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Wait, Do Copyright Holders Love Or Hate iTunes Music Match?
from the it's-wonderful!-it's-terrible! deptWe've already discussed the pointlessness of arguing over whether or not iTunes new Music Match service "legalizes" infringement. It does not. No one cared about the files on anyone's hard drive, so this doesn't make one whit of difference. Besides, my hard drive has tons of music that wasn't purchased on iTunes, but was ripped (legally) from CDs I own. How can anyone tell the difference? On top of that, if for some reason, someone actually did care about the files on a hard drive, the fact that there were copies from the "iCloud" wouldn't "legitimize" the files at all.
And yet... it's kinda funny to see the varying reactions to all of this, especially from the copyright holders themselves. On the one hand, we have a Forbes story highlighting how the IFPI loves the new service:
IFPI's chief executive, Frances Moore, told me via email that iTunes Match was "good news for music consumers and for the legitimate digital music business. It is the latest example of music companies embracing new technology, licensing new services that respect copyright and responding to the new ways consumers want to access and enjoy music."Yet, apparently not all copyright holders are so thrilled. aguywhoneedstenbucks points us to a different article, where the guy who holds the rights to Jimi Hendrix's music in Australia appears to be pretty upset about the whole thing:
Brisbane-based intellectual property lawyer Ken Philp said iTunes Match provided a means for people to "launder" pirated music, as it would substitute a pirated track on a person's hard drive for a legitimate version accessed from the cloud.That makes little sense. As we've already pointed out there's no real legal benefit to moving your songs to the iCloud. Of course, it's not too hard to figure out the real backstory here. Apple paid out about $150 million upfront to the major labels -- the companies represented by the IFPI. So of course the IFPI is happy about it. Folks like Mr. Philp, however, didn't get any cash, so of course he's upset. But, it's not like he was going to get random cash from some new source anyway, so it's not clear what he's complaining about.
Mr Philip, who is retained to defend the intellectual property rights of Jimi Hendrix's collections in Australia, said iTunes Match had the potential to legitimise pirated collections and encourage more piracy.
As an interesting contrast, that Forbes article above quotes former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde pointing out how silly Music Match is:
Peter Sunde, co-founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay says iTunes Match marks a big step towards consumers losing control of their media. The problem isn't the $25, it's that it doesn't make sense to pay Apple, with its closed-source system, to gain access to music you've downloaded. More crucial than that, he says, is what that could mean for the future of sharing music.Sunde later warns that relying on Apple may backfire for people, if it suddenly decides to "remove" tracks it believes don't belong there.
Sunde cites Spotify as an example. The music-streaming service does let you share music links with your friends, but they must have a Spotify account to hear them. People who use Spotify have already stopped sharing and keeping their songs, he says. "In the end if people are dependent enough on the services, there will be no more copies [on local drives]."
On the whole, I tend to agree with Sunde on this. First of all, I don't see how this legitimizes "piracy" at all -- as explained above. I also don't see it as being all that compelling. Almost all of the features Apple offers I already have set up through alternative means. And I'm not clear why I should pay Apple $25/year to gain access to the music I already paid for.
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A man impersonating the Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders managed to dupe his way into the UN headquarters in New York and shake hands with a senior official.
Dressed in the fast food icon's familiar white suit and black bow tie, the actor evaded tight security to gain access to the restricted areas of the complex.
He even posed for a photograph with Ali Treki, the new president of the UN General Assembly, before the alarm was raised and he was ejected.
As part of its campaign to promote a new menu range, KFC is "lobbying" the UN for the fictional Grilled Nation to be accepted as a member state.
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"The last one week has been infested with next generation console news. According to reports Sony will be revealing the PlayStation 4 during a special event on February 20th. Third party game developers and investors are also expected to attend this event. Now we can't say for sure what they will be revealing but all reports point to a massive PS4 reveal."
Crytek: All they say is nonsense to promote themselves & sell licenses.
So in other words they want to be able to continue doing crappy coding and be able to just let the hardware make up for their short falls?
Crytek don't do crappy programming.
Their engine is realtime. Not pre-baked crap. Hence it takes power to run.
Your asking for a power engine to run on old hardware.
The beta runs @ 60fps on my pc.
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George Ross' Portrait Photograph of Harriet, Matilda & Robert Noble, c. 1862-1893
Photographer: George Ross (b. Feb. 2, 1832 Edinburgh Scotland; d. ******, 1893 Petaluma, CA)
Active in Petaluma: 1862-1893
Biographical Note: Unlike the other 19th century Petaluma photographers, Ross lived in Petaluma for many years. Arriving in Petaluma in 1855 at age 23, he began his profession as a photographer in 1862, moving his studio within the city several times as noted on his various cdv imprints. For a short time he was also part of a photographic studio partnership, Ross and Ormsby, on Main Street in Petaluma. Ross died in Petaluma and was buried ******
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Paris, 7 May 2009 - To avoid any misunderstanding FAO, WHO and OIE would like to reissue their joint statement originally issued on 30 April.
In the ongoing spread of influenza A(H1N1), concerns about the possibility of this virus being found in pigs and the safety of pork and pork products have been raised.
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(AP) — Rocking chairs, birthing tubs and changing tables haven't yet been ordered, but organizers in suburban Chicago are eager to start furnishing their birth center — which may become the first such facility in Illinois.
The birth center at PCC South Family Health Center needs a permit and a license. But these steps seem within reach after years of work by supporters of options for Illinois women with low-risk pregnancies. Birth centers operate in 37 other states. Organizers said they've been a long time coming to Illinois.
A state health planning board is set to consider Feb. 5 whether to grant the first permit to PCC, a nonprofit health center in suburban Chicago that already provides primary care, dental care and behavioral health services. No letters of opposition have been filed about the project.
Illinois once prohibited birth centers, leaving women to choose between giving birth at home or in a hospital. It took two decades of lobbying by Illinois midwives before a 2007 law authorized a pilot program. Their opening was then held back by a lengthy rule-making process that involved negotiations between hospitals, doctors and midwives.
"It nearly brings me to tears sometimes," said Gayle Riedmann, a certified nurse midwife in suburban Chicago who has led the birth center movement. "It has been a long journey."
Birth centers can look like homes or clinics from the outside. Inside, women can get prenatal care and deliver their babies in a homelike setting. Trained midwives, rather than doctors, typically monitor the labor and birth, avoiding possible medical interventions like drugs and cesarean sections and instead offering alternatives like water births.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists doesn't endorse home births, but puts accredited birth centers on par with hospitals for safety. The group's guidelines say either hospitals or free-standing birth centers that meet accrediting standards are "the safest setting" for childbirth.
What's more, birth centers provide care more cheaply than hospitals can — on average, $2,300 vs. $8,900.
What took so long? For years, legislative proposals met opposition from the Illinois Hospital Association and the Illinois State Medical Society, Riedmann said. To answer their concerns, the bill was rewritten as a pilot project allowing only 10 birth centers in Illinois.
A turning point came in 2007 when state Sen. John Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat who later became Senate president, threw his support behind the bill.
"He took it on and it just shifted the momentum," Riedmann said. Cullerton's staff convinced doctors and hospitals to work out an agreement with the midwives.
Cullerton was persuaded by a key aide, Jay Rowell, whose fiancee was a student midwife. Rowell and Annette Payot are now married, and she is a certified nurse midwife at the PCC clinic.
"We won him over on the facts and my wife's personal experience and her understanding of the issues," Rowell said, noting that overcoming resistance from the medical society was "extremely challenging." The society felt "the best type of care (was) through a doctor, period," he said.
The medical society and hospital group now take neutral positions on the law.
