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Chicken meal, corn gluten meal, ground corn, chicken fat (naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract and citric acid), ground barley, ground oatmeal, chicken, natural chicken flavor, powdered cellulose, dried beet pulp, salmon oil, soy protein isolate, dried brewers yeast, soya oil, calcium sulfate, potassium chloride, chicory extract, DL-methionine, sodium tripolyphosphate, L-lysine, choline chloride, borage oil, taurine*, Vitamins [dl-alpha tocopherol (source of vitamin E), inositol, niacin, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), d-calcium pantothenate, biotin, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin (vitamin B2), thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin A acetate, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement], Trace Minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate], L-cystine, L-tyrosine, glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulfate, green tea extract, marigold extract.
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Crude Protein (min) 30%
Crude Fat (min) 20%
Moisture (max) 10%
Crude Fiber (max) 5.9%
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First ingredient is a named meat product.
Insufficient meat content, use of low quality grains and other controversial fillers.
The first ingredient in the food is a named meat product, in meal form. There is a further meat product 7th on the ingredient list, but since this is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and this ingredient will weigh only about 20% of its wet weight once water is removed (as it must be to make kibble) it is unlikely that there is any significant fraction of the ingredient in the food.
The next two ingredients are both forms of corn. It is likely that if these ingredients were not split (see explanation of splitting on main page) the combined corn ingredients would in fact outweigh the chicken meal as the primary ingredient in the food. Corn is a problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see this used in dog food. In it's gluten form, it is also a waste product for which the AAFCO definition is "the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm".
Barley and oatmeal are both decent quality grains, but powdered cellulose is pure junk filler which is entirely undigestible by dogs (otherwise known as sawdust). Beet pulp is further filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
Soy is a poor quality source of protein in dog food, and a common cause of allergy problems. Some believe that it is the number 1 cause of food allergies in dogs (outstripping even wheat).
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How to succeed at alarm management
Find out how you can improve the effectiveness of your distributed control alarm systems by better managing the techniques, tools, standards, and procedures you use in your process plant.
What is Alarm Management, and why do I need it?
Alarm Management comprises a collection of techniques, tools, standards, and procedures that improve the operations of process plants by improving the effectiveness of alarm systems.
Nuisance Alarms
When alarms are functioning well, they perform three important tasks:
Alerting the operator that a change has occurred
Informing the operator of the nature of the change
Guiding the operator to take the correct action
Without a disciplined Alarm Management program, the process alarms in a plant become less and less functional over time. The number of nuisance alarms increases to a point where the alarms distract the operator from the plant, rather than doing what they are designed to do.
Alarm Proliferation
Alarm management has existed as long as there have been alarm systems, but it has become more important since the distributed control system (DCS) was introduced in the 1970's. The distributed control system introduced software alarms - alarms that are created or changed by configuring a setting in a computer, rather than requiring a hardwired signal to a panel. As a result, more alarms could be configured for lower cost. This meant safer operations, but it also relaxed the engineering controls on the creation of alarms. Since there was now no cost to implement an alarm, there was no incentive to limit the number of alarms.
Naturally, some of the alarms that were configured were not really necessary, or were set at the wrong value. This leads to "nuisance alarms" - alarms that do not tell the operator anything he does not already know, or which require no action.
Since the 1970's, as distributed control systems have become more sophisticated, more and more process units have been centralized under the control of fewer panel operators, so each operator has become responsible for more and more alarms. In addition, the number of alarms that can be configured on a single measurement has ballooned. Alarms are now commonly set on Low, High, Low-Low, High-High, Deviation, bad value, and sometimes other values.
An individual operator now is confronted with tens of thousands of configured alarms within his area of the plant. During upsets, hundreds or thousands of these alarms can occur in a very short period. To make matters even worse, organizations such as OSHA, the EPA or voluntary programs like Responsible Care?, ISO-9000 and ISO-14000 require periodic process hazard analyses or process assessments, which all result in the creation of additional alarms.
When there are too many alarms during an upset, they distract the operator and conceal the actual nature of secondary problems, instead of alerting the operator to real problems. So, in the absence of an alarm management program, manufacturing plants become less safe rather than safer; incidents become worse rather than better, and production losses increase.
What Does Alarm Management Include?
Alarm Management consists of the set of procedures, practices, tools and systems that jointly ensure that the alarm system in a plant is as effective as possible throughout the life of the plant. These can include:
Operator training on how to respond to alarms
Reducing the number of systems that can generate alarms
Documentation of the steps to be taken when an alarm occurs
Operator assistance in finding information regarding an alarm
Standardization and enforcement of the criteria for determining alarm priority
Risk-based evaluation of all alarms, to reconfigure or eliminate unnecessary alarms
Identification and elimination of nuisance alarms using alarm history
Alarm enforcement
Alarm change management
Automatic suppression of alarms
Definition of different alarm limits for different operating conditions or modes
Replacing early-warning" alarms with continuous monitoring
All Plants Need Alarm Management
The real question is: "Is my existing Alarm Management sufficient?" Ask yourself the following questions:
Do you need to know how many alarms you get in a day, how often alarm floods occur, or which tags are causing the most problems?
When you walk into the control room on a quiet day, do more than 10 to 15 alarms show up on the alarm summary screen for a single operating area?
Are there more than two systems that generate alarms, for example, DCS and a single additional emergency system panel?
When there is an upset,
Does the alarm annunciator sound continuously?
Does one operator lean on the alarm silencer button continuously?
Is the alarm annunciator disconnected?
Have there been any operating incidents where the operator missed an alarm that did occur?
Do more than 1000 alarms occur in a given operating area in a day?
Do operators change alarm limits?
Do operators use alarms to inform them of non-critical changes in the plant, such as end-of-batch?
Are there alarms that operators do not know how to respond to?
Does any operator not understand why each alarm is the priority it is?
If the answer to more than one of these questions is "I don't know" or "yes", then your Alarm Management system needs improvement, or at least an assessment. Poorly-managed alarms are a disaster waiting to happen. At best, they distract the operator from important events and slow down the response to the upset. At worst, the alarms will not be noticed, won't occur at all, or will not be understood-- not a situation you want to deal with in an EPA/OSHA or insurers audit.
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Worst Company In America Round One: PayPal Vs. Capital One
At the end of this bout, one of these competitors will have paid the price in blood. And lord help them if they try to dispute that payment with either company's customer service departments.
Capital One continues to have a reputation for making mistakes on customers' accounts that are both obvious and, at least according to Capital One CSRs, irreparable.
They also haven't given up on their practice of flooding consumers' mailboxes with credit card applications. This is especially true for people with less than stellar credit who probably could do without another card — and 5-year-olds.
But what really locked Capital One into its WCIA slot for this tournament is the recent purchase of online bank ING Direct. In addition to ING customers who are terrified of what is going to happen to their favorite bank, several readers expressed concern about Capital One's rapid growth — and the government's rather rapid approval of the merger — at a time when the economy is still reeling from the failure of a handful of mega-banks.
And then there's good ol' PayPal. If you want to sell things online, it's all but a given that you'll need to deal PayPal, especially considering its incestuous relationship with parent company eBay.
Yet for all the people who use PayPal for selling and buying, the company seems to have about three customer service reps, none of whom can help but all of whom apparently have the ability to summarily freeze a transaction — or an entire account. Heck, they can even tell customers to go ahead and destroy a purchase simply because the buyer claims the item isn't authentic.
Luckily, getting resolution on PayPal complaint only requires numerous calls, e-mails and mass, concerted shaming from the entire Internet.
This is now the part of the story when everyone votes:
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This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2012 series. The companies competing for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. See the entire WCIA 2012 bracket and schedule of match-ups HERE.
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Stonington Borough company makes sure people and ships run properly
Stonington - For more than three decades, Kevin Logan made a good living designing software to diagnose and predict troubles with diesel and turbine engines on military and commercial ships.
So it may come as something of a surprise that the 60-year-old Logan is taking a deep dive into what seems like a whole different world: fitness monitoring systems.
Logan's newly formed company Body Biolytics won an international competition last month sponsored by the sports apparel company Under Armour to develop new capabilities for its Armour39 digital sports monitor. The win, with a $20,000 prize, came against teams that included two biomedical engineering universities and solidified Logan's belief that he was onto something.
