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WBGO Travel: Newport Jazz Festival 2014 Day Trips
January 8, 2014. Posted by Brandy Wood.Add new comment | Filed under: anat cohen, Bobby McFerrin, brian blade, BRIC, Cécile McLorin Salvant, David Sanborn, dee dee bridgewater, Dr. John, gary burton, george wein, gregory porter, Jazz Alive, jazz at lincoln center, Lee Konitz, miguel zenon, Newport Jazz, Newport Jazz Festival, njpac, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, SF Jazz Collective, WBGO Travel, wynton marsalis
WBGO Travel invites you to hop aboard the bus from either New York City (Jazz at Lincoln Center, 10 Columbus Circle), Brooklyn (BRIC House, 647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place), New Jersey (NJPAC, 1 Center Street, Newark) or Boston (Berklee School of Music, 1140 Boylston Street) for a direct ride to the front gate of the 60th Anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on Friday, August 1, Saturday, August 2 or Sunday, August 3. This excursion includes: round trip bus travel from departure location directly to the festival gate, general admission ticket to the festival for the full day plus access to the WBGO Shade Tent on the festival grounds. Bus will have wifi, restroom and reclining bucket seats.
The full lineup is listed below, and includes exciting artists such as Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Gregory Porter, Anat Cohen, Ron Carter, Dr. John, Gary Burton with Julian Lage, Robert Glasper, Trombone Shorty, Darcy James Argue, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland's Prism and Cecile McClorin Salvant.
Buses have varying departure times, please check below for specific times from your departure location. At the end of each day, buses leave from the front gate of the Newport Jazz Festival. Return times leaving festival are as follows: Friday 6PM, Saturday & Sunday 7PM.
Details of RT New York City (Jazz at Lincoln Center) to Newport trip:
• Friday – board the bus at 6AM at Jazz at Lincoln Center (10 Columbus Circle NY, NY) located at The Time Warner Building at the front circle. Bus will depart promptly at 6:30AM.
• Saturday or Sunday – board the bus at 5AM at Jazz at Lincoln Center (10 Columbus Circle NY, NY) located at The Time Warner Building at the front circle. Bus will depart promptly at 5:30AM.
• This location only will have an extra drop in Harlem on the way back to Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Details of RT Brooklyn (BRIC House) to Newport trip:
• Saturday or Sunday – board the bus at 5AM at BRIC House located at 647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place. Bus will depart promptly at 5:30AM.
Details of RT New Jersey (NJPAC) to Newport trip:
• Saturday or Sunday – board the bus at 5AM at NJPAC located at 1 Center Street, Newark. Bus will depart promptly at 5:30AM.
• Parking will be available at Military Park Garage.
Details of RT Boston (Berklee) to Newport trip:
• Friday – board the bus at 8:30AM at Berklee School of Music located at 1140 Boylston Street. Bus will depart promptly at 9AM.
• Saturday or Sunday – board the bus at 7:30AM at Berklee School of Music located at 1140 Boylston Street. Bus will depart promptly at 8AM.
Line up for the festival*:
Friday, August 1, 2014, 11:30 am – 6:00 pm
Fort Adams State Park, 90 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI 02840
Jon Batiste & Stay Human
John Zorn's Masada Marathon: Dave Douglas, Marc Ribot, Cyro Baptista, Mark Feldman, Erik Friedlander, Ikue Mori, Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, Kenny Wollesen & many others
Miguel Zenón Big Band
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Snarky Puppy
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Rudresh Mahanthappa – Charlie Parker Project, A World Premier
Amir ElSaffar Quintet with Ole Mathisen, John Escreet, Francois Moutin & Dan Weiss
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Steve Bernstein, Jon Irabagon, Dave Taylor,Brandon Seabrook, Ron Stabinsky, Moppa Elliott & Kevin Shea
Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors
University of Rhode Island Newport Jazz Big Band
Saturday, August 2, 2014, 10:30 am – 7:00 pm
Fort Adams State Park, 90 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI 02840
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Dave Holland Prism with Kevin Eubanks, Craig Taborn & Eric Harland
Gregory Porter
Robert Glasper Experiment
SF Jazz Collective: Miguel Zenón, Avishai Cohen, David Sanchez, Robin Eubanks, Warren Wolf, Edward Simon, Matt Penman & Obed Calvaire
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band with Jon Cowherd, Chris Thomas, Melvin Butler & Myron Walden
Pedrito Martinez Group featuring Ariacne Trujillo with Alvaro Benavides & Jhaire Sala
Dick Hyman, Howard Alden & Jay Leonhart
Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet
Newport Now 60 Band: Anat Cohen, Karrin Allyson, Randy Brecker, Mark Whitfield, Peter Martin, Larry Grenadier & Clarence Penn
Umbria Jazz presents Stefano Bollani & Hamilton de Holanda
Symposium on Jazz
And More …
Sunday, August 3, 2014, 10:30 am – 7:00 pm
Fort Adams State Park, 90 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI 02840
Bobby McFerrin spirityouall
David Sanborn & Joey DeFrancesco with Billy Hart & Warren Wolf
Dr. John & The Nite Trippers
Gary Burton New Quartet with Julian Lage, Scott Colley & Marcus Gilmore
Vijay Iyer Sextet with Graham Haynes, Mark Shim, Steve Lehman,Stephan Crump & Marcus Gilmore
Danilo Perez Panama 500 with Ben Street, Adam Cruz & Roman Diaz
Django Festival All-Stars featuring Samson Schmitt, Ludovic Beier, Pierre Blanchard, DouDou Cuillerier & Brian Torff
Ron Carter Trio with Russell Malone & Donald Vega
Lee Konitz Quartet with special guest Grace Kelly
Ravi Coltrane
The Cookers: Gary Bartz, Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, David Weiss, George Cables, Cecil McBee & Billy Hart
Mingus Big Band
The Brubeck Brothers
George Wein & Newport All-Stars with Anat Cohen, Howard Alden, Randy Brecker, Lew Tabackin, Jay Leonhart & Lewis Nash
And More …
*Schedule Subject to Change Visit newportjazzfest.org for most up to date listing.
Rates & Reservations:
Same Day Round Trip from NYC, NJ & Brooklyn
WBGO Member price per person: Friday - $185, Saturday/Sunday - $225
Non-Member price per person: Friday - $205, Saturday/Sunday - $245
Student price per person: Friday - $145, Saturday/Sunday - $165
(must show valid student ID at festival gate)
Round Trip from Boston
WBGO Member price per person: Friday - $145, Saturday/Sunday - $185
Non-Member price per person: Friday - $165, Saturday/Sunday - $205
Student price per person: Friday - $120, Saturday/Sunday - $140
(must show valid student ID at festival gate)
Bus cancellation policy:
Until May 15 – guest will receive a full refund, less a $25 processing fee.
Until June 20 – guest will receive a 50% refund.
Until July 14 – guest can transfer their package to another guest, no refund after this date.
For questions or reservations call 973-624-8880 x269 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Please indicate departure city.Get your WBGO Folding ChairIf you do not have a chair that meets the regulations of the Festival, we will have some onsite for purchase. If you advise us by reply email or phone that you are interested we will have it for you when you arrive for $30. Should you purchase it onsite it will be $40.
Dimensions are : 29"H x 19" W x 19" L. Seat to floor is approx. 18" H. Weight limit – approx. 250 lbs. It folds and fits into a carrying case with a strap, they are lightweight and easy to move about. Available in red or blue. There is limited availability!
WBGO and NPR at the 2008 JVC Newport Jazz Festival
July 31, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: concerts, esperanza, festival founder, george wein, guillermo klein, guitarist, herbie hancock, howard alden, Jazz Alive, jazz stars, jvc jazz festival, jvc jazz festival newport, legendary pianist, live jazz, music, new york city, param name, Places and Spaces, spalding, stage acts, Video, village vanguard, wbgo, www youtube
Earlier this summer, WBGO launched NPR's first concert series of live jazz webcasts, "Live at the Village Vanguard," which offers monthly shows from the legendary New York City venue. Next weekend, August 9 and 10, WBGO and NPR Music are teaming up to live webcast main stage acts from the JVC Jazz Festival Newport. On the bill are legendary pianist Herbie Hancock; producer, performer and Jazz Festival founder George Wein; guitarist Howard Alden; along with rising jazz stars Esperanza Spalding and Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos. I'll be your host. Should be fun.
Check out one of my favorite performances captured at Newport.