A task force began working in 1985 to change the Illinois law that prohibited birth centers, said Margie Schaps of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group in Chicago, a nonprofit organization that's worked on the issue.
"It's been a long time coming," Schaps said. "On one hand, I'm thinking how could we not have done this sooner? On the other hand, I'm excited for the women of Illinois that this choice should be available to them."
If approved, the birth center in Berwyn would be staffed by certified nurse midwives and backed up by physicians who work at the clinic. A nearby hospital, West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, has agreed to take transfers if complications arise during a birth.
The center will have two birthing rooms, said Cecelia Bacom, a certified nurse midwife who has led the planning.
PCC's birth center will take only women with low-risk pregnancies, Bacom said. In order to ensure the health and safety of mothers and newborns, women who go into labor before 37 weeks of pregnancy must deliver at a hospital. Expectant moms who smoke also must go elsewhere to deliver.
Nearly 80 percent of the current patients at South Family Health Center are uninsured or covered by Medicaid. For women on Medicaid — which pays for more than half of Illinois births — home births haven't been a real alternative.
"The state pays so little and so slowly" that midwives can't afford to offer their services for home births, Bacom said. "Out-of-hospital birth was essentially not available for Medicaid women."
There are 248 centers in the United States, a 27 percent increase compared to 2010, according to the American Association of Birth Centers.
After Berwyn, the state's next birth center may be in Chicago. Erie Family Health Center is searching for a site near Swedish Covenant Hospital on the city's northwest side, said Dr. Andrea Lee, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the health center.
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Monitoring polio supplementary immunization activities using an automated short text messaging system in Karachi, Pakistan
AM Kazi a, A Murtaza a, S Khoja b, AK Zaidi a & SA Ali a
a. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, PO Box 3500, Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
b. Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Correspondence to AM Kazi (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).
(Submitted: 29 March 2013 – Revised version received: 10 September 2013 – Accepted: 14 October 2013 – Published online: 27 November 2013.)
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2014;92:220-225. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.13.122564
Pakistan is one of only three countries where poliovirus remains endemic despite extensive elimination efforts.1 Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, is now the world's only metropolitan area that has not been able to interrupt poliovirus transmission. Nine cases of poliomyelitis were confirmed in Karachi during 2011 and these cases were reported from six of the 18 "towns" or districts that form the metropolitan area.2 Although in 2012 no cases of polio were identified in Karachi, poliovirus was found in samples of the city's sewer water.1 The first case of polio identified in Pakistan in 2013 was in a child in Karachi.3
The use of supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) has helped several countries increase their immunization coverage against polio and has played a major role in decreasing the global incidence of polio by more than 99% since 1988.4 In Karachi, however, more than 100 such activities based on oral polio vaccine have failed to interrupt local poliovirus transmission.5 A major reason for this failure is poor vaccine coverage among vaccination-eligible children.6 The current system of monitoring the coverage of each SIA in Pakistan has several limitations. In this system, the children receiving vaccine during an SIA are marked with black "permanent" ink on their right little fingers.7 A third-party evaluation team then visits a randomly selected sample of households in the target area and counts the number of eligible children – that is, children aged less than 5 years – and the number of children who have black ink on their right little fingers.8 This monitoring system is resource-intensive, utilizes convenience sampling and is prone to misreporting bias since the same individuals often supervise both the vaccinations and the evaluation of vaccine coverage.9 It also exposes the members of the evaluation teams to the risk of violence, especially in certain locations with poor security. More than 16 vaccinators associated with polio vaccination campaigns have been assassinated in various parts of Pakistan since December 2012.10
In Pakistan, mobile phones have become very common over the past 10 years and there are currently more than 119 million mobile phone users.11 Many of these phones are used to send short message service (SMS) texts. In 2011, for example, 237.58 billion person-to-person texts – the equivalent of about 175 text messages per mobile phone per month – were generated in Pakistan.12 Mobile health ("m-health") technology is increasingly being considered for various health interventions, such as sending reminders for clinic visits, immunizations and medication adherence.13 We recently wondered if m-health could be used to measure vaccine coverage in polio SIAs, particularly in resource-limited areas and those with poor security. We therefore conducted a feasibility study to assess if a low-cost automated system that could send SMS messages to the mobile phones of caregivers could be used to monitor the coverage of SIAs in Karachi.
The study protocol was approved by the ethical review committees of the Aga Khan University in Pakistan and the World Health Organization (WHO). Thirty clusters of households were randomly selected in each of three districts of Karachi – Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Baldia and SITE (Sindh Industrial and Trading Estate) – and across the entire city. A case of polio had been detected in each of the three study districts in 2011.2 Each cluster consisted of 200 to 250 households.8 Within each selected cluster, at least 28 households with a member aged less than 5 years were selected by systematic random sampling. If a selected house contained more than one child younger than 5 years, then one of the children was randomly chosen for enrolment. After informed consent was obtained from a caregiver, baseline demographic information on each enrolled child, the mobile phone number of one of the child's caregivers and the phone-owning caregiver's preferred language were recorded. The phone owners were told that they might be contacted – either via SMS texts or a direct phone call – after one or more forthcoming SIAs and that, if contacted, they would be asked two questions. Although the questions were basically "In the last SIA, did the vaccinator visit your house?" and "In the last SIA, did [named of enrolled child] receive oral polio vaccine?", they – or their translation into the preferred languages of the caregivers – were slightly revised during the study to improve the probability of an adequate response. The revisions of the questions were based on feedback from the caregivers who had been asked the questions.
After each of seven SIAs run in Karachi, seven households were randomly selected from the 28 originally identified in each study cluster. The caregivers in these households were sent the two questions as SMS texts. Those who did not answer the text messages were contacted via direct phone calls and asked the same questions by an investigator. Coverage data obtained via text messages and phone calls were compared with the coverage data obtained – in the same SIAs – by WHO, using conventional lot quality assurance sampling.14
The SMS texts were sent automatically – and relatively cheaply – by a server-based software package developed specifically for our study. The two questions were sent as two separate texts, with a request for the caregiver to reply to each text with the letter "P" followed by a single digit: 1 if the answer was "yes", 2 if the answer was "no" and 3 if the answer was "do not know". As an incentive, 20 Pakistani rupees – equivalent to about 0.20 United States dollars – were credited to a caregiver's mobile phone each time the caregiver responded to an automated message. All questions – whether sent as texts or spoken over the phone – were posed in the caregiver's preferred language.
If no response to a text had been received within 24 hours, repeat messages were sent daily for up to 1 week. If there had been no reply to a question sent as an SMS text after 1 week, an investigator attempted to speak by phone to the caregiver involved, to obtain an answer to the question that had been posed and to determine why the caregiver had not sent a reply to the SMS message.
Seven SIAs conducted in Karachi – six in 2012 and one in 2013– were monitored using the SMS-based system. Of the 840 caregivers who were sent the messages in each SIA, the median proportions who responded to the first SMS text – "In the last SIA, did the vaccinator visit your house?" – and to the second text – "In the last SIA, did [named of enrolled child] receive oral polio vaccine?" – were 23% (interquartile range, IQR: 19–30) and 14% (IQR: 10−21), respectively. Of the 4404 caregivers who were sent SMS messages but responded to none of them, 56% (IQR: 54–58) were successfully spoken to by an investigator, by phone. We failed to get any response – by text or phone call – from 1831 (32%) of the caregivers sent SMS messages: four refused to talk to an investigator, 208 never answered the phone when called at least three times by an investigator and 1619 could not be reached because they had changed their numbers, their phones were faulty, uncharged or otherwise unusable or, perhaps, because their phone numbers had been recorded incorrectly.
