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I found this on Chris Ardoin on You Tube…
Chris Ardoin
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Chris Ardoin (born April 7, 1981 in Lake Charles, Louisiana is a zydeco accordionist and singer. He is one of the young artists that helped form nouveau zydeco, a new style of music that fused traditional zydeco with various styles including hip-hop, reggae and R&B.
He was a child prodigy belonging to a musical dynasty (his father was Lawrence Ardoin and his grandfather, Bois Sec Ardoin). He started with the accordion at the age of two and grew up listening to zydeco only for the most part until he was in his teens. When he was just ten, with a help from his father Lawrence, he formed the Double Clutchin' zydeco band with his elder brother Sean Ardoin on drums.
In 1994, the band released their debut album That's Da Lick from Maison de Soul label. Though it was Sean who handled all the vocals and songwriting, the album was credited to Chris as they considered putting younger Chris in front would draw more attention to the band. Chris came more into the center of the spotlight in the follow up effort Lick It Up! released a year later, sharing vocals and songwriting duties with Sean. Sean left the band after releasing the album Turn the Page in 1997 to concentrate in his solo career.
In 2005, Chris changed the band name from Double Clutchin' to NuStep, and released Sweat, the first album under the new name. M.V.P. followed in 2007.
This is the link to his grandfather singing…
Alphonse Ardoin
The first song is Eunice Two Step and the second Bonsoir Moreau.
Alphonse or Bois Sec Ardouin was Amédé Ardoin's cousin.
Amédée Ardoin
Now that's genes for you…
One more time…
Blues De La Prison
Alphonse Ardoin
Okay… but it's the last one.
In this video we see Lawrence Ardoin, the son of Alphonse Bois Sec Ardoin.
Lawrence Ardoin


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After a year of back-and-forth, a judge concluded this week that Los Altos resident Mark Feathers and his company, Small Business Capital Corp., violated federal securities and exchange laws.
U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila accepted Securities and Exchange Commission evidence that because of fraud and mismanagement, SB Capital's 400 investors have lost approximately 25 percent of the $42 million they invested.
In an order filed Friday, Davila granted the SEC's request for a summary judgment and denied Feathers' competing request for the same. He ordered the "disgorgement of ill-gotten gains" and set a hearing date Oct. 22 to consider "what remedies are to be granted and in what amounts."
A court renders a summary judgment when a judge finds no genuine dispute as to any material fact – in other words, when evidence appears so conclusive as to not require a full trial. Representing himself and his company, Feathers had to show what Davila called a "genuine issue for trial." In his order, Davila laid out why Feathers' submissions to the court did not meet that standard and discussed to what extent the court had to cut Feathers some slack – to "liberally construe" his submissions – because he represented himself without a lawyer. Evidence submitted to the court must include affidavits or "other evidentiary material," and Davila described Feathers' submissions as falling short of that standard.
"I have been outnumbered by a large margin in the manpower necessary to present facts, never mind putting them into the right legal framework," Feathers told the Town Crier in an email.
He wrote to investors that he would appeal the judgment.
Investors, many of them Los Altos residents, bought into two mortgage investment funds Feathers managed from an office on San Antonio Road. The SEC contended that Feathers transferred money from the funds to pay expenses and make cash distributions to investors that masqueraded as "returns on investment," maintaining an illusion of profitability.
SEC attorney John Bulgozdy described the process of using investor money to pay returns as "Ponzi-like." Feathers maintained that because he disclosed the loans and transfers to investors, his actions were aboveboard and not in fact evidence of fraud and misrepresentation.
Feathers submitted hundreds of documents including SB Capital paperwork and emails to the court, but Davila wrote that Feathers didn't indicate with sufficient specificity what he believed they proved – "It is not the task of the court to comb through the record in search of genuine issue of triable fact."
In his order, Davila referenced testimony from an auditor and a consultant suggesting that Feathers loaned himself money from the funds, then documented it in a way that made the business appear to still be generating profit.
Davila had to weigh whether a "reasonable investor" might have made a different decision with his or her money if he or she had known about the loans and money transfers at SB Capital. He concluded, based in part on declarations two investors made to the SEC, that investors might have withdrawn their investments if they had known what the company was doing.
Davila declared that Feathers' accounting demonstrated an intent to deceive or, at a minimum, "extreme recklessness in his management of the (f)unds."

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To the OP: You didnt mention any mechanical problems so why did you part with the vehicles?
PS. Looks like a Smart roadster
I used to drive a citroen. Citroens are cool because they pioneered airsuspension. And airsuspension does exactly what you would expect, namely like driving on air. It's comfortable, it's smooth, it's a pleasure to drive. With all the electronics even back then, they could improve the handling of the car by controlling the pressure. And if you'd ever find yourself in a situation where you'd need more bottom clearance, well, even that was possible with the flick of a switch.Then one day I had to drive it to the dealer. The lease-contract had ended and I had to return it from whence it came. It was a sad day as it was hard to say goodbye to the trusty comfort of an old friend. That day I told myself over and over again, that it was simply 1 step back to advance 2 steps forward in some not too distant future.And gosh do I love self fulfilling prophecy. So at some point in that future I actually was able to purchase a new car from my own hard earned moneys, and off I went in my new sporty looking but rather small convertible. It was brilliant, it was fun, it was totally the opposite of air-suspension, but a pleasure it was none-the-less. It became my new trusty old friend for the next 10 years. Unfortunately, today marks the end of those 10 years. At the brink of 120.000 km I have again said goodbye to a dear comrade, to a partner in crime on my photographic endeavours at times. It was a brilliant partnership by the way, because the car would always elicit smiles and attract attention, which, at the same time, allowed me to enter off-limit areas without much trouble. Well then, here's to you, you cool hipsta vehicle. May you provide fun and pleasure in someone else's life, may you be caressed to the end of your days. And when your final lap commences, may you feel triumph and then rest in pieces. I shall remember you.
Very nice Goodbye!There's still a few Smart Roadsters around here but Citroëns are, of course, more common.
Oh, yeah. And what citroens!I just came back from the land of swiss and again I have seen a 2CV merrily keeping up with traffic on the Lausanne-Zurich freeway. Four years ago, I spotted a 2CV Sahara around Neuchatel and was overtaken by a Special @ 130km/h near Lichtenstein. You guys love your cits, I'll give you that.The logic of the Smart is to have a fun lightweight car to chuck around corners on a windy b-road or Switzerland.The demi-luxo-barge is the car of choice for mob middle management and parlamentarians of banana republics hence it's guaranteed success in perpetuity.
I used to have a Fiat X1/9
I seem to remember that was also the logic of the Mercedes Elk A Class.If you ever tested a car with a short wheel-base you'd realise they suck:
I just came back from the land of swiss and again I have seen a 2CV merrily keeping up with traffic on the Lausanne-Zurich freeway. Four years ago, I spotted a 2CV Sahara around Neuchatel and was overtaken by a Special @ 130km/h near Lichtenstein. You guys love your cits, I'll give you that.
Another iconic classic. Unfortunately, the only time I see them these days if at all, is on the back of a truck, hopefully on the way to a restoration project but might just as easily be straight to the landfill...
I seem to remember that was also the logic of the Mercedes Elk A Class.If you ever tested a car with a short wheel-base you'd realise they suck: are not stable; offer a very uncomfortable ride and induce real nausea within fifteen minutes. Especially on those winding B roads. It's the same principle that makes small boats less comfortable than larger ones.Rob C
Ha. You, my friend are of a different school of thought. Driving is like sex. If you think of comfort when you're doing it, you are not enjoying it. I drive and enjoy short wheelbase cars for everything you hate (not much can get me out of my clapped out 205GTI). Nothing like the fear of liftoff oversteer in the back of your mind to keep your foot firmly planted on the fun pedal. I have managed to get quite a few dealers sick on some of my test drives.But you are not totally right. Renault has made some brilliant, exquisitely refined sport hatchbacks with short wheelbase, lots of fun, and none of the nausea inducing manners. Try an R26. Even my wife who doesn't give a toss about cars was impressed with its manners.As for bad ride, I think you need better roads. Try Australia.
Heysoos! I really am sorry for you!Rob C


