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I'll confess that part of the reason that I started doing these mailbag-style posts - which I confess can be a touch hacky - is that it gave me a chance to take the pulse of the fans, and see what preoccupies them. And if you'll indulge a bit of flattery towards my Twitter followers, I find that the preponderance of notes I receive are thoughtful, considered and maybe even a bit optimistic, in spite of several disappointing seasons in succession. It actually raises my spirits.
In this round of solicited questions, what seems to be primarily gnawing away at the soul of Blue Jays fans is the fate of one Mr. Jonathan Paul Arencibia. I doubt that these questions would raise his spirits.
Let's dig in.
@TaoofStieb If JPA doesn't have that incredible debut game, is he on the Blue Jays right now? #TaoTweetBagNo, I don't think that's the case at all. Arencibia was a first-round draft pick, a top-50 prospect according to Baseball America, and a Pacific Coast League MVP. The dude had credentials coming into his major league career.
— Dave Church (@dave_church) September 12, 2013
It's also easy to forget after this awful season for the Jays' catcher - both on and off the field - that there was a time when fans were left calling on the team to shove veteran John Buck out of the way to make room for the "catcher of the future", even after his remarkable debut. If the Jays parked JPA for weeks after his debut, there's little to suggest that one game would have had any impact on the decision to keep him in the starting role through two less than stellar seasons.
@TaoofStieb Does JPA have another level to his terribleness or is this his floor? #TaoTweetBagIt's hard to imagine that things could go much worse for Arencibia. Hard, but not impossible.
— C. Hill (@hill_chris) September 12, 2013
Still, there's evidence from his first two seasons that he's not nearly this bad as an offensive player. In his first two full seasons as the starter, JPA posted a .716 OPS (.279 OBP, .437 SLG). Those figures aren't extraordinary, but the average across the league for catchers this season is a .706 OPS (.313/.393), which would place Arencibia as slightly below average for the position.
If you suppose that a full season might not even be a sample size that is sufficient to make a decision on a player's worth, then the performance in the previous season should give some pause. It could be that there is something that is ailing Arencibia this season - physically, mentally, spiritually - leading to the past year being a weird and wonky fluke. Maybe he'll return to being a sorta-average player for his position in the coming years.
But roll all of his performance to date together, and he starts to look like a fringey MLB backup, with some pop in his bat.
@TaoofStieb why can't JP Arencibia take a pitch or two? #taotweetbagSome guys see taking a pitch as a passive approach. If you're asking me to play amateur psychologist, I think that Arencibia is the sort of person who wants to make things happen, not wait for things to play themselves into a situation that might be more beneficial to him.
— Alex Henriquez (@AlexHenriquez_) September 12, 2013
When Arencibia defiantly defended his reputation against the slings and arrows of baseball analysts, he pointed to the work that he had done for the team, such as the charity events and the winter tour. It was, in essence: "Look at what I do for you!"
It's about action. Making stuff happen. Maybe that sort of mindset doesn't lend itself to watching a borderline pitch go by early in the count to elicit a more predictable and hittable pitch later.
@TaoofStieb can you see AJ Jimenez replacing JP next season? #TaoTweetBagNot really. With the starting pitching woes that the Jays have faced this season, it's hard to imagine them handing the full-time starting job over to a rookie next year.
— #MrMITB (@Pookeo9) September 12, 2013
Moreover, I think that the Jays have started to show themselves to be more deliberate in how they promote players through the system, allowing them to master one level before ascending to the next. I think Jimenez still has a year of work to do in Buffalo before he gets promoted, though I could see him being mixed into the catching rotation towards the end of next season.
@TaoofStieb Make a case for JPA as starting catcher next year. #TaoTweetBag.
— Matt Vee (@Matt_Vee) September 12, 2013
He's here. He's controllable. He might not be this bad. He might be a deal if his numbers return to 2011-2012 levels, and he gets less than $2 Million through arbitration or pre-arb negotiation.
@TaoofStieb Given expected cost and his skills, I think Carlos Ruiz is a great fit for the Jays next year. What do you think Mr. Tao?I think Chooch might be expensive, and while he's just 34 years old, a multi-year deal at more than $6 Million per season might end up being a poor investment.
— BVH (@BVHJays) September 17, 2013
Still, there's Ruiz's decent reputation for handling pitchers - though who wouldn't look good with that pitching staff? - and a very solid OBP. He's posting a .342 this season, .361 for his career, and a peak of .400 in 2010 followed by a .394 mark last season.
If you're talking about a two-year deal, sure. Sign him up. If he's looking for more than $7 million and four years or more, I think you have to consider other options.
@TaoofStieb Will the Jays target Brian McCann this off season. Should the Jays target him? #TaoTweetBagMcCann might be one of the more sought-after pieces in this year's free agent market, as scant as the pickings are. He is younger than Ruiz, but has a long injury history with nary a body part left unscathed. He had shoulder surgery last offseason, suffered through hamstring tightness, knee contusions, intercostal and oblique strains, not to mention laser eye surgery that didn't quite take for the first few months afterwards.
— The Brave North (@TheBraveNorth) September 17, 2013
McCann's .824 OPS (.350 OBP/.473 SLG) plays very well as a catcher, though his defense isn't exactly revered. The big question you're left with if you're investing a significant portion of your payroll over the next six or seven seasons in a player like that is how much surplus value does he bring if you need to shift him to first base or DH. Could he play left field if required?
Beyond all that, I still envision McCann in a Yankee uniform. I'm not sure I'd want to see the Jays attempting to outbid them for his services.
@TaoofStieb #TaoTweetBag Did the #jays had a problem with depth this year? I think they were deep enough at the start, but it all got eaten.
— Matthew E (@MatthewElmslie) September 12, 2013
One of the aspects of the Jays' roster that I was dead wrong about this year was the flexibility, and to a slightly lesser extent, the depth.
With multi-positional switch-hitters throughout the roster on Opening Day, I figured that the Jays would rarely find themselves in a pinch when it came to filling the lineup card. And for all of the misery this year, I think that the number of awful and inexplicable lineups were far less than the past two seasons.
