what advice he'd give the freshmen as their redshirt comes off. "Just take what you learn, take the experience, and use it for hunger. That's what I did. I took that year off, and I came out and said `Everybody's going to pay for me having to sit out.' That was my mindset."
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The certificate program will provide and/or substitute course work needed for professionals in health services administration. The focus of the program is to provide students with a basic knowledge of health services organizational behavior and leadership, administration and management, legal aspects of health administration, and U.S. health policy.
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515 Legal Aspects of Health Services Management. (3) The course will equip future health services managers and health educators with a working knowledge of health law as it relates to the health industry. Students who have taken HSM 470 will not be eligible to receive credit for this course. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
516 Introduction to Health Policy. (3) The course will equip future health services managers and health educators with a working knowledge of health policy formulation, examination and implementation as it relates to the health industry. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
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How is docetaxel given and what are the side effects?
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
How is docetaxel given and what are the side effects?
Carolyn Vachani RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Nurse Educator, responds:
Docetaxel is a type of chemotherapy called a taxane, which is given intravenously (into a vein, through an IV). It is typically given every three weeks in your doctor's office or infusion center. Side effects associated with docetaxel include: a decrease in your blood counts (white blood cells, platelets and red blood cells), mouth sores, hair loss, loss of appetite and flu like symptoms (chills, muscle aches). Some patients experience fluid retention causing swelling in the hands, legs or feet, shortness of breath, rapid weight gain or an inability to urinate. A medication called dexamethasone is given before docetaxel to decrease the likelihood of developing fluid retention, but if you notice these symptoms, you should call your doctor right away. Some patients develop numbness or tingling in the hands and/or feet. Let your doctor know if you notice this side effect, as you may require a change in the dose of docetaxel you receive to prevent this from getting worse.
Some side effects that are considered less common with docetaxel include: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, changes in the color or texture of your skin or nails, women may stop menstruating and fertility may be affected in women and men. Your nurse and doctor will monitor you during the infusion for any allergic reactions or decreases in blood pressure and check you liver function periodically with blood tests.


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Naxxar has something of historical, archaeological and cultural interest from each period in Malta's past. It has always been one of the main villages on the Islands and has played a role in major events in the Islands' history, from the arrival of Christianity to the defeat of the Ottoman Turks during the Great Siege of 1565. The British period also left its mark: Naxxar lies along the Victoria Lines, British fortifications built on the Great Fault. The town's name may derive from Arabic meaning a divide or cut, which would describe its geographic location. It may also derive from `nasra', meaning Christianity. St Paul is said to have preached here after his shipwreck on the islands in AD 60. Naxxar's Latin motto translates as 'first to believe'. Highlights in Naxxar are the Parish Church dedicated to the Nativity of Our Lady, one of the tallest baroque edifices on Malta, the church museum of processional statues, the town's many windmills, two round fortified towers, street niches, and the lavish Palazzo Parisio. Built by a 19th century Maltese entrepreneur, Palazzo Parisio is a stately home unique in Malta. Its magnificent interior and baroque gardens have been described as a miniature Versailles. The Palazzo has been carefully restored and is open to the public.


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
When it comes to talent competition shows, Carrie Underwood is just like us. She gets bummed when super talented singers like Devin Velez get eliminated from American Idol. After last week's results show, Underwood tweeted her emotions when Velez was voted off and the judges chose not to "save" him. "I'm very sad that @DevinAI12 was sent home tonight. He has mad talent. The judges should've used the save. He deserved it," she wrote. And she wasn't the only one admitting how bummed she was. Mariah Carey tweeted, "Ugh. In tears. Devin is a potential superstar, I can't handle it," and Ellen DeGeneres wrote, "I really wish the judges had used the 'save' last night. #idol." Velez seemed to be handling the rejection really well himself. Right after the show, he assured his fans and followers that all was well. "Devineers! 🙂 its ok guys! 🙂 im fine! We're staying positive! God has plans, and im not stopping here! Thanks so.much!" His Motown-week song — the "Tracks of My Tears" — just wasn't enough to bring in the votes.


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"Telestroke programs can reach patients in smaller communities and provide time-critical treatment to previously unreached people," said senior study author Brendan Carr, MD, MA, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Surgery, & Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "Increasing telestroke networks gives everyone a better chance of surviving a stroke, the fourth leading cause of death in the United States."
Previous research by Dr. Carr and colleagues found that only 54.5 percent of Oregon residents could reach a stroke center by ground within 60 minutes. The new study shows that, by employing telemedical systems in concert with in-person care, nearly 80 percent of residents had access to expert stroke care within one hour.
The study evaluated all hospitals in Oregon, finding that 43 percent of the population could reach a stroke center in person within 60 minutes, 76 percent had telemedical access, 40 percent had access to both, and 20 percent had no access to stroke care within an hour.
Researchers noted that in-person stroke care was clustered in urban areas, and while telestroke care was also available in urban centers, it also reached less populated areas with low rates of uninsured.
Penn Medicine extends stroke care to patients throughout the region through the Penn NeuroRescue program, using telemedicine systems to bring expert consultations 24/7 to hospitals in distant locales (e.g. the Jersey Shore) and transferring those who need surgery and/or specialized neurointensive critical care to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), the Philadelphia region's first and only Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center.
The Penn Medicine Neuroscience Center's team of neurovascular experts – from Neurology, Radiology, Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Nursing – provides quality, evidence-based care at the right level and right time, through remote diagnosis via telemedicine, onsite treatment provided at affiliated primary stroke centers, and with advanced neurosurgical or neuroradiological interventions and clinical research available at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
HUP's stroke center was founded in 1994 and was originally designated as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission in 2004. In addition to the newly-achieved advanced Comprehensive Stroke Certification at HUP, Penn Medicine's other hospitals – Pennsylvania Hospital and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center – received Primary Stroke Center certifications from The Joint Commission in the summer of 2012. This mix of Primary Stroke Centers and the advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center at HUP allows Penn Medicine to address the needs of this complex population in the Delaware Valley and throughout the region.
In addition to Dr. Carr, co-authors on the study include Penn's Catherine S. Wolff, Rama Salhi, Anna Tommasini, and Charles Branas, Philadelphia, PA, along with colleagues Helmi Lutsep, from Oregon Health and Science University and Logan McDaneld of Grand Junction, Colo. The study was supported by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality.
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $4.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 16 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $398 million awarded in the 2012 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital — the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2012, Penn Medicine provided $827 million to benefit our community.