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BALTIMORE, MD – Junior defenseman Doug Eich scored his second goal of the season with 2:01 remaining to break the sixth and final tie of the game and lift the 20th-ranked Albany men's lacrosse team to a 10-9 win over 10th-ranked Johns Hopkins at Homewood Field Friday night. The win is the third straight for the Great Danes, who improve to 7-3, while Hopkins dropped its second straight and slips to 6-4.
Albany held a pair of two-goal leads in the fourth quarter, only to have the Blue Jays fight back and tie the game at 9-9 on consecutive goals by Wells Stanwick and Brandon Benn less then two minutes apart midway through the period. Johns Hopkins then had a golden opportunity to take the lead as Ryan Feuerstein was called for pushing with 2:36 remaining to give the Blue Jays their fifth extra-man opportunity of the game.
As it had all night, the Albany defense stood firm and freshman goalie Blaze Riorden saved a Ryan Brown shot late in the man-up situation and jump-started a transition play by quickly firing the ball to Eich on the run at the top of the box. Eich worked his way into the attacking third and when no slide came he drove to the goal and beat Blue Jay goalie Pierce Bassett from seven yards out to give Albany the one-goal lead.
The Blue Jays had one final possession, but a John Ranagan shot sailed high with 14 seconds remaining and Brown's last-ditch attempt in the closing seconds was blocked and Albany scooped up the ground ball as the final two seconds ticked off the clock.
The frantic finish seemed appropriate in a game that may not have produced as many goals as some thought it might, but still generated 74 shots, 36 combined goalie saves, 24 turnovers and a combined showing of 1-of-10 in extra-man situations.
Both teams took turns controlling the game with swings in momentum. The Blue Jays opened the game by scoring four of the first six goals with Stanwick starting and ending a game-opening 4-2 run with his 19th and 20th goals of the season.
Albany, which entered the game with the nation's top scoring offense at just over 15 goals per game, flashed its quick-strike ability early in the second quarter when Jimmy Haugen and Ty Thompson scored just 74 seconds apart to draw the Danes even. The deadlock lasted until late in the second quarter when senior John Greeley gave the Blue Jays a 5-4 lead when he spun inside his defender on the wing and bounced home an eight-yarder.
Ty Thompson's goal early in the second quarter was the last goal the Danes would score for exactly 24 minutes, but Greeley's strike was the only goal the Blue Jays would muster during the period and it took Albany less than a minute to grab the lead late in the third quarter as Feuerstein took a pass from behind the goal and worked his way free in front to knot the game at 5-5 and Will Fuller struck 49 seconds later to give Albany a 6-5 lead.
That lead held until Holden Cattoni scored from in tight for JHU just 66 seconds into the fourth quarter, but Derrick Eccles scooped up a loose ball in front and shoveled one home just over a minute later and Miles Thompson added an unassisted goal three minutes after that to give Albany an 8-6 lead.
Stanwick's third of the game a short time later was answered in just nine seconds by Ty Thompson to make it 9-7 with just over eight minutes on the clock. The back-to-back goals by Stanwick and Benn came within the next three minutes, setting the stage for Eich's game-winner that lifted Albany to its second all-time win against the Blue Jays.
While the game featured two of the top four scoring offenses in the nation, the two stars of the game were Riorden and Bassett. Riorden punched up a career-high 20 saves, including 12 in the second and third quarters combined when he held the Blue Jays to just one goal. Bassett nearly matched his counterpart with 15 saves, including 11 in the second half.
Miles Thompson led the Danes with three goals and two assists, while Ty Thompson (2g) and Haugen (1g, 1a) added multi-point games for for Albany.
Stanwick totaled four goals and one assist for the Blue Jays and senior Mike Poppleton won 14-of-23 faceoffs and grabbed a game-high eight ground balls, but no other JHU player had more than one point. JHU held decided advantages in shots (44-30) and ground balls (34-25), but Riorden's efforts kept Albany in the game and Eich's game-winner provided the difference.
The loss overshadowed a solid effort by Johns Hopkins senior Tucker Durkin, who held Lyle Thompson, the nation's leading scorer at better than seven points per game, scoreless.
Johns Hopkins hits the road next week to renew the greatest rivalry in college lacrosse as the Blue Jays travel to College Park to take on top-ranked Maryland. Game time at Byrd Stadium next Saturday is set for 3 pm.
#20 Albany (7-3) 2-2-2-4/10
#10 Johns Hopkins (6-4) 4-1-0-4/9
Goals: A: M. Thompson-3, T. Thompson-2, Haugen, Fuller, Feuerstein, Eccles, Eich. J: Stanwick-4, Sanders, Palmer, Benn, Cattoni, Greeley. Assists: A: M. Thompson-2, Cox, Garziano, Haugen. J: Coppersmith, Stanwick. Saves: A: Riorden-20, Huber-1. J: Bassett-15. Shots: A-30. J-44. EMO: A: 1-for-5. J: 0-for-5. Attendance: 1,525.


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Creative Spotlight: McFarland & Pecci on Creative Cloud
Twisted, dark and awesome. Three words that describe the work of the creative team and visual artists that make up McFarland & Pecci. Still relatively new Creative Cloud members, these fellas have wasted no time utilizing the broad range of tools and programs to create one-of-a-kind work. A documentary film for well-known "metal core" band, Killswitch Engage? They've done it. High concept cover art for the Boston Phoenix? Sure. See what we mean about twisted, dark and awesome?
We engaged in a lightning round Q&A session with them to get more details on why Creative Cloud works for them. The diverse amount of products offered, the seamless syncing, constant updates, and bug fixes are just a few reasons why this duo takes creativity to a whole new level.
Adobe: Describe a project you are currently working on or have completed with Creative Cloud.
McFarland & Pecci: We signed up for Creative Cloud a few months ago and jumped right into a few projects with Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Photoshop. McFarland & Pecci is a creative team of directors and visual artists. We create everything from high concept photo shoots to feature films and documentaries. The past few months have kept us busy in post-production on the new Killswitch Engage documentary called "New Awakening", the new music video for CZARFACE featuring Inspectah Deck from Wu-Tang, one of the final high concept covers for the Boston Phoenix, and an upcoming "double secret" comic book film.
What was your inspiration behind the project?
We love to tell stories, and we tend to be drawn to darker subject matter and artists that are obsessed with their craft. The film on Killswitch Engage was a fun project that allowed us to focus on the guys as a family unit and we kept our gear tight and our crew small. The CZARFACE video is deeply rooted in our love for Grindhouse flicks and Shaw Brothers films, and the 'End of the World' photo shoot was completely influenced by the epic magic of Michael Bay!
How has the Creative Cloud changed your creative workflow?
We switched to Premiere Pro to simplify our workflow. Plain and simple. We shot CZARFACE with the RED EPIC in 5K with Hawk anamorphic lenses. The piece required a lot of compositing in After Effects and color grading. The fact that I could bring the raw files right into my timeline and directly export to After Effects made our lives so much easier. A competitor's program has really dropped the ball when it comes to professional editing these days so we were looking for a smart move. Just the time saved by not having to transcode footage from the RED and/or DSLRs was enough of a reason to make the jump to Premiere Pro.
What tools specific to Creative Cloud enable you to work more efficiently?
As mentioned earlier, all the new benefits of Premier Pro were our big draw in the video side of things, but the new version of Photoshop and its retouching tools and amazing smart layers really helped us composite these giant "End of the World" files. We have always been Adobe fans in one way or another, but having it all in one spot really helps us. The cloud helps us keep both systems identical in our edit bays, and the constant updates have fixed a lot of software bugs already.
Describe your style of work in three words
Really F$#Kin Awesome!
Fill in the blank: I couldn't create without _________.
Our twisted minds and the tools that can keep up with them.
What advice would you give to an individual who is considering Creative Cloud?
If you are a video editor, make the jump to Premier Pro. Just do it. Creative Cloud is the smart choice; you sign up and download everything you need. It even runs on two systems. Makes having a post house a lot easier.
Dig their work? Check out Mcfarland & Pecci on Facebook, visit our website to see more films – www.mcfarlandandpecci.com – or follow directors @MikePecci and @Ian_McFarland on Twitter for behind the scenes content and tutorials.