Still, the Jays probably came into the season with too many bench players on the active roster and not enough legitimate starters, especially at second base. Moreover, the depth just beneath the Major League level was pretty suspect and comprised of veteran castoffs -Andy LaRoche, Mauro Gomez, Ryan Langerhans - who might have given you a good week or two when filling in for a DL'ed starter, but weren't really an option that anyone would want to rely on.
I suppose the emergence of Munenori Kawasaki was a fun spectacle to observe, but you certainly wouldn't want the Jays to look towards 2014 with off-field entertainment value as a priority for the club.
Ultimately, I think that organizational depth is something that you develop from within, and unfortunately, the Jays had - and will continue to have - a gap year or two between their available bench spots and their better positional prospects.
Do the #Jays have a legit No. 1 starter on the roster? Dickey struggled this year and Morrow can't stay healthy. #TaoTweetBag @TaoofStiebNo, they don't. Dickey might have a Cy Young Award glistening on his mantle, but he probably profiles as a number three. A decent, innings-eating starter who takes the ball and gives you something between a 3.70 and 4.20 ERA.
— Michael Fullan (@mrfullan) September 17, 2013
If he has a good, healthy season as a 39 year-old, Dickey might emerge as a decent number two pitcher, but as a suffering Blue Jays fan, would you want to bank on the likelihood of that eventuality?
And would you also want to bank on the health of Brandon Morrow? I love watching Morrow pitch, and when he's healthy and available to take the ball, he has the ability to be a number two starter, and maybe something more. But players don't tend to get more healthy and less fragile as years go by, so again, I wouldn't want to plan on Morrow being more than 150 innings of number three starter quality.
@TaoofStieb What is more likely: a signing of a pitcher that would be #3 or higher in #Jays rotation, or a trade for same type of pitcher?I'd make a terrible clairvoyant. I can barely guess what I'm going to have for lunch, and I have infinitely more data points at my disposal to make such a postulation.
— Narkus Maslund (@NarkusMaslund) September 17, 2013
But if I just balance this out to guess at what is more likely, I would be left to wonder how much payroll the Jays' front office will be playing with this offseason. With big money commitments and raises being added onto next year's books - including Mark Buehrle's $7 million bump to become the Jays' highest paid player at $19 million next year - there's a lot of 2014 fiscal capacity that's already been eaten away.
And make no mistake, number threes are still valuable commodities around baseball. Ricky Nolasco is probably a number three, and he'll be looking to improve on the $11.5 million he made this season when he enters the free agent market.
On the other hand, who do the Jays have to dangle in order to bring a number three pitcher into the fold? Do they send one of their offensive core - Reyes, Bautista, Encarnacion, Rasmus or Lawrie - out the door to bring back an Edwin Jackson-type? Do they again attempt to speed up their contention clock by moving Aaron Sanchez or D.J. Davis or Marcus Stroman out the door?
What do I think is the most likely of those scenarios? Ugh. I'd rather not think of it.
@TaoofStieb What's the chance J-Bau gets dealt before his current deal is finished? #taotweetbagJosé Bautista has two years at $14 million per season left on his current deal, with a $16 million option for 2016. That might make him a fairly attractive commodity, either in this offseason or next.
— G.L. Fishey (@GilFisher) September 12, 2013
The existential question for the Jays at this point is: Do you move Bautista now, and possibly take yet another step back away from contention in 2014? And towards what end?
And while I'm not typically one to place emphasis on the intanglibles, I think that Bautista plays an important clubhouse role for the Jays that they might not be eager to part with in the short term. But if the Jays get off to a bad start in 2014 and are in the bottom half of the American League in July, I think he'd be a prime candidate to move out in order to begin the rebuild.
Can you quantify the impact of losing Butterfield /Luvelo and having rookie hitting/pitching coaches on the 2013 #BlueJays #TaoTweetBag.No, I can't. I suppose someone smarter than me or with more immediate access to advanced data sets could look at defensive metrics and the use of shifts in both the oufield and the infield and figure out how many runs the Jays are giving back by not adapting their positions before pitches are thrown.
— Matt Crichley (@mcrichley) September 12, 2013
I really don't have an answer for this, but I include it here because it's a question that bothers me occasionally as well. While I like John Gibbons' lineup construction and bullpen management - the two most evident aspects of what a manager does - I have an odd feeling that there's a level of preparation for the season and for games that isn't in place this year.
I could be dead wrong on that, but it seemed to me that they Jays came out of the gate flat, after a Spring Training that was acknowledged by those who observed these things annually as "relaxed". For years, Brian Butterfield was the field marshal in Dunedin, running camp and prepping the team for the forthcoming season. And his work with infielders was held in significant regard.
Torey Lovullo was omnipresent on the top of the dugout steps in his tenure with the Jays, directing the outfielders on where they should play batters and often being the first face that a fielder saw on his down the dugout steps after an inning, presumably looking for a clarification on why a player made the choice he did, and suggesting the correction.
I'm not close enough to the team to see what's happening this year with the coaching staff. But I think its a question worth raising.
@TaoofStieb goins future 2b? No need for a 2B in the offseason? #taotweetbagI really like Goins. I think he's a ballplayer. But I also don't see him evolving into much more than a decent bench player or a marginal starter. He might surprise beyond that, and I love the level of athleticism that he demonstrates, but again, I wouldn't want to bet part of my 2014 success on his ability to post a .700 OPS in the Majors.
— ⚾Mohammed⚾ (@35_mohammed) September 12, 2013
My preferred course for him would be on the bench to spell José Reyes in the field on occasion, and to get some starts at second or third if needed. I might even want to see if he could handle some games in the outfield. Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I could see his best role in the big leagues as a Hairston Brothers' style supersub.
@TaoofStieb With all the misery of this season, are we overlooking the fact that the Jays seeming to be widely popular again is a big deal?I agree that the Jays became a big deal (BIG DEAL!) this offseason, crossing over into the mainstream culture and news, and expanded their reach into some audiences that had been away for years or that hadn't yet engaged in the sport.
— Colin Olford (@TorontoColin) September 17, 2013
Attendance figures for 2013 are promising, with the Jays showing the most year-over-year growth at the turnstiles this season. I haven't seen the ratings in a while, but I don't think they'd be terribly disappointing, given the circumstances.