In the sample representing the entire city of Karachi, the lowest vaccine coverage was detected during the SIA in June 2012, when 59% of the caregivers who were sent SMS messages and successfully contacted said that a vaccinator had visited their household and the same proportion said that the enrolled child had received a vaccine dose. The highest coverage recorded in the sample representing the entire city was observed slightly earlier – in the SIA in April 2012 – when the corresponding proportions were 83% and 82%, respectively. The median coverage revealed for the entire city by the responses of the caregivers sent SMS messages was 74.5% (95% confidence interval, CI: 71.6–77.4).
Using the responses of the caregivers in the district-level samples who were sent SMS messages and successfully contacted, the median coverages by vaccinators were estimated to be 71% (95% CI: 68.2–73.8) in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, 79% (95% CI: 76.4–81.6) in Baldia and 81% (95% CI: 78.6–83.5) in SITE. The corresponding vaccine coverages among the enrolled children were 67% (95% CI: 63.9–70.1), 75% (95% CI: 72.1–78.0) and 78% (95% CI: 75.2–80.8), respectively.
In general, the data collected during phone calls to caregivers who had not responded to SMS messages indicated levels of vaccine coverage similar to those estimated from the responses to SMS messages (Table 1). However, the overall response rate to phone calls made by investigators was almost twice as high as the corresponding response rate to SMS messages (44% versus 23%). In the high-risk districts that were investigated, the vaccine coverages estimated by WHO – using clustered lot quality assurance sampling – were slightly higher than the estimates made using the SMS system (Table 1).
The major reasons given by caregivers for not responding to an SMS message were that they were too busy (36%), not interested in replying (32%) or unable to read the message (20%). The most common time of day for a caregiver to reply to an SMS message was the evening – between 18:00 and 22:00. Overall, 80% of the replies to SMS messages were received within three days of the messages being sent. Of the caregivers who responded to an SMS message asking if the enrolled child had received oral polio vaccine in the last SIA, 6% answered that they did not know.
We were able to monitor the vaccine coverages achieved in SIAs in Karachi by using a low-cost, automated SMS-based system – augmented with follow-up phone calls to persistent non-responders. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to evaluate the effectiveness of mobile phones and automated SMS messages in monitoring the quality of polio SIAs.
The rate of response to the first SMS message that we sent out to caregivers was disappointing but it soon became clear that many of the targeted caregivers had simply not received the message because of problems with the modems then being used. The subsequent addition of a commercial SMS gateway (Sidat Hyder, Karachi, Pakistan) to the server-based SMS system substantially improved the percentage of targeted caregivers who received the SMS message that we had intended to send to them (data not shown). The rate of response to our automated SMS messages gradually increased over time, as we improved the format and language of the messages. It would be relatively easy to scale up our SMS-based system to cover SIAs or other vaccine campaigns at the provincial or country level. However, there may not be sufficient human resources to permit follow-up phone calls to be made to all of the non-responders in such large-scale campaigns.
Automated SMS-based monitoring allows for the separation of the vaccine delivery and monitoring teams. It eliminates errors made by human data collectors, reporting bias by field teams – who may exaggerate coverage to improve their apparent performance – and the risk of data collectors being attacked. The latter advantage makes SMS-based monitoring particularly valuable in security-compromised settings.10,15 If an SMS-based system is implemented, the human resources previously occupied with monitoring can focus exclusively on the delivery of vaccines.
In general, the methods that we and WHO used to estimate vaccine coverage in SIAs in Karachi gave similar results. However, there were some discrepancies. For example, for the SIA in March 2012, the coverage estimated using data collected with the SMS-based system was substantially lower than that estimated using lot quality assurance sampling (Table 1). However, the SMS gateway had not been deployed at this time and many of the caregivers who were sent SMS messages never received them. The overall response rate to our SMS messages was disappointingly low – despite the resending of messages to non-responders and the offer of a financial incentive for replying. It remains possible that the vaccine coverage in the households of caregivers who were never successfully contacted after being sent SMS messages differed from that in the households of responders. When investigators phoned most of the caregivers who were never successfully contacted after being sent SMS messages, they simply received a "number unobtainable" message or tone. It seems likely that many caregivers had changed their mobile phone numbers after the baseline survey. In Pakistan – as in Cambodia16 and other developing countries – it is easy to switch service providers and such providers offer attractive packages to gain new customers.
Another limitation of our study was that many of the caregivers contacted by SMS messages said that they simply did not know if the enrolled child in their household had been vaccinated. In many of these cases, the caregiver was responding while out of contact with the enrolled child and any other of the child's caregivers. This problem might be reduced by educating target populations – so that the caregivers who are to be contacted anticipate the contact and check on vaccinations within their households before that contact is made.
We could compensate for low response rates by increasing the number of caregivers sent SMS messages but if there is a systematic difference in the baseline characteristics of responders and non-responders, or of those who do and do not own a mobile phone, a larger sample will not reduce the risk of non-response bias. The use of mobile phones is now very common in Pakistan but it is not universal. Caregivers who are resistant to vaccinating children – who are important in the interruption of polio transmission – may well be unlikely to share their mobile phone numbers with those tasked with assessing vaccine coverage.
Although we collected mobile phone numbers and located children who were eligible for polio vaccination through household visits, the same information may become available online in the future. For example, if local laws, rules and regulations permit it, the phone numbers of potential caregivers could be collected from service providers and the identities and addresses of eligible children could be obtained from health records. Caregivers could be encouraged to provide the same data for inclusion in national registries. Vaccine coverage could then be assessed with very little human intervention.
In conclusion (Box 1), in the monitoring of SIA, SMS-based systems have the advantages of low cost, fairly representative sampling of the population, low burdens on monitoring staff and low risk of the coverage being exaggerated. These advantages make such systems an attractive alternative to more conventional methods of SIA monitoring, in Pakistan and elsewhere.
Box 1. Summary of main lessons learnt
- For the monitoring of coverage in supplementary immunization activities, automated systems based on short message service (SMS) texts appear to be an attractive and relatively inexpensive option.
- Further research is needed to determine if coverage data collected by SMS-based system provide estimates that are sufficiently accurate.
- Such systems may be useful in other large-scale immunization campaigns.
This study was funded by the World Health Organization (grant 2011/178719–0).
Competing interests:
None declared.
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The Orioles interviewed another candidate for their vacant top executive position Friday but also reportedly lost one of the leading possibilities.
John Stockstill, the organization's 51-year-old director of player development, became the fourth person, and first internal candidate, to meet with the interviewing committee about the job vacated by president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail this month.
The Orioles' group of candidates, however, apparently shrunk by one earlier in the day.
Arizona Diamondbacks senior vice president Jerry Dipoto, who was the first person the Orioles interviewed, will be hired as the next general manager of the Los Angeles Angels, according to Fox Sports. An official announcement was to come at some point after Friday night's conclusion of the World Series.
That would leave three remaining candidates for the Orioles job — Toronto Blue Jays assistant general manager Tony LaCava, Los Angeles Dodgers assistant general manager De Jon Watson and Stockstill.
It's possible the committee meets with at least one more candidate before making a decision. One possibility is Texas Rangers assistant general manager Thad Levine, a Northern Virginia native who grew up as an Orioles fan.
The Orioles have not yet contacted the Rangers, who are in the World Series, for permission to talk to Levine nor had they asked permission from another club as of Friday.
If they interview another candidate, it likely would be early next week, with the hope that they could wrap up the process and make an offer before week's end. It's unlikely the Orioles will conduct a second round of interviews.
Dipoto, a former player who spent two months as the Diamondbacks' interim GM in 2010, was considered the favorite for the Orioles job, perhaps slightly ahead of LaCava. Now that Dipoto is off the board, LaCava, 50, appears to be the leading candidate, though Watson also made a favorable first impression and Stockstill is held in high regard by the club's top decision-makers.