"The digital health care field is exploding with all sorts of new devices," Logan said at his offices in Stonington Borough, where his small quarters are shared by four employees. "This is a high-growth area."
Last year, New York-based Transparency Market Research predicted that worldwide sales for digital health technologies and services would be a $10.2 billion business by 2018. That's up from $1.3 billion last year and is largely in line with another report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
The growth potential of digital health technology hasn't been lost on the business community, with Under Armour late last year purchasing MapMyFitness, the maker of a popular fitness-monitoring app, for $150 million. And Facebook just last month paid an undisclosed price for the motion-tracking app Moves.
Logan said that defense cutbacks approaching 30 percent were sure to affect the bottom line of his longtime company called MACSEA Ltd., which develops predictive and diagnostic software and installs and maintains monitoring devices on about 40 Navy ships deployed around the globe. So he began exploring the possibility of translating his previous research in monitoring the health of engines into software that could add to the understanding of the human body.
"In some ways, monitoring the body is easier," said Logan, president and chief technology officer at MACSEA.
While monitoring ships means keeping tabs on hundreds of signals at a time, body monitors are usually looking at only a few measurements, such as heart rate and calorie burn, he said. But the technology is much the same, and both systems work in real time, he said, meaning immediate feedback for the customer.
The Under Armour challenge involved finding new uses for a wearable chest strap that monitors athletes' heart rate, calorie burn and workout intensity.
"No more guessing or pretending," said an advertisement for Armour39, which bills itself as a first-of-its-kind performance monitoring system. "Now you don't just see yourself getting better; you'll be keeping score."
Logan used accelerometers - devices that measure the vibration of machines on ships - to monitor body motions in three dimensions. MACSEA employee Christian Rollins was the guinea pig for Logan's monitoring experiments, which looked at several exercises popular in gyms, such as weightlifting curls.
The idea, said Logan, was to develop an algorithm that could analyze thousands of data points and create a "digital fingerprint" associated with each exercise. The squiggly lines of the fingerprint could then be compared with previous workouts to get an idea of what kind of progress is being made.
Eventually, Body Biolytics may develop an app that will help interpret the results, Logan said, and he is hoping to maintain his relationship with Under Armour to explore a range of business possibilities. He also plans to explore financing options such as Connecticut's new Bioscience Innovation Fund that could speed up the software-development process and quintuple his current workforce.
"Sensors are cheap," Logan said. "Anything that can be sensorized will be."
Among Logan's other interests is the field of telemedicine, which allows patients to be remotely monitored so that doctors or family members could potentially identify a serious health incident in real time - maybe even before it happens.
Massachusetts-based WinterGreen Research, in a 2013 report, said telemedicine was a $1.4 billion business worldwide last year and is expected to hit $1.5 trillion in 2019.
"The world of wearable sensors is evolving," Logan said. "What are you going to do with that data: That's what we are focusing on."
The idea, said Logan, is to become good enough at interpreting health-monitoring data to improve workouts, cut medical expenses and save people's lives. And this may mean health-monitoring smartwatches or full-body sensors will be worn by more and more people, sending information into the cloud that can be interpreted by computers in real time, helping make up for future projected shortages in medical doctors.
Sensors in car seats could also help sleepy drivers so that if they drifted off during a trip control of their vehicles would be automatically shifted to a computer.
"All of this is doable; it's not blue-sky stuff," Logan said. "This is actionable information. You're empowered with data."
Business snapshot
What: MACSEA Ltd.; Body Biolytics
Where: 163 Water St., Stonington Borough
Who: Kevin Logan, president
Employees: 4
Years in business: 32
Phone: (860) 535-3885
Website: www.macsea.com
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Talk series: A perspective of biodiversity and natural productsActivity by Bryann esteban Avendaño uribe | added on May 15, 2011 | Colombia
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Talk series about the chemistry as a tool for sustainable use and exploitation of biodiversity, the natural products and the current topics in phytochemistry
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As a part of the Peace Month activities, Barry University invites the campus community to the 2013 Peace-In.
Date: Thursday, Sept. 19
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Location: Varies throughout campus
Peace-In Schedule:
Workshop Block One (9:30 – 10:50 am):
1) Violence in our Language: Examining the Words We Choose, Dr. Ruth Talman, Gato Gallery
2) Ending Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence, Jorge Veitia of SOL Media, Cor Jesu Chapel
Workshop Block Two (11 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.)
1) Institutional Violence: Drug War and Mass Incarceration, Dr. Fernando Perez, Philip Agnew of Dream Defenders, and representative from Power U, Gato Gallery
2) Strategies for Nonviolent Direct Action, Steffano Montano, Cor Jesu Chapel
LUNCH ON YOU OWN: 12:20 – 1 p.m.
Workshop Block Three (1 – 2:20 p.m.)
1) LGBT Sensitivity, Safe School South Florida, Gato Gallery
2) Half the Sky: Global Women's Rights Issues, Dr. Laura Finley, Cor Jesu Chapel
Workshop Block Four (2:30 – 3:50 p.m.)
1) Sport, Wellness and Peace, Barry University Wellness Initiative Network representative, Gato Gallery
2) Violence in the Congo, Lorna Owens of Footprints Foundation, Cor Jesu Chapel
4 – 5 p.m.: Carnival for Peace Meet outside of Cor Jesu Chapel.
The Peace-In is free and open to all. Please RSVP to Dr. Laura Finley by September 13, 2013. Email firstname.lastname@example.com "2013 Peace-In" in the subject line. Please specify which workshops you wish to attend. Entire classes are welcome as well, but email RSVP required by September 13, 2013.
This event is supported by the U.S. Institute of Peace Public Education for Peacebuilding Support Initiative.


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I saw a similar Iron Patriot at Target, which spokes phrases...including "I'm here to back you up, Iron Man"Wait, I thought he was the villain!
Man, after seeing that most recent IM3 trailer, I really wish we were getting a more proper line of figures for this year. So many armor possiblities, they wouldn't even have to make things up like they have with past lines. On a side note, I still haven't seen the Assemblers at retail around here. All the stores have reset with IM3 stuff, but those just haven't been stocked yet for some reason. I sort of doubt I'd buy any (maybe just the primary Mark 42 armor or something), but I haven't seen them. I am glad that they've brought out a Legends line specifically for Iron Man (and later, Wolverine) and sort of hope we continue to see that with other movie lines (especially with a mix of comic/movie characters).
There's an Iron Man Hall of Armor display now at the Toys R Us Times Square location. Looks like a pretty cool way to show off all of the armor!
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four94 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 197 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
We are a technology company looking to create a logo for our software as a service service division. The story behind the name is that the company was started by four people and the road connecting all of our remote staff is Chicago's i-94.
Our focus is to create very SIMPLE and useful business software for small to medium-sized businesses on a variety of platforms (web, desktop, mobile).
Four94 wants a logo that will be the cornerstone of our branding effort. It will be used on our website, business cards, stationary and other business related materials. If logo is chosen, we will give further consideration for creation of other materials. We will likely need icons/logos for our products in the near future as well.
Our competitors will be companies such as http://37signals.com and http://www.huddle.net, so we need something that stands out from them.
We would like the logo to be a combination of text and symbol. Although the symbol COULD be created from any of the text. It would be nice to be able to use the symbol as a standalone image if we wanted and still have it distincively represent our brand.
Our target customers are small to medium-sized business looking to improve their business processes through affordable, easy to use systems.
We will need the logo to be in vector format, as well as a large size, high detail PNG and the original PSD (if done in Photoshop). A CMYK image in either PDF, EPS, SVG, Corel Draw CDR, or Adobe Illustrator AI format. Any associated fonts.
We will need it to have a transparent background.
Ideally we would like the logo to use two complimentary colors in some fashion whether it's used in the text or in the symbol.
Feel free to use any font and combination of lowercase and capitalization as long as the four is spelled out and 94 stays numeric.
Here are examples of some logos we like...
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Tracy M. Soska
Housing, especially homeownership and affordable housing, remains essential to the American Dream but also among our most challenging social issues, particularly given the collapse of the housing market in the early 21st century. Housing and affordable housing are inextricably linked to both our national economic crisis and our wavering social policies. Housing is both symptomatic of and a catalyst for overarching social and economic issues, such as poverty, economic and educational inequality, and racial disparities, and it remains an unmet need for a significant portion of our population, such as the elderly, disabled, victims of abuse, those aging out of child welfare, veterans, ex-offenders, and others who encounter unique difficulties and lack of supportive services and service coordination. Advancing comprehensive and coordinated housing policies and programs remains important for social work and in the struggle for decent and affordable housing for all.
