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Are the recievers sold individually? mine was stolen along iwth the ipod. newest nanos / shuffles need the reciever?
the larger ipods are too big for me to run with. i need to buy a replacement ipod and dont want to buy a whole new sports pack for the reciever when some ipods have the receiver built in.
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The newest line of (most) iPods have the software built in. Buying an iPod Touch, for example, would prevent you from having to purchase a new receiver. It's my understanding that Nike+ does not work with any Shuffles.
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Do not expect your first DJ gig spinning records to be on a Saturday or Friday night, either. Chances are that you will be given a job during the week. You will have to work your way up towards the higher paying gigs as you continue to wow the crowd and gain an audience. Club owners are interested in making a profit in their club. The more people you bring in, the more they drink. The more the people drink, the more money the club makes. That means that if you have a following, you will be promoted. This is how it works when you are working as a DJ in a club.
Always be professional. Always test your equipment before you even get started. Make sure that you study the club before you even start so that you know what type of music that they play and what the people like. Remember that scene from "The Blues Brothers?" Where the blues band walked into a Country and Western bar to play the blues? It was funny in that film, but will not be funny if you do this in a real club. Make sure that you know what they like and give the people what they like.
This does not mean that you have to be a carbon copy of every other DJ in that club. You gradually want to start to bring your own mix and your own personality to the club. For your first gig, you may even want to play one of your own mixes. See how the crowd reacts.
Being a DJ in a club or even as a wedding DJ means practice. Do not expect to set the world on fire the first night you perform. Your goal should to be to build up a gradual group of followers who come to the club and who like what you spin. Sooner or later, you will be asked to get those Saturday night gigs.


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Free Range 2014: Photography Week 1 + 2
13 Jun 2014 – 23 Jun 2014
Event times
Friday - Sunday 10am - 7pm | Monday 10am - 4pm
Cost of entry
- 91 Brick Lane
- London
- United Kingdom
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- Liverpool Street (600m)
Free Range 2014: Photography Week 1 + 2
AboutFree Range includes 2 weeks of the UK's leading Photography Graduate Show, allowing new creative graduates with the opportunity to showcase their work on an international level. Over its 14 year residency the quality and caliber of the work has gone from strength to strength. Over the two weeks of Photography you will have the opportunity to take inspiration and enjoyment from 22 of the UK's finest and highly respected Photography courses. Over the seven weeks, each category will rotate and take over the space throughout different weeks providing a vast variety of work across each discipline. Free Range will exhibit work from over a hundred courses and 3000 students. The free exhibitions expect to attract in excess of 100,000 people this year, putting Free Range on a par with the major international art fairs.
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my sister could have worked this out man. someone needs to do a proper tab of this song
Lol, yeah I know. I am really sorry about this. I did it late at night about 2 months ago, and it's pretty shit, i know. Great song though. I do know the chords in standard tuning though is like, G D C F, I think, but as for this tab, I know, it's shit. But I'm not sure if I should actually remove it....
at least the notes are right hehe, thanks for that.


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Jazz Singer Marcus Goldhaber to Star in Off-Broadway Musical Salute to Harold Arlen, Beg. 12/17
Goldhaber, the "wonderfully imaginative" (JazzTimes) and youthfully carefree sweet tenor who People Magazine says "will have you giddy one moment, melancholy the next and loving every note!" begins previews next week (Monday, Dec. 17) in THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF SONG: The Music of Harold Arlen, a musical revue featuring classics like "Stormy Weather," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Lets Fall in Love," and all the much-loved tunes from The Wizard Of Oz, at the St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street, NYC. The show officially opens Monday, January 10, 2013.
In between, Goldhaber will be hosting his sixth annual New Year's Eve concert at Fabio's ,230 E. 44th St., in New York City. Tickets and reservations at212.922.0581 or www.fabiopiccolofiore.com
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF SONG moves from The Cotton Club through Arlen's Hollywood years to Broadway, sharing inside stories of how some of the world's most beloved songs were created with rare behind-the-scenes footage from The Wizard of Oz taken by Harold Arlen himself.
Goldhaber is featured as one of The Three Crooners as the Arlen revue makes its New York debut after a national tour to 18 cities and a month-long run at the Debbie Reynolds Theatre in Las Vegas. Produced by Yellow Brick Productions in association with Shea Arender, Steven Colucci and Jerry Rosenberg, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF SONG has direction & musical staging by Broadway veteran Gene Castle. The original concept is by Nigel Wright, Sam Arlen and George Bugatti with special thanks to Harold Arlen's son Sam Arlen for all archival and historical content. Goldhaber has appeared in NYC at Birdland, The Kitano, The Metropolitan Room, Iridium, The Laurie Beechman, The Cutting Room, The Makor/Steinhardt Center, The Carnegie Club and The Lenox Lounge as well as in Boston, Chicago, Baton Rouge and New Orleans. His theatrical credits include: The Pajama Game, Kiss Me Kate, Singing In The Rain, My Way (Sinatra tribute) and I Left My Heart (Tony Bennett tribute).
"It's a real thrill to be a part of this special tribute to Harold Arlen's incredible songs," says Goldhaber. "The cast and band are phenomenal and I'm really excited to be singing these songs just steps away from where many of them were first introduced in the 1930s."
Growing up Jewish in Buffalo, like Arlen, while also sharing the same draw toward to the blues holds special meaning to Goldhaber.
"I've always felt a small connection to him and an added sense of inspiration as a songwriter," he says. "Though he was at his prime in the Tin Pan Alley days, when the majority of hit songs followed a 32 bar form, his style was completely unique and often unexpected. When I'm writing, I always try and let the song do as much of the writing as possible. If the result is an untraditional form, so be it, as long as it's justifiEd Strongly by melody or lyric. After all, if Harold could do it, 'Why oh why can't I?'"
Goldhaber is gaining a fast reputation among critics and radio programmers for his accessible songwriting and intimate approach to straight-ahead jazz with Chet Baker's cool sensibility, Harry Connick Jr.'s confidence, Art Garfunkel's gentleness, and John Pizzarelli's genial hipness with ALMOST LOVE, his first album of original compositions.