Of course, Toronto being Toronto, you can almost write the stories and talking points now that will come out next season, when Blue Jays attendance goes down by 1%, or 2% or even 5%. There's a smug cynicism about the sports scene in the Centre of the Universe, and it feasts of this sort of failure.
But those sorts of declines shouldn't be surprising, nor should they be alarming. Moreover, I have a hunch that the younger cohort of new fans will appreciate the experience of diving into baseball, and won't necessarily run away at the first sign of failure.
I'm sure that Blue Jays Talk host Mike Wilner will hear many declarations from fans who will state that they're finished with this team, but I get a sense that there has been enough goodwill engendered with a new generation of baseball fans.
It might be shocking to hear an old fart say this about kids in their twenties, but I don't get the sense that those new fans feel as entitled to a winning team every year. I think they might have enough patience to stick around for a few seasons and see how it all plays out.
Here's hoping they are rewarded.


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Portraits are everywhere. They are in our wallets; on our computers, cell phones and desktops; on the walls of corporate offices, banks and schools. But what precisely is a portrait or image of likeness? How do artists methods and materials evolve as technology progresses with break-neck speed? And in this age of user-generated content, who exactly is the artist?
LIKENESS is a group exhibition that aims to examine human depiction during a post-Warholian era in which new technology has played an influential role. It includes the work of artists Jim Campbell, Paul DeMartinis, John Herschend, Nikki Lee, Joseph Manino, Greta Pratt and Tony Oursler.
Elaine A. King, who is a freelance critic and curator as well as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University teaching Art History/Theory/Museum Studies, will curate the exhibition.
According to King, All of these artists have worked with different materials in cross-disciplinary ways and each have made works that focus on shifts in the manifestation of human beings during this time of social and technological transformation. The change in focus of the human figure in contemporary art from other eras, which primarily relied upon the sensory and physical properties of form as subject matter has shifted in portrayal because of alterations of lifestyle, identity and technology. The human figure now functions as a narrative and physiological vehicle reflecting the human condition within a social and political context. Each artist in this exhibition uses the figure as a common vehicle through which they express personal and aesthetic issues alluding to the human condition of our time. The portrayal of human likeness continues to be an important vehicle for artistic self-discovery and self-definition against the velocity of change in our world.
LIKENESS is a multi-part exhibition that uses virtually all areas in the
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Jim Campbell
earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As an engineer, he holds more than a dozen patents in the field of image processing. His artistic work has been widely exhibited around the world, and some of his most recent exhibitions include Ars Electronica, (Linz, 2000), Vision Ruhr (Dortmund, 2000), BitStreams, Whitney Museum, (New York, 2001), Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, (2002, Taipei, Taiwan), House of the Tomorrow, Experimenta, (Melbourne, Australia, 2003), ARCO 2006 (Madrid, Spain), and Closed Circuit, Video and New Media at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2007). His work has also been showcased in many solo exhibitions, including an important 2005 retrospective at SITE Santa Fe (Santa Fe, NM), entitled Quantizing Effects: The Liminal Art of Jim Campbell. This show went on to tour a number of cities in the U.S. In 1999, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded Campbell a fellowship in multimedia, and the same year, he received the Eureka Award from the Fleishhacker Foundation. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation also recognized him with an award in 2003.
Paul DeMarinis
has been working as an electronic media artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. One of the first artists to use computers in performance, he has performed internationally, at The Kitchen, Festival dAutomne a Paris, Het Apollohuis in Holland and at Ars Electronica in Linz and created music for Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His interactive audio artworks have been exhibited at the I.C.C. in Tokyo, Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. Much of his recent work deals with the areas of overlap between human communication and technology. Major installations include The Edison Effect which uses optics and computers to make new sounds by scanning ancient phonograph records with lasers, Gray Matter which uses the interaction of flesh and electricity to make music, The Messenger that examines the myths of electricity in communication and recent works such as RainDance and Firebirds that use fire and water to create the sounds of music and language.
Jonn Herschend
, raised in a Midwestern amusement park, is a visual artist whose work explores the breakdown of narrative. His video work, photos and paintings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, New Jersey; the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley, California; and Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) in Trondheim, Norway, where he was an artist in residence in 2005. Within the San Francisco, California area, where he lives and works, his paintings and videos have been exhibited in venues such as Southern Exposure, The Lab, The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, and the The Pacific Film Archive. In 2002 he was an artist in-residence at The De Young Museum Art Center in San Francisco, and in 2004 he was a co-recipient for the Kala Arts Board Prize and a finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts SECA award. He received his MFA from UC Berkeley in 2006.
Nikki Lee
moved to New York City after earning her B.F.A. at Chung-Ang University in South Korea in 1993. She later attended the Fashion Institute of Technology and earned her M.A. in photography at New York University in 1998. In her work, Lee investigates notions of identity through the medium of photography and film. Her most noted work, Projects (1997-2001), begun while still in school, depicts her in snapshot photographs, in which she poses with various ethnic and social groups, including drag queens, punks, swing dancers, senior citizens, Latinos, hip-hop musicians and fans, skateboarders, lesbians, young urban professionals, and Korean schoolgirls. Lee conceives of her work as less about creating beautiful pictures, and more about investigating notions of identity and the uses of vernacular photography. Her projects propose questions regarding identity and social behavior. Do we choose our social groups consciously? How are we identified by other people? Is it possible for us to move between cultures? Lee believes that essentially life itself is a performance. When we change our clothes to alter our appearance, the real act is the transformation of our way of expressionthe outward expression of our psyche. In her latest series, Layers, included in the LIKENESS exhibition, Lee continues her exploration of identity. Instead of changing character, she investigates her personal identity through the perception of others in different cultural settings from Bangkok to Madrid.
Nikki Lee has exhibited at major institutions throughout the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at GAK, Bremen, Germany; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Her works are in the collections of major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles; the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is currently living in Korea doing research in preparation for a major exhibition that will take place next year.