Individual Practice with Undocumented Immigrants
Flavio F. Marsiglia, Jaime M. Booth, and Adrienne Baldwin
Undocumented immigrants represent a large and vulnerable population in the United States. When conducting individual practice with undocumented immigrants, social workers must be aware of the laws that impact service provision, the unique psychosocial stressors that are experienced by this population, as well as their strengths that can be built upon. To that end, this chapter provides a snapshot of who undocumented immigrants are, a history of laws governing immigration in the in United States, an overview of the current legal climate, and a discussion of the process of acculturation and psychosocial stressors and strengths. Specifically, this chapter outlines environmental, instrumental, social, interpersonal, and societal sources of stress and strength. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how laws and unique psychosocial stressors impact individual practice with undocumented immigrants and provides suggestions for culturally competent practice.
Posttraumatic Growth
Selena T. Rodgers
Trauma literature has seen a paradigm shift from pathology to embracing positive trajectories. Posttraumatic growth (PTG), defined as a positive psychological change resulting from a struggle with traumatic or life-changing events, may occur in a variety of populations and events. This entry, therefore, aims to increase our understanding of PTG. The entry begins with the conceptualization of PTG, followed by a discussion of protective factor associations, measures, and psychometric priorities. Nuanced attention is given to global translations and cultural aspects. The entry then presents debates about the challenges, controversy, and biases, as well as an overview of the empirical literature. The entry concludes with PTG contributions for social-work practice and pedagogy, together with recommendations for future research.
Rural Practice
Judith A. Davenport and Joseph Davenport, III
Rural social work, whose history stretches back a century, has been revitalized since the mid-1970s. Definitions, typologies, and characteristics of rurality are provided, which serve as a framework for rural practice, policy, and research concerns. A primary focus is on those concerns differentiating rural from urban social work. Social workers interested in additional information are given basic references, as well as material on the National Rural Social Work Caucus, the annual National Institute on Social Work and Human Services in Rural Areas, the electronic journal, and the online listserv.
Street-Connected Children
Neela Dabir
This article focuses on the long-standing global concern of children who live or work on the street, with developing countries having a larger share of the problem. It reviews the paradigm shift in the way we look at the "street children" phenomenon and the appropriateness of the new terminology, street-connected children. The article maintains that with an increased understanding of different aspects of the life experiences of these children, through research and practice, it is possible to move toward a more precise definition and estimation of the phenomenon. It also elaborates how social work interventions in different parts of the world have demonstrated effective strategies to work with street-connected children and include them in the larger agenda of child protection at the local, national, and global levels.
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Like all PAR shaped lamps, a PAR20 bulb gives you focused light within its stated beam spread, in contrast with more diffuse light from R and BR reflector lamps. This means a PAR20 is ideal for accent lighting, drawing attention to a certain area or item. This makes a PAR20 shape perfect for a number of residential and commercial applications, and these bulbs are often used in retail settings to feature products. For details, visit our PAR LEDs article.
Choosing a PAR20 LED rather than a halogen option means saving energy and enjoying a much longer bulb life, saving you money on your electric bill as well as on maintenance and on total bulb costs over time. LEDs also provide good color rendering and provide instant-on light without any mercury content.
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zorane needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 37 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
i like clean & fresh designs.
The design should use the color scheme from the attached business card.
main container should be centered
width: 960px or 1080px
nav bar: home | web development | mobile development | it operations | contact | imprint
final draft as .psd with layers
- left top corner: colored logo
- horizontal navigation bar
- background-color: not pure black, take the background-color from the business card
it's kind of dark grey with brown influence
- main top banner 960px or 1080px, depends on your draft
- underneath the main banner 3 rectangle boxes with rounded corners
- footer: unicolored logo with sitemap (3 column), facebook and twitter logo single-colored like my logo
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Jennifer Lawrence fan behind bars over stalking allegations
An overzealous JENNIFER LAWRENCE fan has been jailed after showing up outside the actress' home in Kentucky and sending her brother a threatening message.
Han Cong Zhao is being held at the Jefferson County Jail after turning up at The Hunger Games star's family home in Louisville on 18 April (13).
He is also accused of attempting to contact the actress' brother Blaine more than 200 times and leaving him a voicemail message stating, "I find you or you come to me. You got me really upset. When I am upset, wait and see what happens."
The 23-year-old former university student from Canada was charged with stalking Lawrence's relatives, and has been ordered to have no contact with the family.
According to USA Today, he has pleaded not guilty, pending a trial set for 23 July (13).
In a statement, the Oscar winner's lawyer Brad Hume said the Lawrence family appreciates the "responsiveness and professionalism" of the local police.
Hume adds, "Beyond that the Lawrences asked that their privacy be respected. This is not something they invited."


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Recently, I was honored with a Photography Challenge- Props Award for my Ocean Soap. The other awesome soaps pictured here were also winners. See how inspiring this is?
My Giant Lolly Soaps also were one of the Soap Sculpting Winners.
Looking at other's work is inspiring and trying to come up with a unique, fun entry is a great challenge.
Thanks, Bramble Berry for the recognition and the inspiration!
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By Rich McIlhenny
As I rounded third I heard the ball buzz past my right ear, after being thrown from Jesse, the third baseman, to the catcher. "This will be over his head or in the dirt, and I can score standing up, and this game will all be over," I thought to myself as the crowd started to cheer at my brazen attempt to score from first base on a fielder's choice…..
Let's back it up a bit. It's a hot summer night in late June, most likely 1974. I am playing in a Little League game at the Water Tower on the back field near the train tracks. My fellow Giants — Jim Reilly, Steve Schultz, Louigi Bruno and Jimmy Carroll — and I were playing against the Seamus Sharpe and David Shelly-led Pirates. With the bases loaded and our side down by 3 runs, I cracked an opposite-field grand slam home run that rolled up the hills that we would sled down in the winter, and the whole team jumped on me after I crossed home plate to give us the win.
As I sat on the bench during my 9-year-old son Jesse's Little League practice on that same field last month, I looked over at those hills and tried to bring back that memory and make it more vivid. I started thinking about my white cleats with red and blue stripes and how the left fielder in the other game going on in the other field almost got run over by the Pirates right fielder on the way towards the hills chasing down my home run.
I then glanced towards the wall of the Recreation Center behind the left field fence and remembered when a home run would hit off it only once in a great while. And when it was, it would be talked about in Holy Cross, Houston and OMC schools for at least a week afterwards.
"Hey Parents! Let's all play a scrimmage with the kids! We'll choose sides!" I heard Jesse's coach, Paul Ruddick, shout out. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I got off the bench and stood among the other middle-aged moms and dads and their kids, anticipating showing them that I still had some skills left in my creaky, swollen body. I was picked to be on my younger son Daniel's team and headed towards the mound, having been chosen to pitch. I was pretty impressed with my aim, except for the one that got away when I plunked a young player in the back. We made it through the top of the first without giving up a run, though.
When it was my turn to bat, a boy looked up at me and said, "How far are you going to hit it?" I told him that I had once hit one up in them thar' hills where we go sledding in the winter, but that it had been quite a while ago.
Standing at the plate with a bat that felt as big as a coffee stirrer in my hands, I tried to sidestep the first pitch from a 10-year-old named Max that was headed towards me. Not having the reflexes that I used to, I was unable to get out of the way as the fastball smacked off the inside of my right knee. Doubled over in pain and reassuring the other parents that I was OK, I refused to take my base as I wanted to prove to myself and show the crowd that I could still hit. I laid into the next pitch, roped a single to left and trotted out to first base, wishing I had gotten under the ball more and hit it over the wall, as Billy Kalkbrenner did back in the day.
I glanced at the bench, thinking that maybe I would have Daniel pinch-run for me, but saw he was wearing a helmet and didn't want to mess up his at-bat. Before I had time to think of asking someone else, the next batter hit a slow grounder to second. I started lumbering towards second and looked back to see that they were throwing to first base and were paying no attention to me. Deciding to put on a bit of a show for those watching, I kept going to third where my other son, Jesse, was playing. The crowd started to cheer, and my glory days were coming back to me as I watched the ball head towards Jesse.