Stockstill joined the Orioles in December 2005 to oversee pro scouting and was given the title of international scouting director when the club began focusing efforts overseas in 2008. In April 2010, Stockstill switched titles with his older brother, David, and was put in charge of the organization's struggling farm system as player-development director.
Before coming to Baltimore, John Stockstill spent his entire professional career — as a minor league player, scout and executive — in the Chicago Cubs organization.
Roster moves
The Orioles made three moves Friday to drop their 40-man roster to 36.
Backup catcher Craig Tatum, who batted .195 with seven RBIs in 31 games for the Orioles in 2011, was claimed off waivers by the Houston Astros. The 28-year-old had spent parts of two years as the backup to Matt Wieters, but the Orioles are seeking a more seasoned veteran for reserve duties.
Right-hander pitcher Chris Jakubauskas and catcher-infielder Jake Fox passed through waivers and were outrighted to Triple-A Norfolk. Because they have been outrighted before, both can refuse the assignment and become free agents. That's seemingly procedural since they are eligible to become minor league free agents five days after the World Series ends anyway. It is expected that both will explore their options.
Jakubauskas, 32, was 2-2 with a 5.72 ERA in 33 games (six starts) while Fox, 29, batted .246 with two homers and six RBIs in 27 games.
Cartoon bird returning
The Orioles will be sporting the cartoon bird on their hats in 2012 for the first time since 1988. The return of the cartoon bird had been expected, and it, and other uniform changes, will be officially announced in November.
A club source confirmed, however, that the Orioles will sport the cartoon bird hat throughout the year except once a week — likely Fridays — when they will wear the alternate "O" hats and black jerseys as they did in 2011. The 2012 cartoon bird will be a combination of the 1970 logo and the 1983 one but might resemble the older logo a bit more.
The jerseys will include a Camden Yards 20th anniversary patch on the right sleeve, and the "Baltimore" on the road jerseys will have a consistently sized script instead of tapering of the lettering, the source said.


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Health First Hosts Project SEARCH Luncheon for Employers
Program marks 5th anniversary of successfully recruiting, training & hiring employees with disabilities
February 10, 2012 - Health First will host a Project SEARCH luncheon for local employers on Monday, Feb. 13 at 11:30 am in the Auditorium at Holmes Regional Medical Center (south side of hospital campus). Project SEARCH is a vocational training and employment program that provides real job opportunities to people with disabilities. Featured speaker Susie Rutkowski, Project SEARCH Co-Director from Cincinnati Children's Medical Center where the program began, will discuss the numerous benefits to the community, to employers, and to the individuals who are trained and hired.
"Health First is a strong advocate of the Project SEARCH program," said Bob Walters, Director of Human Resources Operations for Health First. "Since we began the program five years ago, we have successfully recruited, trained and hired more than 40 individuals. We highly encourage other employers to add a Project SEARCH program. Not only does the program provide real job opportunities for those with disabilities, helping them to become productive, independent adults, it brings rewards to our associates working alongside them as well."
Prior to employment of Project SEARCH students, individuals participate in an educational component in the host business where they are taught a range of skills, from employability, to technology, to functional workplace safety, to workplace skills. In addition to the educational classes, students participate in a series of targeted internships and worksite rotations. Job development and placement occurs based on the student's experiences, strengths, and skills.
Students are referred to the program through their schools, family members, or Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors.
For more information about the Health First Project SEARCH program, or starting a program at your company, visit www.Healthh-First.org/ProjectSearch or email
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Health First is the only multi-hospital, not-for-profit health system in Brevard County, including Cape Canaveral Hospital, Palm Bay Hospital, Viera Hospital, and Holmes Regional Medical Center. This means that every dollar that is not used to pay for patient care stays in the county to improve healthcare services for all residents, including those without the financial means to pay. All members of Health First's Board of Directors reside within its service area and provide oversight for a broad range of services and products, including four acute-care hospitals, commercial and Medicare-Advantage HMO health plans, a multi-specialty physician group, outpatient diagnostic and treatment centers, a network of fitness and wellness services, and the only Trauma Center in Brevard County.


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DALLAS, Texas – The National Football Foundation (NFF) today announced that it was honoring 15 faculty athletics representatives as a part of the 2012 NFF Faculty Salute Initiative. MIT's Faculty Athletics Representative, Hank Smith, is among the group of FARs from around the nation that the NFF is honoring for their contributions to collegiate athletics.
Smith, a Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, was recognized by the NFF as one of the 15 FARs from the institutions that had a 2012 NFF Scholar-Athlete selected. Senior Ethan Peterson (Rutland, Vt.), was the Engineer selected for the award and was honored at the NFF's annual award banquet in New York earlier this month.
Started last year, the NFF Faculty Salute Initiative is an extension of the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards Program that provides postgraduate scholarships for college football's elite student-athletes. As part of the initiative, each school with an NFF National Scholar-Athlete receives recognition for their faculty athletics representative, and a $5,000 donation per school to support their academic support services.


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Thursday, May 20, 2010
walking with elephants
When we moved across the country to our new (and current home) the first piece of artwork we purchased for our house was elephant art. Elephant art being actual artwork painted by an elephant. Our specific piece was painted by Kiba, from the Nashville Zoo. Elephants are always close to our hearts. :)
The elephant themed lunch my little girl enjoyed earlier this week.
A jelly sandwich on whole grain bread, shaped into mommy & baby elephants with The Lunch Punch elephant sandwich cutter from the "Critter Cutters" set. Eyes are sprinkles.
Around the sandwich is a piece of fruit leather cut into an elephant shape (from a set of cookie cutters by Williams-Sonoma), a piece of heart-shaped fruit leather (because we heart elephants, of course!), some cheddar cheese elephants, and lastly, a little dish of peanuts. Because elephants and peanuts go together...well, like peanut butter and jelly! ;-)
In the two smaller sections of this EasyLunchboxes container is an elephant-shaped boiled egg (shaped using this elephant onigiri shaper from JList) and some strawberries and grapes with a gratuitous elephant pick added for decoration.
This lunch was a big, BIG, hit with my girl. As evidenced by the exuberant elephant sounds she trumpeted throughout the entire meal. LOL :)
8 comments:
- Carissa said... [Reply to comment]
Ohhhh...my little one would go crazy for this one. Super cute! My DD loves elephants lately and runs around making noises with her trunk everytime she sees a picture of one!
- May 20, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
What a lovely tribute to Kiba!
- May 20, 2010 at 8:44 PM
- indngirl1970 said... [Reply to comment]
i saw the elephant sandwich cutter and thought cute. but after seeing your creation, i have to get one!!!
- May 20, 2010 at 9:00 PM
- Raji P. said... [Reply to comment]
ohhh myyyy! that has got to be the CUTEST lunch I have seen in my life! But how can one eat those cute things? sniff sniff.
- May 20, 2010 at 9:36 PM
- Ang said... [Reply to comment]
So adorable!!!
Today I sent my 6yo son with a brand new Easylunchboxes.com lunch. I included grapes and strawberries with 2 of the cute little picks (the little fork ones you use for fruit, the animal ones) and I also put rolls of ham on some of the picks with the cool geometric shapes in there.
He threw them away!!!! I am so sad. Usually they have to bring home their lunches with the stuff they didn't eat left in them. So I did not think to tell him to keep the forks and picks. Well he came home with a totally empty container, and I had packed it full with carrots, pretzels and goldfish along with the strawberries, grapes and ham. WAH!!!!!!!!!!
- May 21, 2010 at 12:16 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Oh no, Ang!!! How sad! :( I'm sorry!