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Blue Jays halt 17-game Yankee Stadium losing streak
NEW YORK -- The Blue Jays' losing streak at Yankee Stadium has finally come to an end.
It wasn't easy and it certainly wasn't pretty, but when it was all said and done, none of that mattered. Toronto was prepared to take a victory any way possible to close a dark chapter in franchise history.View Full Game Coverage
NEW YORK -- The Blue Jays' losing streak at Yankee Stadium has finally come to an end.
It wasn't easy and it certainly wasn't pretty, but when it was all said and done, none of that mattered. Toronto was prepared to take a victory any way possible to close a dark chapter in franchise history.View Full Game Coverage
Drew Hutchison pitched 6 2/3 strong innings while Dan Johnson homered and drove in four runs as the Blue Jays snapped their 17-game skid in the Bronx with a 6-4 victory over the Yankees on Saturday afternoon.
"Big, big day, Hutch was outstanding," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "I've never felt so excited about winning a ballgame."
Gibbons laughed shortly after, but it's hard to tell whether he was joking. In the end, it's just another win in the 162-game schedule, but it means much more than that inside a clubhouse that has been forced to talk about the streak for the past two years.
It's long been assumed that if the Blue Jays are going to remain relevant in the American League East race this year, they needed to find a way to win at Yankee Stadium. For at least one game, they got the job done.
The streak goes into the books as the second-longest in franchise history. Toronto lost 19 consecutive games to the Orioles at Memorial Stadium from 1978-81. The losing ways at Yankee Stadium began on Sept. 19, 2012, and spanned parts of seven series.
It's also the fourth-longest losing streak by a Major League club against any team since division play began in 1969. Toronto also made that list for its issues with the Orioles, while the Pirates lost 22 straight road games vs. Milwaukee (2007-10), and the Rays lost 18 consecutive to the Indians (2005-10).
"We won, we win tomorrow and we win another series," catcher Dioner Navarro said when asked if the Blue Jays had a weight lifted off their shoulders with the victory. "It's a strange game and we finally came through."
Toronto had the lead in 12 of the 17 losses, but wasn't able to close things out. That trend was in danger of continuing Saturday, but instead it was the Blue Jays who battled back from a two-run deficit after Brian McCann homered in the fourth off Hutchison.
The Blue Jays responded with a rally in the fifth. Jose Reyes walked and came around to score when Melky Cabrera doubled to the corner in left field. Two batters later, Steve Tolleson's sacrifice fly tied it at 2.
Toronto then jumped ahead by one in the seventh with a helping hand from the Yankees. With Cabrera on third and Jose Bautista on second with nobody out, Navarro hit a sharp grounder to first base. McCann fielded the ball as Cabrera took a few steps toward home plate before stopping.
McCann looked Cabrera back to third, but by the time he tried to get the out at first, it was too late. Navarro reached to load the bases, and two batters later, Johnson drove in the go-ahead run on a blooper between the mound and second base. Yankees second baseman Brian Roberts couldn't come up with the catch and then dropped the ball after it bounced.
"That hurt us, it definitely hurt us," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "For [McCann], it's inexperience. With what we've got going on with [Mark Teixeira out], we really don't have a first baseman. He's done a pretty good job and it's a tricky play the one hit to Brian, he makes that play we get the out at home, and it just changes the way you do things at the end of the game."
Hutchison held onto the lead until he departed with two outs in the seventh. He allowed five hits and three walks while striking out seven to earn his second victory since the middle of June. He entered the game with 1-5 with a 6.97 ERA over his previous six starts.
Johnson broke the game open in the ninth when he hit a three-run homer off Canadian left-hander Jeff Francis. The insurance runs proved crucial as Carlos Beltran hit a two-run shot in the ninth off closer Casey Janssen.
It was far from textbook baseball, but the Blue Jays got their win.
"Things that have happened previously, there's nothing you can do about them once they happen," Hutchison said. "It's a fresh game, go out there and do everything you can do to give your team a chance to win."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.


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Well it has been a long long time since I last posted, the summer holidays have been and gone and the kids are back to school. I've finished all the catch up jobs that got lost along the way during the holidays and booked myself back into my Wednesday creative class with Nina at Sugar and Spice.
This week was Washi Tape and we made a beautiful flower.
This week was Washi Tape and we made a beautiful flower.
We made the Stamen (yes Nina Stamen!) with some thin wire and some beads and then shaped the petals and leaves and covered them with washi tape.
I had a lovely time doing this class, the flower turned out so well that I will have to make more!
I think I am going to have to hunt around for more Washi tape storage!
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This is a guest post by heinleinfan, a raiding Holy Paladin
I'm no World of Warcraft Theory Crafting Genius, I don't do number crunching well, and there's pally healers out there that could out-heal me into the ground in their sleep…but, this spec is really working for me, I'm happy with it, I'm an asset to my raids, I can tank heal or safely be assigned some raid heals without being a failbot at it… and so, I'll blather on about it as if I knew what I was talking about.
This is my Holy Pally Spec. There are many like it, but this one's mine.
First off, you'll notice…not a single point in prot. Maybe this is nothing new to most holy pallies, but I ran with the 5 points in Prot so I could have Kings. And with the need to reach deep into holy for Beacon of omigodsponiesilovethisspell, I was constantly frustrated by those 5 darned points in prot. But now I get them out of prot! [insert happy dance] I'm sure some folks out there are going "what about Divinity?†Eh…five percent increased healing is not insignificant…but spellpower and crit are so much more important for healadins, and I believe those five points can be used more effectively for my raid spec and play style and so forth. So it's bye-bye prot tree for me.
You'll notice I ignore all the extremely powerful PvP talents. Basically, if it's not directly affecting my actual healing output or speed in some way, I pass it by, as I am a raid pally and not a PvPer.
I'm running 18 points into Ret instead of my pre-patch 15, to get 3% more crit. The "filler†points needed in Ret to get to the 3rd tier are all pretty useful; Benediction brings the cost of Beacon and Holy Shock down, thatsaverra nice, especially with the new Holy Shock glyph, and Heart of the Crusader and Imp Blessing of Might are great raid additions.
Aura Mastery, yup, I've still got it post-patch. I had it pre-patch for the extended aura range, and I'm keeping it to try out the buff thing. I think it will prove to be more of a PvP talent addition, but…I will say, in a recent battle against Ignis, a well timed pop of Aura Mastery caused half of the raid to fully resist the Flame Jets. That's not bad, not bad at all. But, with a two minute cooldown and the unpredictability of the RNG, it's not great, and might turn out to be not worth the point. I'll give it a few more days.