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Born in Paris to parents from Martinique, Brival Terry spent his childhood in Saint-Gratien, a small town in the Val d'Oise in the 95 … At the age of 4 years her mother discovered her talent on a 45 laps of Stevie Wonder titled "I Just Call To Say I Love You", reproducing the same voice of the Anglo-Saxon star … But the revelation was much later in college when Terry starts to hum "I Believe I Can Fly ", the famous R-Kelly, in full voice to his fellow Recess all gathered around him as he never had wanted … Terry's story continues Brival on entering high school, where he he meets Yann S and the 2 Wayz Nikko in a voice exchange during a break one morning … he works with his best friend Yann S to form the duo Players Vocals: an intensive period of hard work, concatenation of hearings, private singing lessons, etc … Until the day when Terry had to opt for a break in his musical career to pursue her studies and make various formations … Only 9 years later, he finds himself in March 2007 in downtown Paris, Yann returning from Guyana and preparing for his album "Open Book" includes Terry in the project without hesitation. The title "Farewell" allowing Terry to accomplish his dream and finally starts his singing career … The positive feedback from the duo "goodbye" were motivated to produce the association S'time Terry Brival. So in late September 2007 that the prod began to refine the album Terry Brival. S'time wanted to create a warm and electric universe around Terry Brival because it has a very powerful voice and melancholy. So for this first installment of the protected S'time has been surrounded by artists of various backgrounds and innovative composers. Nearly eight months of intense collaboration and exchanges rich in emotions! The II Wayz (Aycee Jordan), Scarlette Fuentes, Yann S Eleeza.r, and Sita Bekeno Beensha unhesitatingly responded present to this first. For Choir Linda Rey was essential and Steven Morris, Bea and Ninamazone. The instrumental side, for guitars Thierry Delannay, Louves Denis, Camille brett, Kayneex Nikooo and prod were able to surprise us and make us vibrate! Terry is an artist R'n'B / Gospel at the base, burning desires should be as broad as possible. Therefore the prod appealed to composers Patrice Adekalom, Nikooo prod, Reverse Kayneex, Styley and Henry Placide. The bassist Guy Nsengué collaborated on several tracks and has allowed this album to get a more intense! The mix and recording studio were made at Kas, alongside Mr. Jacques Lomon and some tracks were mixed by el magnifico (Claude). The first single is far from you and we return to dependence.
- Each title of his debut album referring to an emotion or event! An album of 16 songs whose desires are burning and confronts us with: Dependency (loin de toi) Depression (Jamais) Love (InMe mwen) feat Scarlette Fuentes Happiness (you and me) obsession (Je t'aime encore) Perseverance (carry on) and Sita feat Bekeno Beensha Curiosity (Candy) feat Yann SL'évasion (ride with me) feat Aycee Jordan II Wayz Weakness (Face à toi) Distress (I love you) Anger (moi trompé) Ignorance (Lueur d'espoir) Indifference (Dis moi) Feat Eleeza.r Distance (Adieu).
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Fabolous (real name: John David Jackson) was recently spotted scoping out a lavish triplex penthouse at 95 Greene Street in Soho. According to the Post, the rapper looked at a 8,200-square-foot combo penthouse that is priced at $21.5 million.
The lavish penthouse is currently owned by celeb photographer Ken Nahoum and his lingerie model girlfriend who have come under scrutiny in recent months for failing to pay $40,000 in common charges and late fees. Curbed reports the building residents are up in arms over Nahoum's failure to pony up the cash because the photographer has been spotted on TV in his pricey Knicks seats.
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If Fabolous ends up buying Nahoum's digs he'll enjoy a four-bedroom, four-bath unit that boasts incredible views of the Manhattan skyline. The 8,200-square-foot penthouse features an 85-foot-long living room, soaring 36-foot ceilings, a 9-foot marble mantle, a Philip Stark-designed kitchen, and stone flooring imported from the French countryside. How fab!
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Ontario PST Exemption on Bikes & Accessories a Gift for this Holiday Season
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Just in time for the Christmas season, bikes with a price tag of less than $1,000, bike helmets and select bike safety equipment are now exempt from the Ontario Provincial Sales Tax (PST), beginning December 1st.
At first glance, tax relief for bikes when there's snow on the road seems odd, but as the Bicycle Trade Association of Canada (BTAC) and your local bike retailer will tell you, pre-Christmas is the second largest sales period for bikes.
"Sales at this time of year are higher due to the Christmas season, since this is when a lot of kids get their first bikes," says Pete Lilly, President of the Bicycle Trade Association of Canada. "While kids will be getting the new bikes, the McGuinty government's sales tax exemption on bikes and accessories is a gift to parents."
The tax exemption will save consumers approximately $25 million each year. It is also expected that this move by the Ontario government will get kids more active, as well as encourage others to spend more time outdoors, while easing congestion on the roads.
Mr. Lilly continues, "Your local specialty bike retailer is really about much more than selling you a bike. A good bike shop is part of your community - it's a place that not only equips you, but also inspires you to move on your own power. And the more you ride, the stronger and healthier you get, the less pollution and greenhouses gases you generate, and the more fun you have."
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The governor's choice of former state Sen. Edith Prague to lead the Department on Aging couldn't be better, area senior center and legislative leaders said Thursday.
The governor's choice of former state Sen. Edith Prague to lead the Department on Aging couldn't be better, area senior center and legislative leaders said Thursday.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Prague's appointment Thursday. The 87-year-old Prague, of Columbia, served more than 25 years in the state Legislature, retiring in 2012, after she had a stroke.
Since she joined the Legislature in the late 1980s, state officials have repeatedly turned to Prague for help with senior issues and advocacy. In 1990, then-Gov. Lowell Weicker named Prague the Commissioner of Aging, where she was instrumental in establishing the state's first assisted living facilities and a statewide health insurance counseling program to help seniors choose the right insurance for them.
In 2011, Prague lobbied for the Legislature's Committee on Aging, of which she was the Senate chairwoman, to be upgraded to a full standing committee of the General Assembly.
Her work with seniors made her a "natural choice," Gov. Malloy said in a press release.
"I know she will make an immediate impact as the Commissioner on Aging and am eager to work with her to address the needs of our state's growing senior population," he said.
Prague takes over a commission created in January when the state merged the functions of the Department of Social Services' Unit on Aging with the Office of Long Term Care Ombudsman. In the new position, she will administer a variety of federal senior support programs.
In a release, Prague said she was looking forward to getting back to work.
"We have a tremendous resource in our older residents. It is important that the state's programs and services are relevant, appropriate, and meet their needs," she said.
The choice was exciting for Kathy Doherty-Peck, the director of Montville's senior and social services programs.
"I haven't spoken to the seniors about it yet, but certainly knowing the seniors and their relationship with her, they're thrilled. She's a great choice for that position. I think she'll bring a lot to it," Doherty-Peck said.
Doherty-Peck, who has been working with Montville seniors for 18 years, said Prague has always been on the ball when it came to fighting for their needs.
"I'm looking forward to working with her, again. Even when she stopped, she didn't stop," Doherty-Peck said with a chuckle. "It's really going to be helpful for people like me when it comes to getting the latest information to help with programs and services. I'm very excited she's in that position."
While she's never worked with Prague personally, Plainfield Recreation Director Myra Ambrogi said Prague's reputation precedes her.
"We're looking forward to having a good advocate for seniors — someone who can relate to what's going on with them," Ambrogi said.
State Sen. Cathy Osten, D-19th District, said the governor couldn't have picked a better person for the job.
"If you were to start from scratch and build from the ground up an advocate for senior citizens, you would come up with Edith Prague — or her clone," said Osten, who occupies Prague's former Senate seat. I think it's wonderful, someone as vibrant as Edith in charge of taking care of our seniors. I've known her for probably 20 years, and her reputation among seniors is stellar."
Former legislative colleague and Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, wished Prague well with her new appointment.
"Edith Prague is an extraordinary advocate on behalf of our senior citizens," Williams said in a release. "I am thrilled that she is returning to public service as the new Commissioner on Aging. Edith is a fighter, a force of nature and the perfect choice to lead the department."