Joseph Mannino
was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1950. He received his B.A. degree from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and his M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Mr. Manninos solo exhibitions include the Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia; Montpelier Cultural Art Center, Laurel, MD; BACA/Brooklyn Arts Council, NY, NY; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; the International Sculpture Conference Exhibition, Oakland, CA; and the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. He has participated in numerous group shows, including shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, TX; Pewabic Pottery, Detroit MI; Southern Alleghenies Museum, PA; Erie Art Museum, PA; Newark Museum, NJ; and Washington Square, Washington, D.C. He has been awarded large-scale commissions by Carnegie Mellon University and the City of Sacramento. Mr. Manninos work appears in the permanent collections of, among others, the City of Palo Alto, CA; the City of Sacramento, CA; the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL; the University of California, Davis, CA; and the Washington State Art Commission, Medical Lake, WA. He has been granted artist residencies at the Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE; Ex Colonia FF SS Ballabio, Italy; Kunstseminar, Metzingen, Germany; Associazione Promozione Iniziative Sociocultural, Sardegna, Italy; the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, MD; and the Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen, WI.
Tony Oursler
is an artist who embraces modern technology as a means of probing our inner selves, be they obsessive, delusional, comedic, or all of the above. He deals with communication and lack of communication and the power of the TV image and its ability to dominate our environment. He animates the inanimate and explores both real and imagined space. Underlying all, however, is the belief that contemporary man has lost control, both of himself and of his environment. These concerns are often expressed within a political context. Tony Ourslers video projections examine the effects on human psychology of our mass media-oriented society. After studying at the California Institute for the Arts, Oursler found video an appropriate medium in which to comment on television and about the generation raised on media. In asking whether our popular obsession with television indeed has negative effects, Ourslers video sculpture takes us to the point where media consumption and psychosis often converge. Tony Oursler has broken new ground in the world of video art by freeing the image from the cumbersome boundaries of the video monitor, conventional film screen and picture frame. Oursler is fascinated by how society immerses itself in technologies like movies, television and the Internet. Its a way to experience things that we dont want to confront in real life, says Oursler.
Tony Oursler lives and works in New York. He has exhibited widely throughout the USA, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and in nearly every major art museum in the world. In Europe he has had numerous one-person exhibitions including the Wiener Secession in Vienna, the Centre DArt Contemporain in Geneva, Musee des Artes Modernes et Contemporains in Strasbourg, Stedeliik Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Milaneses gallery 1000 event, the Kunstverein in Hanover. His work is included in many permanent collections, including the Tate Gallery and the Saatchi Gallery in London, The Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. He also participated to Documenta 8, 9, and 10 in Kassel, Germany.
Greta Pratts ongoing series of photographs titled Using History began in 1991. She explores how we perceive history specifically, American history through individual experience, notions of patriotism, nostalgia and community. Pratt depicts physical historic sites, re-enactments and museums with an eye to how locals and tourists alike interact with them today simultaneously capturing past, present and future with warmth and wit. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, Greta Pratt holds a BFA in photography and sculpture from University of Minnesota (1984) and an MFA in intermedia design from SUNY New Paltz (2005). Her photographs have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Spin, and Mother Jones. They are also held in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin; and Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. Pratt lives in Ringwood, New Jersey.
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Here's a stat sure to become PowerPoint porn in the months ahead: General Electric predicts that the "industrial Internet" could add $10 trillion to $15 trillion to the world economy in the next 20 years.
Indeed, $15 trillion is a "wow, that's big" number sure to be dropped into many a presentation, but it's not the most important part of GE's major new report on its industrial Internet vision. The most important part is why GE would bother to calculate this projection and issue such a report. The reason -- beyond the marketing value -- is that GE needs a whole lot of help from other vendors, regulators, financiers and users of technology before this vision and its $15 trillion payoff can come true. This report looks like an attempt to rally an ecosystem.
GE describes an industrial Internet where the machines it makes, such as jet engines, power plant turbines and MRIs, constantly gather data and send it along over the Internet for analysis. The data might alert people to take action, like replace a part that's close to wearing out, or tell a machine to automatically take an action, like slow down a turbine that isn't needed. The idea's more broadly discussed as the "Internet of things."
GE created the report in part because the whole idea of Internet innovation is under attack, says co-author and GE chief economist Marco Annunziata, and "we thought it was important to challenge this view." The report cites Northwestern University professor Robert Gordon for his view that the "innovations of the Internet Revolution are simply not as transformative as those of the Industrial Revolution." People think of the Internet's impact as centered on entertainment and social networks, Annunziata says. That's why GE spends much of the report trying to quantify the industrial Internet's potential in terms of economic and productivity growth.
But this industrial Internet needs a lot of technical and regulatory pieces to expand at the scale GE envisions. Based on my reading of the report, my interview with Annunziata, and InformationWeek's reporting on the Internet of things throughout this year, I think the following changes must happen for GE's growth vision to become reality.
This is No. 1 on Annunziata's list of required technology advancements. The cost of sensors is dropping, and the reach of wireless and wired Internet is expanding. It's getting cheaper and easier to gather and transmit data. Data analytics capabilities must improve "to make sure the data that comes available can be used in a productive way," Annunziata says. In GE's report, he describes this capability as "harnessing the power of physics-based analytics, predictive algorithms, automation and deep domain expertise" to know how machines and systems operate.
Startups and established vendors are developing big data analytics to make sense of the Internet of things, and do so quickly enough to make a timely business decision. GE's own software unit is among them. In an article earlier this year, here's how we described one technology problem GE software is working on, that of combining real-time data and what-if scenarios:
What GE wants to offer is the ability to ask, "Has any machine in our entire system ever had X, Y and Z factors, and what happened four hours later?" GE's systems today would take about 30 days to answer that question -- if they could even answer it. GE's working to combine its data management and analytics software with Hadoop-based data processing to deliver an answer in 30 seconds.
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As companies collect more data from more sources and then try to make faster decisions with it, the complexity soon exceeds humans' ability to keep up, Annunziata says. People must continue to oversee the process, he says, but more machines need to automatically take actions. Automation requires more embedded technology and, back to analytics, better decision-making software. Automation also points to the dark side of the industrial Internet: Doing it right means destroying a lot of manual jobs and betting that economic growth creates enough new ones.