I gave up a point in Enlightened Judgements for it and I can handle that. I thought it would take a horrible lot of adjustment and wind up with me roflstomped by bosses who think 25 yards is too close for a healer to stand…but it's definitely workable and has not caused me to eat floor yet.
And speaking of Enlightened Judgements, that and Judgements of the Pure are talents I would not pass up as holy. Especially with the UBER NERF OF DOOM to Infusion of Light…I hate you so much, Blizzard…I do *not* want to give up a constant 15% haste boost in a raid. Along with the points I have in Ret, the judgement affecting talents are just too useful to ignore for this raid spec.
The decision to put only 2 points in Imp Concentration Aura is pure selfishness. I realize that filled it's a really darned useful raid buff. But I just can't seem to ever spare the point for it without losing a point in something that I feel makes me an overall more effective raid healer (namely, post-patch, the crit in ret tree). If I dump Aura Mastery, this is where I'll put that point.
Improved Lay on Hands just got more improved, thanks to the new minor glyph that reduces cooldown by 5 minutes. With these two LoH glyphs, and points here…when cast on myself that returns 3900 mana. That's practically an extra mana pot for each boss fight!! *boggle* And even if I do need to use it as an "oh shit, heal†instead of "show me the mana†I still get mana back. And I can use it either way in every boss encounter without worrying about it; it's only an 11 minute cooldown! *double boggle* No, for real though, remember the days when LoH was an absolute, last-ditch effort, only for emergencies kinda thing? I remember those days. And now I'm all nonchalant-like about it, knowing it's not going to be AN HOUR until I can use it again. Let's just keep this one real quiet-like, so maybe Blizz will not think about it too much, and decide to nerf it.
I gave up the Flash of Light glyph for the Holy Shock glyph. In all honesty, my play style and usual raid makeup with my guild had me not really using FoL all that much, so the crit chance from the glyph wasn't doing much for me. And while the HS glyph means I'll have the option for an instant FoL more frequently, I wouldn't want to give up my other major glyphs for a 5% crit increase on my teeny tiny heal, even if I do find myself using it more often. That may change if I really find myself constantly using FoL, but I don't yet see that happening.
I had chosen glyph of Seal of Wisdom over Seal of Light pre-patch for the mana efficiency. I switched them back and forth over and over (some inscriptionist on my server made a fortune off me in a 3 week period there) and I found Wisdom worked better for me with my play style, spec and raid makeup. Even though the light glyph gave me a slightly higher heal output, it wasn't enough to really reduce the number of heals I had to cast significantly. So with that same thinking in mind…I'm switching over to the Divinity glyph, since I believe it's even *more* mana efficient than the wisdom glyph, by giving me that almost-as-much-as-a-mana-pot return on mana so frequently.


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South African Journal of Surgery
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S. Afr. j. surg. vol.46 no.3 Cape Town Ago. 2008
The clinical and pathological features of hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome: Report on a South African family
S. B. IbirogbaI; U. AlgarII; P. A. GoldbergIII; M. DuffieldIV; A. VorsterV; R. RamesaarVI
IM.B. B.S., F.C.S. (S.A.); Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
IIM.SC. (NURSING); Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
IIIM.B. CH.B., F.C.S. (S.A.), M.MED. (SURG.); Colorectal Unit, Department of Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
IVM.B. CH.B., L.R.C.P., M.R.C. (PATH.), F.S. (EDIN/GLASGOW), M.MED. (ANAT. PATH.); Division of Anatomical Pathology, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
VM.SC; Division of Human Genetics, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
VIPH.D; Division of Human Genetics, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town
BACKGROUD: Hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome is characterised by multiple large-bowel polyps of differing histological types including a mixture of atypical juvenile polyps, hyperplastic polyps and adenomas. Affected individuals are thought to have an increased risk of malignancy, possibly via the juvenile polyposis pathway.
METHODS: A 51-year-old woman (with a history of a colectomy for polyps during childhood) presented with rectal bleeding. Endoscopy demonstrated small rectal polyps which were hyperplastic on histology. A family tree was drawn up and the three children of the proband underwent flexible sigmoidoscopy.
RESULTS: Endoscopic surveillance of the three children revealed one who had a similar phenotype to the mother. This child underwent colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis. The pathological specimen revealed more than 70 polyps, with a combination of juvenile retention, hyperplastic, adenomatous and inflammatory polyps. A second child had multiple small hyperplastic polyps, and the third had a normal colon. Although the gene locus for the disorder has been mapped, neither the gene nor the disease-causing mutation has been defined.
CONCLUSION: A rare inherited polyposis syndrome has been identified in a South African family. Where clinical suspicion of a possible inherited condition exists, investigating at-risk first-degree relatives confirms the inherited nature of the disease. It is possible to use genetic haplotyping (i.e. with a range of markers in the area of the gene) to provide statistical risk to immediate relatives and therefore those at highest risk.
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3. Jaeger EEM, Woodford-Richins KL, Lockett M, et al. Ancestry Ashkenazi haplotype at the HMPS/CRAC I Locus on 15q 13-q 14 is associated with hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome. Am J Human Genet 2003; 72: 1261-1267. [ Links ]
4. Peng H, Cao X, Li HH, et al. Haplotype and linkage analysis in Chinese hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome. Zhongha Wei Chang Wai Ke Za Zin 2005; 8(4): 312-315. [ Links ]
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Testimony by James B. Lockhart III
Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration
Hearing before the House of Representatives
Social Security Subcommittee
Protecting and Strengthening Social Security
June 23, 2005
I would like to thank Chairman McCrery and the Members of the Subcommittee for holding this series of hearings on protecting and strengthening Social Security and for inviting me to discuss the administration of voluntary personal retirement accounts.
My remarks today are based on the work that has been done by many groups as well as over 30 years of off and on personal experience with corporate pensions. My experiences range from serving on the pension committee of one of the largest corporations in the country, to starting a 401(k) plan for a small business, to serving as the Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Over the past decade, the idea of creating a system of personal accounts as part of reforming Social Security has received much attention, including proposals developed by the 1994-96 Social Security Advisory Council and the 2001 President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. As a result, SSA has looked at the issues involved in administering such a program. We have also studied the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) and met with their staff and their systems contractor to discuss pertinent issues and draw on their experience. I have also seen SSA successfully implement other large projects such as our new electronic disability system and the rollout of the new application for extra help with prescription drug costs under Part D of Medicare.