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I have been so incredibly busy with school that i have actually forgotten to blog for the past 18 months! ha ha
I graduate with my bachelors degree in Radiation Therapy in 6 weeks! That just does NOT seem possible! I have been praying that I find a job and I really need to begin sending my resume out as well as find a suit and practice my interviewing skills! There are currently 3 positions available at M.D. Anderson and again I am praying that one of those positions are mine! My class is amazing and full of great future therapists but none have the passion for this career as I do! I truly do believe that God has led me here and I am hoping that we are both on the same page! LOL
I hope everyone is doing well...those of you who happened to wander onto my site!
Sunday, June 20, 2010
6 weeks to go!!!
I have been so incredibly busy with school that i have actually forgotten to blog for the past 18 months! ha ha
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Uprooted...in more ways than one! :O)
" hey Mom- I will take pictures!" BJ got to sit up front due to his broken leg! One good thing to come out of it..."Shotgun"!
This is a dolphin webkinz from BJ! I told him I was going shopping for her and he made sure that I knew that is what he wanted to get her. He can be so thoughtful sometime.
Here is the room that we had to put Oreo in. Why? you ask??? Well were sitting out in the front of Vicki's house and my brother-in-law Mike saw Oreo run around the front of the house. Mike and Jim made sure that there were no holes in the fence and that it was locked so she couldn't get out. We put her back in the back yard and a minute later we saw her JUMP over the 6 foot fence. If I hadn't seen it myself I would not believe it! We had to put her in the back room that they use as a craft/ playroom. Imagine my horror when we walked out there and saw this!!!
We had gone to Gruene and John wanted a harmonica...so I bribed him to let me take his picture in these glasses! I love Hannah's expression in the background. (I just had to throw this pic in the mix!)
As we pulled down our street
A guy stopped by and offered to cut the tree up- we took him up on it!!!
Think we could use it as firewood???
Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes! Time to go get my house back in order! Please continue to pray for those who lost so much in the tragedy of Hurricane Ike.
Posted by Robin at 9:09 AM 12 comments
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Let the fun begin!!!
after the injury and Dad brought "Josh" to visit (can you see how utterly ticked off he is?)
After we got home and settled...which is no easy feat!
He had 3 of his teammates stop by for a visit to make sure he was okay! He is a super duper trooper and I know he will be fine, however, it may take a little while. (physically and mentally) I am anxious to see what the doctor will say about his activity level. I got to see the x-ray and it was a clean break, which was a good thing. I was happy that there was no crazy breakage!
Please keep him in your prayers and pray that he has quick, painfree healing.
Thanks and I hope everyone stays safe from Gustav AND Hanna (for my East Coast friends!)
Posted by Robin at 7:39 AM 1 comments
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Stop the MADNESS....
For the past week or so i have been absolutely consumed with Stephenie Meyer's series- Twilight. Please click on the link below to see for yourself. A couple of girlfriends and I were at the pool with the kids when they started talking about it and were screaming like giddy teenage girls. I just HAD to get in on the action and have read the first 3 books thus far. Yesterday was crazy as I read ALL day long due to Tropical Storm Eduoardo (weird name). I finished at about 430 pm. I am refusing to begin the 4th until I finish physics class (next Thursday!!!! woo hoo) because i have 2 tests next week so I cannot spend time reading the book- which once I pick up I have a very hard time putting down. It is going to be a very hard week because I MUST find out what happens with Bella and Edward and Jacob. Will Edward give her what she wants? Can they live in harmony with Jacob? How will she say goodbye to her loved ones? Oh my...too many questions.
I hope that if you begin this wonderful series that you will enjoy it as much as I have. If you have already read it...what did YOU think?
StephenieMeyer.com Twilight Series Twilight
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
What a difference a day makes...
I switched from my 5 week physics class to a more manageable 10 week course. I had taken the second test twice and failed it both times much to my discouragement. My admittance into UT is contingent on my passing physics with a "c" or better and I knew that I needed to do something! My professor agreed to help me move to the 10 week class. They hadn't taken the 2nd test yet so I got to take it a 3rd time! Talk about God's plan...i really think he wants me to be a radiation therapist! :O) I got my grade back last night and i got a 103!!! That's more like it! I was starting to feel stupid in the other class and i know I am not...I just needed a little more time for my brain to wrap around the information and understand it!
Thanks for all your prayers...I hope I can keep the momentum up!
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
4th of July photos
Here is a photo that I took on July4th. We had a fun evening watching fireworks and honoring the United States soldiers! I have been reading a blog called Confessions of a Pioneer Woman (by a woman named Ree) and she has some great tips on how to cook, take photography and how to live in general. She gave some tips about how to take great fireworks photos- the first being using a tripod! I don't have a tripod, so i tried to take them with a steady hand. I was thinking that they came out pretty cool, until I looked at Ree's post of her pictures. Now mine don't seem so cool anymore...What do YOU think? Here are couple more-
I hope everyone had a Fabulous 4th! May God Bless you!!!
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Praise the Lord!!!
Yesterday morning when Jim went outside there was a package at the door from University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center School of Health Sciences and I was accepted into the Radiation Therapy junior year program! I have to make it throught physics though and that is a TALL order, but I believe that this is God's plan for me so I will do what i can and put 100% into it! My family has been super supportive, especially Jim, and I have them to think about while I am working my hiney off! Physics has been giving me heck and I guess that is to be expected since I do not have a strong math and science background! I had to move from the 5 week program to the 10 week program because i just wasn't getting it! I think I will do much better at a slower pace. My new teacher seems real nice and knowledgeable. That is another reason that I think that this is all about God's plan! Please continue to keep me in your prayers as I know that I CAN do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me!!!
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A few years ago I went to Japan to attend the World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama, and, on the same trip, visiting a museum in Kyoto, I came upon a collection of artifacts that were described as dating "from the time of the reign of the retired Emperor Go-Saga."
Dating an era from the time of a retired emperor seemed to me an odd thing to do, and I filed the notion away in my mind as one of the many unusual aspects of the culture of that far-off island nation. Last month I was reminded of it while writing a new short story—more about that below—and I consulted Sir George Sansom's classic and estimable three-volume history of Japan to see if I could find out what was so important about the Emperor Go-Saga that caused such chronological emphasis to be placed on him, thus discovering one of the most curious monarchical systems human beings have ever devised. It was a system, I learned, in which the emperor became more important by retiring from the throne than he had ever been while possessing it.
This had its origin, Sir George tells us, in a long-standing tradition among medieval Japanese nobility, the retirement of the head of a great house at an early age so that he could spend his later years free from the heavy demands of ritual and ceremony. The emperor, of course, was the highest figure of all. Since earliest times the title of emperor had always gone to the eldest son of a single family that claimed to be able to trace its ancestry back to the primordial gods. In theory the emperor held the powers of government in his own hands.
By the year 1000 or so, though, even the Japanese emperor found himself so burdened by his ceremonial duties that he had little time for anything else—and, in fact, the main executive responsibilities of the throne had been taken over by a powerful aristocratic family, the Fujiwara. For two centuries from 858 onward the Fujiwara regents exercised the real imperial power in the name of the emperor, though they did not hold the imperial title itself. Thus the emperor was a mere figurehead while the house of Fujiwara ran the country.
When the Emperor Go-Sanjo came to the throne in 1068, he was determined to break the power of the Fujiwara, and bit by bit he reclaimed imperial authority from them. But his administrative tasks were complicated by the immense weight of ceremonial functions that an emperor was called upon to perform, and in the third year of his reign he hit upon an ingenious solution. He would abdicate in favor of his son Shirikawa and retire to a monastic cloister, ostensibly to devote his life to religious contemplation. But in fact he would continue to govern from the cloister, while the boy-emperor Shirikawa performed all the ceremonial duties of a monarch.
The Japanese word for such a cloister is "In," and Go-Sanjo's name now became Go-Sanjo In, "the cloistered Emperor Go-Sanjo." (The prefix "Go" means that he was the second monarch of that name.) He died, however, only a year after his retirement, leaving young Shirikawa as emperor in fact as well as name.
The new emperor quickly came to see that the system of imperial retirement was the best way to hold the Fujiwara regents at bay. He ruled as sovereign until 1086, and then, at the age of thirty-three, took holy orders and entered a cloister, leaving his seven-year-old son Horikawa to hold the empty title of emperor. For the next forty-three years the cloistered Shirikawa, now called Shirikawa In, ruled the country from his monastic seclusion while three different figurehead emperors came and went.