My son is careful to not throw away the picks. I've told him to never throw anything away at all - just pack it back up and bring everything home, which he does MOST of the time. But the brand new 4 leaf clover silicone cup I used for St.Patrick's day was thrown away. He didn't like the green Skittles I had packed so he threw them in the trash, along with the cup. So sad! It was such a cute and handy size to have. I had to pull out my big long-winded "don't ever throw anything away!" mantra. *sigh*
- May 21, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Mrs. Ed said... [Reply to comment]
I have heard of cats that paint, but I had no idea elephants could too. How cool. I love the elephant theme lunch. I always look forward to your posts. Since starting Bento boxes, my son almost always eats all his lunch, they have been such a blessing. Children really do seem to enjoy food this way.
- May 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM
- Wendy said... [Reply to comment]
This is so freaking adorable! I love your theme lunches -- I wish I could get my act together to make something similar more often.
- May 21, 2010 at 3:08 PM


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As much as I'd like to visit DC (I've never been), I wasn't able to make it out there to attend the NIST workshop on EHR usability. However, Carl Bergman from EHR Selector did make it to the event and sent the following notes on EHR usability according to NIST. Most of the speakers name link to their slides in PDF format.
National Institute of Standard and Technology's Workshop on EHR Usability
This week I went to a NIST workshop examining the state of EHR usability. The workshop was at its administrative headquarters, a large 60s building on its sprawling Gaithersburg, MD campus about 20 miles outside Washington.
You might wonder what NIST is doing in the EHR business? I certainly did. NIST's mission is to promote commerce and technical innovation including methods to determine, independently, the safety and security of a broad range of technologies including software. (It's part of the Department of Commerce.) Since WW II, this has involved looking at the human factors involved in operation of every thing from nuclear plants to robotics. Interestingly, it's not a regulatory agency, such as, the FDA or FCC. NIST's standards work is through consensus building among manufacturers, consumers, regulators, etc.
The workshop, attended by about 200 persons, had two parts:
• A review of the state of EHR usability studies by academics, practioners and system administrators and,
• Introduction of NIST's draft for a usability standard.
Part I. EHR Usability Today. There were many speakers, here're the ones that had the most new information for me:
• Mat Quinn of NIST covered its approach and work with ONC on the issue. Notably, NIST has published several documents in the area such as, NIST Guide to the Processes Approach for Improving the Usability of Electronic Health Records, (NISTIR 7741) which promotes a user centric approach to design and development.
• I was really taken by Muhammad Walji's study using a unified framework for EHR testing. The study compared user experience with the VA's Vista program and a prototype system. It looked at:
o What percent of an operation was substantive and what was overhead?
o How long it took users to reach various performance levels.
o How much memorization tasks took.
o How many steps tasks required.
o Error and recovery occurrence.
o Time to complete defined tasks.
The study then applied its findings to rework the EHRs' structure and workflow showing potential time and effort savings.
• Anjum Chagpar of Toronto's University Health Network. A human factors manager for this large healthcare network, she discussed the problems of integrating various vendor products into their system and their approach to usability and user satisfaction.
• Buckminster Fuller famously declared, "I am a verb." Dr. Lyle Berkowitz may not be a verb, but he is at least a gerund. His presentation swiftly covered several topics from HIMSS' EHR Usability Task Force to usability definitions to stakeholder roles, and applying metrics to see how much of the problem was the system and how much the user.
• The VA's Dr. Jorge Ferrer provided several key references on usability studies.
Part II. NIST's Proposed Protocol. If the first part took a broad and free ranging approach to usability, NIST's staff approach was more focused. After an outline of the study's setting and approach, the study director, Lana Lowery, outlined the protocol's goal: prevention of unacceptable medical errors. These include errors of both omission and commission, for example:
• Writing an order for the wrong patient.
• Prescribing the wrong dosage.
• Omitted information causing an error.
• Critical delays in delivery due to system design errors.
• Errors due to incorrect sequencing of actions.
Next, came examples of EHRs allowing errors. Unfortunately, several of the examples weren't well thought out. For example, a patient ID error showed two patient records on the screen. One had the first patient's x-ray, but the second patient's name. Most likely, this would be a database problem or an x-ray production error not an EHR problem.
Robert Schumacher of User Centric, outlined how the protocol would be tested. For example, review and update of a problem list or replacement of one medication with another. The plan included testing several of ONC's meaningful use functions that had usability factors.
Part III. Workshop Reactions. The workshop finally broke into two discussion groups: one for the draft protocol and the other on consensus building. In both cases, the discussion quickly went off script. Participants were quick to criticize the staff's error oriented protocol as too narrow. Why, for example, did the protocol focus on internal EHR processes to the exclusion of workflow generated errors?
I understand NIST has a high interest in eliminating catastrophic errors, but I think there is not enough solid evidence on the kind and extent of the problem. No one discounts the need to prevent catastrophic errors, however, much of the EHR error focus is due to anecdotal reports of computer prescribing errors. From what I read, many of these reports are both old and recycled. Does anyone know the actual extent of major errors?
The FDA has developed several systems for dealing with medical device errors. These now include the software that the devices use. Even if the FDA does not regulate EHRs, it may step up its efforts to record important errors. I'd sure like to know FDA's findings before I started an effort to shape EHRs.
This is not to say that safety is not important in EHRs, obviously the types of errors that are outlined by the staff are major. However, I think there are three points that are missing in the NIST approach:
• Design for Success. You can't design for failure. You have to design for success. The object of EHRs, as with any system, must be to accomplish certain ends. If you loose sight of that, you may not make mistakes, but you also will fail your objective.
• Risk Analysis. Risk analysis measures the impact on a given population of an action, its potential and costs broadly defined. It also specifies mitigation efforts. I'd be far more comfortable about the protocol if there were a risk analysis behind it.
• Error Handling. There should be more thought to error handling. For example, when the stall warning alarm goes off on a plane, it doesn't grab the stick and take control. It's a warning, just that. Physicians should be warned if they are about to prescribe beyond the recommended dose, but they may have good clinical reason to do it.
NIST put on a worthwhile workshop. My guess is that the draft protocol is not going to survive without modifications that take into account a broader range of usability issues and approaches.


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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Jesse Litsch - never meanin' no harm
A former first round draft pick is introduced to those three dreaded letters - D, F, and A? Seriously, all the best and good luck to you, Rusty. Your team is the only one in the league not to sign a free agent to a major league deal? It's "the economy", I guess. Assistant GM's are cut loose to save a little cash? Let's call it a redistribution of assets instead. A 23 year old pitcher with less than 50 big league games under his belt becomes a staff mentor? No big dea.....what?
Jesse Litsch - veteran influence?
That's right, Uncle Jesse is ready to step up and be a leader. And you know what? That's just fucking nails, man. Oh sure, you can question the wisdom and validity behind the rationale that sees a kid who spent some time in AAA last season saying "follow me"....but just listen to him:
"We just have to think we're better than them," Litsch said of the Jays' positive thinking. "If we come out hitting and pitching like we did last year ... at the end of the season we were just as good as anybody. We have to overlap that into this season and run with it. We're all good enough to be at the major-league level, it's just a matter that they spend more money. Some people may not be worth the money they get, but we still have the same number – nine guys – that they have. It's just you against the Yankee hitters, and you're going out there with same winning mentality as their pitchers."
You know what, I'm sold. Now if he can just master the art of the fist pump after inducing a weak inning-ending grounder, and maybe sprinkle in the odd congratulatory hug for his teammates, we're all set at the #2 spot in the rotation.
(14 wins and a sub-4.00 ERA would be nice too, but let's not get crazy.)
14 comments:
- dave said...
I'll tell you what, the Jays management have done nothing for my confidence this off season with all their talk (economy, tough division, economy) but the players have been really getting me excited for the season. I don't care if it is just lip service, I'm excited for the challenge.