A number of models for administering a system of personal accounts have been discussed. Over the last several years, most personal account proposals envision a voluntary program with a centrally administered system modeled on the TSP.
Assuming this approach, Social Security's independent actuaries reduce their estimate of real investment returns of 4.9% by an ultimate annual cost of 0.3% (30 basis points) of assets under management for personal accounts. A basis point is 1/100th of one percent, so 30 basis points would equal $3 per $1,000 of assets. This cost seems reasonable and, in my opinion, may fall as the system matures and gets larger.
There would be significant challenges, but I believe that over a reasonable implementation period of perhaps three years, we could produce an efficient, equitable, and accurate system of personal retirement accounts.
I want to note that I have not been talking about a small business corporate 401(k) plan model, which some critics of personal accounts do. 401(k) plans are expensive for small businesses to administer because of their small scale and because of the regulatory burden. Nor am I using a large employer 401(k) model that has lots of choices, although some do have annual fees less than 30 basis points. To the contrary, I am focusing on a centralized model using the Social Security Administration's existing annual wage reporting (Form W-2) system and the proven TSP model. I believe that this approach is the key to successful and timely implementation of a personal account system.
Social Security personal accounts could quickly become the largest defined contribution plan in the world and achieve very large economies of scale. Assuming a two-thirds participation rate, the Social Security actuaries project that under the President's personal account framework, which phases in personal accounts from 2009 to 2011, there would be about 120 million personal accounts with assets totaling $602 billion (in constant 2004 dollars) at the end of 2015.
As a centralized system of personal accounts is developed, its business processes should reflect a coherent set of underlying design principles. The goal should be to enable the pieces of the new system to fit together in a seamless manner, keep administrative costs to a minimum, speed implementation, and boost public acceptance. There are 7 basic processes in a personal account system, which are:
- Education - The process of providing plan information at various points in time and to distinct categories of individuals, enabling them to make informed decisions.
Initially, the general public would need to be educated about the plan's structure, operation, and participation benefits so that workers could decide whether or not to enroll. Subsequently, those who enroll would need more detailed information about investment opportunities and the status of their accounts. Finally, those about to retire and beneficiaries of deceased participants would need information that outlines options available for accessing account assets.
In addition to the initial, one-time education of the general public about the account plan, a continuous educational program would need to be in place for the over 4 million new workers a year who would need to make an enrollment decision.
- Enrollment - The process of obtaining a worker's consent and supporting information to create a personal account. The supporting information includes the person's identifying information, investment fund selections, beneficiary data, and contact information.
A plan could enroll workers via the Internet and machine readable paper forms. Enrollment could be done by "opting-in" or "opting-out". The latter means that a worker would have to fill out a form stating that he or she did not want to volunteer for personal accounts. In the corporate 401(k) world, opting-out has successfully raised enrollment rates. No matter which enrollment option was chosen, the administrator would likely need to mail out confirming "welcome" packages to enrollees that acknowledge receipt of the applications and provide more detailed educational materials about the plan.
This process entails a large, initial start-up process to establish accounts for current workers and then a continuing process to create accounts for new workers.
- Contribution - The process of collecting, verifying, and crediting wage information and money from approximately 6.5 million employers and 15 million self-employed workers.
The most efficient method for collecting the contributions would be through the current payroll deduction process, as it would demand the least change for employers. However, other options exist that would entail more frequent employer reporting, electronic reporting, direct employer reporting to the account administrator, or use of other reporting/collection avenues, such as the State workforce agencies.
- Investment - The process of quickly and accurately investing contributions in funds chosen by the participants.
This process involves setting the plan's investment policies, establishing available funds for participant investment, selecting investment managers, making timely fund purchases, and updating account balances based on fund performance.
- Recordkeeping - The process of maintaining account information and providing service to participants.
The process would need to provide participants with periodic account statements and the ability to update account records as personal situations change; for example, as addresses, marital status, or beneficiary selections change. It would also need to allow participants to modify how their contributions are invested and to reallocate their assets between funds.
In addition, the plan would need to provide the means to answer account or plan-related questions from participants, beneficiaries, employers, and the general public. This would entail a large internet/website operation as well as a large teleservice component.
- Compliance - The process for monitoring the program to ensure that workers, employers, beneficiaries, and fiduciaries comply with statutes and regulations.
A plan would need to develop procedures to monitor transactions and audit financial records, and make corrections to account records where errors are detected. In addition, the plan would need to have an appellate process that could hear worker or employer requests for reconsideration of the corrective actions.
- Payout - The process for dispersing account assets to participants during retirement or to beneficiaries of workers who die prior to retirement.
Many proposals envision that workers would annuitize to remain above a poverty level-related threshold. Options for releasing the remaining assets above the threshold include paying them out as lump sums or as phased withdrawals.
Included in this process would be making various types of annuities available to retirees and their spouses, and possibly the administration of the entire annuitization program. Moreover, the process would need to have procedures in place to locate beneficiaries and deal with abandoned accounts.
There are proven, low cost models for each of these processes. As others point out, there are also proven, expensive models. In designing a personal account system, Congress should take care to choose options that follow the low cost model. Over time, more flexibility and options could be added as needed.
Many proposals suggest a new independent government agency with an independent board similar to the TSP that would have primary responsibility for most of these activities, with the strong support of the Social Security Administration. In particular, SSA could play a key role in the front-end education, enrollment and contribution phases and potentially in the payout phase. The education process in particular could involve many government agencies building on the Financial Literacy and Education Council as well as business and not-for-profits ongoing financial education efforts.
The TSP is a very good, low cost role model for personal accounts. It has 3.4 million participants and $157 billion of assets under management. It offers 5 investment alternatives including a Treasury bond option and four very low cost indexed funds, which are invested to replicate the returns of broad market indexes. These four TSP funds are very comprehensive and include a corporate bond fund, a Standard and Poor's 500 fund, a U.S. smaller companies fund covering U.S. stocks not in the S&P 500, and an international equity fund.
In addition, by September 2005, TSP plans to add lifecycle funds using a combination of investments in each of the 5 funds in their system. These lifecycle funds gradually and automatically move assets into less volatile investments as the participant gets closer to retirement. For instance, the TSP lifecycle fund for younger workers will have 85 percent invested in equities and by retirement age the equity percentage would be reduced to 20 percent. The idea, which President Bush has endorsed, is to lessen investment volatility as one reaches retirement age. Life cycle funds are especially appealing to persons who do not wish to make a fund selection or actively manage their accounts. At payout or retirement, TSP offers lump sums, monthly payouts, or annuities.