ALMOST LOVE, a recent CD Pick Of The Week on New York's WBAI, is getting wonderful radio support across the nation, recently debuting in the Jazz Top 50 of The Roots Music Report. Jazz Weekly, All About Jazz, the JNS News Service, O's Place Jazz and Sirius XM Host Brett Winterble are among the growing list of media giving the album accolades. Click here to read Goldhaber's recent Q&A in The Advocate.
In soundtrack news, "As Long As I Am Falling in Love," from ALMOST LOVE, and "A Walk," from Goldhaber's acclaimed 2009 album, Take Me Anywhere,were recently featured in the award-winning full-length feature film Going Down in La La Land (Embrem) by Casper Andreas. And "I Fall Apart," also from Take Me Anywhere," will be featured next year in Jon Lindstrom's full length motion picture, How We Got Away With It (La Vie Productions).
And a new Goldhaber original, "Come Home America," which thanks our nation's troops and was inspired by George McGovern's 1972 presidential nomination acceptance speech, was recently commissioned for PROJECT ELEVEN in remembrance of those we lost at 911. All proceeds from downloads of "Come Home America," also featured on The David Webb Show on Sirius XM, benefit Work Vessels for Veterans (www.wvfv.net).
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Performances: Mondays, 7 p.m.; Wednesdays, 2 p.m.; Thursdays, 8 p.m. (except Dec. 20 @ 7 p.m.).
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I´m from Brazil, and i´ve seen the show with a delay !
But I think the guys had a lot of gadgets, but not the quite expertise to use them,
They use a lot of time testing clear matters of hoaks. seen on first site !!! why that ? ex: on witch case... clear case of doll hanging... you can tell by the leg´s moviment ...
and the frost guy, many shows have prove it !!! And are aways asking: "What is the the goal for someone to do a hoax?" Really ?? many reasons !! money, tourism ( what leads to money), notoriety, community view, e so go on...
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On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:14:34AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> cd()
> {
> cd $1
> xttitle `pwd`
> }
> this is actually an infinite loop. i'd much prefer to use "cd" rather than
> a homebrewed function to change directories
man bash
builtin shell-builtin [arguments]
Execute the specified shell builtin, passing it
arguments, and return its exit status. This is
useful when defining a function whose name is the
same as a shell builtin, retaining the functional�
ity of the builtin within the function. The cd
builtin is commonly redefined this way. The return
status is false if shell-builtin is not a shell
builtin command.
cd () { builtin cd $1; test -n "$DISPLAY" && xttitle $PWD }
test -n will ensure you don't waste clock cycles when not running under X.
Using $PWD rather than `pwd` will run faster. Useful during swapping when
you'd really rather have your root prompt come right back while you try to
regain control of an errant process.
hope that helps.
I've personally found that fancy prompts are usually a liability for a
sysadmin. They are nice when not running as root though...
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Although 27 per cent of American internet users downloaded files or music in January, 19 per cent got the files from someone else's MP3 player and 28 per cent got them via email.
All in all, 48 per cent of current downloaders have used sources other than peer-to-peer networks or paid music and movie services to get music or video files.
Beyond MP3 players, email and instant messaging, these alternative sources include music and movie websites, blogs and online review sites.


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Few people know Yellowstone country and America's national parks better than wildlife biologist Jeremy Schmidt. He has worked in and around Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons for more than 30 years, including stints as a park ranger, a naturalist, a photographer, and an author, writing several articles for National Geographic and National Geographic Traveler magazines. He has also written several books for National Geographic, including titles on Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and the Northern Rockies. His knowledge and passion for America's national parks will enrich your experience.
Called an "encyclopedia" by the New York Times, Jason is a professional naturalist, environmental educator, and guide who has been leading trips throughout the Northern Rockies for nearly 20 years. He majored in anthropology at Montana State University and is a certified Master Naturalist through the University of Montana, specializing in wolf and bear ecology. A year-round Montanan, Jason is an instructor at Montana State University and an outfitter and guide who leads dog sled trips and river expeditions. He works with NatGeo Wild's Casey Anderson as a location scout, wildlife tracker, and expedition planner for the show America the Wild.
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Richard Crawford said:
> You can probably guess the rest.
> What's the best way to clean a laptop computer keyboard? Hard drive,
> memory, CPU, etc., all appear to be fine, but things hang when I try to
> boot up, as though a key is stuck in the down position.
> I've let it dry out for a week and haven't tried turning it on. The beer
> should all be dried out, but the keys are still sticking.
Depends on the keyboard. Some have keys that can be popped off to be
cleaned. Some are durable enough to permit you to disconnect them from the
computer, submerge them for cleaning, let them dry out for a few days, and
when you are sure they are dry, reconnect them. Some are not so robust,
but will permit you to use q-tips and mild soapy water.
It comes down to doing what you feel you can risk. You can always get a
cheap used keyboard somewhere. (We have a shop called HSC out here in
Sonoma County, but I am sure you have Frys or something else.) $10 for a
keyboard may be worht the time it would take to clean the existing one.
Next, you could try "cleaning" your can with the method posted to this
list a while back. That dog is so full of helpful advice... I'm telling
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Golf Tournament Brochure in PDF Format
WORCESTER, Mass. - The Holy Cross men's hockey team will hold its 13th annual golf tournament on Thursday, June 25, at the Marlborough Country Club in Marlborough, Mass. All Crusader alumni and friends of the program are invited to attend.
The shot-gun start will begin at 10:00 a.m. with check-in starting at 8:30 a.m. A dinner buffet will follow with awards and raffles. The cost is $180 per player or $145 for graduates of the past five years. Also, there are opportunities for Hole Sponsorships, the Tournament Gift Sponsorship and the Event Title Sponsorship to individuals and companies. All proceeds from the event will go directly to the Holy Cross Hockey Program through the Crusader Athletics Fund.