This strange arrangement developed serious complications when some of the figureheads began to crave royal power themselves. Toba, who had become emperor in 1107 at the age of four after the death of his father Horikawa, abdicated to the cloister when he was twenty, putting his own four-year-old son Sutoko on the throne. But now there were two cloistered emperors, Shirikawa In and Toba In. Conflicts developed between the retired imperial father and his retired imperial son over the next two years, until old Shirikawa's death in 1129.
The problem arose once more when Sutoko chose to retire in 1141, so that two retired emperors again vied for power. Both Toba In and Sutoko In outlived the next titular emperor, Konoye, whose place was taken in 1155 by Konoye's twenty-eight-year-old son, Go-Shirakawa, a shrewd and agile figure who made a fine art out of the cloistering system.
Within three years the retired emperors Toba and Sutoko both were dead, and Go-Shirikawa quickly took himself off to the cloister himself, where between 1158 and 1192 he maintained his imperial standing through the reigns of no less than five younger emperors. During this period, also, he deftly handled challenges from various warlord families seeking to attain the sort of power the Fujiwara family had had, playing one faction off against another to keep them at bay.
By the time of Go-Shirikawa's death in 1192 new clans—the Minamoto and the Taira—were contending for the old Fujiwara powers, and the incumbent emperor, Go-Toba, who had succeeded to the imperial title in 1184 at the age of four, was still too young to abdicate and try to rule from the cloister as Go-Shirikawa had done. Skillfully and courageously he contrived to govern without the support of a senior emperor until 1198, when, still only eighteen, he did finally withdraw to cloistered life. But the system of imperial retirement was breaking down under pressure from the Minamoto family, and when Go-Toba In launched civil war against the current head of the Minamoto clan he was defeated and banished. He was replaced by his more cooperative brother, and the emperors once again became subordinate to one of the great warrior families, who now even took upon themselves the right to determine the succession to the throne.
This was not the last of the system of abdication, though. Control of the government had now fallen to the Hojo family, but there still were advantages to being a cloistered emperor. The actual emperor had neither power nor wealth: he was, as Sansom puts it, "a mere prisoner of ceremonial." It was the retired emperor who retained control of the imperial estates, which provided him with a vast income that caused the great nobles and high officials to cluster about him, eager to perform services for him. And so each new emperor, upon inheriting the imperial property at the death of the previous retired emperor, would retire as quickly as possible himself, handing the wearisome ceremonial duties off to his hapless successor and withdrawing from the court to enjoy the benefits of his riches.
This practice created difficulties when the Emperor Go-Saga retired after a reign of only four years, 1242-1246. leaving the throne to his young son Go-Fukusaka. But Go-Saga actually preferred his second son, Kameyama, and in 1259 the retired emperor forced Go-Fukasaka to abdicate in Kameyama's favor. Go-Fukusaka thus became the junior retired emperor, without power or wealth, and his younger brother Kameyama, as titular emperor, now stood to inherit the imperial estates upon Go-Saga's death, which occurred in 1272.
Alas, Kameyama found the imperial duties very little to his liking, and in 1274, at the age of twenty-six, he abdicated in favor of his son Go-Uda. This angered his older brother Go-Fukusaka, who had expected to place his own son on the throne once Kameyama was out of the way. War threatened between the two branches of the imperial family. The Hojo regents managed to work out a bizarre compromise in which the succession to the throne would alternate between the two sets of claimants, and in the next thirty years five boy-emperors took their turns, each one quickly abdicating, until at last, in 1313, the throne came to Go-Uda's son Go-Daigo, who was, unlike his recent predecessors, not a child at all—he was past thirty and wanted not only the imperial title but also the governing power that once had gone with it. This, of course, wrecked the whole system: civil war broke out, Go-Daigo was forced to flee from the capital, the regents named their own emperor, and for the next fifty years Japan had two royal courts and two emperors until the war of succession was eventually resolved by the advent of new warlords who forced a unification of the imperial courts in 1392.
A strange system indeed, this business of the holding of power by retired emperors, but it did have a curious logic of its own.
And I seem to have invented a somewhat similar system myself for use in the books and stories I've written over the past thirty years that are set on the giant planet of Majipoor—beginning with the novel Lord Valentine's Castle, which was published in 1980, and continuing most recently with the short story "The End of the Line" written last month for Asimov's Science Fiction.*
I postulated a dual monarchy for Majipoor: a senior monarch whom I called the Pontifex (the Latin word for "bridge-builder") who formulated policy, and a junior one, the Coronal Lord, or, simply, the Coronal (because his symbol of office was the coronet that he wore), whose responsibility it was to execute that policy. Each Pontifex chose his own Coronal. When a Pontifex died, the Coronal would succeed to his title and choose a Coronal of his own.
The resemblance to the Japanese system, about which I knew nothing at all when I wrote the first Majipoor book, emerges from the fact that the Pontifex lives in retirement, dwelling in a huge subterranean city known as the Labyrinth. He is rarely if ever seen in the world above; it is the Coronal, the younger monarch, who is the public face of the regime, constantly traveling to and fro across gigantic Majipoor to take part in endless formal ceremonies. From time to time he visits the Labyrinth to consult the older man on matters of policy; and whenever war breaks out, it is the Coronal who commands the troops, though the Pontifex dictates tactics from his hidden underground lair.
One consequence of the Majipoor system was that the Coronal often did not want to give up his active life and disappear into the gloomy retirement of the Labyrinth, and I told of at least one instance in which an aged and senile Pontifex is kept on life support for decades so that his Coronal can avoid succession to the senior title. (Eventually he is unable to stave off the inevitable, though, because the world needs two functional monarchs.) On another occasion, a Pontifex who has come to hate life in the Labyrinth feigns insanity, abdicates, and touches off a weird constitutional crisis. That story, "Calintane Explains," was published in Asimov's in 1982.
I wish I had known something about Japanese imperial history when I was writing the Majipoor stories. I might have tried a story about two rival lines of succession such as came into being as a result of Go-Daigo's rebellion against the system. (I did do a novel about a civil war between rival Coronals—Sorcerers of Majipoor—but it simply involved the standard sort of usurpation of the throne.) But it's too late for that now. Now that I've written this column, everyone will know where I got the idea, and I can't have that. I want you all to believe that I just make those stories up, after all.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert Silverberg
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Dam issues cited at Cliffside plant
A recent inspection of dams near coal ash basins at the Cliffside Steam Station yielded citations directed at Duke Energy from the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
The state's Dam Safety Program conducted an on-site investigation of the two dams last week and concluded the "high-hazard" dams had deficiencies.
One deficiency was regarding a corrugated pipe which inspectors noted had deteriorated to the point of a noticeable increase in flow. A letter from DENR to Duke outlined the issue and stated "a makeshift system consisting of sandbags, PVC pipe and tanks to collect the flow from the barrel was in place at the barrel outlet."
The ash basin dam was also reported to have "varying degrees of seepage and corrosion." The report said "at least two of the drains have broken/corroded, separated portions of pipe lying on the dam toe (base)."
Inspectors said the problem warranted immediate mitigation from a registered professional engineer and "in the event of dam failure, significant environmental damage to the Broad River could occur due to release of coal ash stored behind the dam."
In the reports, investigators noted Duke officials attempted to seal the break in the pipe with flowable fill cement but those attempts were unsuccessful. Investigators told Duke officials repairs must be approved by DENR before they are made.
However, DENR officials said there is nothing to indicate a potential for a coal ash spill similar to the Feb. 2 spill into the Dan River at Duke's Eden facility.
"Our investigations have not turned up anything that would indicate that," said Bridget Munger, DENR spokeswoman.
The spill into the Dan River was the result of a storm water pipe bursting under a coal ash pile, releasing nearly 80,000 tons of coal ash into the river. Officials said nearly 70 miles of the Dan River was affected by the spill near the North Carolina-Virginia border.
The other citation referenced vegetation on one of the dams being improper.
"There were issues with vegetation growing on the dam and grass growing on the crest of the dam," said Jamie Kritzer, DENR spokesman. "Grass on the dam can prevent erosion but you don't want trees — that could lead to internal erosion."
The citation indicated trees and bushes growing on the dam which "can cause problems and even failure of the dam by creating holes when trees are uprooted due to wind or ice …"
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Use the handy-dandy video button on the new post/thread/reply edit bar ( looks like a greenish window pane to the right of the link button and image insert button.
WHen you press the video button, it will popup a screen and all you do is enter the video url like: http://youtu.be/jET1VyRNldM
It will then embed it and it will turn into this:
Just for future reference, is "doo-doo" a bad word?