- February 7, 2009 at 1:14 AM
- eyebleaf said...
Cito and Jesse. It's going to be a beautiful thing. And, Uncle Jesse, I could get used to that.
- February 7, 2009 at 3:56 AM
- Ian H. said...
When I clicked on the Uncle Jesse link, I was hoping to see John Stamos. My bad.
- February 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM
- Lloyd the Barber said...
Your bad indeed. Shit's weak.
- February 7, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Jesse is a number 5, not a two. Uncle Jesse? Try Our nice Jesse . This season is doomed...........
- February 7, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- The Southpaw said...
According to any statistical measure applied to last year, Listch was a legitimate #3.
Anyone who says he's a #5 hasn't looked around at most of the stiffs taking the fifth turn for MLB teams.
- February 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM
- dave said...
If someone can't even bother typing in a name instead of just clicking "Anonymous" then I doubt they're looking around at other teams too much. Or at stats for that matter.
- February 7, 2009 at 2:33 PM
On a slightly different note, is it just me or does Jesse's delivery look a bit like Jim Clancy's from the stretch, or am I just showing how old I am again? That's not to say he'll be the horse that Clancy was, but one can hope. Maybe there's some footage online to compare them side by each...Tao, next post!
- February 7, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- Lloyd the Barber said...
Is there a little Kevin Appier in Litsch's delivery also?
- February 7, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- The Ack said...
I can totally see some Kevin Appier in there Lloyd, now that you mention it. For Clancy, I'd have to check the archives.
- February 7, 2009 at 2:57 PM
- Brendan said...
I see a little of Cupid in him, right in time for Valentine's.
I love that little cherub.(Litsch, that is. Cupid can go fuck himself).
Is it possible to not like Jesse? Even if he lost 30 games with an ERA over 10, I'd still want to pat him on the head and tell him to "go get 'em tiger" every time out.
- February 7, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- Brendan said...
And Ian-You "hoped" to see John Stamos? Disturbing shit, man. You might want to see someone about that.
- February 7, 2009 at 3:07 PM
Fuck that...you know who steps up when the chips are down? Leaders do. If he steps up, then he's got the right stuff. Innings, years etc mean nothing. A leader is a leader in thier rookie year or there 20th.
- February 9, 2009 at 11:51 AM
He is J-Roc...who is Tyrone???
- February 9, 2009 at 4:13 PM


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Performance Day provides an opportunity for Conservatorium students to perform a piece of their choosing in a semi-formal, friendly environment. We provide an accompanist and a small supportive audience, and our students provide the music!
All Performance Days are free to attend for our audience. Students are required to pay for their rehearsal with the accompanist (if required).
Any student of the Conservatorium can perform a piece at a Performance Day. There is no minimum time but we ask that students keep performances to a maximum of 10 minutes.
If you require accompaniment you will need to let us know at the time of registration. The accompaniment music must be provided to the office before the registration closing date.
The Conservatorium will provide an accompanist for the performance without charge, but students are asked to contribute towards rehearsal costs ($10 per 15 minute rehearsal slot).
If I don't want to use the Con's accompanist, do I still pay the $10?
No, the $10 is just to cover the rehearsal with the Con's accompanist, if you choose to use them.
Who will the accompanist be?
The accompanist in 2016 will be Paulina Smirnov, and when she is not available we will call upon another accompanist.
If I choose a different accompanist will the Con pay them?
No, for obvious reasons we can only have one allocated accompanist for each concert. If a student asks a different accompanist to play with them, it is entirely up to them to deal with payment.
I need to go at a particular time (eg. leave by 10:20, or arrive after 11am). Is that ok?
We expect students to attend the whole concert, and in general will not schedule performers to play at a particular time. In general, we start at 10am and finish by 11am. Please let us know if you have a pressing appointment and need to be out by 11am so we can keep an eye on the time and adjust the performance order if it looks like the concert will run longer than expected.
Can I play two or three pieces?
We ask students to play one piece. For students playing very short pieces (eg. beginners playing a 32-bar song) it's generally ok to have more than one.


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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Random wrongness
20 comments:
- D W JazzLover said...
This is what we have become? Is this what we have been fighting for?
So sad.
- March 24, 2010 at 7:01 AM
- Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...
I didn't feel cool watching that, that is very wrong and what gives with all the people not stopping it, maybe the girl did run her mouth but damn.
- March 24, 2010 at 7:32 AM
- maria said...
i stopped at 1 minute. as a mom, watching the kids there, i just can't...
- March 24, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Wait! Was that a weave that came flying off?
- March 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- Ash said...
- March 24, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- bklyn6 said...
Whatever happened to slathering your face with Vaseline before a fight?
- March 24, 2010 at 11:44 AM
- Undercover Black Man said...
^ Old school!
- March 24, 2010 at 12:15 PM
- wanda loves... said...
rofl. dont write a check your ass cant cash. its always the one with the biggest mouth.
- March 24, 2010 at 1:04 PM
I know I should not want to see things like this, but there is nothing better than seeing someone asking for an asswhipping RECEIVE it. like that guy on the bus who got jacked up by that 67 yr old guy. I love it.
- March 24, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Thrasher said...
This is why I have such little respect and regard for David aka one drop rule negro..This type of contempt for Black people and Black woman is offensive..
David aka one drop rule negro displays a twisted voyeur with regard to Black folks in tough urban venues..
For once I am in agreement with David's mascot Daniel..
- March 24, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- 'Drea said...
I don't normally advocate fighting but I'm glad that blue shirt cleaned her clock.
It's so sad, though, that all of that took place in front of kids.
As your post title suggests, it's wrong.
- March 24, 2010 at 6:24 PM
Well, it's nice to know there's all these high minded folks here, but I laughed. The loud mouth got her ass beat, as she should have. her nasty cheap extensions were a liability she did not consider.
- March 25, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- uglyblackjohn said...
Fat, loud, dark, and ugly does not make one hard.
When will they ever learn?
(That ish was funny)
- March 25, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- SJ said...
I will admit I always love seeing the bully get his/her ass kicked...
here's one featuring two white boys
- March 25, 2010 at 7:23 PM
- junebug said...
I like how ol' girl in the white was layin' COMBOS on her! A few Roundhouses, a knee to the face...watching that reminded me of playing Mortal Kombat back in the day! "FATALITY!"
- March 26, 2010 at 12:19 AM
- Ill said...
DW? Who is we? Black ppl? ppl in general? Did Black ppl not throw down in Kemet or Kush? Come on kids will be kids.. Black white Mexican whatever..sometimes a good fight puts things back in order. That chick needed that ass whooped!
- March 26, 2010 at 8:43 AM
When keepin it real goes wrong!
- March 29, 2010 at 1:45 PM
Is there anything LESS civilized than uneducated black women? It would be nice if, instead of fighting, they stopped having babies out of wedlock and started focusing on getting an education.
I think the average IQ in that video was probably hovering in the 80's. The only thing missing were the subtitles.
- March 31, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- DJ Black Adam said...
Bwahahahahahahahaha!! Happens everyday in Chicago, I haven't seen this in a while since I moved to the burbs! She straight UFC / WEC / MMA'ed that chick!
- April 1, 2010 at 7:56 AM
The girl did not want to fight the one in yellow, the girl kept telling the one in yellow to get out of her face and the one in yellow stated that she was not going to leave without a fight...So she got her fight and her a$$ kicked.I do not like a bully.
- April 1, 2010 at 1:06 PM


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Amplifiers: How to Suppress Noise
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Electrically speaking, your car is a pretty active place. Every piece of electronic equipment in your car, such as power windows, your windshield wipers, and the alternator, generates its own small electrical field. These fields can be conducted through the metal that makes up your car's body and chassis. They're not really a problem until they sneak into the audio components of your stereo system and become noise.