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Nicker wrote:This set must have come out before Lego had proper paddles since sets like 6057 Sea Serpent come with paddles. This set looks great except for the fact they are paddling with spears.
Albatross_Viking wrote:Sadly before my birth... but great set anyways
Forestboy wrote:I find it funny though how it's called a viking boat when there are no vikings on it and they're using spears as oars.
Peter de Yeule wrote:I don't know if oars were available at the time but it would have been nice to have some to replace the spear.
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So I have this database program I've been working on, just for fun and to tinker around with using multiple files within a package and to learn about JDBC. I use a small MySQL database I made a few months ago that contains various information on the top 20 most populous U.S. cities. The program is working pretty well, but there's one thing I can't work out on the part of the program that displays search queries.
So here is the GUI window for the search.
So it's a bunch of check boxes. You check off what you want to get from the database and press the Submit button. Here's how it works.
1) There is an array of booleans called selections[], and all elements are FALSE by default. If you check a box, a certain index (corresponding to the box that was checked) gets switched to TRUE. If you uncheck, it goes back to FALSE.
2) Press Submit.
3) The button listener steps through a bunch of if statements which each check an element in the selections array.
4) If an element is selected, run a SQL select query to pull that data out of the database and load it into a string.
5) That string is then returned to an array of strings called shownResults[].
6) The program then calls a function called createResultsPanel(). This function builds a JPanel which adds subpanels containing information requested and only the information requested. So if you ask for Demonym, it will show there. If not, it won't be on the panel.
7) The function returns the JPanel, which is then used in a JOptionPane.
The problem is something of formatting. Everything looks okay unless I ask for Sports Team information. So for example, here's what I get if I ask for everything about Chicago except the sports info.
Notice how it's nice and compact and such. That's how I want it. (There's a gap of empty space at the bottom but I think I know how to take care of that.)
And here is if you include sports, but exclude population and area code.
It's all stretched out. The sports info is there, down at the bottom, but there's huge swaths of padding between the boxes for some reason. And this ONLY happens if you put in the sports stuff.
Here's the code for the function that builds the panel.
private JPanel createResultsPanel() { JPanel resultsPanel = new JPanel(); JPanel headerPanel = new JPanel(); JPanel subPanel; resultsPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(9,1)); //Some header information. headerPanel.add(new JLabel("Thank you for your query. Here are the results for " +jtfCity.getText())); resultsPanel.add(headerPanel); //User selected a state. if(selections[STATE]) { subPanel = new JPanel(); subPanel.add(new JLabel("State")); subPanel.add(new JTextField(shownResults[STATE])); resultsPanel.add(subPanel); } //User selected mayor name. if(selections[MAYOR]) { subPanel = new JPanel(); subPanel.add(new JLabel("Mayor Name")); subPanel.add(new JTextField(shownResults[MAYOR])); resultsPanel.add(subPanel); } //User selected demonym. if(selections[DEMONYM]) { subPanel = new JPanel(); subPanel.add(new JLabel("Demonym")); subPanel.add(new JTextField(shownResults[DEMONYM])); resultsPanel.add(subPanel); } //User selected population. if(selections[POPULATION]) { subPanel = new JPanel(); subPanel.add(new JLabel("Population")); subPanel.add(new JTextField(shownResults[POPULATION])); resultsPanel.add(subPanel); } //User selected area. if(selections[AREA]) { subPanel = new JPanel(); subPanel.add(new JLabel("Area")); subPanel.add(new JTextField(shownResults[AREA])); resultsPanel.add(subPanel); } //User selected area codes. if(selections[AREACODES]) { subPanel = new JPanel(); subPanel.add(new JLabel("Area Codes")); subPanel.add(new JTextField(shownResults[AREACODES])); resultsPanel.add(subPanel); } //User selected counties. if(selections[COUNTIES]) { subPanel = new JPanel(); subPanel.add(new JLabel("Counties")); subPanel.add(new JTextField(shownResults[COUNTIES])); resultsPanel.add(subPanel); } //User selected sports information. if(selections[SPORTSTEAMS]) { subPanel = new JPanel(); subPanel.add(new JLabel("Sports Teams")); subPanel.add(new JTextArea(shownResults[SPORTSTEAMS])); resultsPanel.add(subPanel); } return resultsPanel; }


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Congressman Duncan D. Hunter recently caught fire when he ended a town-hall style meeting in San Diego calling for an end to illegal immigration by deporting U.S. born children of undocumented immigrant parents.
And his father , former Congressman Duncan L. Hunter, is famous for implementing his double fence at the border to keep people from crossing into the U.S. illegally from Mexico.
So if you watched the 60 Minutes story on the All-American Canal and heard John Hunter, (brother to the former congressman and uncle to the current) you'd probably think that family dinners ought to be pretty lively.
The All-American Canal is a deep waterway on the California border to Mexico, near Yuma, Arizona. Hundreds have drowned trying to cross the border illegally into the U.S.
John Hunter, a life-long Republican believes lives shouldn't be lost no matter what their immigration status. For years he's been lobbying the Imperial Irrigation District to add safety features to the canal but nothing's been done, so he took matters into his own hands and pulled on a wet suit and strung a line of buoys across the water in an act of civil disobedience.
The 60 Minutes piece points out John Hunter is a life long conservative Republican and is against an open border.