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It seems we have some posters, some new and some old, who are feeling they can get around the site policies by using certain acronyms, symbols, etc to get around the site's censor.
I have personally had to edit at least half a dozen posts on the football board in the past couple of days and I've just about had it.
I'm going to start suspending people. Read the posting policies again if you must, but stop trying to circumvent the rules.
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Adding to what Staci has said, I think a reminder is in order that this is a family site. We used to joke that you couldn't post anything which would make her eight-year old daughter ask what that meant. We actually have a lot of people using this site who don't want to have to explain to young sons and daughters what abbreviations mean. We may be the last holdout site on the net, but, so be it. Most athletic sites on the net have the aura of a male locker room. People who can't get comfortable without obscenity/profanity, disguised or not, need to seek those sites out and pursue that option...
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Google Acting Like Merchant Circle With Nearby Places Move
Tuesday 09 Feb 2010
Check your Google Place Page today if you haven't in awhile – the one with your business name on it, your photos, your reviews, directions, videos, contact information, custom made maps and etc. on it. The one you've claimed. Scroll down a bit, and you're likely to encounter something that looks like this:
Yes, chances are, your competitors are now being given considerable space on the document you may have begun to think of as your Google Place Page. If, like most of us, Google's September introduction of Place Pages led you to believe that this page belonged to you, you're in good company. It was language like this that probably caused you to feel this way:
If you're a business owner, you can add or update your business details through the Local Business Center. This allows you to make sure your (emphasis mine) Place Page reflects the most accurate, authoritative and recent information about your business.
It sort of sounded like you were in control of your claimed Place Page, and at that time, there wasn't any mention of the fact that you'd soon be hosting your competitors on your company's page. Understandably, Google's latest rollout of the Nearby Places You Might Like feature is ruffling some feathers, but it's doing more than that. The philosophy behind this move is taking on the odd quality of a deja vu…
Do you remember, back in October of 2009, when Mike Blumenthal published this screenshot he took from Merchant Circle?
*Note to Mike: in a blog post about swiping…excuse me, appropriating stuff, I hope you don't mind my appropriating your screen shot. As readers may recall, Merchant Circle launched a campaign of using unclaimed company names in advertisements that listed not the companies' phone numbers, but the phone numbers of things like affiliate model hotel booking sites. There was much speculation about how much of a kickback Merchant Circle was getting for this activity, and there was general loud agreement that this was a lousy, unsavory thing to do. Few were surprised that a company with Merchant Circle's reputation would do something like this, but most folks agreed that using Company A's business name to funnel traffic to Company B, without the knowledge or consent of Company A, is slimy behavior.
And there's that deja vu.
Google has taken on a Merchant Circle aura by giving a big, fat paragraph of links to competitors on both the claimed and unclaimed Place Pages of businesses. All the while you are working to outdistance your competition and distinguish yourself on the local scene with both your offline and online efforts, Google is forgetting to ask your permission to advertise the other guys on what you thought was your Place Page. Matt McGee has succinctly asked the question, Who Owns Your Place Page? and, more directly, Mike Blumenthal has asked Google's Carter Maslan the following question:
MB: If it isn't a Landing Page over which they have reasonable control, what would incent an SMB to claim and control their listing?
CM: The primary reasons to claim your listing are a) ensure the accuracy of the core listing data, b) get insights into how and when people are finding you even before they arrive at your site/doorstep, and c) engage with the people searching for you by posting updates, photos, videos, etc.
Yet again, it's the scenario I have so much trouble with of a corporation creating something with your business name and then expecting you to come a-running over to their ball field to play their game, by their rules, because they've swiped your name and you'd better make sure they aren't misrepresenting you. I've complained about this mentality loud and long over the years, but even I am getting used to the highhanded manner in which Internet hot shots conduct their business affairs. Merchant Circle is just so highly ranked for business names and Google is just so huge…their policies end up setting the tone of the Internet and trying to fight their interpretations of trademarks, copyright and privacy seems borderline hopeless right now. Working on the web as I do every day, I feel a sort of numb acceptance of this. But what I'm not going to get used to any time soon is the semblance of hypocrisy.
What's good for the goose should be good for the gander. I mean, taking into account Google's apparent feeling about using, without permission, one business name to promote the names of other businesses, they shouldn't have a problem with something like this, right:
Wrong! When Google feels threatened by something like a Chinese company using the name Goojje, we read news like this:
Google accused Goojje of infringing on its trademark rights, saying the logo of the Chinese website could make users believe it was authorised by or linked to the US company, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reported.
You see, Google is afraid that someone might be led to believe that this switcharoo stuff with their name might appear to have been authorized by them. It might misdirect the public and lose Google money. They don't want the competition using their name to achieve prominent visibility.
In fact, Google takes their competition so seriously that Search Marketing expert Danny Sullivan suggests that Google's choice to run a first-ever commercial during the Superbowl only served to signal how afraid Google is of their competitor, Bing.
Thus, many of us will scent hypocrisy in the policies of a corporation that fears and tries to extinguish the fire of competition while at the same time forcing millions of small and large businesses to share space with competitors on what was originally presented as a win-win product for business owners and Internet users alike. Business owners are winning a bit less when Google is using their name to display the data of direct local competitors and has the clout to steamroll over any small business squeakings about trademark infringement and fair business practices. And, that's just not nice.
Will the nearby places you might like benefit Internet users? To be fair, I can see how they might. If you're looking for Chinese food in San Francisco, it might be nice to see a list of options. But it won't be nice for the owner of San Tung restaurant who may have worked like crazy to get into the A position for 'chinese restaurants sf' in Google Maps, only to find that his Place Page now lists 10 of his top competitors.
I'd like to finish up by mentioning that Mike Blumenthal did ask Carter Maslan if, in Google's process of doing user-acceptance testing of new features, they ever consider doing SMB-acceptance studies. Maslan's answer:
We want both consumers and businesses to find the results useful in engaging with each other. While the implication is that this feature puts the interests of consumer and business at odds, owners often realize quickly that the Web of connections among places and people is both inbound and outbound.
I know how this answer strikes me, but what I want to know is, how does it strike you?
18 comments Tuesday 09 Feb 2010 | admin | Local SEO
18 Responses to "Google Acting Like Merchant Circle With Nearby Places Move"
on 09 Feb 2010 at 6:17 pm Mike Belasco
Great post and I think the image of the bing logo on the Google sign says it all. Sometimes I really believe Google does not think before they act.
on 09 Feb 2010 at 6:18 pm Mike Blumenthal
Hi Miriam
Google has and continues to deliver a very mixed message to the SMB….. It's yours, its not… it has become eminently clear that this "search result" is theirs not yours.
Google has an interest in driving page views. It is fascinating that they are driving page views away from the websites that these business owners have created and towards something that Google has created.
So they can call the Places Page a "search result" or they can call it a "landing page", regardless they clearly believe that it is their sandbox…take it or leave it. The business may in the end benefit or they may not but they will have little control over the page.
Google will talk about "serving the needs of the user", that is but happy talk that camouflages their true driving need and that is to serve the needs of their stock holders. In that regard they and MC have a lot in common.
PS You are always welcome to my images and thanks for the credits.
on 09 Feb 2010 at 6:25 pm admin
Glad you like that image, Mike Belasco. Sorry, that sounds very formal, but we have to find some way to distinguish between yourself and the other Mike B. (aka Prof. Maps)!
I confess, I had fun with the artwork on this one, and I'm glad my point came across.
Somehow being an SMB who is being represented by Google is a little bit like having a famous chef break into your house, gather up all of the groceries in your pantry, concoct a large and sumptuous meal and then run away with the food to share it with everyone but you. You dine on crumbs.
I should have tried to illustrate that!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Mike.
on 09 Feb 2010 at 6:29 pm admin
Hello Mike, (aka Prof. Maps)!
Thank you so much for the post grant of your image rights, and for the nice RT. I just saw that.
You have a remarkable way of bringing it down to the bottom line – making stock holders happy. I get caught up in the emotional aspects of scenarios like this. I think of businesses spending years building up their good names, just as Google has done, only to have to deal with a constantly changing set of rules created by a vastly powerful 3rd party. I imagine the SMB's frustration and shake my head over Google's semblance of unconcern and what I can only call bad manners.
But, it all comes down to the money. I know. You are correct.
Thank you for coming by, Mike!
on 09 Feb 2010 at 7:10 pm Dev Basu
Great post Miriam. So local listing ads turned out to be somewhat of a failure, and now Google has to make money on their local business listings product in another way… and what better way than racking up the pageviews and slapping some adsense ads on? It's worked well for all their other properties, so it should technically work for the LBC product too. Just like IYP PPC and banner advertising, competitive businesses wouldn't hesitate spending dollars to have their logo and details show up on a competitor's 'listing' page.