I rounded third, not expecting that Jesse had caught the ball, and that is when I felt and heard it buzzing past my ear and heading towards the waiting mitt of a young boy whose name escapes me at the moment. All I know is that I don't remember him catching a ball before and that I had no time to think as it landed right in his glove. I so wish I had that moment back.
The admirable thing to do would have been just to let him tag me out. My son throws me out, and this kid tags me, both feats they have never achieved in their short lives before, and I look like a hero. Everybody wins. Or maybe I stop and get in a cute little rundown and get out that way. Not having thought out the what ifs of this situation, I went with my natural instincts and tried a shuck-and-jive move that I last successfully pulled off during the first Reagan administration.
"In your face, 10-year-old! Don't you know that trapped inside of this deceiving body are legendary dekes and weaves that burned many twice your age with skills beyond your imagination on these same fields, and the ice and courts of my yesteryear? Don't you know that you have no chance against me?" I thought to myself in that split second before I made my moves that would leave him in awe and cause all those in attendance to roar in amazement.
Faking to the left, I felt my knee on that side, which has been operated on twice and has dislocated about eight times, about to give out, and I immediately shifted directions to the right. That was all I had in me as I plummeted towards earth with my right arm extended outwards to break my massive fall. I could hear the rotator cuff shred as the weight of my body came down on my palm, and I could also hear the cheers from the crowd turn to groans as what I had expected to be a graceful fake turned into a mortiying thud three feet short of home plate. When the dust settled and I struggled up, several parents asked if I was OK, and I said "sure I am" with a weak smile. But I knew I wasn't and that I would be in much more pain later on.
Four weeks later and with little improvement, I finally got an MRI the other day and a message the next day from the doctor that the LARGE rotator cuff tear and bicep tendon retraction would require surgery and that it would not heal on its own.
I would like to place this moment in my top five of ones that I would like back. I learned my lesson the hard way that I am no longer in my 20s and need to accept the fact that I will never make the big leagues in any sport and need to just observe the young ones do what I once did. And if anyone is keeping score, I was tagged out for the last time in my life.
Rich McIlhenny is a realtor with Remax Services, former base stealer and lifelong resident of the Chestnut Hill/Mt. Airy area. He can be reached at email@example.com or 215-275-6303.


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Attorney General Lockyer Announces Settlement with SONY BMG to Resolve Case of Secret Software Placed on Millions of CDs
Firm Will Pay Restitution for Harm Caused to Computers, Plus Civil Penalties
(LOS ANGELES) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced SONY BMG Music Entertainment will pay restitution and civil penalties to resolve a lawsuit filed by Lockyer and Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley that alleged the firm committed unfair business practices and left computers vulnerable to hackers when it surreptitiously placed on millions of CDs software to restrict consumers' ability to copy the music.
"Companies that want to load their CDs with software that limits the ability to copy music should fully inform consumers about it, not hide it, and make sure it doesn't inflict security vulnerabilities on computers," said Lockyer. "To its credit, SONY BMG learned this lesson and has stopped the practices that led to this lawsuit. But the settlement further protects consumers by prohibiting similar conduct in the future and requiring SONY BMG to pay consumers back for out-of-pocket expenses they incurred to repair harm to computers caused by the software."
Said Cooley: "In trying to gain market share, companies need to be sensitive to consumers' rights to privacy, especially in this electronic age."
The joint complaint alleges SONY BMG's conduct violated state laws prohibiting false or misleading advertising, unfair or unlawful businesses practices, and unauthorized access to computers. Lockyer and Cooley today filed the settlement and lawsuit it resolves in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Under the settlement, SONY BMG will provide refunds of up to $175 to California consumers who spent money to repair computer damage caused by trying to uninstall certain "digital rights management (DRM)" software. Consumers will have 180 days to file a refund claim. Refund claims must be submitted on a form available on SONY BMG's web site and must include a description of the harm and documentation of repair expenses.
An estimated 450,000 Californians purchased CDs with the DRM software covered by the restitution provision. An unknown number of those California buyers suffered damage to their computers and are eligible for refunds. The problems alleged in the complaint occurred only on computers with Windows operating systems.
SONY BMG also will pay $622,000 in civil penalties, and $128,000 in costs and fees, with each payment split evenly between the Attorney General's Office and District Attorney's Office. Aside from the monetary payments, the settlement includes court-enforced "injunctive relief" provisions that prohibit SONY BMG from committing the alleged unlawful practices in the future.
Between January 2005 and November 2005, according to the complaint, SONY BMG manufactured more than 12.6 million CDs with two kinds of DRM software. Californians bought about 930,000 copies of those CDs. SONY BMG did not disclose in the outer packaging the presence of the software, which was loaded on consumers' computers without their knowledge or consent when they played the CDs on their computers, the complaint alleges. The DRM software was further concealed from consumers, according to the complaint, because it was downloaded to a hidden file.
The complaint also alleges the DRM software contained flaws that created security vulnerabilities in computers, exposing them hacking and other problems. Additionally, consumers frequently suffered damage to their computers when they tried to uninstall the software themselves, without using an uninstall program later provided by SONY BMG. For example, according to the complaint, consumers who tried to remove one type of the DRM software by themselves sometimes saw their CD-ROM drives crash.
SONY BMG also failed to adequately inform consumers about "enhancement" software placed on certain titles. The enhanced CDs, when inserted into computers, allowed SONY BMG to communicate via the Internet with the user's IP address, which in turn permitted the company to send the consumer advertisements related to the particular artist.
Among the injunctive relief provisions, SONY BMG must provide adequate, pre-sale notice to consumers if music CDs contain DRM software. Additionally, SONY BMG must clearly inform consumers if the music CDs they purchase contain an enhanced feature that allows the company's servers to collect consumers' IP address and other personal information when the CD is inserted into the computer. SONY BMG also must obtain a consumer's affirmative consent before connecting the consumers' computer to the Internet.


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Contrary to much of the propaganda put out by the mainstream media, this alternative does not involve "sitting in a cave with a candle," but is instead one where technology becomes our servant not our master, where we have ample time for leisure and relationships with family and friends, which actually makes us happier, instead of living in the world we have now, being made perpetually unsatisfied by advertising selling us the latest consumer junk, which is programmed to break down as soon as the guarantee runs out so that it has to be replaced. And where we have to work harder than ever simply to keep a roof over our heads (unless we happen to be one of the wealthy minority that rules the world these days).
But many people simply do not believe that such a world is possible, so they need a good example giving a practical demonstration of what is possible. This is where the Zero Carbon Caravan comes in (here the word caravan is used in the sense of a group of people traveling together, rather than a metal box towed behind a car.)
We will demonstrate how it is possible to travel, work and play all without generating any carbon emissions at all. We will provide a positive, inspiring vision of the future, where, instead of merely consuming, we lead fulfilling lives. A future where a conversation about the summer vacation goes something like I spent a month as a volunteer crewing on a yacht bringing fair trade bananas over to Europe from the Caribbean rather than I flew off for a couple of weeks in Bali (for in our alternative future people will have much longer holidays, fulfilling the promise we were made in the 1960s of a world where machines would do much of the work, and humans would be free to indulge their leisure pursuits).
The idea is to get to the Copenhagen climate talks this year without using any fossil fuels (that is going to be mainly cycling and sailing, but could include other methods such as sea kayaking too, as long as no fossil fuels are involved) to demand "a Zero Carbon World, as fast as we can" (because there is probably already too much carbon in the atmosphere -- the Arctic sea ice is melting, which could set off a chain of positive feedback effects leading to the Amazon burning and the global temperature rocketing 10C or more in a few decades, threatening the lives of billions). We hope to have people from all over the world, traveling in yachts from other continents as well as Europe.
We will begin in Machynlleth in mid-Wales, home to both the Centre for Alternative Technology, authors of the Zero Carbon Britain report and the Public Interest Research Centre, which produced the Climate Safety report in November 2008 , and the theme of the journey will be "from Zero Carbon Britain to a Zero Carbon World." We will showcase positive solutions, such as the Green New Deal and visit inspiring places such as http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/TransitionNetwork" target="_blank">Transition Towns
On the way we will be holding media events and Zero Carbon Conferences (public meetings where we explain the need for zero carbon emissions in terms of the climate science, then discuss with the public the means of achieving it, ending up by encouraging them to get involved in the campaign for zero carbon by lobbying their politicians, and starting zero carbon initiatives in their own communities).