Check all connections
You can solve almost all noise problems, without the need for adding noise filters, by making sure that every component is installed properly, that high-quality equipment is used, and that the car's charging system is working properly.
Loose grounds cause noise
Before you begin poking around your sound system for the source of the noise, you should first check your vehicle's electrical system.
- Check the battery fluid level and fill, if necessary
- Make sure the battery leads are tight to their posts
- Make sure the battery's negative-to-chassis ground cable is sturdy, intact, and tightly secured
Often, tightening or replacing a vehicle's ground cables will clear up the noise issue in the sound system.
How to diagnose and eliminate noise
Use the following diagram to diagnose and cure the most common noise problems associated with systems with outboard amplifiers. The idea is to isolate the specific cause of the noise so you can eliminate it. For a more detailed explanation on how to eliminate noise, see our Car Audio Noise Suppression Guide. If these tips don't solve the problem, it's helpful to be able to call on a Crutchfield Technical Advisor. If you purchased your gear from Crutchfield, or purchased tech support separately, you can contact them toll-free between 8 a.m. and midnight Eastern Time, seven days a week.
The Big Three
Finally, for those mechanically inclined, another good option is to perform the "Big Three" electrical wiring upgrade to your vehicle's charging system. This upgrade augments the battery's ground wire, the engine-to-chassis ground wire, and the alternator's positive lead wire with heavier (1/0- or 4-gauge) wire. This greatly improves your system's current flow and signal integrity, and reduces noise significantly.


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Thursday 18
Downtown: dood ranch El Dorado does a Dark Side showcase hosted by Wild Wild Wets and ex–Charger Girl/dancing bartendress Cameron Holloway (um, hubba) and featuring local lo-fi faves Tropical Popsicle, Buddy Banter, and the Church Hustlers.... Uptown: the Soul Fires will light up North Park hotspot Bar Pink with free-jazz cookers...while Whistle Stop's Makeout Weirdos "keep the krunk in punk," with the help of Maniqui Lazer (Mexicali), Lee Reynolds, Mark E. Quark, Dazzla (Moonshake), Machino, and resident deej Monsterpussy.... Crosstown: L.A.'s furious four-piece Welcome to Concrete ("W—>C" for texting) will take down the Shakedown with their barroom brand of "ass-kicking rock and roll."
Friday 19
South Bay punk perennials the Zeros roll into Soda Bar Friday night. Between reissues and more-occasional bookings (which included a showcase at SXSW in 2010), in the past few years the Zeros' stock has been on the rise. In a spinner.com interview, frontman Javier Escovedo said he thinks the reason is "that period, the Cali punk-rock scene from the late '70s, is something that a lot of kids that weren't around want to see." That and the quality of the Zeros' material and musicianship are rare these days. With Santa Ana '60s-style garage-rock band the Neumans and our own electro-punk outfit Stalins of Sound, this is thee gig to get to, punky.... Else: Dizzy's sets up SanFran jump-jazz band Fishtank Ensemble, which, for fans of the brand, L.A. Weekly calls "one of the most thrilling live acts on the planet"...Cleveland noise-pop quartet Cloud Nothings are at Casbah in advance of this year's Body Music. Dream Buddies and Jeans Wilder open the show...the Ken Club conjures a couple apparition acts out at the end of Adams, as the Roadkill Ghost Choir from Florida and our own Ed Ghost Tucker appear...and Hollywood's hard-rock hairballs Faster Pussycat are at Bay Park bar Brick by Brick.
Saturday 20
Midway punk club the Shakedown will host a Johnny Thunders tribute Saturday night. The ever-influential New York Doll/Heartbreaker guitarist/singer/songwriter died on April 23 in 1991. He was 38 years old. Deadbolt, Chinese Rocks, the Embalmers, Schitzophonics, and Clockwork will pay loud tribute.... Brooklyn band Beach Fossils wash up at the Irenic with this year's Clash the Truth, which trades in the indie act's scrappy charm for cleaner, poppier tones. Mrs. Magician up first.... Soda Bar sets up shoegaze pioneers the Telescopes, the band hailed by NME as "the best shoegaze band ever." Guess they never heard of My Boody Valentine. NorCal noiseniks LSD & the Search for God will open the show.... The Void's 420 showcase features garage-pop groups Heavy Hawaii, the Plateaus, and like-minded Los Angelinos the Dreamboys...while doom-pop duo Gloomsday and the Pheasants ("new age punk and roll for the leather and feather set") will play record-release sets at Tin Can Alehouse on Bankers Hill.
Sunday 21
D.C. Dischord artist E.D. Sedgwick, aka Justin Moyer (El Guapo), is touring in support of last year's We Wear White, a title that, perhaps, is meant to detract from his years performing as his transgender alter-ego Edie Sedgwick, the Andy Warhol hanger-on who OD'd on barbiturates. We Wear White also ditches the pop-culture party pop and silly celebrity send-ups for, as Moyer describes it, "a more aggressive, dirtier batch of songs." They like that at Tower Bar, where the Sedgwicks, now a four-man (well, one man and three women) band will be joined by the always excellent Mexico City Rollers and Rail Them to Death. Sunday shmunday, see you in City Heights.
Monday 22
A couple of Chicago-born and -bred fiery redheads, the brother/sister act White Mystery, will play the Ché Café on Monday. According to their hometown daily Chicago Tribune, the sibling Whites, Alex (she on guitar) and "White Francis" (he on drums), "play the type of garage rock that makes garages crumble." They are touring in support of the fresh-off-the-presses Telepathic. Go get some: whitemystery.bandcamp.com. This no-frills bill includes L.A. "zoocore" sextet Heller Keller and local faves the Frights, Barbarian, and Wild Wild Wets. Monday shmunday, see you on campus.
Tuesday 23
Specter at the Feast, the new (seventh) dealio from fuzz-rock trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is getting some love for BRMC's return to their early mid-tempo/blown-cone tones. The record's a reflective affair over a recent family/band member's death that, though overlong here, was at one time a double album. Eesh. That said, a couple tracks (opener "Fire Walker," especially) dig deeper than I've ever heard the Rebels dig. Little self-reflection sounds good on 'em. BRMC hits House of Blues with Fat Possum garage-rawk duo Bass Drum of Death.... Torn on Tuesday, as Soda Bar slips in Black Bananas. This Jennifer Herrema (Royal Trux/RTX)-led trio will ride its very recommendable Drag City disc Rad Times Xpress IV into the Normal Heights hotspot after Vampire and Skrapez.... And also: Japanese noise-rock trio Boris plays Casbah after L.A.'s "heavy-rock bone-chillers" Marriages and Bruisecaster, a "disco sludge-metal" three-piece fronted by CityBeat's Peter Holslin.
Wednesday 24
Seattle-based indie-folk four-piece Cave Singers are out to tout this year's well-received Naomi, a collection inspired by a fictional muse. This one doesn't stick to the wall as well as No Witch did/does, but it harks back a bit more to the players' post-punk origins (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Murder City Devils, Cobra High). Cave Singers will take the stage at Casbah after Philly psych-rock trio Bleeding Rainbow.... Best of the rest: the Lumps, Sonic Angels (France), and Shiva Trash fill a garage-punk bill at Tin Can Alehouse...space-rockers Chappo touch down at Soda Bar after Okapi Sun...Arlington, VA's reggae Soldiers of Jah Army, SOJA, visits House of Blues...and the Griffin's got Kill the Mainstream II on tap, featuring electro-clash artists Therapist, Ese' & Zain, and Pal&Drome. Bang.