At the end of the day, I'm not sure if an SMB has much choice but to stick along for the ride with Google, as competing products from Bing or Yahoo are no where as robust. I for one would love Bing to step things up even further, and one of the best things they could do (selfishly) is to open up to other countries for submission.
on 10 Feb 2010 at 1:07 am Mike Blumenthal
Not to worry…they will do the Local Listing Ads (or some variation) as well…
on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:31 am Kennstdueinen.de Blog
Google Maps VP Carter Maslan im Interview zu "Nearby places"…
Interview mit Google VP zu "Nearby places" auf den Google place pages Gestern berichteten wir hier im Blog zu dem neuen Feature "Nearby places you might like", in dessen Rahmen nun auf den Google place pages auch eine Linkliste …
on 10 Feb 2010 at 4:11 am Ash Nallawalla
I commented at Mike's blog yesterday that "Nearby Places" are not really nearby and not useful. Today I looked at a place I have visited – Banana Leaf restaurant, 182 Ranch Drive, Milpitas, CA. (link at the end of this post)
The "nearby places" show three in Gilroy, which IIRC is almost an hour's drive south! This smells of another Google beta just to gauge reactions before fixing the code.
on 10 Feb 2010 at 8:04 am David Mihm
Great article, Miriam. I have to say, I've been a big supporter of almost all of the moves Google made in Local in 2009, but this one just makes no sense to me. Just as Yelp is starting to understand that business owners are every bit as important to their success as users, Google does a big 180. At least Yelp offers a way to get rid of these 'nearby places' via advertising. A year ago, who woulda thunk that Yelp would be more sympathetic to the plight of business owners than Google?
on 10 Feb 2010 at 9:16 am Matthew Hunt
Great post!
I am NOT a fan of the new ads popping up on SMB's Places Pages.
What David Mihm said about Yelp realizing that the SMB's are a large part of their success is true and applies to all platforms including Google Maps.
I wish Google Maps would actually do something to monetize the Maps the way Yahoo Local does. You have free, enhanced and featured. Enhanced & featured gives you a chance to show up on their "3-Pack" if optimized right and then they offer a version of what kinda looks like PPC Ads in the Local section above the map listings at a "flat rate" monthly pricing. Pricing is determined by category of business and city – can range from $20/month to $300/month. Google could do this type of thing too.
This type of monetization makes sense and still fits into what Google is trying to do. Also, if they monetize they can maybe create a support center with phone numbers, ticket system, etc.
I find SMB's would be happy to pay, just so they could get support and answers etc.
I can't believe I just referenced Yahoo's local system to being better than Google's :). Too bad most of the search volume is all on Google and we are forced to work with what we got!
Oh, while we are all ranting – wish Canada could get more features like US does, we are always forgotten on all 3 search engines. The good news is local maps is available on Google for CND's and Yahoo & Bing is not – that's a whole other story though.
Terrific article Miriam. You have captured much if not all of the issues and problems with this latest approach by Google. More than that you have captured their hypocracy and mixed messages to businesses.
Wonderful job.
on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:36 pm admin
Hi Dev!
You said:
"At the end of the day, I'm not sure if an SMB has much choice but to stick along for the ride with Google"
I totally agree. No one can really afford to ignore or 'defy' Google. Doing so would be foolhardy. At the same time, I wish Google's gigantic market share could be tempered with both more competition from others and more accountability on Google's part. Google does many things right, but relating to the world of the small business owner isn't one of them. I'd love to see that change!
It was a pleasure to find your comment here, Dev.
on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:50 pm admin
Hello David,
Like you, I think Google does so many things right! It's painful when they don't. Google's whole local business model hangs on the existence of local businesses, and like you say, it just doesn't make sense to ignore the needs of these vital folks. But we've consistently seen Google put SMBs last, and wish that would change.
Thanks for coming by, David!
on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:55 pm admin
Greetings, Matthew!
You Said:
"I can't believe I just referenced Yahoo's local system to being better than Google's"
Haha. That does sound funny, but I have always found Yahoo to be more accessible in this regard than Google. From early on, they have been better communicators and Google would do well to take a page from their book.
Part of me agrees with the idea of monetizing, the other part of me says: Google took all of this business info without the permission of business owners; no one should have to pay for them to get it right. That's their responsibility, having taking this on when no one asked/permitted them to.
I stand with you on Canada getting equal treatment. Canada is sitting there like some huge untapped market. It doesn't make sense to ignore our friends to the north!
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment here, Matthew.
on 10 Feb 2010 at 2:57 pm admin
Thank you, Dave!
I'm glad you enjoyed this one, and it seems to have expressed the sentiments many people are feeling about this latest Google move. I'm glad to know that!
How are you doing under all that snow, Dave? I've been thinking about you in a white world.
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on 10 Feb 2010 at 4:05 pm Tom Crandall
"And now for our next trick…"
I can see Google taking away the ability to link local business listings (in the 7-pack of local business results) directly to an entity's website, therefore forcing all traffic to a business' place page first. Thoughts?
on 11 Feb 2010 at 5:12 pm admin
Welcome, Tom!
I hadn't considered that, but hey, it could happen. One of the issues I'm having with this is that I can already use the local results in organic, as well as the A-J rankings in the top level interface of Maps to see a variety of listings for a given query. Why do these also need to be on the Place Page? What is the added value?
Now, if none of that activity included direct links to websites, the usefulness of Maps would be degraded, in my opinion, but that certainly doesn't mean it couldn't happen. It would be a big change, though.
Thanks for stopping by.


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sample aspiration and dispensing means for aspirating volumetrically proportions of the samples from the primary containers;
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THIS INVENTION relates to a pathology sample distribution apparatus/system and in particular to but not limited to an automated pathology specimen tube distribution apparatus/system for use in medical pathology laboratories.
In pathology industries samples from different sources need to be analysed for different reasons. Some of the samples may also need to be split or apportioned for multiple analysis. It is desired to automate the distribution systems for these samples so that there is minimum human involvement in the distribution.
For example, the collection and analysis of samples including pathology specimens such as blood involve numerous steps which are prone to human errors. The errors could result in disastrous consequences for both the medical laboratory and the patients concerned. One fundamental area where such errors can occur is the transfer of the specimen from primary specimen tubes containing the specimen first collected from a patient to secondary sample tubes which thereby contain aliquot of the specimen for actual analysis by an analysing instrument. Major problems occur where the tubes are incorrectly labelled or the tubes are of an incorrect type for a particular test specifically requisitioned by a physician. In order to solve these and other problems, most pathology laboratories have in place numerous time consuming manual checking procedures. As a consequence of the advent of highly contagious and dangerous diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis and advances in computer technology, much of the organisation and transfer of the secondary sample tubes to racks or holders for the purpose of analysis is now substantially automated. The whole process is often monitored to an extent such that an enquiry of the computer system involved will reveal the location of the primary specimen tubes and/or secondary sample tubes at any stage of the tube management and analytical process.
Invariably, pathology specimen distribution centres are often placed invidiously in what can only be described as a "meat in the sandwich" situation. This may be given by way of example where a distribution centre has to decide which test is appropriate when the full spectrum of test procedures is not known or understood by a referring physician, or, when a scientist responsible for the analytical procedures has not clearly spelt out to specimen collecting staff what type and amount of specimen are required. This situation is often resolved by obtaining further specimens from the patient.
This practice is wasteful of time and resources such as disposable and extra specimen tubes or containers. The possibility of errors in such situations is often further compounded by the limitations of the laboratory's computer information management system (LIMS) which is only as accurate as the information provided to it.
Many laboratories continue to employ a manual specimen tube management system because their primary focus is in the analysis of samples and the actual reporting of the analysis results. Unless the laboratory has an automated specimen distribution system, human errors can easily occur in any manual specimen tube management system which are often to the detriment of other areas of the analysis. As a consequence of the absence of an accurate fail safe tube management system, it may be impossible to know if a correct specimen type has been collected until it is delivered to the scientist at the analyser. The scientist will also have to decide at this stage whether a sufficient sample volume has been collected for the particular analysis and whether or not the sample, for example if it is blood, is too haemolysed or clotted for a particular test to be carried out. As a result many of the errors found in laboratories have their origin at the specimen distribution centre and such errors become compounded as the laboratory process continues. Further the absence of automated tube management systems often leads to inefficient manual sample storage facilities resulting in the misplacement of samples received so that the result obtained if inconsistent with what is expected has to be rechecked by re-running the test against a reference source to verify the particular infection. In laboratories where there are no reliable sample storage systems, there is usually a proliferation of various systems which are not under computer control resulting in unnecessary costs including resources and consumables for further tests as mentioned above.