We will hold a "Zero Carbon World Conference for a Zero Carbon World" at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (this will be zero carbon because participants will get there without using fossil fuels -- most of them from the University, which has two world class institutions -- the Climate Research Unit and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) and it will be a world conference because we will have some of the worlds top climate scientists participating via video link, demonstrating the use of technology to save the world instead of destroy it, showing how we can work in a zero carbon way).
We can all look forward to Zero Carbon Concerts, which rely on a minimum of bicycle-generated electricity to power the PA for the band, and lots of audience participation, so we're using people power not fossil fuel power, showing how we can play without emitting carbon. The conferences and concerts will be broadcast over internet radio, and we will be in touch with national, regional and local media so that the Caravan attains the maximum possible visibility, thus maximising the pressure on the negotiators in Copenhagen.
The Caravan will be a relay, so people don't have to come all the way to Copenhagen, they can just join for a few days. The 'baton' for the relay will be a scroll of paper detailing the science behind the necessity for zero carbon emissions, and the solutions in terms of lifestyle change and technology such as renewable energy and home insulation. This will be backed up by a datastick, to which we will add material as we travel, all of the material being placed on our website.
When we arrive in Copenhagen, we will hold a "Zero Carbon World Concert for a Zero Carbon World," which will involve a Zero Carbon Concert being broadcast over internet radio (using renewable electricity) so that people can join in all over the world. This will end with the song "Ship in Distress" by Seize the Day, which concludes "Or can we change our ways forever, before those reckoning times arrive? If we act now, and we act together, our children's children may yet survive."
We are converging with other groups of activists from all over the world who are coming to Copenhagen, if not in a zero carbon manner, then at least using low carbon travel, getting buses and trains instead of planes. This international convergence is being led by Anna Keenan from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition who aims to bring over a large contingent traveling overland from Australia.
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The Zero Carbon Caravan is organised entirely by volunteers, so if you can help in any way -- fundraising, media work, organising accommodation and meetings etc, but especially if you can offer us lifts on yachts, or you want to cycle with us -- please get in touch with the coordinator, Chris Keene. Email: chris.keene "at" zerocarboncaravan "dot" net Telephone: +44(0)1603 614535. Address: 33 Dell Crescent, Norwich NR5 8QB, UK. The website for Zero Carbon Caravan is zerocarboncaravan.net.
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Editor's note: Sail Transport Network -- of great interest to the author Chris Keene -- could do nothing more worthwhile than to have a high profile for getting activists to the U.N. Copenhagen climate convergence. The STN's initial demonstration projects will by then hopefully be broadly known and offer ways of booking transit on sail boats -- bound for Copenhagen or anywhere. Future trade and passenger service via sail will carry humanity forward on our fragile, fierce globe. See Sail Transport Network and Sail Transport Company, and stay tuned for SailTransportNetwork.com. Support STN by donating to Culture Change. - JL
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CHARLOTTE, NC Feb. 4, 2014 – Charlotte Motor Speedway officials are pleased to announce OldRide.com as the presenting sponsor of one of the largest and most prestigious car shows in the country, the April 3-6 AutoFair, making the official entitlement Charlotte Motor Speedway AutoFair hosted by OldRide.com.
OldRide.com, owned by MotorHead Media, is an online community and classified website for classic cars, trucks, muscle cars, street rods and enthusiasts of all collector cars. The site currently features more than 5,000 vehicles for sale all around the country. Together, OldRide.com and Charlotte Motor Speedway will present some exciting new opportunities in the coming weeks for attendees of the four-day event.
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"Charlotte Motor Speedway has done a tremendous job building one of the largest car shows in the country. The AutoFair serves the collector car community with an opportunity to showcase and sell a wide-ranging group of awesome collector vehicles," said Rob Adams, vice president of sales and marketing for MotorHead Media. "As one of the largest online collector car marketplaces and communities, OldRide.com is proud to be hosting the AutoFair. Both Charlotte Motor Speedway and OldRide.com share a passion for the cars and the fun, family atmosphere that a car show is all about. We look forward to adding to the already superior event."
The spring AutoFair features more than 50 car club displays and more than 10,000 vendor spaces that offer an array of automotive parts and memorabilia. More than 1,500 collectible vehicles of all makes and models make up the car corral that rings the 1.5-mile superspeedway. In addition, hundreds of unique automobiles will be auctioned by Dealer Auctions Inc. There's something for the whole family as kids can enjoy face-painting, bounce houses and other games and entertainment in the gigantic Play Zone.
"We are proud to have OldRide.com onboard to help us make AutoFair bigger and better than ever before," said Marcus Smith, president and general manager of Charlotte Motor Speedway. "Car enthusiasts of all ages will find something to love at the world's largest automotive extravaganza. They can go online to OldRide.com to get revved up before the show, and then join us at the speedway for the very best in family fun."
Charlotte Motor Speedway AutoFair hosted by OldRide.com tickets are $10 for adults and free for children 13 and under. A four-day pass is available for $30. The April 3-6 AutoFair will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
For tickets and additional information about the AutoFair or other events at Charlotte Motor Speedway, call 1-800-455-FANS (3267) or visit www.charlottemotorspeedway.com. Follow Charlotte Motor Speedway on Facebook at www.facebook.com/charlottemotorspeedway or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cltmotorspdwy.
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OldRide.com, owned by MotorHead Media, is an online community and classified website for classic car, truck, muscle car and street rod enthusiasts, featuring more than 5,000 vehicles for sale all around the country. OldRide.com is one of the world's leading online destinations to buy, sell and browse collector cars. OldRide.com is part of MotorHead Media's interrelated, complementary group of online marketplaces serving automotive and motorsports enthusiasts. Their extended family of niche-focused, online classified sites includes: RacingJunk.com; OldRide.com; HotRodHotLine.com; BikerHotLine.com; CollectorCarNation.com; Sprocketlist.com


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In case you didn't know, e-bikes are big news on the continent. Eurobike is always full of them, but we only ever see a very small percentage of them over here.
Why is that? Well, the e-bike market is built around cycling as a form of transport, and cycling for transport is bigger news across the channel than it is in the UK. Even with the success of the cycle to work scheme getting more people on bikes on a daily basis, the fact that most people are limited to a spend of £1,000 puts most electric bikes out of reach. Most good ones, anyway.
There are plenty of good ones, too. In the mainstream market the bottom bracket motor has mostly taken over as the standard way of doing things, and specifically the Bosch bottom bracket motor, which was everywhere at Eurobike. Bosch have just released a new version of their system; it uses the same basic drivetrain as before but it's been updated and there's a new control unit.
Called Intuvia, the bar-mounted control now consists of two parts. In the middle there's the main display which functions both as a bike computer and a display for the electrics. It'll tell you how fast you're going, how much battery you have left, what mode you're in, all the usual. Complementing that there's a remote switch, which is designed to be placed by the grip so that you can access it without taking your hands off the bars. It has plus and minus buttons to change the assist level, and an info button in the middle to switch between displays on the main head unit. It's all very neat and tidy.
I've used the Bosch system before but had a go on one of Cannondale's excellent e-Series bikes to try out the new dashboard. It's very clear and easy to use, there's a backlight for when you're out after dark and the remote makes giving yourself an extra boost really easy. Okay it's no great hardship to press a button in a centre console but having the switch to hand means you're more in control, and that's a good thing. The Bosch, like nearly all the e-bikes at Eurobike, is a pedelec - pedal assist, rather than throttle powered. This is to comply with EU laws for electric bikes. There's still some throttle bikes but they tend to be more powerful off-road machines. More on EU laws in a bit.
The Bosch system gives you four levels of assist. Eco is the lowest, with the motor adding 30% on top of any power you're supplying. After that it's Tour (100%), Sport (180%) and Turbo (250%) for a super-quick getaway at the lights or the steeper hills. Power delivery and control is pretty faultless, it's a very smooth system that's perfect for bike-as-transport kind of riding. Two batteries are available, a 300Wh and a 400Wh. The higher capacity one just uses better (and more expensive) cells, the casing is the same.
The e-Series bike I rode was limited to 25km/h like most e-bikes are, with a maximum output of 250W; again, that's what the EU law stipulates. Technically UK law limits the power of an e-bike to 200W although that slightly lower limit isn't actually enforced. However, one thing that has happened over the last two years is that more companies have made motors that comply with another set of guidelines, which allow electric assistance up to 45km/h and a motor rating of up to 500W, twice the usual power. The downside is that the bike needs to be registered.