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Changes at the newspaper: Taking it one step at a time
November 8, 2012 at 5:28 am in EOT Focus
The New York Mills rumor mill has been hard at work over the past few months. Continue Reading
November 8, 2012 at 5:28 am in EOT Focus
The New York Mills rumor mill has been hard at work over the past few months. Continue Reading
I just want to let you know how very disappointed I am with the news that you will no longer be covering the NYM area news! I grew up in Perham, work in Perham & NYM, my kids go to school in NYM and yes my address is New York Mills, but the communities go hand in hand. Your article said that NYM does not support the paper financially, and that subscriptions alone are not enough. As a small retailer in NYM I have to say your ads are not affordable and you make it impossible for retailers like me to buy your ads. Our community is struggling and by taking away our newspaper I feel it will struggle even more. From the amount of coverage you have been doing recently in the NYM area I would think that subscriptions would be enough to support a short drive over once or twice a month. I hear alot of comments from the good people of this great little community that the EOT Focus staff & editor do not feel NYM people are important enough for their paper. I used to think those accusations were silly, but now I am starting to feel the same way. Thanks EOT Focus, way to show our kids and the people of the Mills area that they matter! Sincerely disappointed!
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Killdeer Mt. group unhappy with decision: IC to allow Hess to drill on disputed lands
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During the last briefing which took place last night in the bivouac located in the mouth of the Senegal river mouth, René Metge insisted on the fact that every competitors had to be very careful until they reached the entry of the parc fermé at the hotel Mériden Président of Dakar. He was heard since the Africa Race finished without almost any problem.
Indeed, the leader of the bike category José Manuel Pellicer broke down at km 79 in the liaison leading to the final podium. He was luckily driving with both Italian riders Michele Galizia and Carlo Alberto Miglizza who towed him to the finish line.
No problems eh? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Yeah! You're right!
But it was an electrical fault, just 1 km, behind the Podium...
I arrived there in the meantime than Pepe, his mec, was working on the bike. I told him "keep my arm", on the other side Michele push on the silencer and so we all arrived at the podium.
I mean if he would, he could search and find the problem, surely.
Anycase, amazing bike, believe me.
Last 20 km of the first stage I was at Suz max speed...125kmh.
He told me 160kmh...
(Helsingor-Helsingborg...I do this ferry in 1986 in a trip to Andesrtorp - Stockolm...with my blue Yam Teneré - I was a Dakar fan...)
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We're used to seeing the uber-stylish Kate Moss gracing the covers of magazines wearing the hottest trends by the biggest designers.
However, at the weekend, Mrs Hince was spotted wearing a pair of boots that we thought had long since gone out of style - UGGs! Obviously she was wearing high-end black versions up tothe knee, but we were still pretty shocked.
Kate wore the boots while she was out and about near her Cotswolds home over the May bank holiday weekend, teamed with her trademark skinny jeans, a rock tee layered over with a stripey shirt and silk scarf, topped off with a Balenciaga black denim jacket.
Company might have preferred Kate in some scuffed biker boots with this ensemble, but perhaps she needs to keep warm in the country.
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Government will soon slash prices of licence plates for vehicles, a Cabinet Minister has said.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Central Vehicle Registry achievers' awards ceremony in Harare
yesterday, Transport, Communication and Infrastructural Development Minister Nicholas Goche said the move would make vehicle registration easy for all people from different walks of life who own vehicles.
Vehicle licence plates are pegged at US$160 while licence plates for a trailer cost US$140.
"We intend to reduce the price of registration plates from their current price. We are targeting to reduce them further such that they remain affordable to every one.
"The prices have to be in the range where the department would not incur losses for producing the number plates.
"When I got into office in 2010, these charges were high and we reduced them for the first time," Minister Goche said.
He said said rewarding those in civil service motivated them to work even harder and improve service delivery.
"We acknowledge the achievements made by Government workers at the end of the public service pendulum. The CVR department is a strategic and sensitive arm of the ministry since it deals with sensitive documents and services.
"Staff at CVR managed to cut back the backlog period for original licences from four years to eight months. There was a backlog of licences from over 82 000 at the beginning of the year and these are nearly finished," he said.
Minister Goche urged all employees in the civil service to shun malpractice and corruption.
"Fraud is costly in terms of damaged reputation of the ministry and the Government which leads to loss of public trust.
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He attended Harvard College in 1876, where he was friends with classmate Theodore Roosevelt, who, like Minot, was interested in ornithology. In 1877, he published The Land Birds and Game Birds of New England at the age of seventeen. He left Harvard during his sophomore year.
After leaving Harvard he became involved in railroad investments. He traveled extensively and reported on various railroad systems, from Mexico to Minnesota. At one point he was the director of the Great Northern Railroad. In 1887, he became the president of a new railroad line which connected Manitoba to Lake Superior. He was also involved in a variety of other commercial enterprises, including steamships and streetcars in Superior, Wisconsin.
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Sometimes I go to the market, find two products I've never used before and take them home and try something out. There are many different ways to create.
Can home cooks learn anything from your cuisine?
The cooking is easy, but you have to practise a lot. The difficult thing is to have ideas.
Food science is associated with homogenised fruits and vegetables, artificial colours and preservatives. What good can science do for food?
Science has created very good things. The whole wine industry is now related to science – and it's done amazing things for wine.
In the nutrition industry, about 90% of the products are not very good, but about 10% are. But that's not a problem of science, it's a problem of the market. The good items are very expensive and there are very few people who can spend that kind of money.
The nutrition industry makes possible things that were impossible before, that are now available to many people. It's very easy to say that everything is bad.
I understand you work with scientists.
There are some points for which it's not necessary to have the knowledge of science. We know already how some things work. Sometimes you get to the limit of what you know and then you need help from science to take you further.
If you want to make a salty meringue, how do you do that? You need a certain knowledge. We can try to make this salty meringue, but if we don't know how to get further, we ask scientists for help.
But I don't need to know how things work, I just need to know how to do it
Finding people like scientists that can help us with our ideas is a very difficult task. Being at elBulli opens a lot of doors, but many of the chefs in the world simply cannot do that.
Is this what brings you to Harvard?
The kind of cooking I've done at elBulli uses many concepts from basic physics and basic physical chemical processes. I want to know more about this. I also want to understand why scientists are interested in our creations.