In attempting to identify these and other problems, the applicant has listed a number of deficient areas found in current manual systems and those systems necessarily involving other instruments and tests. Some of these deficiencies include the transportation of uncapped primary and secondary tubes resulting in the increased possibility of contamination. The fact that the same specimen can be collected in different tube types having different colour coded caps can also result in confused or erroneous readings by instruments or staff unfamiliar with a particular manufacturer's colour coding scheme.
In addition, the presence of different cap types and different clot activating substances being used by different physicians for collected blood specimens can cause the laboratory to restrict itself to one collection tube manufacture in the interest of eliminating errors.
Furthermore, the particular tube transport mechanism associated with a specific test often dictates the design of the laboratory and results in restricting the tube management system to one analysis type only.
Other limitations include the inability to distribute samples from one collection resulting in multiple collections of the same specimen type where it is necessary to repeat the same test or where other tests on the same type of specimen are involved.
Known attempts to overcome certain of the above problems include a number of systems presently in operation which may be broadly categorised as follows:—
Specific problems which have been identified by the applicant associated with the prior art systems described above include the following:
It is therefore an object of the present invention to alleviate to some degree one or more of the abovementioned problems associated with prior art sample distributors presently in operation.
In one aspect therefore the invention resides in a sample container handling apparatus for a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers of different types and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis and an identification indicator for the sample. The apparatus comprises a container handling station arranged for receiving the containers in turn. The handling station includes a container identification means for obtaining one or more characteristics of a container presented for identification and identifying the container type by comparing the obtained characteristic or characteristics with predetermined characteristics of the container types. A container type is identified when the obtained characteristic or characteristics match or are within a predetermined range from matching one or one set of the predetermined characteristics. The handling station also includes a sample identification means for identifying the sample by obtaining the identification indicator on the presented container. The obtained sample identification is used for the pathology analysis prescribed for the sample.
Preferably the container identification means is an image analyser. The image analyser may have a digital camera for capturing an image containing the one or more characteristics of the container and a light source for illuminating the container. Said one or more characteristics may include a dimension or dimensions of the container, one or more areas of the container and the colour of the cap of the container.
More preferably the image analyser is arranged to detect the level of the sample. In this regard the handling station is provided with a controller which controls a rotatable container receiving means for positioning the container so that a window in the container allowing the sample to be visible externally is positioned before the image analyser. Desirably the sample identification means produces a signal to the controller when the sample identification indicator is detected and the controller in turn stops the container at a predetermined position so that the window is before the analyser.
The image captured through the window is conveniently employed for determining the level and/or volume of the sample available for analysis.
In preference the sample identification means is a bar code scanner and the sample identification indicator is a bar coded label fixed to the container.
In a second aspect therefore the present invention resides in a sample container handling apparatus for a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis. The apparatus comprises a container distributor having a cap removal and replacement means. The cap removal and replacement means includes a container holder movable with respect a rotatable cap engagement and removal means. In operation a capped container positioned in the holder which is controllably moved towards the cap engagement and removal means. The cap engagement and removal means includes jaw members arranged to grip onto the cap and rotate the cap as the holder moves away from the cap engagement and removing means thereby uncapping the container. Replacement of the cap is enabled by moving the uncapped container towards the cap gripped by the jaw members and the cap engagement and removal means rotates the jaw members and thereby rotating the cap as the container is pushed onto the cap.
In a third aspect therefore the present invention resides in a sample container handling apparatus for a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis. The apparatus comprises a container distributor having sample aspiration and/or dispensing means for aspirating and/or dispensing volumetrically a predetermined portion of the sample in or to a container. The sample aspiration and/or dispensing means includes a pipette tip holder for holding a plurality of pipette tips, a pipette probe, an articulated arm arranged for removing a pipette tip from the holder and place the pipette tip on the probe, and a pipette tip removing means to remove the pipette tip from the probe for deposition in a disposal receptacle.
In a fourth aspect the present invention resides in a sample container handling apparatus for a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis. The apparatus comprises a blockage detection means for detecting blockage of flow in a sample aspiration means including a pipette tip for aspirating volumetrically a predetermined portion of a samples in a container. A pipette tip controller is arranged to move the tip towards the sample in the container. The blockage detection means includes a pressure sensitive module having a pump for aspiration of the sample through the tip. The blockage detection means is arranged to detect blockage in the tip and thereby to provide a warning signal and to cause the operation of the sample aspiration means to be arrested until the blockage has been resolved.
The station also has a sample level detection means which includes a low pressure generating means for applying low pressure to the aspiration means, pressure sensor means for sensing the pressure in the aspiration means and an actuator for moving the tip towards the sample. The sample level is detected when the pressure as sensed by the sensor means exceeds a predetermined margin from a fixed pressure.
In a fifth aspect the present invention resides in a sample container handling apparatus for a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis a pathology specimen tube distributor. The apparatus comprises container sealing means for sealing containers with samples dispensed therein. The container sealing means includes a source of heat sensitive laminate tape; means for punching the tape to form caps for the containers; means for placing each said caps over the top of a container and means for heating the cap over the container to cause the laminate to seal the container.
The laminate tape preferably is dispensed from spools or reels. It is further preferred that the container sealing means having a rotatable pay out reel around which the source of heat sensitive tape is wound and the tape is transferred along a tape travel path to a rotatable take up reel for receiving the tape with cap seals punched therefrom.
The container sealing means may have a tape tensioner arranged to apply tension to the tape for controlling acceleration of the tape along the tape travel path.
The punching means may have a set of punches of different diameters and a punch actuator being controllably movable to actuate any of the punches for punching cap seals of a selected diameter.
The placing means may have a vacuum line adapted to hold the punched out cap seal and a transport device adapted to controllably place the vacuum line so that the cap seal is positioned over the top of the or each said container.
A rotatable actuator is advantageously arranged to rotate the cap seal for heat sealing by the heating means. This arrangement allows the cap seals to be heated evenly.
A low tape supply detector can be associated with the pay out reel for providing an indication of low supply when the tape around the pay out reel is low.
A motor can be arranged to rotate the take up reel, and the motor being associated with an indexing means for controlling the motor to move the tape at an indexed distance along the travel path.
In a sixth aspect of the present invention resides in a sample container handling apparatus for a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis. The apparatus comprises automatic labelling means for the application of adhesive labels to containers with samples dispensed therein. The automatic labelling means includes one or more spools of adhesive labels, means to provide sample identification indicators on the adhesive labels; a sample identification means to verify that the indicators on the labels corresponds to the indicators of containers from which the samples are aspirated, and means for detecting errors in the indicators on the labelled containers or the absence of a label.
In a seventh aspect the present invention resides in a sample container handling apparatus for a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers for pathology analysis, each container having a closed end and an open end. The apparatus comprises hopper means for receiving and delivering one or more of the containers, and having container alignment means for aligning the containers from any position to a vertical position with the open ends positioned to receive samples.
Preferably the container alignment means includes a rotary magazine having circumferentially located compartments to hold horizontally positioned containers, a sideways plunger member arranged in co-operation with the magazine and a guide positioned beneath the magazine to change the position of the containers released from the magazine from the horizontal to the vertical position. In operation the plunger member pushes a closed end of a container so that the displaced container released from the magazine falls into the guide in the vertical position. Said co-operating plunger member when not in contact with a closed end, does not push a container which when released, falls into the guide in the vertical position.
In an eighth aspect the present invention resides in a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers of different types and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis a pathology specimen. The system comprises a loading station for loading said containers, a container handling station arranged to receive the containers in turn from the loading station, and distribution station with areas or distribution holders marked for specific analysing processes. The handling station has one or a combination of two or more of the apparatus as described above.
In a ninth aspect therefore the present invention resides in a sample container handling apparatus for a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis. The apparatus comprises a loading station having a conveyor arrangement for conveying the containers in position to be loaded onto a tube handling station. The conveyor arrangement includes a movable conveyor surface on which carriers for carrying said container can be placed. The conveyor surface has a first section arranged with a barrier dividing said first section into a buffer zone and a by-pass passage for the carriers. The buffer zone has an entrance and a diversion part is arranged adjacent to the entrance. In operation the diversion part diverts carriers carrying containers into the buffer zone and empty carriers continue to move into the by-pass passage.