— Barnaby Monk
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Unfortunately, Robert "El Vez" Lopez won't be appearing with The Zeros on Friday (but he'll be with them on Saturday in LA).
Thx for the update, Diana. Be seeing you Saturday night at the Shakedown. Can't wait!


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We are an International, family-owned janitorial, security and manufacturing company. The business started in 1972. Cummins Building Maintenance is centrally located in Marion, Ohio and we provide a full range of cleaning and building solutions for several customers nationwide and in Mexico.
We are open 24 hours a day 365 days a year. The staff from CBM inspects the cleaning of our customer's facilities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We have mandatory training for our employees to give our clients knowledgeable staff with less errors and on-time performance.
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November 27, 2012
Midland Park, NJ - Formerly of Monroe, NY
Florence T. Maloney, age 90, of Midland Park, died November 27, 2012 at Fritz Reuter. Born in New York City, she lived in Monroe, NY before moving to Midland Park, NJ, seven years ago.
Florence was an Office Worker at Rizzi Printing until she retired.
She is survived by her husband, Francis J. Maloney; her children: Frank and his wife, Elaine Maloney of Rossville, GA, Mary Anne Buonadies of Wyckoff, NJ, Kathleen and her husband, Daniel Alessandrino of Phoenix, NJ; her grandchildren: Richard Ault, Tina Priester, Frank Maloney, III and his wife, Jessica, Rebecca and her husband, Jonathan Stokes, Matthew Buonadies, Kayla Alessandrino and Taryn Alessandrino; and her great-grandchildren: Robert Priester, Christopher Priester and Loren Hannah Maloney. Florence was predeceased by her son-in-law, Joseph Buonadies in 2010.
Visiting hours are Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Olthuis Funeral Home, www.ofhmp.com, 159 Godwin Avenue, Midland Park, NJ. Funeral Mass is 10 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Church, 26 Still Rd., Monroe, NY. Burial will follow at the Seamanville Cemetery in Monroe.
Arrangements by Vander Plaat Funeral Home of Wyckoff, LLC, 159 Godwin Ave., Midland Park, NJ. 201-652-8844.


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- 2 Beds
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SubdivisionDILLON BAY IN CORINTHIAN HILL CONDO
Listing Date09/14/18
Year Built1980
Parking1 Car Assigned, 1 Car Garage
Property Description
Look out over the Lake Dillon and take in Summit County's most iconic view of the Gore and Tenmile Mountain Ranges. This pristine, top floor unit offers a huge deck and a spacious floorplan with vaulted ceilings. Remodeled with numerous upgrades, fixtures and features, this inviting residence is ready to enjoy. The 1-car garage is a wonderful convenience and offers a large storage closet. Enjoy access to the private neighborhood clubhouse and pool. Rare opportunity to acquire a special property.
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Come experience the magic of the Colorado high country and fall in love with the town of Dillon. Perfectly situated on the scenic shores of the Lake Dillon Reservoir with recreation, entertainment, relaxation, and pure fun all at your doorstep. Dillon is a great getaway close to Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, Copper Mountain, Vail, Beaver Creek and Denver. Aside from being an excellent, central location for embracing Summit County's winter activities, Dillon bustles with summer events for all ages, from the Thursday Nature Nights series and Friday morning Farmers Markets to the popular weekend concerts at Lake Dillon Amphitheatre. Spend an afternoon at the Dillon Marina where rental boats, guided sailing tours or sailing lessons are available, or visit the School House Museum and historical park where relics from the mining days come to life. World-class lodging, dining and shopping are within minutes.
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1-I talked to the engineers at our office.
Can't this sentence have two meanings:
a-At our office, I talked to the engineers It has previously been specifiec what engineers we are talking about.
b-I talked to the engineers who work at our office. Maybe I talked to them outside the office.
Gratefully and wishing you Happy Holidays.
90% of the time it will mean the engineers who work at our office.
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
There is a potential for ambiguity, but it is whether the speaker was at the office or not. It could mean you went to the office and talked to the engineers there. Or it could mean you talked (on the phone) to the engineers who were at the office.
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DOYLESTOWN (PA) – Delaware Valley College sophomore quarterback Aaron Wilmer threw for 282 yards and a school-record six touchdowns as the Aggies jumped out to a 42-0 lead and finished with a 42-21 home triumph over Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) foe Albright College.
The win was the third straight for Delaware Valley as the four-time defending conference champions improved to 3-2 overall and 3-1 in league action. Albright dropped its second in a row as it fell to 3-2 and 2-2. Both teams have a bye next week.
Wilmer completed 13 of 20 passes, including scoring tosses of 79, 7, 3, 5, 66 and 33 yards. That broke the Aggie record of five touchdown passes that was held by five different players, including Wilmer as he reached that mark in a win over Stevenson University last year. Wilmer also added 67 yards on four carries as the offense finished the day with 513 total yards.
Junior wideout Lewis Vincent was at the receiving end of the two long touchdowns as he finished the game with five catches for 203 yards. The yardage was the fifth-highest, single-game total in school history.
The Lions took the opening kickoff and drove to the Delaware Valley 20-yard line where a 37-yard field goal attempt went wide left. After a one-yard run on the Aggies' first offensive play, Wilmer hit Vincent on a post pattern and Vincent went the distance for the 79-yard score and a 7-0 Delaware Valley lead six minutes into the game.
After an Albright punt, Wilmer let his running do the damage as he raced 51 yards to the Lion 21-yard line. Five plays later, he hit freshman tailback Alquann Jones out of the backfield for a seven-yard touchdown. Brandon Snyder added the extra point for the 14-0 advantage with 4:22 left in the opening quarter.
Albright went three-and-out on its next possession and Delaware Valley took over at the Lion 44. The offense drove to the three-yard line before Wilmer hit a wide-open Rasheed Bailey in the end zone and a 21-0 advantage with 12 seconds left in the first.
Wilmer's fourth scoring strike went to Chris Ruiz from five yards out just four minutes into the second half. The drive was keyed by two big plays from Vincent as he hauled in back-to-back receptions of 24 and 21 yards. It also marked the 11th straight, first-half possession that the Aggie offense found the end zone as they scored on their final drive of the opening stanza two weeks ago at Stevenson, and on all six, first-half drives in last week's win over FDU-Florham.
Wilmer tied the school mark with 9:54 remaining in the third quarter as he found Vincent for a 66-yard bomb. He broke the record and ended his day three minutes into the fourth when he scrambled away from trouble and found Ruiz in the back corner of the end zone for a 33-yard touchdown and a 42-0 advantage.
With Delaware Valley going to its bench, the Lions scored three times in a seven-minute span in the fourth quarter. They went on a 10-play, 79-yard drive that was capped by backup quarterback Adam Galczynski's eight-yard touchdown pass to Scott Pillar with 9:06 on the clock. They then forced a fumble at the Aggie 33-yard line and Galczynski hit Daniel McNair from 18 yards out with 7:11 to go. Albright's defense then found the end zone with 2:32 remaining as Matt Filosa recovered a fumble and scored on a 14-yard return.
Kyle Schuberth paced the Delaware Valley ground attack with 80 yards on 15 carries. Ruiz finished with four catches for 52 yards and the two scores. Defensively, John Robinson notched nine tackles while Dwayne Shaw had six stops and one sack. Brian Carter, Shawn Miller and Chris Vega notched interceptions.
Albright starting quarterback TJ Luddy completed 14 of 25 passes for 140 yards and one interception. Galczynski was 6-for-12 for 92 yards, two scores and one interception. Running back Ty Hughes carried the ball 21 times for 100 yards while Pillar grabbed nine passes for 109 yards and a touchdown. Levi Myers had eight tackles in the loss.