The exact requirements vary between EU states; in all cases they can theoretically be registered and insured as mopeds, since they comply with current moped legislation; so far as we're aware that's the situation in the UK although we've never actually attempted to register a high-power e-bike. In theory you should simply be able to pay your £55 vehicle registration fee and £16 VED and be able to secure some insurance, but whether the DVLA would have the right boxes to tick or insurance products actually exist is yet to be tested by us - anyone tried? In Germany and Switzerland there's separate laws governing the use of higher power bikes. German law, for example, requires the bikes to be registered and insured but you don't need a helmet and you're not allowed on segregated shared-use paths.
For the sake of completeness (and because it looked like fun) I also took out a 500W bike for a spin, this Stromer ST-1 from Switzerland. It's a hub motor bike, although Bosch and others do make a high power version of their bottom bracket motor. The Stromer's 500kWh battery is hidden inside the down tube; you can remove it to charge or use the built-in port if you're storing the bike in the garage.
Certainly it's a fun bike to ride, with plenty of power on tap. 45km/h is pretty quick for a commute but the real benefit is in the extra power that's available for getting off the lights quickly and tackling the hills; it's no wonder they're popular in topographically-challenged Switzerland. Stromer's bar-mounted controller isn't quite the ergonomic marvel that the new Bosch is, but it's very usable. The Stromer has regenerative modes, too, to charge the battery when you're coasting down a hill.
It wasn't just hub motors and bottom bracket motors either. This Protanium bike was getting a lot of attention, with a motor incorporated into a shaft drive. Shaft drives on bikes have been around almost as long as bikes themselves, but mostly as a curiosity; they're heavier than a chain drive and not as efficient. If you're making an e-bike though they suddenly make a lot of sense: efficiency and weight aren't such a big deal, and you have an enclosed drivetrain with a shaft that you can use as the rotor for the motor. That's essentially what Protanium have done here: the motor drive is built around the shaft making a very compact and fully enclosed solution. Good stuff.
AEG had a new system on display too, although we didn't get to ride it as we couldn't find a working prototype. It's a chainset motor, the main benefit of which is that it can be retrofitted to pretty much any bike and gives similar benefits to a bottom bracket system: central weight placement and simpler measuring of pedal input for power assistance. They had a nice smartphone-esque display, too, and a mockup of a grip-mounted remote not unlike the Bosch one.
Automatic gears are gaining ground too. Last year we had a go on NuVinci's auto-shifting version of their CVT hub, and it worked pretty well. This year Winora had bikes with electric shifting and an automatic option, based on a Shimano Nexus 7-speed hub. The automatic system, made by JD Group, senses speed and cadence and changes gear accordingly. We would expect more and more manufacturers to pick up on this trend as it makes a lot of sense on an e-bike.
Design-wise there were a lot - a LOT - of sensible looking utility e-bikes, no great surprise when Eurobike is full of non-powered sensible-looking utility bikes too. Some of the models on display stood out though. Here are a few.
This step-through design from Eden caught our eye: loads of nice detailing including a very lovely crankset and neat cable routing through the head tube. Electrics-wise it's a front hub motor with a rack-mounted battery, the overall look of the bike is very stylish.
Electrolyte had this low-standover urban bike with a frame-mounted battery filling the main triangle. Internal cabling, disc brakes and a Gates Carbon belt drive are all on-trend, the BionX hub motor still has a decent market share although it's been overtaken a bit by the bottom bracket systems. If you're looking to make a good-looking e-bike, though, a hub's still the one to go for.
Ave's Town manages to look quite nice even with a bottom bracket motor, although it's a pity that they couldn't do something a bit more imaginative with the battery.
Protanium's most minimal drive system is a very small hub motor and reasonably small battery, which lends itself to more minimal urban bikes like this Diavelo singlespeed.
Scooter-esque small wheelers were another emerging trend in e-bikes; Riese und Muller had their Kendu but we liked this Winora better, with its mag wheels and confident paintwork. good battery placement too.
Merida were just one of hundreds of manufacturers showing off e-MTBs at the show. You can get anything from a basic hardtail to a full-on freeride rig. Again, it's a big thing over the channel.
For every good-looking e-bike there were a dozen ordinary-looking ones though, and a half-dozen really-bad-looking ones. Case in point: Biketronic.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc and responsible for kicking the server when it breaks. In a previous life he was a graphic designer but he's also a three-time Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling world champion, and remains unbeaten through the bog. Dave rides all sorts of bikes but tends to prefer metal ones. He's getting old is why.


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Local artist Jared Mahone to play The Katie Couric show today at 3 p.m. on NBC4.
We've always known local singer-songwriter Jared Mahone is awesome, but now, Katie Couric knows too.
This afternoon The Katie Couric Show house band (joined by Mahone and band mate Matt Holley) will be performing some of Mahone original songs on the show.
If you remember, Mahone recently took the top prize at Verizon's Indie Icon Competition. Ohio against the world, indeed!
Tune in this afternoon (Nov.1) on NBC4 at 3 p.m.
Or check out his grand prize performace at Verizon's Indie Icon finals in New Orleans!


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Michael Jordan on Expectancy
Michael Jordan on Expectancy Today's quote is from the amazing Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time. Jordan made the profound statement: "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." That's important insight into the value of expectancy. As a differentiating value, expectancy means anticipating with confidence of fulfillment; or a belief centered on the future. Jordan didn't become so great by accident or luck. He believed in a great future by anticipating it. His confidence came first, and then his competence quickly followed. Many people like to reference the statement "believe in yourself." But Jordan's statement brings greater clarity to this idea. His belief is centered on the future because he expects it. And he expects it from himself. What about you? Do you have a dream? Do you have a desire to do something great or become the greatest in your field? If so, I encourage you to carefully study the value of expectancy. When you combine anticipation with confidence, and a willingness to challenge yourself, you might just become the Michael Jordan in your field. Now, wouldn't that be cool?


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Meet Carlos Arredondo – The Peace Activist Who Held Someone's Arteries Closed After the Horrific Bombing in Boston
As at least 3 died and over 25 were injured during the explosions at the Boston marathon, there was one man who stepped up. Though he wasn't looking for attention, peace activist Carlos Arrendondo, helped many. I thought we could give him the recognition he deserves.
He accounts what he saw:
Naturally he's still shaking, still in shock from the events of earlier in the day. There is even a gruesome shot of him holding the arteries of a man who literally lost the lower part of his legs.
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And just like that ... Rihanna's back where it all started ... Chris Brown's passenger seat.
The on-again couple relived their past earlier today in L.A., where they picked up some refreshments -- including an Icee -- at a gas station convenience store.
You'll recall, Rihanna was riding shotgun back in 2009 when CB unleashed a ferocious beatdown on her face -- but today, she was nothing but smiles.
Oh yeah, that red sweatshirt she's wearing is Chris' clothing line -- Black Pyramid.
Hope Part 2 works out better.
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"But I think that's the wrong way to look at it," Yglesias write. "The purchase of these companies is a confirmation that Apple's risky Maps strategy is continuing to pay dividends and in retrospect we're going to look back at this early Tim Cook decision not as an embarassing fiasco but as a gutsy savvy move."
"Now what Apple needs to do is keep iterating so that its Maps app keeps getting better. In Apple's ideal world, mapping applications will at some point reach an era of sharply diminishing returns so that Apple and Google will reach maps parity," Yglesias write. "But an acceptable outcome is one in which Apple never catches Google in maps quality, but simply never allows Google to gain a large enough lead for it to become complacent about the quality of Google Maps for iOS."
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DURHAM, N.H. - Paul Thompson (Derry, N.H.) and Phil DeSimone (East Amherst, N.Y.) both recorded two points and Matt Di Girolamo (Ambler, Pa.) stopped 31 of 32 shots to lead the 10th-ranked University of New Hampshire men's hockey team to Friday night's 3-1 victory against the University of Vermont in Game 1 of the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinals at the Whittemore Center.
UNH, the second seed by virtue of its 17-6-4 league record, improved to 20-9-6 overall. Seventh-seeded UVM, which compiled a 6-14-7 Hockey East record, is now 8-19-8. Game 2 is Saturday, March 12 (7 p.m.) at the Whittemore Center. Game 3, if necessary, is March 13 (7 p.m.), also at the Whitt.