The TSP does all of that with only 90 people plus approximately 400 contract employees and a net cost of $95 million in FY 2005, or 6 basis points of the assets under management. Almost all of this cost is administrative fees. The fees of Barclays Global Investors, the TSP investment managers, represent a very small portion of those 6 basis points.
The TSP recordkeeping system would be an excellent model for the administration of personal accounts even though it has more capabilities than would be needed initially for a Social Security personal account system. TSP and its contractor have told us that their computer system could be adapted to Social Security personal accounts.
Some people have suggested that the TSP is not an appropriate model because there are about 6.5 million employers in the United States while there are only about 130 government agencies providing payroll information to the TSP. While this is true, I believe the existing SSA wage reporting process could provide a similar single interface between eligible employees and self-employed individuals and the program's central record keeper.
Using the existing wage reporting system would provide a low cost and efficient way to collect contribution information. Social Security processes 240 million W-2s annually for approximately 149 million workers. We have a major push under way to increase electronic filing. Over the last six years, electronic filing has grown from 7 percent to 65 percent and we are targeting 82 percent by 2008, and 95 percent by 2012. By law, employers with over 250 employees must report electronically.
Social Security begins receiving W-2s in January for the previous year. We begin processing immediately with 82 percent processed by April 30th and 99 percent by September. Because of the lag in reporting, the President's Commission on Strengthening Social Security suggested that there could be a "holding" fund where contributions would be deposited until individual accounts could be reconciled. This reconciliation would occur once the individual's W-2 information was processed and the personal account would receive the amount contributed plus interest.
As you look at the design of a personal account system, you may want to consider basic principles that would facilitate a simple, efficient process that minimizes administrative burdens and participant costs. These include:
- Utilize existing and proven processes. As previously discussed, the TSP and Social Security's annual wage reporting system provide an excellent foundation for a timely, low cost and effective implementation of a Social Security personal account program.
- Minimize worker and employer burden. The public would most likely prefer a system that causes little additional work for workers and employers. Significant reporting responsibilities for employers could raise business costs, and may adversely impact employment.
- Minimize the use of paper processes. Building a new system would allow the unique opportunity to develop processes based on new and innovative methods where cost-effective processes do not already exist. Developing electronic-based means for collecting, storing, and releasing information would be consistent with e-Government concepts, could potentially reduce administrative costs, speed processes, and allow smoother interface with other administrative systems.
- Limit investor-initiated changes. Limiting investors initially to a few investment allocation changes per year would reduce administrative costs.
- Limit account reporting. Providing investors with quarterly account statements would help to keep reporting costs low and investor inquiries to a minimum. Reducing investor non-electronic inquires about account statements would also help to reduce investor support costs.
- Prevent pre-retirement account access. By preventing access to accounts before retirement, administrative costs could be kept to a minimum, the process would be simpler, and the governing rules would be more understandable to participants.
- Limit distributional alternatives. Unlike the TSP, which has multiple annuity and payout options, the personal account program should limit distributional options in order to minimize administrative costs. As the first retirees under a personal account plan would retire 10 years from enactment, there would be the opportunity to develop low cost, flexible payout alternatives.
In conclusion, while specific issues and costs related to the administration of personal accounts would vary with the specifics of the plan, a strengthened Social Security program that includes personal accounts that provide individual Americans with ownership and more personal control over their retirement income is feasible. Using the model of the Federal TSP along with systems already in place, costs could be kept to an acceptable minimum. And as the assets under management and account sizes grow, allowing additional economies of scale, more choices and flexibilities can be added at a reasonable cost.
As President Bush said in his 2005 state of the Union Address, "The goal here is greater security in retirement, so we will set careful guidelines for personal account." He also said, "We'll make sure there are good options to protect your investments." That is very doable and I would add that a properly designed personal account plan could ensure a better deal for younger workers.
Commissioner Barnhart and I are committed to strengthening and protecting Social Security and to making sure that SSA is ready to assist the Administration and Congress in doing so. Given sufficient time and resources, SSA could successfully implement and administer our share of a personal account program. I will be happy to address any questions you may have.


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OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This is the process by which typewritten or printed text is electronically translated into machine-editable text. We perform OCR on all images containing typewritten or printed text. OCR is a step in our digitization process.
The following is for creating OCR during the digitization process. For information and script for creating OCR on the server (Linux), see For_Creating_Derivatives.
OCR files are saved within the collection directory within a folder called Transcripts. For large collections, coordinating Scans and OCR folders should be created within the Transcripts folder (for example, OCR text files from Scans_3 would be placed in a folder called OCR_3 within the Transcripts folder). OCR text files are saved in the following format: ex. u0003_0001577_0000233.ocr.txt
OCR Process (Windows)
- Open Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.
- Choose the Document tab across the top. From the drop-down, hover over OCR Text Recognition, and then choose Recognize Text in Multiple Files Using OCR.
- On the box that opens, click the Add Files button and navigate to the file you want. When files are selected, click OK.
- The Output Options box will now open. Choose these settings:
- Under Target Folder, choose Specific Folder and navigate to the folder you have prepared for output.
- Under Filenaming, chose Add to Original Filename. Under Insert After, type in ".ocr". Uncheck Overwrite Existing Files.
- Under Output Format, chose Export File(s) to Alternate Format and select Text (Plain) from the drop down menu.
- Click OK. Large files may take quite a bit of time.
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- Drag file into Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro.
- Choose the Document tab across the top. From the drop-down, hover over OCR Text Recognition, and then choose Recognize Text Using OCR.
- In Mac, the file is not automatically saved. So once OCR is done, go to File>Save As>Text (plain). Save to your local transcripts folder.
Unlike Windows/Acrobat-9 which is capable of batch OCR, Mac/Acrobat-8 appears to only support OCR for one item at a time.


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Under I.R.C. § 6050S, enacted by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, lenders, including most colleges and universities that participate in the Perkins Loan Program or operate institutional loan programs, must report student loan interest payments to the IRS. See Notice 98-7, 1998-3 I.R.B. 54. Lenders will have to complete Form 1098-E, "Student Loan Interest Payments," for all of their borrowers who repay interest aggregating $600 or more during the year on one or more student loans. Payees are required to report interest received only with respect to student loans that have a covered period ending during or after 1998.