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When we get tattooed, our flesh becomes an elastic canvas, and it's only a matter of time before we start hearing, "but what will it look like when you're old and wrinkled?" As we age, our skin stretches, sags, and becomes marked by time and gravity; our ink moves in unpredictable ways as black fades to blue and linear shapes begin to blur. Part of the magic of the tattoo medium lies in this accidental metamorphosis or art and body, and reddit user "clevknife" hopes to challenge the idea that time breeds unsavory, attractive ink. His project, titled "What about when you get old?" showcases elderly individuals embracing their well-worn tattoos and proving that there truly is no expiration date on good art.
Clevknife's shots maintain a casual, offhand aesthetic that might seem amateurish but is somehow allied with anti-conformist tattoo culture. The curated images lack a ready coherence, jumping from black and white to color, from professionally lit to unpracticed and unfocused. While some appear to be the result of standard portrait sessions, some are reminiscent of the from-the-hip style of early street art.
An otherwise unassuming older man stands in a grocery store, fists raised and forearms emboldened by ink; the limited depth of field serves only to heighten the drama of his pose. Another subject is cast in nostalgic blacks and whites as he mimes, slicks his hair back. No two subjects are alike, but one thing's for sure: these human canvases don't regret a thing. Our bodies may age and morph, but our art will adapt to the changing landscape of our flesh. (via Lost at E Minor and My Modern Met)


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This is a great book on crows:
On a Wednesday in the summer moths I timetrial in the countryside out on the Dengie and our starting point is next to a crow community and I psyche myself up they all start pouring home cawing away and making a great racket - it's fantastic. And I always think of John Clare's poem 'I Love to Hear the Evening Crows go by'
I love to hear the evening crows go by,
And see the starnels darken down the sky.
The bleaching stack the bustiling sparrow leaves
And plops with merry note beneath the eaves.
The odd and lated pigeon bounce by
As if a wary watching hawk was nigh,
While far and fearing nothing, high and slow,
The stranger birds to distant places go,
While short of flight the evening robin comes
To watch the maiden sweeping out the crumbs
Nor fears the idle shout of passing boy
But pecks about the door and sings for joy;
Then in the hovel where the cows are fed
FInds till the morning comes a pleasant bed.
Loved this article, thanks.
The roosts are amazing, apocalyptic:
I thought only bats did that kind of thing.
Apparently in the UK you'd need to go to the Norfolk fens in winter to get the best opportunity to see this :/
The best thing you can do is put out peanuts consistently and don't look directly at the birds when you do so (at least initially). Be conspicuous about you being the one to drop the food, but do not throw the food toward the crows or look at them initially, but do make sure they are in the area. Then, go back inside.
i think crows must be among my favourite creatures
a couple of years back i found a crow with a broken wing under a bush
with great difficulty i gently caught him and stowed him in my jacket and cycled home with him
as we were cycling together he spoke to me. he said "crow". "i am a crow" - i kid you not - the guy was so frightened
when we got home i found a big plastic box and popped it in him then took him straight to the vet
the bastards put him down right the moment we left. found later that they're not an ethical practice
But how did you pop it in? Did you shove it down the gullet or slice him open and insert it into the breast?


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Fans slate Leeds 'pantomime'
A Leeds fans' group has questioned the intentions of prospective new owner Massimo Cellino and claims the reputation of current owners Gulf Finance House Capital lies "in tatters".
As the power struggle continues at Elland Road amid growing concern about the club's financial problems, Leeds United Supporters' Trust (LUST) said the majority of fans who had contacted them are opposed to Italian businessman Cellino's attempts to take control at Elland Road.
The latest bombshell to hit the ailing Sky Bet Championship club was the issue of a winding-up petition by Andrew Flowers, the managing director of the club's main sponsor Enterprise Insurance and a member of the consortium Sport Capital, whose own takeover bid failed last week.
Flowers issued the winding-up petition on January 29, the day after extensive talks with GFH Capital had collapsed.
It is understood Flower's move is an attempt to scupper Cellino's bid to push a deal over the line. GFH Capital confirmed last week it had agreed to sell 75 per cent of the club's shares to the 57-year-old Cagliari owner.
Flowers in the meantime has joined forces with another consortium, Together Leeds, and it is understood they are in talks with GFH Capital after claiming they could match Cellino's reported £25million offer.
LUST said in a statement: "It is clear that emotions are running high and there is a lot of confusion, frustration and anger about what became almost a pantomime performance of events at Elland Road and Thorp Arch.
"Our members believe this has damaged the image of LUFC, left the credibility of our current owners in tatters and made the intentions of our potential new owner at the very best questionable.
"Over 75 per cent of members, who have responded so far, have indicated that, given the events of last week and the weekend, they do not feel that Mr Cellino would either understand LUFC supporters or be good for the club.
"Regarding the Together Leeds bid, our members indicated they would like to know more about the people involved, their potential to provide finance for the club and what their plan would be to take Leeds United forward.
"Overwhelmingly, our members offered massive support for Brian McDermott, and appreciation for the dignified way he has behaved under such unique circumstances."
Following the collapse of Sport Capital's bid last Thursday, GFH Capital confirmed on Friday it had agreed a deal with Cellino, who wanted his friend and former Middlesbrough defender Gianluca Festa to replace Brian McDermott as manager.
Cellino attempted to sack McDermott on Friday, but after the former Reading boss had stayed away from Saturday's 5-1 win against Huddersfield, he returned to the club as normal on Monday morning with the backing of GFH Capital, which released a statement effectively saying it was still calling the shots.
In response to Flowers' winding-up petition, GFH Capital said in a further statement: "The winding-up petition issued by Enterprise Insurance, a sponsor whose managing director, Andrew Flowers, claims to support the club, is misconceived and an abuse of legal process. It is being vigorously contested by the club's lawyers.
"As there were no valid grounds to issue the petition, we can only assume that Mr Flowers is seeking to influence the deliberations of the club's owners and management in relation to the takeover negotiations.
"Under the ownership of GFH Capital Leeds United has always met its financial obligations and it will continue to do so."


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Wow, another week has already gone by! It finally started to rain, and the grass is so happy, the blades immediately changed from brown to green. Finally! This has been such a hot and dry summer! I don't really have much else to say, other than "Monkey butt!" What does that mean? I have no clue, but several friends and co-workers tell me that it is an all occasion expression, so there you go! What are some of your favorite all occasion, though ultimately meaningless, expressions?