It concerns me that, when it deals with cooking, science is treated in a disrespectful way. Science is a very serious thing. And in recent times, at least with respect to cooking, you see science being treated as if it were a show or mere spectacle. That's not what I'm interested in at all.
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Arusha — A GROUP of 12 celebrities from the United States of America have just completed scaling Mount Kilimanjaro over the weekend, a trek done to promote safe and clean water in Africa.
The celebrities, through a campaign famously known as Summit on the Summit, started their ascent on January 6, this year and all made it to the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, the Uhuru Peak and spoke to the media in Arusha on Sunday.
The Summit on the Summit climb includes celebrities such as Actor Justin Chatwin, artist Mark Foster, Melissa Arnot, Chevenee Reavis, the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Water organization, Mr Kenna Zemedkun, Chase Jarvis, Actress Beau Garrett, Bryn Mooser, David Morton, Dr Greg Allgood, Steve Hall and Cynthia Koenig.
The initiative is designed to drive awareness and change to the global clean water crisis while engaging a community through raising awareness, supporting education, inspiring advocacy and activating fundraising.
By taking cultural influencers, educators and high profile individuals to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Sumit is able to support organizations in bringing clean water to the 1 billion people living without the basic human right.
This year's Summit took seven days with internationally recognized influencers as well as men and women who have either made an exceptional global impression around the water crisis or proven to be leaders in youth activism. These two groups represent influencers and educators.
They climbed the mountain as a team, communicating about the issues around access to water, learning of solutions to the problem, discussing how to improve social awareness and embracing the idea that they are now the example for showing ways to take action and give back to those with little or nothing.
Through these efforts, Summit will directly support non-profit organizations providing safe, clean drinking water to struggling communities and giving future generations the chance to thrive. Computer maker HP has also joined the 'Summit on the Summit,' as the official technology outfitter, to help Kenna and the entire team to continue bringing clean water to Africa.


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Elizabeth has 5 National championship titles, winning her first National title in 2005. Her highest world ranking is 19.
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It would be easy to attribute slow and negative growth to the economy and the high price of pay-TV offerings that is no doubt the biggest factor. But the bigger concern is that consumers will decide they can entertain themselves just fine with free or a la carte video on the web, from providers like Hulu, Netflix and iTunes — maybe even Facebook.
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This is amazing. This happened in August 2007, when the Australian shoreline at Yamba, north of Sydney, was swallowed up by a layer of foam.
Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. All are churned up together by powerful currents which cause the water to form bubbles. These bubbles stick to each other as they are carried below the surface by the current towards the shore. As a wave starts to form on the surface, the motion of the water causes the bubbles to swirl upwards and, massed together, they become foam. The foam "surfs" towards shore until the wave "crashes", tossing the foam into the air.
"It's the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a blender," explains a marine expert. "The more powerful the swirl, the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes." In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the substances which form into bubbles.
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Open University is the world's first global university to launch the OUMBA pilot locally, supported by marketing, delivery and intellectual property infrastructure provided by Pearson. The OUMBA programme is a 30 month distance learning programme made up of five modules, each focusing on a specific area. Whilst it is primarily a distance learning programme, it also includes four residential Global Exchange Events which will take learners to cities such as Dublin, London, Singapore and Istanbul.
The Open University Business School MBA is an executive experience that pioneers practice-based learning which means that what a manager learns today, they can then put into practice tomorrow, benefitting both the individual and his/her organisation. The pedagogy is designed to encourage learners to develop their leadership and innovation through learning from their peers on the MBA programme.
The Open University sets up study groups of approximately 16 students from varied nationalities. The groups are based on maximum diversity possible within a time zone - the time zone is important because some class interactions require real time participation, while others can be organised asynchronously. Students in India are likely to be linked to students in a geographical zone from Singapore to the Gulf. There is support available from a specialist Student Support team based in Oxford, UK. They offer them advice and guidance on the teaching, learning and assessment activities of the university which are not directly related to the academic content of the programme.
The OUMBA program is accredited by AASCB, AMBA, EFMD and CEL which makes The Open University Business School a part of the elite group of less than 1% of business schools worldwide that has won quadruple accreditation.
In the 40 years since its inception, over 350,000 people around the globe have graduated from The UK's Open University. Over 25,000 of the current 43,000 Open University Business School students live beyond UK borders and 70% are in full time employment.
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Having rice, beans and fried plantains as well, not to mention a few rum drinks.
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On the 2011 CCSSE (Community College Survey of Student Engagement) 91% of our full-time faculty referred students to academic advising/planning services sometimes or often, compared to 85% of the entire CCSSE cohort. Seventy-four percent of our part-time faculty referred students to academic advising/planning services sometimes or often, compared to 71% of the entire cohort.
Of the entire faculty that responded to the question, "During the current year, is academic advising part of your teaching role at this college?†55% of full-time and 7% of part time faculty answered YES!  When students were asked how often they have talked about career plans with an instructor or advisor, 66% stated they spoke sometimes or often or very often.
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Under the warm Spring sunshine, Holywell Town rounded off their season in style with an emphatic 6-0 win over Bodedern Athletic.
The game started and both teams defended well and hardly any chances fell to either team. Town could have taken the lead early on in the half through the penalty spot, but Steve Thomas saw Gareth 'OJ' Roberts save the kick. A few minutes later, Sam Jones thought he had scored but the Assistant waved his flag and the goal was not given as Jones was in an offside position.
Jones, Steve Thomas and Dave McCully al had chances but it wasn't until the 38th minutes that the deadlock was finally broken. Town were awarded another penalty and Steve Thomas stepped up to take and made amends for his earlier miss as he struck the ball into the back of the net to give Town a first half lead.
Sam Jones was giving the defence allsorts of trouble and his cross in the 49th minute found Thomas in a good position but he was deemed to be offside. Another Jones cross to Gunther gave Town the chance but his effort went wide. A few minutes later however, Gunther got Town's second, running on to an inch perfect ball from Sam Jones and beat 'OJ' to double Town's lead. A couple of minutes later it was 3-0 as Iwan Jones brought down Sam Jones inside the box and up stepped John Haseliden to send the keeper the wrong way. This was no more than Town deserved.