Di Girolamo backboned UNH to a 1-0 first-period lead by stopping all 14 shots he faced. He went on to record eight saves in the second period and nine in the third, and kept UVM scoreless on five power-play opportunities (eight shots). DeSimone and Thompson both tallied a goal and an assist and Stevie Moses (Leominster, Mass.) netted UNH's other goal.
Vermont goaltender Rob Madore made 17 saves in the second and 10 in the third en route to a 30-save effort.
The Wildcats were outshot 14-4 in the first period but took a 1-0 lead into the first intermission. Thompson, the 2011 Hockey East Scoring Champion, netted his team-leading 27th goal - and 50th point - of the season at 4:23. DeSimone carried the puck into the attack zone on the right wing and continued through the circle to the goal line. Before circling behind the net, DeSimone through the puck to the low slot to Thompson, who scored on a low shot. Di Girolamo made a pair of acrobatic saves to keep the Catamounts scoreless in the first period. Midway through the stanza, Matt Marshall corralled a loose puck at the right doorstep and looped behind the net for a wraparound shot, but Di Girolamo sprawled across the crease to stop the puck with his glove.
UVM went on its second power play of the night at 11:10 and nearly scored one minute later when a loose puck found the stick of Jack Downing at the left post, but Di Girolamo quickly shifted to the post to thwart Downing. UVM maintained possession, however, and Drew MacKenzie's screened shot from the slot was enveloped by Di Girolamo.
Both teams netted a second-period goal to advance the score to 2-1 in favor of New Hampshire through 40 minutes. With 12 minutes on the clock, a UNH turnover in the neutral zone led to a 2-on-1 rush by the Catamounts.
Chris McCarthy carried the puck into the right circle and centered a pass to Sebastian Stalberg, whose shot was blocked by defenseman Damon Kipp (Salmon Arm, British Columbia) over the boards. After the ensuing faceoff, another UNH neutral-zone turnover, led to a rush down the slot by Tobias Nilsson-Roos, whose shot from the top of the crease ricocheted off Di Girolamo's right shoulder.
McCarthy slipped past the defense with seven minutes remaining in the second stanza, but Di Girolamo once again proved to be the last line of a defense with another save. Anthony DeCenzo controlled the rebound, however, and from deep on the left wing he sent a pass to the low slot and Stalberg jammed a shot into the cage.
The Wildcats nearly regained the lead on a delayed penalty call against UVM with four minutes to play, but Dalton Speelman (San Jose, Calif.) was denied twice by Madore on a backdoor play at the right doorstep.
UNH went on the power play at 16:11, however, and capitalized on the skater advantage to score a power-play goal and regain the lead, 2-1, at 18:11. From the faceoff dot on the left wing, Mike Sislo (Superior, Wis.) moved the puck low in the circle to Thompson. He saucered a centering pass and DeSimone redirected the puck out of midair high into the right side of the net.
Moses extended the advantage to 3-1 at 9:09 of the third period when, from the low slot, he one-timed a Mike Borisenok (Watervliet, N.Y.) pass from the left corner. Kevin Goumas (Lake Worth, Fla.) was also credited with an assist.
Madore was pulled in favor of an extra with 74 seconds remaining in regulation, and UVM called time out with 53 seconds on the clock. The Catamounts could not sustain pressure, however, as Di Girolamo went untested the rest of the way.


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The Accident of Art
MIT University Press Group Limited, 2005 - Art - 119 pages
There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the "optically correct" is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Instead, they've masked this failure with commercial success. This "accident" is provoking a reversal of values. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive.
—Paul Virilio, The Accident of Art
Urbanist and technological theorist Paul Virilio trained as a painter, studying under Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Bazaine and de Stael. In The Accident of Art, his third extended conversation with Sylvere Lotringer, Virilio addresses the situation of art within technological society for the first time. This book completes a collaborative trilogy the two began in 1982 with Pure War and continued with Crepuscular Dawn, their 2002 work on architecture and biotechnology.
In The Accident of Art, Virilio and Lotringer argue that a direct relation exists between war trauma and art. Why has art failed to reinvent itself in the face of technology, unlike performing art? Why has art simply retreated into painting, or surrendered to digital technology? Accidents, Virilio claims, can free us from speed's inertia. As technological catastrophes, accidents are inventions in their own right.
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text: http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_26349111/federal-agency-reconsider-trinity-klamath-releases-salmon Federal agency to reconsider Trinity-Klamath releases for salmon Decision comes after several meetings with tribes Will Houston and Jeff Barnard The Times-Standard and The Associated Press POSTED: 08/16/2014 12:33:18 AM PDT0 COMMENTS| UPDATED: ABOUT 10 HOURS AGO Click photo to enlarge Moss and blue-green algae on the Trinity River near Hoopa is one... (Photo courtesy of Viv Orcutt) Following several meetings with North Coast tribes and government officials, the federal agency that oversees water in Northern California's Klamath Basin is taking another look at releasing water from Trinity Lake to prevent the spread of disease among salmon returning to spawn in drought conditions. A U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokeswoman said Friday a decision is likely next week. Yurok Tribe Fisheries Program Manager Dave Hillemeier called the announcement "good news." "We met with the Bureau of Reclamation last week and presented our rationale why they should provide some preventative flow releases to minimize the risk of another fish kill," he said. "They told us that they would consider that information, and I'm glad that they are. It sounds like they are gathering more information. Hopefully, some more knowledge on the conditions — as they are right now — is going to get them to do the right thing." After the bureau's July 31 decision not to make pre-emptive releases from Trinity Lake to cool the waters in the Trinity and Klamath rivers, tribes and North Coast government officials have urged the agency to reconsider due to the drought causing low flows and high temperatures — optimal conditions for a fish kill. In 2002, the combination of those two factors led to a massive fish die-off in the Klamath River during which tens of thousands of salmon and other fish perished in a matter of days. The bureau had earlier denied a request from the Yurok and Hoopa Valley tribes to release water from Lewiston Dam on the Trinity River to prevent the spread of a parasite that attacks salmon in stagnant waters, stating that it would perform emergency releases should significant numbers of fish start to sicken or die. Tribal scientists, like Hoopa Tribal Fisheries Director Mike Orcutt, said by then it would be too late as it would take several days for the water to reach the downriver salmon and steelhead. "Part of the problem is that it has been the feds coming up with the different alternatives," he said. The Hoopa Valley Tribe took its case to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell when she was in Redding on Tuesday, and she agreed to review the situation by sending staff members to see the condition of the rivers with their own eyes. On Thursday, the official responsible for making the controversial decision — Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director David Murillo — and several other federal agency representatives took a river tour with the tribe. During the trip, the tribe was able to show the officials alarming signs such as the blooming of blue-green algae that creates toxic aquatic environments and large groups of salmon huddling near small tributaries. With the announcement coming the day after the tour, Orcutt said it was a step in the right direction, but the state and tribes should be more involved. "They need to put the experts in the room and come up with, hopefully, an agreeable release of water," he said. "That will be the biggest thing we'll bump our heads up against is the volume of water that is released." Proper protection for the salmon and the rivers is critical to the tribe, Hillemeier said. "This is something that has been a great concern for the tribal council and tribal members, and it's encouraging that they're considering this information because we don't want to relive what we experienced back in 2002 with the fish kill," he said. Will Houston can be reached at 707-441-0504. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.dcn.org/pipermail/env-trinity/attachments/20140816/21c41808/attachment.html


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CityJet starts Manchester-Antwerp; cancels Manchester-London
CityJet, the Ireland-based subsidiary of Air France, has announced it will fly between Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN; ICAO: EGCC) in North West England, and Deurne Airport (IATA: ANR; ICAO: EBAW) in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The route will be operated with the Fokker 50. The precise timetable of the route is unpredictable, on some days flying two round trips, and on other days not flying at all. The airline had planned to start service between Manchester and London City Airport (IATA: LCY; ICAO: EGLC), but recently set aside those plans.
Moreover, the Qatari national airline Qatar Airways has launched service between its base at Doha International Airport (IATA: DOH; ICAO: OTBD) and Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (IATA: YUL; ICAO: CYUL) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This service will operate in both directions, three times weekly, on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, according to search results returned by the airline's website. Flight times are 13 hours 20 minutes westbound, and 12 hours 25 minutes eastbound, according to results returned by the airline ticket booking engine at www.kayak.com/flights. The new Doha-Montreal route will be flown with the Boeing 777-200ER.