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DC Resistance (Ohms)
- DC resistance (Ohms) is a handy but rough measure. The DC resistance of any given pickup will change based on other variables like temperature. For example if the pickup has been sitting in a sunny window and is warmer, the dc resistance will read higher. If you took that same pickup and stored it in your basement/practice room and it was cooler in temp, the dc resistance would read lower.
- The dc resistance will also read lower once the pickup has been installed into your guitar.
- DC resistance is actually just a measurement of how many feet of wire there is on a particular coil assuming you know what gauge the coil wire is.
- The size and shape of the coil can make a dramatic difference in ohms, for instance a Jazzmaster has a low wide coil compared to a Strat that has a taller narrower coil. A jazzmaster with the equivalent amount of turns a Strat pickup has will have a much higher ohm reading due to the extra length of coil wire around the perimeter of the wider pickup.
- Another factor is variation of copper wire. Although it's manufactured to rigorous specs, variation exists between spools of copper wire—including spools made by the same manufacturer and from the same lot number. A microscopic size variance that's still within wire gauge spec can affect dc resistance.
- Wire guage effects DC resistance. Larger diameter wire reads lower and thinner wire reads higher so so you can have a lower resistance coil with more output that a higher resistance coil.
- Equipment calibration can vary between ohm meters and can also change if your battery is low.
- Some people's body chemistry can cause false resistance readings if they are touching the meter leads while measuring coil resistance.
- Magnet "strength": To list magnet type like AL-2, AL-3, or AL-5 can be a little misleading. This is because we use our own proprietary techniques to gauss and/or de-gauss our magnets.
- AL-2, AL-3, AL-5 are not a measure of magnet strength. The formulas of different proportions of trace metals that are mixed with ferrous material. These different mixtrues give different magnetic and tonal qualities.
- Magnet type like AL-2, AL-3, AL-5 is also not a "stand-alone" thing. It has to be considered along with the type of wind and overall design of the pickup assembly. The results aren't necessarily "cut and dried." In other words, you still have to do R&D on the overall sound. It's the variables added together that shape the overall sound.
Inductance (H)
- When iron or an iron-based (ferrous) metal moves within a magnetic field, it has the capacity to induce a current in any conductive material also in that magnetic field (i.e. the copper wire coil). This is inductance—a measure of the physical property to induce a current. In general, the greater the inductance, the greater the output and greater the bass response.
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Prices of electricity, fruit and vegetables lifted the euro zone inflation off its three-year low in May, while the single currency bloc's record high jobless rate showed in its deepening inability to create jobs in the first quarter.
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Economic recovery in the euro area is expected to kick in later this year, but risks to the growth are on the downside as governments continue with painful fiscal consolidation and companies struggle to access credit in banks.
Consumer prices rose by 0.1 percent on the month in May, the EU statistic agency Eurostat said, putting the annual inflation rate at 1.4 percent compared to 1.2 percent in April.
Inflation in the euro zone's strongest economy, Germany, jumped to 1.6 percent on the year in May from 1.1 percent in April, while France recorded only a small increase and Italy stayed flat at 1.3 percent.
Euro zone inflation has declined markedly over the last few months and is well under the European Central Bank's (ECB) target of close to, but below 2 percent. The bank said in June it sees inflation risks as broadly balanced.
The ECB left key interest rates unchanged in May, slightly lowered its growth outlook and discussed a raft of other policy options it could take if the euro zone economy does not emerge from recession later this year.
The euro zone's malaise was clearly visible in a 0.5 percent drop in employment first three months of the year, Eurostat data showed, reflecting the unemployment rate that reached a new high in April, with 19.4 million people out of work.
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How to Wear Platform Shoes Like a Star - Platform heels are everywhere - on the runway, in magazines and on the red carpet - but can a real woman wear them?
Absolutely, as long as they're worn with the right look , says Lori Bergamotto contributing style editor of Lucky magazine.
Bergamotto visited " Good Morning America" today to give us the lowdown on how to pull off the high-fashion platform look.
First, Bergamotto revealed three foolproof tips for wearing platform shoes.
1. Try a hidden platform heel to elongate your body without all of the distractions.
2. An ankle strap low and close to the ankle works like a belt, cinching you in at your most narrow part.
3. Pairing the heel with a covered-up outfit gives you balance that reads effortless chic.
On "GMA," Bergamotto featured three models with three different platform shoes, starting with the wrong way to wear a platform heel and working her way to the right way.
Tragic Look:
With such a bold silhouette as the red and zebra sky-high platform pump, you should try to avoid loud colors and prints that only draw the eye down to your foot. The ankle strap will be big in Spring 2013 but, in this case, the red ankle strap hits too high on the lower shin. The main benefit of a platform shoe is to create an elongating effect, but between the ankle strap, the disruptive silver buckle, and the loud red color, this shoe makes the whole look end with a giant thud.
Middle Look:
This black and metallic pointy-toe pump is good, but it's still not quite right for an everyday purchase. For starters, the placement of the metallic gold is a dead giveaway that this is a platform shoe. Also, this pump is very similar to what's seen on the red carpet, so the model's cotton shirt dress is too casual and makes the whole outfit disjointed.
Trendy Look:
This Gyal Platform Pump from Aldo ($74.90 at Aldoshoes.com)is a hidden platform, so even though it has virtually the same height as the other shoes, it's covered by the outsole of the shoe and elongates the body. The ankle strap is also lower and closer to the ankle, cinching in the leg. The shoe's coloring blends with the model's skin tone, creating a lengthening effect and a glow. Finally, the long sleeves and longer hemline of the model's dress ($56 atTopshop.com) allow the platform shoes to punctuate the look in a subtly sexy way that reads chic. ( ABC NEws )
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"Fred Armisen does a pretty good me," Bill Hader says, leaning forward at the Upper West Side's Caf— Lumbourg, a booth away from where he and Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney brainstormed ideas for his most popular character, "city correspondent" Stefon. ("New York's hottest club is Twice. Don't be thrown off when you're greeted at the door by a rabbi that looks like Joaquin Phoenix.")