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The impact of The Westminster Kennel Club in the world of dogs and the dog-owning public is significant, unique, and extensive.
For more than 130 years - since its establishment in 1877 - The Westminster Kennel Club has given back to its local, national and international communities in many ways. With its annual all-breed dog show creating the platform, Westminster continually
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The reach of the Westminster Kennel Club and its famed Annual All Breed Dog show extends over the years through the millions of spectators who have attended the show, the millions of television viewers (televised since 1948), the hundreds of thousands of exhibitors, and most recently, the millions of viewers on the Internet and in social media. More than 600 media organizations representing more than 20 countries annually cover the event in person, helping to create thousands of stories and placements in media across the country and around the world.
Six veterinary school students have been selected by their schools to be recipients of the 2014-2015 Westminster Kennel Foundation scholarships: Gretchen VanDeventer, Cornell University; Anna Drachuk, Michigan State University; Andrew Eitzer, Tufts University; Shayla Johnson, Tuskegee University; Amy Eberle, University of California-Davis; and Chelsea Del Alcazar, University of Pennsylvania.
The Foundation has awarded $1.34 million in a total of 139 veterinary school scholarships (now valued at $15,000) to worthy students since 1990. The Foundation was established in 1971 as a charitable trust organized for the benefit of humane education, humane work, and history, art and memorabilia.
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Egypt's top prosecutor on Saturday issued a release order for political activist Ahmed Maher, reported Al Jazeera.
Maher, a founding member of the opposition youth movement April 6, was detained at the airport upon his return from the United States of America on Friday.
Authorities at Cairo International Airport had placed him on the airport's watchlist, according to sources.
Maher was detained for allegedly protesting outside the house of the Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim while dressed in his underwear in March, a source told Reuters News Agency.
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Vegas casino bets on RFID
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But when its doors open in April, the Wynn Las Vegas will have one unique feature that few visitors are likely to notice--high-tech betting chips designed to deter counterfeiting, card-counting and other bad behavior.
The fancy new chips look just like regular ones, only they contain radio devices that signal secret serial numbers. Special equipment linked to the casino's computer systems and placed throughout the property will identify legitimate chips and detect fakes, said Rick Doptis, vice president of table games for the Wynn.
What's new:
Betting chips are getting a high-tech RFID makeover designed to deter counterfeiting and misbehavior at the tables.
Bottom line:
Despite this, RFID technology is still relatively rare in casinos--until that killer application arrives.
"Security-wise, it will be huge for us," Doptis said.
The technology behind these chips is known as radio frequency identification, or RFID, and it's been used for years to track livestock, enable employee security badges and pay tolls.
The casino industry is just the latest to find new uses for RFID technology. Retail chains, led by Wal-Mart Stores, are using it to monitor merchandise. Libraries are incorporating it into book collections to speed checkouts and re-shelving. The United States and other nations are incorporating it into passports to catch counterfeits. One company even offers to inject people with RFID chips linked to their medical records to ensure they receive proper medical care.
In casinos, RFID technology is still relatively rare and in search of a killer application to spur adoption. Yet some tech-savvy casino executives envision RFID transforming the way they operate table games, including blackjack, craps and roulette, over the next four or five years.
For one thing, there's the counterfeiting problem, on which there is scant data. The Nevada Gaming Commission gets about a dozen complaints every year related to counterfeit chips, said Keith Copher, the agency's chief of enforcement. Last year, a casino in Reno quickly lost $26,000 in such a scheme--one of the biggest hits reported to the commission in recent years. And counterfeiting is on the rise at overseas casinos, Copher noted. The RFID technology would let dealers or cashiers see when the value of the chips in front of them don't match the scanners' tally.
However, financial losses due to counterfeit chips are usually minor, and few perpetrators get away with it, Copher said.Perhaps that's why the Wynn has found a dual purpose for the high-tech chips: The casino is also using the chips to help account for the chips they issue on credit to players, since managing credit risk is a huge part of any big casino's operations.
The Wynn plans to take note of the serial numbers of the chips they lend and of the name of players who cash them in. If someone else
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- Whoever wrote the line, "card counting and other bad behavior" should be ashamed of themselves.
First off: The vast majority of card counters loose because the do not have the discipline to take the huge variance of blackjack.
Second: With few acceptions they are about the best behaved players at the tables. They understand the math so they know it is not the fault of dealers or other players when things go bad.
Third: Your implication is that card counting is somehow wrong or bad or something similar to that. That is the same as saying using your brain is wrong, for that is all that a counter does. Sure as casino is a private business and can refuse service to someone who just happens to be better than them at a particular game. That should not go with the implication that the person has done anything wrong.
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- RFIDs and card counting
- The only way I can imagine RFIDs detecting card counting is by detecting winning. Actually, in the gaming industry, there is no difference between consistent winning and card counting. If you win consistently, they call it counting and ask you to leave! It's legal for you to do it if you can, and legal for them to ask you to leave if they catch you.
I think they publicize counting to lure customers who think they can count, but really can't. You have to be a very good counter to even the odds; you have to be a great one to tip the odds significantly in your favor.
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- Counters are not better than casinos at the game of blackjack. If casinos so chose, they could simply pay even-money on blackjack or remove specified cards from the deck (as in Spanish 21).
Counters are simply using a "system" that works. Every player who walks into a casino wants to win. Some players decide to increase their bet after three straight losses because they are "due" for a win while others increase their bet after three straight wins because they are on a "winning streak". Counters increase their bet when they determine the odds have shifted into their favor.
Whatever the case, most casinos have the right to refuse play to anyone they choose (it takes two to book a bet - if Donny Dealer won't book your bet you have no one to pay you). Counting is a cat and mouse game between casinos and counters. It is not bad and it is no more wrong than deciding not to double this 11 against a ten because you have a bad feeling or you see many tens already on the table (that is a rudimentary form of counting).
This technology simply forces more professionals to shift toward shuffle tracking.