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The Blue Crushers, a girls' under-10 team from AYSO Region 55 (Huntington Beach), took third place Sunday at the Section 11 tournament at Chapman Sports Park in Garden Grove.
The Blue Crushers are division champions in both Region 55 and Area K.
Cities represented at the Section 11 tournament included Huntington Beach, South Irvine, Bonita (San Diego), Downey, Cerritos, Ladera Ranch, San Marcos and La Mesa.
The Blue Crushers opened the tournament Saturday with a 2-0 shutout of South Irvine, then scored a 3-1 win over the Cherry Bomb Crushers from Bonita. In their third game, the Blue Crushers suffered their first loss of the season when they were defeated, 3-1 by Downey.
In the third-place game against the Cerritos Goal Getters, the Blue Crushers used a big second half to overcome a 2-0 deficit to post a 3-2 victory. Vanessa Tapia, Annika Wiederin and Nicole Serrano scored goals and the defensive stand of Sophia Harmon, Grace Anderegg, Amanda Khoury and goalie Skyler MacDuff held the Goal Getters scoreless down the stretch.
Congratulations to the Huntington Beach Blue Crushers from Region 55. The Blue Crushers, coached by Mark Rule and Dave Weiderin, are: Lindsay Rule, Annika Wiederin, Vanessa Tapia, Sophia Harmon, Grace Anderegg, Amanda Khoury, Skyler MacDuff, Nicole Serrano and Midori Chaney-Russell.
— From staff reports
HB Fundraiser
The Huntington Beach High boys' volleyball program is holding an E-waste fundraiser to raise funds to send its teams to various tournaments in the upcoming 2013 season.
Collections are now underway and E-waste recyclables can be dropped off at the school parking lot between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Feb. 23. To arrange a pick-up before the Feb. 23 drop-off date, call Therese Butler at (714) 724-2453.
— From staff reports
Camp taking place at Marina
A Youth Strength and Speed Camp is underway at Marina High.
Camp sessions are from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. every Monday through Thursday at the school's track until June 6.
The sessions are open to youth in grades sixth through eighth and are geared to prep athletes to compete on the track, field or court. Sessions will focus on speed development and mobility through strength, power, explosiveness, technique, safety, change of direction and sprinting mechanics, conditioning, injury prevention, leadership and character and work ethic development.
The cost is $5 per session and one-on-one sessions are available.
Youth will be coached by George Pascoe (Marina varsity football head coach), Andrew Bonsall (Marina freshman football head coach), and Turill Engleman (Marina varsity football speed and strength coach).
For more information, call Bonsall at (714) 469-5503.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Twins have added Paul Molitor to their coaching staff, assigning him supervision of the team's base running, bunting, infield instruction and positioning as well as assistance with in-game strategy.
This is not some token job for a prominent, popular former player. All of those areas need a lot of work, so Molitor is going to be busy.
"He's certainly got a history and knowledge and a high baseball IQ," general manager Terry Ryan said. "There's no doubt about that. It fits pretty good here."
The hire was announced Tuesday by the Twins, who finished 66-96 for the second straight season after going 63-99 the year before that.
"There's really no part of the game that we can't do better at," Molitor said, adding: "I'm going to be able to work on guys who need to have a small-ball game, with the things they can do, with ways to score runs. I think that's kind of a lost art. Guys worry so much about getting on base, but they forget how to score and how to pick up 90 feet. While it wasn't horrible, I think it certainly could be better."
Since 2005, Molitor has served as a minor league base running and infield coordinator for the organization. The last three of his 21 major league seasons as a player came with the Twins until his retirement in 1998.
The 57-year-old grew up in nearby St. Paul, attending the same high school where Joe Mauer later starred and then playing for the University of Minnesota before his professional career was launched with Milwaukee and extended with Toronto. The seven-time All-Star is one of six players in history with at least 3,000 hits and 500 stolen bases.
Molitor was a candidate to be Minnesota's manager in 2002 after Tom Kelly retired, but he withdrew during the unsettling process during which Major League Baseball tried to eliminate the franchise before being blocked in court. The job went to Ron Gardenhire, who has held it since then and received a new two-year contract last month. All of Gardenhire's assistants were brought back, too, so the position for Molitor on staff is new.
"I appreciate that he's respected my input in spring training when he's had me come down there as an extra coach those first few weeks the past several years," Molitor said. "We've talked again often. It's going to be a chance for us to take that kind of to another level in how we're going to work together, as me being as part of his staff."
Gardenhire needn't look over his shoulder, Ryan said. The idea to hire Molitor was Gardenhire's, actually.
"Gardy has no reason to worry about his job," Ryan said, adding: "I didn't want to be perceived as hiring Molitor as a manager-in-waiting. That's not true. We're adding him to our staff to make us better."
Molitor didn't dismiss eventual interest in becoming a manager. But he didn't sound ready to think about it.
"I'm sure there'll be some questions regarding that. There's been a lot of speculation even over the last season about Gardy's potential future, and I just don't think that I can really say anything other than this is going to be invaluable for me in terms of getting back into a major league situation and continuing to gain experience and maybe learning more about what I want my future to be," Molitor said.
Third baseman Trevor Plouffe tweeted after the news was announced: "Wow, so stoked to see Molitor join our staff! He's one of the most knowledgeable baseball men I've ever met."
Ryan was glad to hear that.
"That's kind of music to my ears because I'm hoping we can get Trevor going. He's got the capability to be a pretty good player. This year wasn't what we were hoping," Ryan said.
NOTES: The Twins announced that closer Glen Perkins had arthroscopic surgery on Oct. 1 on the medial meniscus cartilage in his right knee. He'll be ready for spring training. ... Molitor has served three seasons on a major league coaching staff: with the Twins as a bench coach under Kelly in 2000 and 2001 and as hitting coach for Seattle in 2004, the year he was inducted into the Hall of Fame.


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When the closing bell rings at 4 p.m. and the stock market calls it a day, some investors are still making money — in futures.
But trading in futures can be tricky. So CNBC has recruited Rich Ilczyszyn, CEO and founder of iiTRADER.com, and Anthony Grisanti, founder and president at GRZ Energy, to reveal 10 things you need to know to trade futures.
It's part of a new CNBC initiative, "Futures Now," a multi-platform media experience devoted to futures trading. In a 15 minute live program available only on CNBC.com on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 p.m. ET, two prominent futures traders will gather for a fast-paced roundtable discussion that will focus on how to trade the news of the day using futures. From gold to gas to the S&P 500 index, the "Futures Now" traders will teach you how to turn today's events into tomorrow's profits.
So watch for "Futures Now." To prep, read on for the top traders' tips.
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A developer preview of Canonical's mobile-friendly version of Ubuntu will be published this week, enabling developers to port the platform to Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 smartphones.
The Touch Developer Preview is intended for enthusiasts and developers to familiarise themselves with Ubuntu's smartphone platform and develop applications on spare handsets.
Tools that manage the "flashing" of the phone will also be available from 21 February in the Ubuntu archives, making it easy to keep a device up to date with the latest version of the developer preview.
"Our platform supports a wide range of screen sizes and resolutions. Developers who have experience bringing up phone environments will find it relatively easy to port Ubuntu to current handsets" said Pat McGowan, who leads the integration effort that produced the images being released.
"We look forward to adding support for additional devices for everyday testing and experimentation."
Attendees of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona can have their phones flashed to Ubuntu by Canonical team members at the Ubuntu stand, (booth number 81D3).
Canonical has also released a preview SDK and App Design Guides to allow developers to create applications for the full range of Ubuntu platforms.
The toolkit provides a range of documented templates to enable native applications to be created quickly and easily. These use QML (Qt Meta Language) widgets, as well as HTML5 and OpenGL for quick interface development.
Developers will not need to cross-compile or package applications differently for phone, tablet, PC and TV, as one platform serves all four.
"The release marks the start of a new era for Ubuntu, with true convergence between devices," said Canonical in a statement. "When complete, the same Ubuntu code will deliver a mobile, tablet, desktop or TV experiences depending on the device it is installed on, or where it is docked."
The install process and supported device list are available here and will be updated as new devices are added.