Slightly hunched in a long-sleeve T-shirt and glasses, Hader looks more like an undergrad indie-film major than a...than a what? That's the thing with Bill Hader. He debuted on _SNL _in 2005; and this weekend, he'll appear on his last show. In between, he's been a man of many faces, including but not limited to: Clint Eastwood, Vincent Price, Al Pacino, chain-smoking Italian talk-show host Vinny Vedecci, and America's favorite geriatric misogynistic bigoted newscaster, Herb Welch. He thoroughly inhabits his characters, in an almost Being John Malkovich fashion—you know he's in there somewhere, but you'll never find him. The closest one can get is to ask him to do an impression of other people doing an impression of himself.
"Fred's is me coming up to a group of people and saying things in a whisper, like"—here Hader drops his voice so that it's almost inaudible—" 'Hey...uh...so I started listening to Allman Brothers,' or something everyone already knows is great."
There's the standard celebrity self-effacement and then there's this guy. He has an unusually honed ability to self-assess. Trying to get him to take credit for his own career is like trying to get a dog to swallow a pill.
On writing for South Park on the side: "I just kind of watch and hang out and contribute if I can."
On his place in the constellation of contemporary funnymen: "I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.' "
On his impressions, which helped earn him an Emmy nomination: "To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at SNL is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy."
On leaving the show: "The nature of SNL is that it's so in-the-moment. I feel like I'm going to wake up in August and turn to my wife and say 'Was I really on SNL?' It went by so fast."
At no point does he pull the classic "sad clown" move of looking down or adjusting his glasses as if to imply deep wells of melancholy. He says it all like a perfectly normal person who, you know, happens to have a dozen or so voices in his head.
This summer, Hader appears in June's The To Do List, starring Aubrey Plaza as a sexually inexperienced Boise, Idaho teenager in the '90s; he plays a lovable slacker lifeguard at the local pool, a more layered movie role than he's had in the past and perhaps a glimpse into his future now that he's leaving SNL. The night before our interview, I saw a screening of the film, the fire alarm went off. Carey was in attendance and she immediately stood up to announce that she would "give a hand job to anyone who stays."
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Margaret -What you have spotted is the names of those who signed the Oath of Allegiance. Many could not write and so had their marks they made. As you noted, some used an X as their signature, but others were able to write an initial or two.On the Palatine ship lists, there are many passengers who have various letters between their names....I know what "X" means, but not the other letters.I am particularly interested in "U" and "N"Examples:
Jacob (E) TaubefishelPeter (B) BarthFrietz (M) MengelTheobald (N) Nabinger
So you may see a first name initial, or a surname initial or both. In some cases a man might use a stylized mark but in any case these letters are simply the representation of their names. If you are interested please see an earlier blog post on Dutch handmarks. It's quite a fascinating subject!


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New Saxon Users:
NSX is being redirected to the NSM88 Forums while network techs investigate a hardware issue on the principle NSX server. We hope to have the issue resolved as soon as possible. We understand that this situation is very frustrating for loyal and passionate NSX users and to that end our technical teams are working hard to rectify this situation.
In the meanwhile, you will find many of your friends here at the NSM88 Forum as well as your moderator staff noted by their title of NSX Mod.
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It has come to our attention from the site management that some people are questioning why New Saxon is offline and others even demanding that "their site" be returned because they have no other way to communicate with various friends and even family! Wow, not one of the people placing such demands ever donated to the site nor have choose to opt in to a VIP upgrade package. While donations and upgrades are not mandatory one must know that if they love the community they should support such. New Saxon does cost money to operate, maintain and yes - to host. New Saxon uses heavy bandwidth, New Saxon requires professional IT staff to troubleshoot database errors, corruption and hardware failures that are common to such a larger infrastructure. As was stated earlier, New Saxon suffered from a HARDWARE FAILURE. In particular, a storage array failed and we lost daily backups do to the failure of the NAS. This happened at a critical time prior to a backup sync being set for daily and weekly images. We will be forced to restore the site from the emergency backup servers which will push New Saxon back in time by roughly one month.
So, the site was down just a few weeks ago. What gives? What gives is that the server New Saxon lived in died. It had a major hardware failure. New Saxon moved into a new, more powerful server. Unfortunately, the new server had a bad hard drive. Our techs worked very hard to recover data but the drive was fried. This BTW, happened prior to us being able to install our hardware RAID system as normally a drive failure would not be a big deal since it would have been mirrored on a minimum of one drive depending on the RAID type we use.
This is the situation in a nut shell. No conspiracy, no BS, no management fights, no disgruntled employees - just a plain old technical failure. New Saxon will be restored as stated but the emergency backup which lives deep in an old salt mine for safe keeping needed to be transferred once the new hard drives that were ordered were installed and the RAID system put into place.
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Things to Do in Downtown Toronto During Your Visit
Nestled in the heart of downtown Toronto, the Cosmopolitan Hotel is located minutes from top local attractions and landmarks. There are plenty of things to do and see in Toronto including:
- CN Tower: Classified as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the CN Tower offers an amazing 360 degree dining experience.
- Ripley's Aquarium: Located at the foot of the CN Tower and just minutes away from our hotel, Ripley's Aquarium is the newest attraction to come to Toronto.
- Rogers Centre: This famed indoor / outdoor sports centre is the home of Toronto's Major League Baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays, and offers events and concerts more than 200 days per year.
- St. Lawrence Market: Named the world's best food market by National Geographic, the St. Lawrence Market hosts restaurants, a gallery, and a variety of vendors selling food, handmade items, and local produce.
- Distillery District: This historic entertainment area contains cafés, restaurants and shops housed within heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery.
- Princess of Wales and Royal Alexandra Theatres: Mirvish Productions offers unique theatre and musicals throughout the year, including Broadway and international stage shows.
- Sony Centre for Performing Arts: From Rock of Ages to The Price is Right, the Sony Centre offers exciting entertainment for everyone.
- Hockey Hall of Fame: Enjoy exhibits on players and teams, as well as National Hockey League (NHL) records and trophies including the famed Stanley Cup.
- Air Canada Centre: From Rhianna to Rod Stewart to exciting sporting events including the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, the hottest entertainment options are offered here all year long.