That brings up another point. With infinite shoes available (automatic shufflers that can't be counted), it seems casinos have a less expensive alternative to preventing counting and tracking. If many casinos won't even invest in those why would they invest the many more thousands in this newer technology. My guess: you'll see this new technology in less than 5% of casinos worldwide - even ten years from now.
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- Just think of the potential. A little chip in every card, a little chip in every "chip", a little chip in every die (dice), a little chip in every potato chip,and gambling will never be the same.
Somewhere someone will be "watching" everything 24/7.
Billions and billions of itsy bitsy chips all reporting to the BIG CHIP in the sky.
Of course, based on past performance, no one will know what to do with all this information and screw it up
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- It Opens the door to casino manipulation
- Hi,
i have dozens of scenarios that are workable.. note the article is showing that they want to analyse playing styles...
how hard is it to change a persons winning streak by interupting them with more alchohol or a question? sounds innocent eh? but if they KNOW how the person operates it would only take a momentary distraction to have an effect on their play...
the bottom line is that this removes the fog that makes gambling to some extent trustworthy. without laws that say that rfid can not be used to manipulate a game then its legal.. and i doubt the laws have this because laws by nature are reactionary, you cant make an anticipatory law.
with the casino knowing everything they can work the table in a way that has never been possible before short of frenchie polishing the spitoon behind the card player...
and what about poker.. where the house makes bets and they can now analyse the players to find tells that you cant normally see.
there are a ton of other things that can be done too...like scanning through walls to see who has left chips in their rooms...
granted you wont know the values, but if you know there is 40 chips in a room its probably more worth breaking or getting in then if you dont know anything.
the article points out that the use for which they say they are putting it in is not a real issue (counterfeiting)... in effect they are spending 10 times the amount or more being stolen to stop it?
OBVIOUSLY this is NOT the real reason... this is the plausible reason that makes most people not pay attention!!!
(card counting should be legal, and this tech will not stop it.. it will only make an assumption that the play is from a counter, but it doestn have to be, so others will be black balled... especially if they are good at playing)
I would advise not bothering to gamble in establishments that use this because they will have tons of information, and any info you get (like counting) is not allowed... they are taking a deck naturally stacked in their favor, and stacking it even more in their favor.. and there is NO WAY to detect or to monitor them!!!!!!
something is real wrong here...
another example of the vectoralists making pure existence an expense...
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- The casino industry is one of, if not the, most regulated industry on the planet. I work for one of the largest industry suppliers. The casino uses technology to protect it's investments and it's customers. I can guarantee you that before any technology is placed in a casino, it has been inspected, taken apart, and tested to death by several regulatory agents. None, I repeat, NONE of the technology can in any way manipulate the outcome of whatever game you are playing. Regulators would shut down any casino manipulating game outcome illegally in a heartbeat. Nobody in their right mind is going to put their multi-billion dollar business investment at risk trying to do it. RFID chips have been around for years. Sold by a company called Bourgne and Grassey. Chip pricing is now coming down so it is making it more practical to use the chips. Tracking chips is done to comp players more fairly and to make tracking the value of the chips on the floor easier. It makes some game analysis easier than doing it manually but the stats are collected either way. Specific chips are NOT identified with a specific player.
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- Ken doesn't know what he is talking about
- Interrupting someone on a "winning streak" isn't going to change the order of the cards or the outcome of the game. The odds for the game are the same whether or not a cocktail waitress offers me a drink.
Casinos don't make money by trying to cheat players. They make money by providing entertainment and services. They don't have to manipulate the game to get an edge. The edge is built in. RFID would be used to keep more accurate track of a table players value to the company. Every casino operator knows that if they attempted to manipulate the outcome of the game not only would their respective gaming commission fine them (or shut them down), but players would stop patronizing the establishment. Players talk.
The house finding tells in poker? It sounds like Ken doesn't know what he's talking about. First of all, in poker pits the house is not your competition. Other players are. Second, if you're talking about Caribbean Stud and Let-it-Ride the house makes no decisions. Only the players do. Do your homework before you make any more ridiculous comments.
Scanning through walls to see who has left chips in their rooms? Are you implying that the house would attempt to steal them?
"Card counting should be legal" - good one Ken. Once again you don't know what you're talking about. Card counting is legal. It's not illegal. That's right. There's no such thing as a thought crime. Casinos can, of course, ask you to leave the premises if they suspect you of counting. It takes two to book a bet. If you don't want to make a bet you don't have to. If the casino doesn't want to make a bet against you it doesn't have to. That sounds like a fair game to me. If you knew one thing about casinos or counting you would understand that this technology is better for players (except card counters) and better for the casino. Players get the comps they deserve and casinos get the information to analyze and reduce losses to counterfeiting and card counting.
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- We're missing the Point Here
- RFID may aid casinos to stop cheating. It may help them win more. It may or may not be fair to players. But the bigger story here is what and how this technology can be used.
Sure it's great for situations involving money, tracking warehouse inventories, tracking expensive merchandise, tracking sex offenders, keeping tab on our kids, fighting crime and so forth. But should we implant them in our own bodies so we can be tracked with the same efficiency as the can of tuna I may purchase at the Safeway store? The conveniences and security of such a system could be wonderful. Simplifying paying for any items we buy. Proof that we are "ok" when it comes to passing through an airport security check and avoiding a possible body cavity search. And there is a thousand other conveniences that would be positively wonderful.
But, if the technology is used improperly, stolen, cracked by the bad guys, used improperly by the authorities, etc., it could turn out quite badly. Talk about identity theft and invasion of privacy. If someone manages to steal your RFID information and clone it, it will be very hard to prove. Who would believe that such a secure system could be compromised? I'm sure Microsoft has asked their code writers that many times in the past. And they keep getting hacked. So will this system. Someone will figure out a way to cheat the system. If someone see's a way to make a buck the system illegally, it will get abused. It may be more secure than a credit card is now but is it worth the price that may eventually be paid? I'm not going to let paranoia rule my life and none of you should either.