On June 16, 2000, the IRS issued proposed regulations that provide guidance to educational institutions receiving payments of, or making reimbursements or refunds of, qualified tuition and related expenses. The proposed regulations may be found at 65 Fed. Reg. 37,728. The returns filed for 2000 will still be governed by the rules set forth in Notice 97-73, 1997-51 I.R.B. 16. The proposed regulations were to apply to information returns required to be filed and information statements required to be furnished after December 31, 2001, but on December 1, 2000, the IRS issued Notice 2000-62, which extends for another year (to include calendar year 2001) the minimal reporting requirements, as the final regulations have not yet been issued.
The proposed regulations require any person engaged in a trade or business that receives from any payor interest of $ 600 or more for any calendar year on one or more qualified education loans (a payee, as defined in I.R.C. § 221(e)(1) and the regulations thereunder) to file a Form 1098-E with the IRS. Under the proposed regulations, a payee must report the name, address, and taxpayer identification number (TIN) of the payee; the name, address, and TIN of the payor; and the aggregate amount of interest received during the calendar year from the payor. The payee may be the lender, the holder of the loan, or the loan servicer. The regulations define the payor as the individual carried on the books and records of the payee as the borrower on a qualified education loan. If there are multiple borrowers, the principal borrower indicated on the payee's books and records is treated as the payor for purposes of I.R.C. § 6050S.
The proposed regulations provide that a payee must furnish an information statement to each payor for whom it is required to file a Form 1098-E. The proposed regulations provide that the statement must include the information included on the Form 1098-E filed with the IRS and a legend that identifies the statement as important tax information being furnished to the IRS. The statement must include instructions that state that, under I.R.C. § 221 and the regulations thereunder, the payor may not be able to deduct the full amount of interest reported on the statement. The instructions must state that interest payments are deductible only during the first 60 months that interest payments are required. If the payee reports only stated interest, the instructions must state that the payor may be able to deduct additional amounts (e.g., certain loan origination fees and capitalized interest) not reported on the statement. The instructions must also state that the payor should refer to relevant IRS forms (65 Fed. Reg. at 37,732) and publications (such as Publication 970) for explanations relating to the eligibility requirements for, and the calculation of, any allowable interest deduction on qualified education loans.
The proposed regulations describe the rules for the time and manner of filing information returns with the IRS and furnishing information statements to payors. Forms 1098-E must generally be filed with the IRS on or before February 28 (March 31 if filed electronically) of the year following the calendar year in which the interest payments were received. In general, a payee must furnish an information statement to the payor on or before January 31 of the year following the calendar year in which interest payments were received. Although the regulations do not specifically address the issue of electronic transmission of information statements, the IRS is currently studying the issue and may address that issue in future guidance.
See Tuition Payment Credit Reporting Requirements for rules on obtaining the TIN, and what constitutes acting in a responsible manner by the payee for purposes of compliance.
On January 21, 1999, the IRS issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that focuses on guidance to taxpayers on student loan interest. See 64 Fed. Reg. 3257 (Jan. 21, 1999).


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A few years back, popular recording artist Montell Jordan had a smash hit, "This is How We Do It". Well, to paraphase Montell, Saturday night at the Elyria Catholic Coliseum was a classic example of "This is Why We Do It" in regards to high school basketball. It was a game that exemplified why players play, coaches coach, cheerleaders cheer, fans roar, and broadcasters put a microphone on. EC's heart-pounding 77-75 win over Elyria High School was as good as it gets. It was the most exhilerating night of basketball we have had in a long time on WEOL.
The place was jumping from the get go, as the EC fans rolled in decked out in their green, and the Pioneer faithful filled their side in a sea of red. Like the roar of a crowd when the opening bell rings in a prizefight, the fans were in it from the opening tip. And the players did not disappoint! In race-horse style, the two teams went up and down the floor in the first quarter combining for 49 points, and then 41 more in the 2nd quarter in a dizzying array of baskets, including 13 made three-point shots in the first two quarters! Perhaps the two teams had to catch their breath in the 3rd as the action slowed, but then they ramped it up again in the 4th period, combining for 40 points, and EC hanging on for the thrilling two point win. What a night of basketball and what a night for the city of Elyria! For EC fans, the right to celebrate only their second win ever against Elyria, and for Pioneer fans, I'm sure next year's rematch is already circled on the calendar.
But to me, not only was the basketball game great, but the fans afterwards as well. Those fans in green and were shaking hands and hugging those wearing the red as all involved relished what they had just witnessed, a game that will be talked about for a long time to come. Indeed, "This is Why We Do It", to have nights and games like Saturday at Elyria Catholic. It is and was makes high school sports so incredibly special.


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Global status report on road safety 2009
Global status report on road safety
Approximately 1.3 million people die each year on the world's roads, and between 20 and 50 million sustain non-fatal injuries. The Global status report on road safety is the first broad assessment of the road safety situation in 178 countries, using data drawn from a standardized survey. The results show that road traffic injuries remain an important public health problem, particularly for low-income and middle-income countries.
Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists make up almost half of those killed on the roads, highlighting the need for these road users to be given more attention in road safety programmes. The results suggest that in many countries road safety laws need to be made more comprehensive while enforcement should be strengthened. The Global status report on road safety results clearly show that significantly more action is needed to make the world's roads safer.
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tanczyk, has been busy revisiting the Metryk (metrical, vital records) images from genealodzy.pl of the various parishes/synagogues [hereafter I just use 'parish' as shorthand for 'parish/synagogue']. As my blog, Waiting For Polish Archives 2.4 M Scans (March 18th, 2013), indicated, I have been exhausting the possibilities for Biechow & Zborowek parishes in the Buski (Busko-Zdroj) powiat. The images are clearer, so I am replacing my existing images with these much better images. In some cases, I have found that the images of the Polish paragraph format provide me with additional details over what may have been available via only a Latin Box format copy that I might have previously had. At the very least, I have corrected a few mistakes of translation due to unreadable portions from prior microfilm I have read from/taken pictures of. So I strongly encourage others to make this effort.
I have been using the Metryk database and looking at the images/scans. Sometimes you have to look at dozens of images because there is NO index. But most of the collection (post 1812) have indexes. If you see SKU (that means index/skorowidz of births/urodziny), likewise for SKM (for marriage), and SKZ (for death) indexes. Sometimes indexes spread across multiple pages, so you may see SK1, SKa (names begining with the letter 'A') or SKU1, etc. SO use these indexes to look for your family names, then just load up the scan of the akt (record) number for your ancestor — no need to search through a multitude of images.