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Pulitzer-prize winning author Michael Chabon and his wife, Ayelet Wadlman, are collaborating on a new series for HBO that will pit magicians against Nazis.
"Hobgoblin" will tell the story of "a motley group of conmen and magicians who use their skills at deception to battle Hitler and his forces during WWII," reported Variety.
This is the first project on which the spouses have worked together, and in addition to writing, they'll also be serving as executive producers.
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In addition to novels like "The Wonder Boys," "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and"The Yiddish Policemen's Union" (which the Coen Brothers are developing into a film), Chabon has worked on screenplays for "Spider-Man 2" and the currently filming "John Carter on Mars."
Aldman, whose novel "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" was recently turned into a film titled "The Other Woman," starring Natalie Portman. She's perhaps best known for writing that "I love my husband more than I love my children," a stance that set off a small firestorm of outrage among the punditry.


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Can Angels carry three catchers?
Decision day is fast approaching. Catcher Bobby Wilson and outfielder Terry Evans are out of Minor League options and can't be returned to Triple-A Salt Lake without the risk of losing them through waivers. Both almost certainly would be claimed.
Evans is competing with Robb Quinlan, Reggie Willits, Michael Ryan and Cory Aldridge for a backup outfield role. Quinlan can play four positions and is the most experienced of the group. Willits, held back by a hamstring strain, can be sent to Salt Lake, but he's the only proven center fielder. Ryan has the advantage of being able to play the corner infield spots. Aldridge has scalded the ball all spring. Evans can drive the ball and play all three outfield spots.
It becomes a matter of choice, and it figures to come down to the final days of Spring Training after the club breaks camp and heads west.
The Wilson situation is far more complicated. The Angels have to decide if they can keep a third catcher in support of Mike Napoli and Jeff Mathis. If they can't, Wilson will have to be dealt or lost.
Just the other day, manager Mike Scioscia liberally praised the 26-year-old Wilson, a Seminole (Fla.) High School teammate of former Angels first baseman Casey Kotchman who has spent seven years honing his skills in the farm system.
"Willie from the defensive end is a terrific catcher," Scioscia said. "He's got terrific, is a great receiver and throws well. From the offensive end, he's going to be a good situational hitter. He's going to be a good offensive player in the Major Leagues.
"Obviously, we have some decisions to make. He's a player that is in our discussions as to what role he'll have with us. He's a good player who's going to be able to catch every day in the Major Leagues when he has the opportunity."
Wilson is hitting .316 in Cactus League play with a .435 on-base percentage. He skillfully managed 20-year-old Trevor Reckling through four scoreless innings against the Giants on Friday in his second spring start.
"I feel like I've gone out and played hard, gone after it, done everything I can to stick," Wilson said. "I'm still trying to prove to the staff here that I am able to play, and I feel like I've done everything they've asked me to do. I've paid attention to the little details of everything that's gone on.
"The one knock on me when I came up was, `Yeah, he can hit, but he's an average catcher.' To be voted best defensive catcher in the Pacific Coast League last year by the managers, that shows me I came in and did the job. I can block [pitches and the plate], I can throw, call a game, handle a pitching staff. I feel like I'm well-rounded.
"I pride myself on putting up zeros. Catching Trevor, 20 years old and facing Tim Lincecum, that wasa great experience for both of us. He did it with just his fastball and slider first time through the lineup, then we went to his changeup, one of his best pitches. He was in and out, back and forth, with a good tempo. That's the one thing I pride myself in, that pitcher-catcher relationship."
Carrying three catchers has benefits. It would give Scioscia flexibility with Napoli as a pinch-hitter and occasional designated hitter, while providing support in the event of injury to either of the main receivers.
Crucial to the makeup of the 25-man roster is the pitching staff, whether Scioscia decides to carry 11 or 12 arms. Brian Stokes' ability to go multiple innings – he's done it three times this spring – could swing it toward 11 pitchers . . . and one more roster spot for a position player.
Decision day draws near. – Lyle Spencer
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So if the Angels keep 3 catchers and 11 pitchers, that leaves 11 other players including Morales, Kendrick, Wood, Aybar, Rivera, Hunter and Abreu as starters (7). With 4 positions left you have Matsui at DH, Izturis, Quinlan and Evans.
If it turns out that the Angels need more flexibility, do they deal one of their catchers and if so, who and with which team? I say Mike Napoli would be the most likely dealt since Scioscia likes defense and calling games and his bat would be a big bait package. Mathis could become more of an everyday catcher and Wilson back him up once or twice a week. Hank Conger would continue to hone his skills at Salt Lake and when he's ready, he makes a big impact. I think Mathis could improve with his bat if he gets more consistent attempts at the plate.
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I think you start the year with three catchers. Napoli could DH if Matsui proves not be so durable. Plus, if Wood bombs at third then move Morales over there where he has played before and put Napoli at first. Napoli was only an every-other-day player last season so he doesn't need to play everyday to make an impact.
If forced to trade one of the catchers I think I would trade Mathis. Napoli will hit 30+ HR if he plays everyday and is still a very adequate defensive player.
I don't understand why people think shifting players from one position to another is so easy. There are very few players who have that ability (ie Izturis/Figgins). You'll never see the Angels move move Morales to 3B. He's staying at 1B period. I can see Napoli playing some DH if/when Matsui goes down but that is the extent of position changing we'll see.
Yeah, I think Napoli has a future with the Angels so I wouldn't trade him. For once, Naps admitted he doesn't mind doing DH at all so I can see him as our full-time DH in the future (plus Matsui is only signed through 1-year). Mathis is a great defensive catcher so I would see him as the everyday catcher for the Angels with Napoli being everyday DH (eventually).
Who I would trade? Well, that's a tough one, but in the AL league that is built on offense to compete, unless Mathis can show he can be a great gap hitter (not necessarily a power hitter), he's the one I would trade.
Not every player can switch positions but it is not all uncommon. Look at Wood moving from SS to 3B. Look at Quinlan playing at least four positions and being the emergency catcher. Kendrick played 1B for a few months a couple of seasons ago. If I remember right, Rivera played a little first base during spring training a year or two ago. Wasn't there talk of having Wood play 1B when they were looking for a spot before Morales came?
Morales played third at one point. Napoli could easily play first base, I imagine. But I agree with you, this is not likely.
oh dear! I think two is enough 😦 I love how the organization has such great catchers to choose from though. Ahh once again the problem every team would love to have. Last year i was impressed with Napoli. Last postseason and this year i'm impressed with Mathis. I like them both! And we still have Wilson and Conger down there 😦 Ai yai yai!