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- RFID chips in casino cards
- RFID chip in casino playing cards is the most dangerous thing for casino players.A shuffle machine can read the cards and place them in any order they wish.RFID cards can also be identified by casinos after the deck is mixed and cut on a computer screen somewhere in the casino. Can you imagine playing Texas-Holdem with the house knowing the outcome of the game. How can you trust anyone at the table if they were playing for the house.I believe this technology has been used in casinos since 1998, when I first knew about this technology. Were have we reached?
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- The radiofrequency idenification technology used is very nice to see.Lot may find advantages of it . But special measures have to be taken in order to stop gamblling.
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- Scanning through walls to see who has left chips in their rooms? Are you implying that the house would attempt to steal them? yes, that is what it is, a great techlology, www.rockyslots.com uses it all the time...
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- In casinoslike in www.onlinecasinotip.info/, RFID technology is still relatively rare and in search of a killer application to spur adoption. Yet some tech-savvy www.onlinecasinotip.info/ casino executives envision RFID transforming the way they operate table games, including blackjack, craps and roulette, over the next four or five years.
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- Other players are. Second, if you're talking about Caribbean Stud and Let-it-Ride the house makes no decisions at http://www.rockyslots.com so I think is it a good idea
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- Woww thanks for this gadget. I am rfid software developer at Meyer rfid www.meyerrfid.com . This really a very amazing rfid gadget.
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- Northern NV gaming commision has been corrupt for generations and southern NV gaming commision has become increasingly ineffective over the last 30 years.
Several posters, such as PatF, here are parroting the gaming party line of how the casinos are squeaky clean because they have too much to lose if they cheat. They are either useful idiots or paid liars.
Wall Street, the gambling industry, the real estate industry, government itself and virtually all human endeavor will always degenerate into corruption to whatever extent standards are not enforced by an effective regulating authority. Non enforcement of standards is a society wide issue and the gambling and investment industries always lead the rush toward corruption when left virtually unrestrained.
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- Interesting article - I used to work on RFID technology back in 2001 and there was a lot of privacy issues that one can have with enabling RFIDs. It was a great technology for shipments, I guess the price point of RFID are so cheap now that they are installing it in the gambling chips.
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- After the Bellagio robbery of $1.5 million today *Picturing Anton Chigurh driving around with his little beeping box looking for RFID chips and pneumatic cattle stunner*
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February 16, 2005 4:17 PM PST
HP delivers first earnings report post-Fiorina
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The company said that for the three months ended Jan. 31, it earned $943 million, or 32 cents per share, on revenue of $21.5 billion. That compares with earnings of $936 million, or 30 cents per share, and revenue of $19.5 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Analysts were expecting the company to post earnings of 34 cents per share and revenue of $20.96 billion, according to Thomson First Call.
HP's quarterly results include a charge of 3 cents per share related to the company's $141 million settlement in a patent infringement case brought by Intergraph. Excluding that settlement and other charges, HP would have earned 37 cents per share.
The report comes roughly a week after Fiorina's forced resignation. HP said at the time that its earnings would be in line with prior expectations.
Interim CEO and longtime HP financial chief Robert Wayman said the company had "a solid first quarter," with strong revenue growth in services and improved sales and profits in its PC unit. However, he said HP's bottom line still needs improving.
"While we continue to make progress in growing our top line, there is work to be done to improve our profitability," Wayman said in a statement. "As the board conducts a CEO search, our management team is focused on driving improved execution to serve our customers, strengthen our competitiveness and improve shareholder value."
Part of HP's plan to improve profits is to continue to cut costs. The company had about $60 million in charges related to job cuts last quarter and expects about $140 million in layoff-related costs this quarter.
On a conference call with reporters, Wayman would not say how many jobs HP plans to cut or say whether HP would cut jobs beyond this quarter. At one point on the analyst conference call, though, HP said that the number of job cuts last quarter was more than one analyst's estimate of 600, with the bulk of cuts coming in the Technology Solutions Group that includes services, storage, servers and software. This quarter, about 60 percent of that unit's job losses will be in the services segment, said Ann Livermore, the executive vice president that heads the TSG division.
For the current quarter, HP said it expects revenue of $21.2 billion to $21.6 billion with earnings of 35 cents to 37 cents, not including an acquisition-related charge of 4 cents per share. The earnings forecast is similar to analyst predictions, while the revenue projection is slightly ahead of them. According to First Call, the average analyst estimate called for earnings of 36 cents per share on revenue of $21.1 billion.
HP's sales to Europe, the Middle East and Africa grew more than 12 percent, to $9.3 billion, and those in Asia grew 15 percent, to $3.3 billion. In the Americas, HP sales grew 6 percent, to $8.9 billion. HP benefited from a weak dollar. The company said that, adjusted for the decline of the dollar, its overall sales gain was 5 percent compared with last year.
As for the company's business units, the core imaging and printing business saw revenue rise 3 percent, to $6.1 billion, but operating profit dropped by $35 million, to $932 million.
On a conference call with analysts, printer and PC unit head Vyomesh Joshi said that the company's consumer hardware revenue was down 13 percent compared with last year.
"We are not satisfied with our consumer hardware this quarter, and we are going to take aggressive actions to ensure improvement in the next three to six months," Joshi said. HP plans pricing and marketing moves designed to recapture lost market share, a move Joshi acknowledged could hit profit margins.
In a follow-up call with reporters, Joshi downplayed the role that Dell is playing in the market, noting that their market share in single-function printers dropped in the fourth quarter.
"I don't think that Dell is a factor," Joshi said, adding that more pricing pressure was coming from traditional rivals Lexmark, Epson and Canon. However, Joshi noted that Dell has been giving away printers as part of PC packages.
The PC unit saw sales rise 11 percent, to $6.9 billion, while operating profit climbed by $86 million, to $147 million. "Our personal systems business is the healthiest it has been in many years," Joshi said. In January, HP combined its PC and printer units under Joshi, though it continues to break out results for each segment.
On the services side, HP grew revenue 20 percent, to a record $3.8 billion. However operating profit inched up only slightly, to $281 million, from $261 million a year ago.