I have also used Geneszukacz as another kind of index to search for family names. These indexes are nice because I can catch ancestors getting married (or dying or giving birth) in another parish that I might not have known to check. If this previously unknown parish is one that has scans, then I go directly to the year/event for that parish and go to the akt specified in Geneszukacz!
So that is all great and I exhort you to do this.
But these new, previously unknown parishes. Where are they? How far away from the ancestral village are they? That is when I need a gazetteer (check out Stanczyk's Gazetter page) or a map. If you have not been to the Polish War Map Archive (Archiwum Map Wojskowego), then today's blog is your reason to do so. I have a map on my wall of my ancestral villages. The map's name is: STOPNICA_PAS47_SLUP32. In fact, I use their MAP INDEX, 1:100,000 scale map tiled in squares (http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=WIG100). Please NOTE these map images are from about 4MB to 7MB in size. Make sure you are at a Free WiFi cafe where you can use a high-speed and the large band-width for the map images you download.
When you see, PAS think ROW and when you see SLUP think COLUMN. This is a big Cartesian Grid (or computer types can think 2d-array). It turns out that STOPNICA_PAS47_SLUP32 has: Biechow, Pacanow, Ksiaznice, Zborowek, Swiniary, Szczucin, Beszowa, Olesnica, and STOPNICA. In fact, that one map has many more parishes than those that I enumerated. I have a small snippet of the Map Index below (you can click on the image and it will take you to the actual map index):
So I found an ELIJASZ ancestor in Koniemloty parish getting married, who was from PACANOW parish. Now from the Metryk web app, I knew Koniemloty was in STASZOW powiat. So I go to the Map Index and look at the grid near STOPNICA (P47_S32) and voila, STASZOW is the box due north of STOPNICA in PAS46_SLUP32. If you cannot locate you powiat that way, then you must drop back to MAPA.SZUKACZ.pl (an interactive map that I have raved about before) and look for KONIEMLOTY (do not need to use diacriticals) to get the relative feel that it is north or east (or north-east). So any way, STASZOW_PAS46_SLUP32 is the map for KONIEMLOTY parish. Notice PAS46 is one row less than PAS47 (of STOPNICA). PAS decreasing is going north, PAS increasing is going south. Going east from STASZOW, we see the SLUP increases to SLUP33 (SANDOMIERZ) or going west the SLUP decreases to SLUP31 (PINCZOW). So now you can now work with the Map Index using the cardinal directions by adding/subtracting to/from the rows/columns.
P.S. Since this is the Passover (Pesach) / Easter (Wielkanoc) season, let me honor my wife (Tereza) by pointing out that her paternal grandfather, Benjamin Solomon, had as a birth village, Proskuriw (aka PŁOSKIRÓW, Хмельницький/Khmelnitski — now in Modern Ukraine). This village is shown in the lower right-hand corner of my map snippet (PAS51_SLUP44).


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Loyola Theatre opens season with HIV/AIDS docudrama 'Patient A'
September 20, 2013
The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at Loyola University New Orleans kicks off the 2013-14 season with Lee Blessing's "Patient A," a dramatic exploration of the first-known case of clinical transmission of HIV. The play will run in the Lower Depths Theater in the Communications/Music Complex Sept. 27, 28 and Oct. 3, 4 and 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Sept. 29 at 2 p.m.
Based on a true story, the play examines issues of testing, discrimination and personal responsibility against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic in America. In the late 1980s, Kimberly Ann Bergalis was one of six patients infected with HIV after visiting David J. Acer, a dentist who had AIDS. Commissioned by her family, "Patient A" recounts Bergalis' case of contracting AIDS.
As the play unfolds, Blessing actually becomes part of the story as an essential observer. The on-stage encounters between Bergalis and Blessing reflect both their real-life relationship and their respective characters in the play. The storyline continues with the introduction of a third character, Matthew, who represents the immeasurable number of gay men who have suffered in the AIDS epidemic. "Patient A" spotlights the media and political spectacles surrounding Bergalis' case while also explaining the three characters' struggles and feelings about themselves and each other.
Tickets are $12 for general admission and $8 for Loyola faculty, staff, students and seniors. For tickets and information, visit montage.loyno.edu or call 504-865-2074. Free parking is available in the West Road Garage located on West Road and accessible from St. Charles Avenue.
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During a recent seminar I presented, one of the attendees — a maintenance manager for a large open-cut mining operation — mentioned that he was considering upgrading the filtration on the mine's fleet of hydraulic mining shovels — to achieve a higher level of fluid cleanliness.
There's no shortage of documented evidence to suggest that increasing hydraulic fluid cleanliness increases the service life of hydraulic components — all other things equal. Whether such an initiative would yield an acceptable return on the investment required for the machines in question depends on several variables, which I don't have room to go into here. But this got me thinking about a bigger issue.
The maintenance principles I explain in my books, Insider Secrets to Hydraulics and Preventing Hydraulics Failures, are about equipping people with the knowledge they need today to optimize the reliability and service life of the hydraulic equipment they have right now. And this is totally appropriate. After all, it's rarely helpful and not very instructive to tell someone what they should have done yesterday.
Even though equipment design and equipment maintenance are often viewed in isolation, the reality is, many aspects of hydraulic machine design have a significant impact on the machine's operating cost and reliability, and ultimately, its life-of-machine cost.
Over lunch, the same maintenance manager mentioned that his mine was also starting to think about the replacement of its aging fleet of hydraulic shovels. And it occurred to me, the best time to figure out your maintenance and reliability objectives for a piece of hydraulic equipment is before you buy it, as the sidebar box explains.
Consider viscosity, temperature in machine selection
By starting with the end in mind, you get the maintenance and reliability outcomes you desire — before the machine even gets delivered. To say the same thing another way: you avoid buying a lemon.
For example, you specify the contamination control targets you want to achieve based on your reliability objectives for the piece of equipment. Instruct the manufacturer to deliver the machine appropriately equipped to achieve these targets.
Based on the weight and viscosity index of the hydraulic oil you plan to use, you determine the minimum viscosity and, therefore, the maximum temperature at which you want the machine to run. Then you instruct the manufacturer to deliver the machine equipped with the necessary cooling capacity — based on the typical ambient temperatures expected at the machine's operating location — rather than accepting hydraulic system operating temperatures determined by the machine's 'design' cooling capacity, which is the norm.