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Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume.
Data centers, central to the nation's cyberinfrastructure, house computing, networking and storage equipment. Each time you make an ATM withdrawal, search the Internet or make a cell phone call, your request is routed through a data center.
Thomas Wenisch, assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and students David Meisner and Brian Gold will present a paper about improving the energy efficiency of data center computer systems on March 10 at the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems in Washington, D.C.
Wenisch and the students analyzed data center workloads and power consumption and used mathematical modeling to develop their approach.
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The Environmental Protection Agency expects the energy consumption of the nation's data centers to exceed 100 billion kWh by 2011, for an annual electricity cost of $7.4 billion. Those figures are about twice what they were in 2006, when data centers already drew more electricity than 5.8 million U.S. households.
Data centers waste most of the energy they draw. The facilities are inefficient because they must be ready for peak processing demands much higher than the average demand.
"For the typical industrial data center, the average utilization is 20 to 30 percent. The computers are spending about four-fifths of their time doing nothing," Wenisch said. "And the way we build these computers today, they're still using 60 percent of peak power even when they're doing nothing."
Techniques employed today such as dynamic frequency and voltage scaling don't do enough to conserve power, the researchers say. Instead, servers could sleep periodically like ordinary laptops.
They would have to slumber and wake exceedingly fast, Wenisch says. His detailed analysis of 600 servers illustrates the sporadic and sparse demands on data center servers. Their average idle period is mere hundreds of milliseconds. Their average busy period is even shorter, at tens of milliseconds. A millisecond is one-thousandth of a second.
While PowerNap would require a new operating system to coordinate the instantaneous sleeping and waking, most of the other technologies that would make this possible already exist, Wenisch says.
"There aren't really technological barriers to achieving this," Wenisch said. "The individual components know how to go to sleep fast. Engineers have developed that technology for laptops and smart phones. But the pieces haven't been used in servers where you don't have a user closing the lid. The components are out there, but the system needs to be redesigned."
While the computer parts might not be hard to find, the power supply would need to be overhauled for PowerNap to work properly, the researchers say. Their new RAILS technique addresses this problem.
Today's power supply technique for stacking "blade-based" servers connects about 16 computers to a handful of 2,250-watt power supplies. The arrangement is inefficient unless the machines are running full steam.
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One who talks about the Carcar ancestral houses should not fail to mention that public interest to the houses—in particular, interest coming from other parts of the province and later from the rest of the country–all started with the Kabkaban festival. The festival signaled the opening of these houses to visitors.
At the Kabkaban, the Roman Sarmiento, Florencio Noel, Maximino Noel, Mariano Mercado and Padre Anastasio del Corro houses immediately stood out, not only by virtue of their innate attractiveness but also by their owners' willingness to undertake the hard work in sprucing up these monuments to the nines.
However, a huge gap appears between the supposed long history of the town and the meager ages of the so-called ancestral houses we see in the town today.
Take the hundred-year-old houses. All Cebu City families. And yet, many Cebu City families were already in the town before 1850. For example, Brigildo Alegrado married Carcar lass Nicolasa Alega and their older children were already born here before 1830 yet. So, where was the family's house? And where the houses of the mestizos Sangley Mamerto Alcorcon, Leon Alcudia and Mariano Sagolili and of Marcelo Caballero from San Nicolas? The mestizo Español del Corro family was already in Carcar earlier than 1830. Again, where the family house? The Español Mariano Silva married his wife Manuela Espinosa here in 1812 yet—where is a Silva house?
Where did Tomas Osmeña stay, he who managed the Osmeña lands in the 1800's? And most of all, where was the biggest land magnate of them all, Doña Fausta Regis's house? And the spinster had even died and was buried in Carcar in 1899.
As far as I can determine, I will identify a house by the original owner(s)' names. Those may not be recognizable today, but it must have been called that at that time. Anyway by which owner we call a house today may not be known still as such 50 years hence.
For instance what must have been known as Tiyoy's house, was later known as Kadyo's, and then Dodoy's and now Leto's. I'm referring of course to the "Leon Kilat" house. Even the centuries-old Yap house (or whatever prior) of Parian in the city in one fell swoop is now famously called the Yap Sandiego house, but itself laying the precedence for amendatory possibilities of future generations affixing their own etiquetas on it, too.
I so admire that the official London residence of the monarch of England is still called Buckingham Palace, for its former owner.
And, by the way I so squirm that every house is called "ancestral" when only two or three generations of a branch has ever lived there. So, I think for Carcar I call only the Roman Sarmiento and the Florencio Noel houses as ancestral–where every member of the Sarmiento and Noel families of Carcar can refer to those houses as their ancestral house, while most Aleonar cannot call my grandfather's house as their ancestral house. It is just my grandfather's.
Be that as it may, Carcar heritage houseowners have commissioned professional historians to trace the history of the houses for a possible book project and we wait with bated breath the documents they'll be able to extract out of archives available to them which should show the construction, modification and ownership histories of these houses.
Anyway, these here are my own reconstructions of the histories of the houses we still have with us, making do with whatever information is out there. By "making do with whatever information–open secrets– out there", I mean this will not be a society page glossover job. I'll just start with our houses, then.
By the way, anybody wants to write about their house is absolutely welcome. Email me and I'll see about your house and your writeup getting a page.
And the monuments all over town are just as attractive as the houses.


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Doner kebabs may originate from a predominantly Muslim country - but Muslims who eat them in Britain may be unwittingly eating pork, a report has warned.
Undercover trading standards officers who carried out investigations into 20 restaurants and take-aways found that none of the lamb kebabs tested contained just lamb as stated - and that four of the lamb curries didn't contain any lamb at all.
They found that suppliers were bulking out the Turkish dish with cheaper meats like pork, chicken, and beef in a bid to increase profits while customers were told they were getting 100% lamb with their pitta, salad, and chilli sauce. Some even claimed to be Halal.
Of the 19 lamb curries tested at kebab shops picked at random in Stratford upon Avon, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton and Rugby, only three contained just lamb. Most contained a mixture of lamb padded out with pork, beef or poultry.
Officers from Warwickshire County Council trading standards also found that 70% of the lamb kebabs contained high levels of artificial colouring - which can cause health problems. One kebab contained 18 times the safe level of colouring, and another was 13 times higher.
As well as revealing how kebab shops were ripping off customers, officers said the findings would cause concern for people who don't eat certain meats for religious or health reasons.
Warwickshire County councillor Richard Hobbs, who after checking does actually have the bizarre title 'portfolio holder for community safety', said: "Consumers rely on accurate food descriptions. Some foods are not permitted to be eaten by some religions and cultures, whilst some people may wish to avoid some foods because of allergy concerns.
"Consumers should also have the confidence that if they are buying an expensive product such as lamb, that they are not getting chicken instead, a meat that is half the price."
It follows a nationwide study into doner kebabs by food standard officers two years ago which found "shocking" levels of saturated fat and salt, false labelling of meat and, on average, nearly 1,000 calories per doner - or half a woman's recommended daily intake.
Six of the kebabs tested contained pork. Two of these even claimed to be Halal. More than a third contained a different animal from that on the label. In 15% of the samples, undeclared beef was found, and in 12% undeclared chicken.
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The Adobe Gaming team and a host of talented, creative, and colorful developers gathered in the Windy City for the second Adobe Game Jam. Once again we had a great group of enthusiastic designers and developers who built some amazing games using Flash technology!
Five Chi-town teams assembled and worked through the night to show off the high quality games, and in just 24 hours we had a winner! Disaster at CP1 is a firefighting adventure that captured the crowd's attention with its smooth controls and terrific aesthetics, and the fully playable demo is available online here.
The Starling Framework and Citrus Engine were front and center, serving as a key component in the majority of the Game Jam projects. Thanks again to all attendees for coming out to the Adobe Game Jam and for making our community one of the most innovative and enthusiastic. We really enjoyed seeing the Citrus Engine embraced by the development community and are looking forward to everyone's next projects!
Check out the video below to get a first-hand look at the Game Jam. Also, a special thanks to The Nerdery for playing host!
P.S. If you had the chance to attend, don't hesitate to leave us a note in the comments section below or drop us a line on Twitter via @AdobeFlash.