- Metro Toronto Convention Centre: Whether you are a planner, exhibitor or attendee, our hotel provides the perfect accommodations during your stay.


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In 1999, Squaresoft were busy making their 3rd Front Mission title, at least strategy/RPG wise. Like when they've hired Riow Arai for Front Mission Alternative in 1997, they wanted to take another chance and hire composers outside the company. So the duo of Koji Hayama (Cho Aniki) and Hayato Matsuo (Ogre Battle, Dragon Force II) were brought in to breathe in a bit of fresh air music-wise. Both composers did a great job. Although Matsuo was the better one as he wrote the orchestral pieces, Hayama showed off his talent on the techno pieces.
Disc 1 general review
The first track that caught my attention was the guitar-driven "Starting," composed by Koji Hayama; it has all the good stuff, great composition, lovely sound and just sounds plain cool! This was used during the sequence of testing the wanzers' strength and abilities in the laboratory. "Bar(All-Purpose)" is a catchy jazz lounge track, much like Matsueda's works in the Front Mission series and Racing Lagoon. Matsuo gets the atmosphere just right with this piece. Relax, have a drink or two while you listen to this piece. The "Setup" pieces are both done in techno style and do sound a tad repetitive, yet they tend to stay catchy, the same goes for "Network." Those themes will be heard often, so you'll need to get used to them. The fun really starts with "Invasion," which Matsuo slips in a piano here and there, while the meat of the composition is more techno, it still manages to entrance and keeps the player listening without having to mute the TV. "Impact" sounds like a duel theme to me, as it is fast-paced, is very militaristic in nature and certainly fits the mood of battle. Another note-worthy track is "VS Mercenaries," Matsuo puts more than enough variety so you don't lose the focus of your objective; this music is strategy RPG material at its best in my opinion. "Bar (China)" has that Asian sound (d'uh), I can't describe too much, but it just sounds so fitting for a Chinese bar/pub.
Koji Hayama does the melancholic "Suspicion," which starts with a cello playing an eerie melody, backed up by a piano; something awful must be going on while this plays. Disc 1 ends with the great "Advancing Attack." It's fast-paced, loads of fun to listen to, you can easily imagine rushing the enemy to this theme, what more could one want?
Disc 2 general review
The first track which really grabbed my attention on disc 2 was "Fort Invasion," once more, Matsuo shows off amazing skill at combing techno and orchestral music, but this one is of a much grander, more epic scale than those on disc 1, you can tell that capturing the enemy fort is a crucial part for winning the war. "Sorrow" is one of the most emotional sad themes I've ever heard, Matsuo excels in creating emotional themes as well as battle themes, as this track is a no-brainer. "Big Battle," always by Matsuo; is the final boss theme. It delivers wonderfully; you can feel the extreme tension while you hold on for dear life and pray that you survive the onslaught of the gigantic enemy wanzer.
"Ending" takes the cake as being the most depressing ending theme ever, there are glimpses of hope here and there, but overall, you can feel the characters aren't quite satisfied with the way the war has gone, even if it ended, too many lives were lost.
So...should you get this soundtrack? If you do, grab it quick!! Since DigiCube burned down recently, it is only available in limited copies.
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Ad me for both as well. How much$$$????
Hoping to make both, but currently not sure due to being a truck driver and working for the handicapped .
Thanks Jerry,I'm not sure what time I'll arrive Thursday, and didn't want to commit.I'm presuming that their hours would be like their Friday hours? that is 6-8 PM?
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On to the Next Phase for I-90 and Cliff Avenue
It's back to work for construction crews in northern Sioux Falls. On Monday, April 21, the South Dakota Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the City of Sioux Falls, will continue work on Cliff Avenue and Interstate 90.
Miscellaneous work will continue with the use of various intermittent lane closures. Last year, the entire interchange was redone to improve traffic flow and replace the aging bridges. This work is a continuation of the process and should be complete by July 18 at a cost of $17.4 millon. Motorists should stay alert for workers, equipment, lane closures and sudden slowing of traffic.


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Dr. Jim Guzek travels to third-world countries like Ethiopia to heal eyes and help people see. The Tri-Cities Sunrise Rotary is holding a fundraiser for Dr. Guzek on Nov. 16 at St. Joe's Dillon Center at 520 South Garfield Street in Kennewick from 6-8 p.m. Tickets are $50. Refreshments are courtesy of The Country Gentleman. For reservations email www.TCSunriseRotary.com. Call Don Miksch with questions at 509-551-0969.


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Consumer Products
Each product can earn up to six points in three areas: protection against malware attack, repair of already-infected systems, and overall usability. For certification, a product must earn 11 or more points. Bitdefender took the highest overall score, 17 of 18 possible points, with Kaspersky just a half-point behind.
Bitdefender was the only product to receive a perfect score, six points, for repair. Bitdefender and Kaspersky got six points for protection, along with BullGuard, G Data, and Norton.
As noted, all of the consumer products earned at least 11 points, the minimum for certification. Norman displayed the biggest improvement, leaping from 7.5 points in the previous Windows XP test to 14.5 in the current test. Webroot gained 2.5 points, as did K7. Fully half of the vendors turned in better scores, and another quarter stayed at the same level.
The chart below summarizes AV-Test's consumer product results.
Different Standard for Business
Av-Test researchers put eight business endpoint security solutions through the same test, including both Trend Micro Office Scan and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security. With 16 points, Kaspersky thoroughly beat out the rest; F-Secure came second with 14.5 points.
You'd think that Trend Micro Office Scan would not receive certification, given that it only took nine points overall. AV-Test CEO Andreas Marx explained that business solutions can earn certification if they receive at least 3.5 points in any two categories. "In case of home user products we are very strict," said Marx. "We consider all features, especially detection and removal, as important." The same isn't always true for business users. "For example, many enterprises do not clean infected PCs at all, but they set them up from scratch again," said Marx. "Therefore, even if a product performs poor in case of cleaning, it might still be very good in other categories, like the protection or usability." That may well be so, but I'd be more inclined to choose a product that performs well in all areas, like Kaspersky Endpoint Security.
The chart below summarizes test results for the endpoint security solutions.
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