Preferably The diversion part is arranged so that when the buffer zone is full of carriers carrying tubes, other carriers with or without tubes continue to move into the by-pass passage.
It is desired that buffer zone has a controllably actuable member positioned opposite to said entrance and the actuable member is controlled to push a carrier out of the buffer zone. Typically the actuable member is actuated when the container on a carrier has been loaded onto the handling station or a rejected tube is placed on a carrier in the buffer zone.
The conveyor surface may also have a second section arranged with a barrier dividing said second section into a reject zone for receiving carriers with rejected containers and a by-pass passage for other carriers. The reject zone has a diversion part arranged to divert carriers carrying rejected containers into the reject zone and to allow empty carriers continue to move into the reject zone by-pass passage.
In a tenth aspect therefore the present invention resides in a pathology sample distribution system having a plurality of containers of different types and the containers each containing a sample for pathology analysis. The system comprises:—
Suitably the primary container identification means is a receptacle for placing a capped primary container, and has a bar code scanner for scanning a bar coded label on the container and an image analyser for analysing the colour of the cap of the container, the diameter, height and shape characteristics of the container as well as the type and height of each layer of the sample in the container.
Preferably the given criteria by which the primary container is accepted or rejected by the identification means includes the following criteria.
Error conditions associated with accepting or rejecting a primary container include:—
Preferably the rack design incorporates its own unique bar code identifiers so that coordinated storage systems can be utilised as well as being completely traceable at any stage of the process.
Preferably the information on the bar code is unique to each patient episode and the collected samples or specimens. This bar code can be used to identify and locate all the secondary containers associated with the relevant primary container.
Preferably the acceptance or rejection of and error condition associated with a primary container is displayed on electronic display means and/or printed means.
Suitably the container cap removal and replacement means is a robotic arm having a specially adapted member to remove and replace the cap of a container.
Preferably the one or more secondary containers are plastic tubes and may have different volumes and shapes.
Preferably the sample aspiration and/or dispensing means has means adapted to remove and dispose of used pipette tips.
Preferably the container storage means are racks for holding multiple containers.
Preferably the computerised laboratory information management system is an integral part of the apparatus however may be an already existing system to which the pathology specimen tube distributor is interfaced.
Preferably the container conveyance means is a continuous conveyer belt on which the containers may be placed in holding stands or racks. Alternatively, a robotic tray may be used for the same purpose.
It can be seen in the overview of the system shown in
Accurate quantities of samples are then automatically aspirated at an aliquoting arrangement having an aliquot bridge 24 which incorporates the sample aspiration and dispensing means 86 (to be described later). Associated with the aliquot bridge 24 is a pipette hopper 26 from which disposable pipette tips 28 (see
The secondary sample tubes 15 (see
The recapping of the primary specimen tube 14 is the reverse of the decapping process wherein the specimen tube 14 is pushed back onto the rotating cap 34 which prevents pressuring the tube 14.
Prior to the sample aspiration operation, the system 10 of the present invention is arranged to detect the level of the sample in the tube 14.
The arrangement 200 has a tubing 96 with one end connected to an automatically controlled pump which in this case is a syringe 98, and the opposite end positioned for aspirating or dispensing through a pipette tip 28. Also connected to the tubing 96 is a 2-port valve V01. which is in connection with a low pressure air source through a flow restriction 97, and a pressure sensor P01. A controller or controller system 104 which in this case is the same computer system for controlling the system 10 is arranged to control the 2-port valve and the syringe 98. The controller 104 also controls movement of the pipette tip 28 towards and away from the tube 14, 15.
In operation the system 10 is controlled so that the tube handler 46 positions the tube 14 held therein under the raised pipette tip 28. The piston 99 in the syringe 98 is placed at its neutral or zero position as it is not used for level detection.
When the tube 14 is at that position the controller 104 opens the valve V01 for the low pressure air to enter the tubing 96 and out through the tip 28. After elapse of a predetermined time for the air pressure to stabilise the controller 104 reads the pressure at the pressure sensor P01 and stores the read pressure as the reference baseline pressure.
The controller 104 then controllably moves the tip 28 downwards in discrete steps. At each step the pressure at P01 is read and compared with the stored baseline pressure. When the pressure difference is greater than a predetermined value then the level of the sample is detected.
On detection of the level of the sample, the controller 104 closes the valve V01 and the syringe 98 is now ready for aspiration.
For aspiration, the controller 104 moves the tip 28 down slowly and at a rate with the dropping sample level. At the same time the pressure at P01 is monitored. If the pressure form P01 drops below a predetermined value then a clot or clog at the tip 28 is detected. The controller 104 immediately stops the aspiration operation and the downward movement of the tip 28. The tip 28 detected with a clot or clog is then moved to a tip ejection arrangement 400 where it can either be ejected automatically or be positioned for manual ejection.
The system 10 includes a pipette tip ejection arrangement 400 as shown in
The carriage 162 has a pair of spaced rollers 172 and 174 which are arranged to receive the bars 164 and 166. The roller 174 is fixed to a body 176 which is slidable along the probe 30 and is biased in an up position as shown.
When the sample in the tip 28 has been dispensed the controller commands the carriage 162 to move towards the ejection assembly. The bars 164 and 166, when entering the space between the two rollers 172 and 174 come into contact with the roller 172 and 174 respectively. Further movement of the carriage 162 forces the body 176 to slide downwardly along the probe 30 and at the same time the body 174 pushes the tip 28 away from the probe 30 for ejection.
When a clot or clog in the tip is detected, the controller commands the actuator 170 to retract, the rod 168 as shown in
In this embodiment, a number of windows within the field of view of the camera 22 are defined for capturing images of parts of the tube 14. In addition a pair of windows are defined for capturing respective contrasting black and white colour patches arranged in fixed positions in front of the camera 22.
The captured images of the contrasting colour patches are used to calibrate a bias due to variation in brightness of the light 142. The bias is calibrated in this embodiment by comparing the brightness level between captured images of the colour patches and that stored in memory of a computer of the controller.
Following adjustment of the calibrated bias the captured images through said plurality of windows are compared to stored images of corresponding windows, using an algorithm.
For the tube identification and liquid level detection the controller is programmed to image predefined windows and maximum tolerance of differential as follows:
Information for each type of tubes 14, 15 is obtained by the following procedure:
To minimise error readings due to variations in light level a biassing factor is first determined by calculating the average value of the white and the black colour calibrations areas and save it in memory. The information saved in the storage media is loaded in RAM memory prior to imaging an incoming tube by:
For detection of the sample level of the identified tube the following steps are followed:
The type of tube 14 being viewed is identified when matching images are found or when images within a predetermined threshold of matching are found. Any of the tubes 14 not meeting one of these conditions are rejected and returned to the loading station.
This system effectively combines characteristics of the tube 14 for identifying the type of tube 14 before the camera 22. The characteristics include cap colour, cap shape and overall tube dimensions.
Along with information in the windows for capturing characteristics of each type of tubes 14, in the memory are also stored information relating to corresponding brand, type, volume, gel content etc. Therefore when a match or close match is determined, the computer can identify the type of tube 14 and the volume of the plasma or serum available in the sample tube 14.
Referring to
The conveyor 12 has a barrier 186 dividing a section of the conveyor 12 into a buffer zone 188 for receiving carriers or pucks 190 with tubes 14 positioned thereon and a by-pass passage 189. The tubes 14 in the buffer zone 188 are for loading onto the tube handling station 16 by the tube handler 46 (see
As shown clearly in
When the buffer zone 189 is full empty pucks 190 as well as pucks 190 loaded with tubes 14 move only into the by-pass 189 as shown in
Referring again to
When the system 10 detects that the presented tube 14 is not a recognised tube type or the bar code is not readable or otherwise defective, the handler 46 returns the tube 14 to the puck 190. A pneumatic actuated pin (not shown) is then actuated to push the puck 190 with the defective tube 14 out of a self-closing gate (not shown). The rejected tube 14 as shown in
The pneumatically actuated pin is also employed to push the pucks 190 in the buffer zone 188 out through the gate once the system 10 determines that the tubes 14 from these pucks 190 are to proceed forward.
Shown more clearly in
Whilst the above has been given by way of illustrative example of the present invention many variations and modifications thereto will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the broad ambit and scope of the invention as herein set forth.
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Hi Léopold!
Ernst Neufert's diagrams are truely frightening! At first I thought the standing human bodies were opened eyes, which made me think of Orwell's Big Brother… Ernst Neufert worked with Albert Spree on the standardization of German industrial architecture during the 3rd Reich.
# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// The Modernist Ideology of a Normative Body
Modernist Architecture is characterized by a thaumaturgic (talent of miraculously curing) ambition which would heal the "diseases" of individuals and society. Although this ambition appears as obsolete and slightly ridiculous nowadays, after several decades of post-modernism that constituted in denying any other power of architecture than a merely aesthetic one. However, my thesis, that I have been developing though a reasonable amount of articles on this blog, is that architecture does certainly own a power, but rather than the power of healing, it might rather be the power of hurting. (see weaponized architecture)
In this regard, what appear to be the quintessential example of a set of norms and a residue of the modern ideology are the overwhelming diagrams proposed by the fascinating Architectural Graphic Standards (cf introduction cover page). Indeed, following the modern dream of an optimized built environment, those architectural documents consider a normative body –one could think of Le Corbusier's Modulor- and advocate for an architecture that is perfectly adapted to this same body. This normative body is not an ideal body in the classical meaning of it (mostly based on aesthetic values) but can be considered as such, as it does not represent anybody's body but rather constitutes an unreachable state of normality.
As we saw with the work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins (see my essay Architectures of Joy) , architecture can be considered within the time frame of human evolution and, this way, be designed in order to influence such evolution. The normative body of those diagrams constitute the exact opposite of Arakawa/Gins' work that attempts to activate bodies in order to resist death. In fact, the normative ideology by choosing an oxymoronic normal ideal body as a model, refuse the very idea of the human evolution. This denial organizes a violence effectuated on the body as it makes it interact with an environment that forces it to remain the same. Such a normative environment also implies a normative behavior that implies a set of pre-defined activities relatively to each space and furniture.
One can dream (I do !) of a re-interpretation of those diagrams subverted by various activities and bodies that were not thought about by those normative documents (the coitus seems to be a good way to start them for example !).
The following documents and the first image are all extracted from the Architectural Graphic Standards. Hoboken: Wiley, 2000.
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Hi Léopold!
I guess you can easily buy "Architects' Data" on Amazon. Did you have a look on it?
Would it be ok with you if a publish a translation to spanish of this article on my architecture blog? Giving you full credit, of course.
yo – there was just an article in the nytimes about a show at CCA about modern architecture during WW2 and Ernest Neufert was mentioned. Itd probably be worth looking for [or going to? road trip!] as it has some other things exhibited that might pique [stimulate] your interest as well.
also – would you mind if i was the person to desecrate those diagrams? i think id be good at it.
Here in Brazil, Ernst Neufert's diagrams are teach as a Bible… And I hate it. I just gave me another reason to do so! lol
If you want, I can send you a copy of the book in pdf. format.
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Thank you so much for sharing these diagrams. I have saved your post! I am a student at New School of Architecture in San Diego, and I'm going to share these with my group at school.
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Muito bom
Excelente ensaio
Fernando fuao
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Jerry Champer
Sept. 25, 2012
ATHENS, Ga. --- Jerry Champer, one of Georgia swimming and diving's associate head coaches, recently was inducted into the Western Illinois University Athletic Hall of Fame.
Champer posted a school-record 102 victories as Western Illinois' head coach from 1994-2001. During his tenure, Champer was chosen as the Mid-Continent Conference Coach of the Year six times.
"It is a tremendous honor for me to be inducted into the Western Illinois Hall of Fame," Champer said. "I was fortunate enough to work with some outstanding people that helped our team succeed. We had a number of truly phenomenal individual athletes that worked hard at building a legacy of success that we enjoyed during my time there."
Western Illinois' men and women dominated the Mid-Continent Conference during Champer's tenure. The men won four consecutive titles and were runners-up twice, while the women captured one title and were runners-up five times. No team coached by Champer ever finished lower than third at the conference championships.
Champer coached 44 individual conference champions and 46 all-conference honorees. He also coached the only Western Illinois swimmer to ever compete in the Olympics (Zurab Beridze for the Republic of Georgia at the 2000 Sydney Games).
Champer left Western Illinois to join the Georgia staff, serving two years as a volunteer assistant and the last nine as an assistant coach. He was promoted to associate head coach earlier this year.
Champer is married to Lu Harris-Champer, Georgia's head softball coach and a softball letterwinner and graduate of Western Illinois. They have three daughters: twins Jenna and Emma, and Mya.


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• Gilbert W. Didion, 91, Sandusky, died early Tuesday morning, Sept. 18, 2012, in Firelands Regional Medical Center. Visitation will be held 3-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at David F. Koch Funeral Home, Sandusky. Further arrangements are pending at the funeral home.
• Charles R. Spitler, 89, Sandusky, died Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Stein Hospice Care Center. There will be no visitation. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at Grace Episcopal Church, Sandusky. Further arrangements are pending at Toft Funeral Home & Crematory, Sandusky.
• Martin Zontini Sr., 70, of Clyde, died Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in his residence. Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at Foos Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Clyde. A funeral service will be 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the funeral home. Burial with military honors will follow at Greenlawn Memory Gardens.


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February 11, 2008
Romeo and Juliet Get Married: Wherefore Art Thou, Film?Reviewer: Diana Slampyak
Rating (out of 5): *½
As a Shakespearean literature and film scholar (it was one of my areas of concentration in getting my Ph.D.), I love to see films that update the Bard's plays cleverly, such as Scotland, PA, 10 Things I Hate About You and O. So I really looked forward to seeing what I think is Shakespeare's worst play revamped again (Baz Luhrmann's version is genius, but not for the plot or the acting). But Romeo and Juliet Get Married gives us middle-aged co-stars acting out a world football fantasy ridiculous in nature.
The story centers around our happy couple, played by Luana Piovani and Luiz Gustavo. They've fallen in love, but trouble looms on the horizon: he supports the team Corinthians while she and her family adore the Palmeiras. What to do? Well, naturally, Romeo pretends to be a Palmeiras fan. But he takes the pseudo-fan persona too far, and tragedy ensues. Or at least heartbreak. And, of course, measures must be made to resurrect poor Romeo (who has a 21-year-old son) and Juliet from total destruction before it's all too late. Cliché central.
Honestly, I don't know what Bruno Barreto (Dona Flora and Her Two Husbands, Four Days in September) was thinking when he decided to make Romeo and Juliet Get Married; the film is trite, completely uninteresting and often ludicrous. Who would really go to the lengths that Romeo does just to impress Juliet's father (played by Marco Ricca), so staunch a defender of the Palmeiras that his family's welfare means little to him as he neglects his wife and daughter terribly? And who would actually let the nonsense go on? Perhaps it's a cultural gap, as I know around the world football (soccer here) is a big deal, and that clubs do have faithful members who even beat the hell out of supporters of other teams. Maybe that love of sport is why this was a hit in Brazil. But, even if you think sport is life, you'll find little to like here.
The characters are all uni-dimensional caricatures; the acting itself is lackluster. And there's no bloodshed or murder of best friends to give it Shakespearean flair. The only parallel that came up arrived in the last scene, which I will not spoil for you, although as smart film viewers you can probably guess what that scene is.
Supposedly charming and heartwarming, the film is actually just dull and dumb. If you really want to see well-done revamped Shakespeare, try the aforementioned films, and avoid Romeo and Juliet Get Married; a plague on your queue if you rent it.
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Saturday, August 10, 2013
Dixie W. Satterwhite
HENDERSON — Dixie Williamson Satterwhite, 79, of 750 Tobacco Road, died Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, at her home.
Born on Dec. 10, 1933, in Sampson County, she was the daughter of the late Anderson Williamson and Hattie Belle Lockemy Williamson, and was the widow of John Thomas Satterwhite.
She was a retired inspector from Laurens Glass Plant, and was a member of Gillburg United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sunset Gardens by Rev. Calvin Dickenson.
She is survived by one daughter, Donna Russell of Henderson; three sons, Daniel Satterwhite and Larry Satterwhite of Henderson, and Charles A. Satterwhite of Kittrell; two brothers, Wiley Williamson of Goldsboro and Carl Williamson of West Palm Beach, Fla.; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one daughter, Paula Lovin; three sisters, Peggy Bonny, Mildred Strickland, and Lucille Morgan; and one brother, Stacey Williamson.
The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at J.M. White Funeral Home. At other times they will be at her home at 750 Tobacco Road.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Gillburg United Methodist Church, 4815 N.C. 39 South, Henderson, NC 27537.
Arrangements are by J.M. White Funeral Home.
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