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These guys aren't that much different than us. They watch the same stuff we do. Know about as much about the game as we do. And make similar reactions without full knowledge of what really transpired. Perhaps they get a little more info by talking to someone inside the organization. But the folks on the inside are only gonna share so much and it's all just speculation.
SAS and Skip Bayless belong as guest on Jerry Springer. For some reason, I always imagine them living in a trailer park. I know they don't. And they're intelligent. And it's an act. It's just what I picture in my head when they talk for some reason. They probably live in houses bigger than all of ours combined. It'd be cool if they were famous enough to show up on MTV Cribs sometime.
SAS is loud, Skip Bayless is arrogant, Kornheaiser is corny, Wilbon is reasonable...
I guess they didn't teach Ike to ignore trash talk at SwagginU.
Maybe Ike should listen to Smith since this is the second time in less than a year that he's been owned in Denver. Let's not forget, the first time was with Tebow throwing the ball.
Based on our overall defensive performance last week, maybe Warren Sapp is right too. Old and Slow.
Tomlin: Let's unleash hell and "mop the floor" with the competition.


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I have never diagrammed a sentence in my life. I was never taught this in school. People often ask me how I gained my knowledge of grammar, and the answer is just that I've been an avid reader my whole life. It's hard not to learn sentence structure when you're constantly reading.
I was, however, quite amused to find a diagrammed sentence spoken by our President at his first official press conference.
Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein asked President Obama (PRESIDENT OBAMA! PRESIDENT OBAMA! IT STILL THRILLS ME TO HEAR OR READ THAT!) whether he would consider investigating members of the Bush Administration, up to and including Bush himself.
The President's response:
"My view is also that nobody's above the law, and, if there are clear instances of wrongdoing, that people should be prosecuted just like any ordinary citizen, but that, generally speaking, I'm more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backwards."
Here's what blogger Garth Risk Hallberg had to say:
First, the elegant balance of the central construction (My view is that x, and that y, but also that z) shows that Obama has a good memory for where he's been, grammatically, and a strong sense of where he's going. His tripartite analysis of the problem is clearly reflected in the structure of the sentence, and thus in the three main branches of the diagram. (Turn it on its side and it could be a mobile.) The third "that" – thrown in 29 words into a 43-word sentence – creates three parallel predicate nouns. And then there's a little parallel flourish at the end: "I am more interested in looking forward than I am in looking back."
I think I blacked out while reading that — but it's still awesome.


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How else is social media being used in the UK? Vanguard Health are trying to encourage us to look at the systems in healthcare. Here Mark Cannon blogs about what he has got out of the use of social media over the past year, although he ends with the reminder that nothing trumps face-to-face relationships. Thinking more broadly than just healthcare, here @ermintrude2, a social worker who blogs under a pseudonymn, explains why she thinks social care also needs social media, and vice versa. Mental health nurse turned manager, Sarah Amani, tells how she started using social media because her professor in an MSc in health care mangement told her it was the best way to stay up to date with research in the field. She describes some of the many benefits blogging and tweeting have had for her.
Let's look at a few posts by Dr. Mark Newbold, a medically qualified doctor, who is now Chief Executive of one of the largest NHS trusts in England. Here on his personal blog he gives 10 reasons why healthcare CEOs should use Twitter. You will be interested in what happened when his trust decided to have a Twitter Open Day. Who do you think would engage with a chief executive if he said he would reply to all and sundry? The expectation was that the interaction would mainly be from those using the service, but it wasn't. Instead most tweets came from staff, and this has lead to changes which can be implemented quickly. Who do you think would respond if you ran an activity like this?
But what about the voices of those using the services? Victoria Betton is doing a PhD on the use of social media in mental health services. She has just posted an interview with Mark Brown, a mental health campaigner, in 3 posts on her blog. Read all of them, but if you only have time for one read this: Is the NHS rubbish with social media? If you are fed-up of the rhetoric about the use of social media in healthcare then read this now. Do!
But if you only have time to read one blog post from this entire review then read this post about patient and disability activist, Sue Marsh. At the time of writing this post has 63 comments. It describes an incident that took place last weekend and was watched by thousands on Twitter. After surgery Sue discovered she had been given analgesia which she was allergic too. She tweeted about her distress and this resulted in the columnist for a national newspaper, the Daily Mail, contacting the hospital and asking for a senior nurse to review her case immediately. This happened. Last weekend, the Guardian newspaper, suggested you should complain on Twitter for an instant response from companies. This blog post describes how patients may also use social media to get help when they are in acute distress within a hospital. This may be something you have not considered before which is why you should read this post.
Of course, we can't leave out the United States, the more usual home of the #hcsm review. Here is a lovely post by patient turned healthcare advocate, AfternoonNapper, describing what you might get out of becoming an activist: much more than you put in. I think the patient activists I have linked to above would probably agree.
Also from the US, lawyer and HSCM review co-founder. David Harlow, casts his critical eye over the decision by Facebook to start tracking organ donor status. I have to say that I too was slightly cynical when I read about this. David suggests that monetization as much as medicine might lie behind the decision, but he would like to see Facebook throwing their weight behind a presumed consent law.
And now two posts from the other side of the world, Australia. First up, Mike Cadogan, an emergency physician, updates the 2009 analysis to show social media is being used by hospitals in Australia. This is an incredibly detailed post linking to the YouTube, Facebook and Twitter presence of all hospitals there. But Mike is disappointed. Private hospitals are about 10 times as likely to have a social media presence as public hospitals. A bigger question is does this matter? Tim Senior, a GP with a special interest in Aboriginal health and medical education (who I first met through his citeulike presence) reminds us that the digital divide is a reality when he writes asking us to "look in the rear view mirror occasionally". The people who get left behind because they can't or don't access social media, might be those who need healthcare more than any other group.
For a truly global perspective catch this post by Christopher Purdy about the use of social media around the world to promote sexual health. Here he describes initiatives in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Brazil and Indonesia amongst others.
Closer to (my) home is the upcoming Doctors 2.0 conference in Paris later this year. Joan Justice, HCSMreview co-founder, writes about it here, whilst organiser Denise Silber interviews a physician and marketing specialist from Italy on the future of mHealth in the EU.
Last but not least, a post from Ireland (I'm from the 1/3 of the way down the Eastern coast, just beside the Mourne mountains). Dr, Ronan Kavanagh is a rheumatologist who writes here about why he is a convert to the use of Twitter at conferences. Read and learn about his experiences at the world's biggest rheumatology meeting.
And so concludes this round-up of how social media is being used in healthcare around the world. Tune in next time!
Photo credits :
UK Love by Doug88888
USA flag by FreefotoUK
Ireland by Nasa Goddard Photo and Video
Australia's flag looking like canvas by Chrisser