HP's software business posted an 18 percent increase in revenue, to $240 million, though operating losses of $40 million were only slightly narrower than the $49 million loss in the year-ago quarter.
Sam Bhavnani, an analyst at market research firm Current Analysis, said that though HP's improvements in its PC business were noteworthy, the good news was offset by weak profit growth in several other areas, including HP's main profit engine--its printing business.
He said HP may face a tougher test this quarter as all its competitors will be seeking to exploit uncertainty over the CEO vacancy as well as the possibility the company might split itself.
"That's the message that IBM and Dell and Toshiba are going to use against the company," Bhavnani said.
One competitor isn't waiting. HP rival Sun Microsystems took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad Wednesday offering an open letter to woo HP customers. Livermore told analysts she is not worried, noting that HP has its own program that has been targeting Sun customers for some time.
"We certainly feel our server line is in a much better position than theirs," Livermore said.
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- Maybe They Carly Fiorina Wasn't that bad
- I know she looks like a greedy CEO. And websites like www.ceoscope.com will make her out to be evil money gubbing *****. But the fact is that ceo pay is out of whack with all CEO's. CEO's are paid too much regardless of their performance. Websites like ceoscope are fun to see sill pictures and make fun of CEO behavior. But I am not sure Carly Fiorina deserved her departure.
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- wow censorship on CNET - protecting Carly Fiorina? Or just can't say it?
- I was surprised in my last post to see that Cnet censored the w h o r e word. If anything I would have expected them to take out the url for www.ceoscope.com Typically publishers don't want you to have negative references to CEO's Particularly celebrity CEOs like Steve Jobs or Steve Balmer, nor dothey want to have a linke to sites that might be more interesting than the run of mill boring PR fed crap you get on big sites like News.com
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CDC: Colorado man's West Nile virus death likely caused by infected blood transfusion in hospital
DENVER - A Colorado cancer patient died from West Nile virus in 2012 and investigators say he probably was infected by a blood transfusion at a hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This is the first probable case of transfusion-associated West Nile virus infection in which a blood donation tested negative on an initial screening test, according to a CDC report on the death in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released today.
The patient has not been identified.
Starting in 2003, the U.S. blood supply has been screened for West Nile virus. Since then, approximately 3,500 West Nile virus-infected blood donation units have been removed from the blood supply nationwide and only 12 cases of transfusion-associated transmission of West Nile virus have been identified, CDC says.
This is the second suspected case of a person dying from a blood transfusion contaminated by West Nile virus in the United States. The first death happened in 2004.
In August 2012, a Colorado man with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was admitted to Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver for chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, according to CDC and hospital officials. His cancer was in partial remission after six cycles of chemotherapy.
After 18 days in the hospital, the patient developed gastrointestinal symptoms. He had received blood transfusions and the stem cell transplant during that time. He later developed fever, suffered respiratory failure and was placed on mechanical ventilation, CDC says.
He died after 47 days in the hospital and an autopsy confirmed he died from West Nile virus-related encephalitis, CDC says.
Presbyterian/St. Luke's officials told 7NEWS the infected blood donation was donated by a person at the medical center.
Bonfils screens blood for the hospital and tested the implicated blood donation as part of a "minipool" of six donations from different people, said Bonfils Medical Director Dr. Tuan N. Le said. Testing a pool of donors is more efficient and cost-effective, Dr. Le said.
The test of the minipool blood sample was flagged by a screening test as possibly carrying West Nile virus, Dr. Le said. The blood bank then used a more sensitive test to screen each of the six individual blood donations in the minipool, but the tests were negative for West Nile virus.
Following Food and Drug Administration guidelines, Bonfils cleared the donated blood for release into the blood supply, CDC said.
The infected blood donor was unaware of having West Nile virus and had no history of illness, before or after giving blood, the CDC said. However, later investigation by public health officials found the donor had been been bitten by mosquitoes while outdoors.
Dr. Le called the cancer patient's death an "unfortunate perfect storm."
A seemingly healthy person, unknowingly infected with West Nile virus, donates blood, Dr. Le said. And a more sensitive test can't confirm the virus's presence in the donor's individual blood sample -- possibly because there was only a low concentration of the virus.
Medical investigators believe the cancer patient with a weakened immune system was likely more susceptible to infection from a very low concentration of West Nile virus in the blood transfusion, CDC says.
To combat such risks, Bonfils has adopted a new protocol. If a six-donor minipool tests positive for West Nile -- but tests of individual donors contributing to the pool don't confirm the virus -- Bonfils will now throw out all six donations, Dr Le said.
If testing of both a six-donor minipool sample and one of the contributing donor's individual samples are positive for West Nile, Bonfils will only test single donor samples in the county where the infected donor lives for 14 days, Dr. Le said. This more sensitive testing of individual donations should more effectively identify West Nile-infected blood -- even when the virus is in low concentration, Dr. Le said.
If testing of single-donor samples are negative for 14 days, the blood bank will switch back to testing blood in minipools.
While the CDC says West Nile virus infections from blood transfusions are rare, it is advising healthcare providers to consider West Nile virus disease in any patient with compatible symptoms who has received a blood transfusion during the 28 days before the onset of illness. Possible cases should be promptly reported to the blood collection agency and public health authorities, the CDC says.


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The OIG identified issues with three of the programs' risk assessments and improper payment reports. Under the 504 Certified Development Companies, risk assessments were not documented and transaction analyses were not performed to support the low risk conclusions made by the SBA. As a result, the SBA could not provide assurance that necessary corrective actions were taken to reduce or prevent improper payments in the 504 CDC loan program.
In the 7(a) Guaranteed Loans program, the SBA had started the implementation of a comprehensive review program to satisfy FY 2005 improper payments reporting requirements for the guaranty purchase process. However, the 7(a) guaranteed loan program did not maintain complete risk assessment documentation for it improper payment review in FY 2004, and did not adequately identify the precise reasons for improper payments in the program. Lastly, the Small Business Investment Companies program did make an estimate of its improper payments, but that estimate did not utilize statistical sampling procedures as required by OMB guidance.
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