If you don't think the viscosity/ temperature issue is this important, you're mistaken. Based on my long experience in the hydraulic repair industry, lubrication failure resulting from low fluid viscosity is one of the biggest causes of premature failure in hydraulic components. And we could continue specifying other requirements that have an impact on reliability, such as minimum required tank oil volume, desiccant tank breather, flooded inlet for all hydraulic pumps, no suction strainers on pump intake lines, no depth filters on piston pump and motor case drain lines, and so on.
Begin with the end in mind
To illustrate my point with an example, let's consider the oil temperature/viscosity issue. Say I am about to purchase a 25-ton hydraulic excavator. And let's say this machine is fitted with Acme brand hydraulic pumps and motors.
According to the pump manufacturer, optimum performance and service life will be achieved by maintaining oil viscosity in the range of 25 to 36 cSt. I also know that I expect to use an ISO VG68 hydraulic oil in my particular location, and the brand of oil I'm already buying has a viscosity index of 100.
This being the case, the pump manufacturer is telling me (indirectly of course) that if my new excavator runs hotter than 70°C, the performance and service life of the pumps and motors will be less than optimum. Not only that, with 70°C as the maximum operating temperature, the oil will last longer, the seals will last longer, the hoses will last longer and almost every lubricated component in the hydraulic system will last longer.
So being the sophisticated hydraulic equipment user that I am, I say to the OEM before I order the machine: "I expect ambient temperatures at the machine's location as high as 45°C, and under normal operating conditions (with no abnormal heat load in the system) I require this machine to run no hotter than 70°C. If you deliver it to site and it runs at 90°C (or whatever) on a 45°C day, then I'll expect you to correct the problem — at your cost."
I'm not suggesting this is in the interests of the OEM — clearly it's not. It's likely to make their life more complicated and cut into their after sale revenue. No, it's totally in the interests of the guy signing the checks to keep the machine running.
Fortunately for all the OEMs out there, my current view is that very few hydraulic equipment users will approach a new equipment acquisition with this level of sophistication. But they should. The alternative is to take delivery of a one-size-fits-all machine and live with any reliability shortcomings it may have.
So the next time you or the company you work for will purchase hydraulic equipment, begin with the end in mind. Define your maintenance and reliability objectives in advance, and make them an integral part of your equipment selection process. That way, you'll get the reliability outcomes you desire.
Brendan Casey has more than 20 years experience in the maintenance, repair, and overhaul of mobile and industrial hydraulic equipment. Contact him at [email protected] or visit his website at www.hydraulicsupermarket.com.
Hydraulic system requirements*
A pre-purchase specification will help you avoid buying a lemon. Consider the following advice when specifying and purchasing hydraulic systems.
- All hydraulic pumps must have a flooded inlet (head of oil above the pump's intake).
- Hydraulic pumps must not be mounted inside the tank.
- Pump intake lines are to be kept as short and straight as possible.
- If installed, pump intake line isolation valves are to be full-bore type and must feature interlocks to prevent the pump being started when the valve is closed.
- Depth filters or suction strainers are not to be installed on pump inlets.
- Depth filters are not to be installed on piston pump or motor case drain lines.
- All hydraulic tanks are to have high-temperature alarms installed.
- In closed-circuit hydrostatic transmissions, the hightemperature alarm must be installed in the loop.
- All hydraulic tanks are to have low-level alarms installed.
- Closed-circuit hydrostatic transmissions are to be fitted with a low-charge pressure warning and/or shutdown.
- All hydraulic tanks are to have a drain plug installed.
- Pump intake penetrations are to be located a minimum of 100 mm (4 in.) above the tank bottom.
- Two-pole electric motors must not be used unless otherwise agreed.
- Hydraulic tank volume for open circuit systems is to be a minimum of three times combined pump flow per minute, or mean pump flow per minute in the case of variable pumps, plus 10% air cushion.
- Dessicant breathers capable of 3 μm absolute filtration are to be installed on all hydraulic tanks.
- All tank return penetrations are to be fitted with drop pipes that extend below minimum oil level.
- A tee connection and isolation valve must be installed upstream of the return filter — to enable pre-filtering of top-off oil.
- An oil sample point must be installed immediately upstream of the return filter.
- Installed filtration must achieve and maintain a fluid cleanliness level of [specify] (ISO 4406:1999) and maximum water content of 500 ppm.
*This specification is not necessarily exhaustive and does not include design criteria covered in other standards. It has been written with maximum reliability and maintenance optimization in mind, not minimum, initial capital outlay. These two things are mutually exclusive.


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GoogleApps@UIC is a suite of tools used for communication and collaboration. It includes Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sites, Google Groups and Google Calendar.
|Log into Gmail
|Get storage, protect against spam and viruses, stay connected with built-in IM, voice, and video chat, IMAP and POP message access, and more. Learn more about Gmail.
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|Share calendars and schedule people, groups, rooms and resources easily, even from your mobile device. Learn more about Google Calendar.
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|Instant messaging, telephone (VOIP), voicemail, and file transfer make staying in touch a breeze. Learn more about Google Hangouts.
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|Create and share a variety of online documents, from word processing and spreadsheets to forms and presentations -- all with mobile access. Learn more about Google Drive.
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A valid UIC NetID and common password are required to authenticate to GoogleApps@UIC. You must create your GoogleApps@UIC account before you can use GoogleApps@UIC. Creation of a GoogleApps@UIC account requires accepting the GoogleApps@UIC Terms of Use.
Before you can access GoogleApps@UIC features from a desktop or mobile email or calendar application, you must change your common password in order to propagate it to Google.
If you are an instructor or UIC service provider, please note you are legally prohibited from requiring use of non-accessible services. Refer to GoogleApps@UIC and Accessibility for more information.
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Pippin and Scarlett
In case it wasn't obvious from that previous post, for Christmas we got Naiya a pair of kittens. They're brother and sister and, impatient as kittens can sometimes be, they let themselves out of the box before our dear daughter was really ready to open presents on Christmas morning. After she figured out what was going on and really grasped that they were hers and that they were staying, she was delighted. Ryan and I have also been captivated by their adorable nature and are pleased to welcome these new little lives to share our home for, hopefully, a long, long time to come.
Current count: one mommy, one daddy, one adorable child, one angel in our basement, five chickens, two kittens, one garage full of many, many mice.


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