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A woman survived a nosedive into a canyon in San Diego Thursday night, when her Rolls Royce plummeted 70 to 80 feet and left her trapped upside down in the luxury car.
The ordeal started just before 6 p.m. on an infamous hill on Springer Road in Fairmount Park, a neighborhood in east San Diego that's bordered by State Route 94, Interstate 15 and Interstate 805.
The woman driving the Rolls Royce told NBC 7 on Friday that she put the car in neutral and was going to coast it to the bottom of the hill when suddenly she realized she couldn't stop the car.
She said she was trying to avoid colliding with a parked car when her vehicle traveled off the road into the ravine below.
The entire incident happened in a manner of seconds, the driver, who did not want to be identified, later told NBC 7.
A witness called for help, and the fire department dispatched two truck companies along with San Diego Fire Heavy Rescue Team 4.
"Rescue 4 is trained to do all sorts of low angle, high angle, confined space, trench rescues," Battalion Chief David Picone explained. "They're experts in the field."
Thursday's rescue put their training to the test. The luxury car had fallen 70 to 80 feet down the steep ravine, making it one of the most treacherous types of rescues for both them and the victim.
Sixteen police officers and firefighters, hook and ladder, pulleys, ropes and several strong backs made for a textbook rescue.
The 40-year-old victim was taken to the hospital, and her condition is unknown. However, Picone said the driver was conscious, talking and had stable vitals when rescuers reached her. She was the only person inside the car.
Police are investigating the exact cause of the accident.
"It appears she came around the corner and as she made the turn, she lost control and ended up taking some flips down the canyon," Picone said.
"She landed right on her hood, so there could have been some significant injuries, so she's pretty fortunate there," Picone said.
"There were a lot of things playing in her favor. It was definitely lucky stars for her tonight."
One longtime neighbor told NBC 7 speed is an issue on the hill and it's common for cars to lose control.
"There was a sign put up telling them to slow down – I think to 10 mph – coming down the hill. It didn't do any good," Maria Reserva said.
"They run into the fence down there many times," she added.
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Speculation continues to surround the impending transfer activity out of L4 this summer. Boss David Moyes gave weight to this recently when he confirmed what most fans knew already that we have no money to buy new players, with the knock on effect being we are left vulnerable to other clubs picking off our best talent. Speculation has focused on our two midfielders, Jack Rodwell & Marouanne Fellaini. Whilst I retain the hope that we can keep these top young talents at the club, it is looking increasingly like one of them could be sacrificed. This article will take a look at the impact both players have had in the last 3 seasons and which is the most expendable asset and will look at the squad balance in general …..
Statistical Analysis
A brief synopsis of the below table would say that Fellaini is a much more effective presser than Rodwell, making a successful tackle every 35 minutes – Rodwell takes nearly double the amount of time to win a challenge and has a lower tackle completion than the curly haired general. Rodwell is elegant on the ball and has a better passing completion than Fellaini. Crucially though, Fellaini has more incision to his passing in the final third, creating a goalscoring chance for a teammate every 92 mins, something which takes Rodwell significantly longer to do.
The below table is based on Premier League games only……..
Market Value + Contracts
Both players are on comparable 5 year contracts for around £30,000, worth in the region of £8m over the duration of the deal. Rodwell is younger (19) and crucially he is English, a variable which in this country distorts transfer values massively… the transfer of the highly mediocre Nigel Reo Coker for £10m springs to mind. Rodwell is often compared to Rio Ferdinand during his formative years at WHU in terms of being a classy, ball playing defender, although this comparison is skewered by the fact that all of Rodwell's displays in blue have been in midfield. Ferdinand made the move to Leeds at the age of 22 for £18.5m in 2000, then moved onto Man U for £30m 2 years later. The figure of £25m is mooted for Rodwell but I'd be surprised if somebody would fund this given his inability so far to add beef to the clear potential he possesses. Deals of £15m up front with add ons going up to £20m would in my view be more likely.
Fellaini's contract only has 2 yeas left to run, expiring in summer 2013. After the £15m investment in him the club will be loathe to lose him at a loss. People mention Pienaar and the club allowing him to run down his contract, but this investment was just £2m and thus incomparable to the Big Belgian. I would seriously question whether the current board would allow Fellaini to enter the last year of his deal with no contract signed and therefore I think they would listen to offers for him to guarantee they get a return on their investment. If this materialized I think we could command a deal worth in the region of £22-25m with the bulk of this paid up front.
The following charts are based on league and cup games each player has started over the last 3 seasons…with Fellaini having the edge in terms of % games won.
Rodwell has recently signed improved terms on a deal that runs up until 2015. Therefore there is no risk currently that he could walk away for a reduced fee. The risk with Rodwell though is that should he fail to build on his reputation as has been the case this season for another year, this could lead to any inflated fee being reduced.
Unbalanced squad
The squad at the moment is very unbalanced. Central midfield is an area we are strong – this season Fellaini, Arteta, Rodwell, Heitinga, Neville and Osman have all played there and you also have Cahill who can play there and young Ross Barkley who will be ready later this year. It is a position we are top heavy in, whereas upfront we have just 3 strikers currently available – one is not competent for this division, one is still very much a work in progress and the other has fantastic ability but is injury prone and will be 33 when the new campaign kicks off.
If we could ship out Heitinga this summer it would bring in a decent fee from his sale, albeit not for a massive sum since his stock has dipped since his appearance in last year's World Cup Final. Removing him from the wage bill would remove one of the clubs top earners -reported to be on £70k per week – which would potentially save the club £11m in wages from the remaining 3 years of this deal. We also have £35,000 per week from Yakubu which will be skimmed off the wage bill in the summer, plus a moderate fee for the Nigerian forward.
Should we cash in, it could give us the opportunity to bolster the forward line and bring more balance to the squad. Moyes will be pushing for the fees recouped to be ploughed back into his transfer kitty, with powerhouse 21 year old Venezuelan striker Rondon the #1 target. Moyes has visited Malaga to watch the man who has 12 La Liga goals to his name this term. Rondon has a 20m euro buy out clause in his contract, but crucially like with the Fellaini deal, would be available at a reasonable wage package and offer the potential for future sell on value.
Fellaini has played a significantly more vital role to the team and if you were to look at who would make the bigger impact next season, you would have to go with Fellaini. After what happened with Rooney, Lescott and Gosling, you don't really expect loyalty from players nowadays, and conceivably both of these current players could be on the move in the coming years – therefore if we are looking at short term, I would say Fellaini is the best option if we can keep him.


text: Why Steve Waugh , In my opinion If Mark Taylor would have been playing this long , He would have been there at the place where steve is right now. In my opinion , technically , Ganguly is the best Captain . On batting a captain does nt have any control. He is just doing his job in the feild basically . Ganguly hasnt got the fire power in his bowling line up , but he uses his limited resources excellently. Chracter wise , I will recon Streak . In the recent era I guess Pollock,Jayasuriya and Waqar have been very emotional captains. Moin Khan and Waugh are very intelligent but not as much as Ganguly is .Ganguly does a 100 % job in the feild . If he gets Pakistani bowlers then I guess he can make an impossibe to beat side in the world like the Aussies of Steve Waugh times. In ediot category I will put Inzimam , Gosh this guy is still dumb after all this international cricket experience. I wont mention any other captain who was before the late 80's era , I havent seen them . But Imran is my all time favourie . He was just remarkable . He won the world cup for Pakistan , Won Against India , Won against Windies and England. HE was a true leader and a great dictator . He knew cricket from A to Z . I think Wasim had all the qualities to be called as a great leader but he was a money seeking cricketer , He loved money and thats it . Hansie was one of the great captains of 90's and in my view after Australia there is one spot that is no.2 . and almost all other countries are basically fighting for no.2 spot . And Hansie was the only captain who was eyeing at no.1. But alas.