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A group blog from members of the VB team
After some hard but fruitful work, we've just finished our "milestone quality" (MQ) efforts, the goal of which was to get ourselves ready for developing the next versions of Visual Studio, Team System, and .NET. Although not specific to Visual Basic, I've opted to use this "bully pulpit" to let you know about these efforts, which certainly do impact Visual Basic along with other Visual Studio and .NET products.
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, the MQ work doesn't involve new features or any such thing – what it does is get our tools and processes ready to go for the next cycle. It's important to get this work done before we start coding, because it's very disruptive to change engineering processes mid-stream. This MQ was very challenging for us, given some of the big engineering changes that we made, and I'm pleased to day that it resolved itself very well.
Like I said in that earlier post, we decided to spend a lot of MQ focusing on "dogfooding" – using our own code to get our development work done – and although we did other set-up work in MQ as well, I'm going to focus on our dogfooding efforts in this post. We dogfood our code for three reasons:
1. Improved stability for *you*: we find the bugs in day-to-day usage before the product ships to you
2. Practicing what we preach: If we say it's good enough for you, then we should be using it too
3. It's the right way to do things: We firmly believe that we offer the best foundation for product development, all the way from hobbyist code to enterprise solutions work. The best tool for developing Visual Studio is Visual Studio.
Now, we're no strangers to dogfooding, but we'd never done it so early in the past. Instead, we generally made the switch during the first or second beta, after the coding was mostly done. In earlier versions (such as Visual Studio .NET 2002, where we rewrote everything) that made sense because the code really didn't come together until that time. The downside of that was that late-start dogfooding just doesn't give us the same coverage, because in the betas we're winding down and focusing solely on fixing bugs instead of developing new features, and developing quality features is the whole point of VS, TS, and .NET. However, now that we're building on a platform of stable code, we can leverage that to do early dogfooding, finding the development bugs early (or avoiding them altogether) and making adjustments to features before they become too "set in stone." I'm really excited about being able to do this, as I've always envied the Windows and Office teams their ability to adopt dogfooding early.
Our dogfooding prep work this time was in two areas: Team Foundation Server and Side-by-Side support.
In earlier product cycles, we'd used a proprietary system for tracking bugs, another one for storing code, and some combination of bug reports and spreadsheets to track feature progress. None of these things "talked" to each other at all, and reporting status on any of them was far more complicated than it needed to be. A codebase the size of ours requires careful lifetime management handling, and it therefore has long been our goal to switch to our own product, Team Foundation Server (TFS), which handles all three (and a lot more besides).
Despite being a vocal proponent of this change, I will be very honest and say that I went into this switch to TFS with more than a bit of nervousness. Visual Studio, Team System, and .NET together comprise a really, really big division. If you just took that division (the Developer Division) alone without considering the rest of Microsoft, it would still be one of the biggest enterprise-size software vendors in the world, easily in the top five. We've been doing things a specific way for a long time, and that's hard to abandon, even for more efficiency, given the number of processes that would need to change along with it.
Fortunately, these fears have turned out to be groundless. Certain of our product units (about 25%) already had pioneered TFS usage during the VS2008 timeframe, and they'd used that experience to make improvements to it. Because of their early diligence to dogfooding, the rest of the division switched over very easily a couple of months ago – we had all of our source code moved into the new project (and building!) within a couple of days, literally – and that's a lot of code. While doing so, we identified and implemented several scaling improvements to better enable our hundreds of developers to interact with that code storage – improvements that will be ultimately benefit our customers as well.
Furthermore, we are also now tracking our bugs and features using TFS, leveraging the Team Explorer piece that ships as part of the Visual Studio family of products. This is another area where some pioneer dogfooding occurred in the previous version of VS development, so the ultimate transition for the division was also similarly smooth. The upshot of this is that we now can strong linkage between code, feature planning, and bug tracking, all with reporting services that are just far and away the best that I've ever seen. The savings for us (and to me, personally) in managing the lifetime of the upcoming product cycle is going to be phenomenal – I'm super-excited to be using TFS!
Of course, if we're going to develop the next product using the product itself, we need to be able to install it as our customers do and not have it interfere with any previous versions of the product which may also be on our machines. This goal is known as "side-by-side," or "SxS" for short. It involves a lot of re-versioning, changing registry entries, dealing with the few necessarily hard-coded strong assembly references, and so on, followed by lots and lots of testing. There are literally thousands of components that need changing between product cycles, all coming in from various teams. In the past, it's something we generally didn't complete until we reached a beta milestone, as people were hard at work writing features before beta and all of their time was very focused on that. However, deferring SxS work is not something we ever liked doing – it meant that when our customers installed our betas, there were sometimes problems lingering which required a "repair" to earlier products after the beta was uninstalled. Furthermore, as we added features in the early parts of the product cycle, we'd add that much more "SxS debt," often resetting any SxS work that might already be going on.
So, to avoid those pitfalls, we decided to tackle this issue head-on in MQ. To be frank, it was quite a challenge to do it so quickly – there were definitely some long nights and weekends for all of us, and we ran into a lot of processes that needed retooling to accelerate our work. But by setting aside time to do this SxS work earlier, before we start coding features for the next version, not only will we be able to dogfood our own product without stomping on VS2008 installations we might already have, but your beta installation/uninstallation experience should be of much higher quality, leading to a better beta experience for you and better feedback for us.
That's it for this post; a brief discussion on a lot of hard but good work which should ultimately lead to big wins for all of us. BTW, I'm already working on another blog post focusing on coding (which hopefully will cover something not already in covered a book this time, unlike last time J), and hope to post that up in a few days.
'Til next time…
Matt Gertz, Developer Division's manager responsible for our internal development tactics and process,
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How can I capture mouse click events in webbrowser control, using VB .Net 2005. Please suggest a way for the same. I could not find anything on this on the net, so I approched here on your blog. Thank you in advance !
To see MS focus on total developer productivity is good. It helps greatly that quality bug prevention and code quality tools (i.e, static analysis and code metrics) are in the new VS tool-set. These tools greatly reduce our development time and, more importantly, our support costs given that our systems need to have a lifespan of 5-7 years at low support costs.
These tools have been greatly beneficial based on my previous experience in other environments (C/C++) with embedded systems I've been involved in. They have save me many days of bug finding.
Vinod: I've actually not done much web app development since the old ActiveX days (as can be seen from the examples I typically post); I'll see what I can dig up.
Greg: Thanks for the feedback. I agree with what you say, and am really happy that we're moving in that direction internally. I should also mention that my division is not the only one adopting TFS for life-time management; it's starting to take hold in a number of areas in Microsoft, having been gaining a lot of momentum.
Vinod: Sorry, I didn't read your question carefully enough -- I thought you were asking about web apps (for some reason -- I'm brain-dead today), and I was trying to figure out if this was a trick question! Very silly of me. Anyway, you're right, there is no click event for the WebBrowser Control -- this is because the control has to handle it itself to properly deal with links and such. (It's essentially a full-blown browser, after all.)
So, what do you do if you really need to start tracking clicks and such? Well, you have to leverage the Document() property of the Web browser control. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311284 for a pretty throrough description of this. Note that, for step (3), where it tells you to add a reference to Microsoft.mshtml in the project, the actual reference you'll be adding from the COM tab of the Add Reference dialog will be the Microsoft HTML Object Library.
Hope this helps,
I think I encountered a compiler error situation in both VS 2005 and VS 2008.
How can I report this to you people?
My email address is email@example.com
Hi, Shiguo,
Please post your bug at http://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=210 -- that will allow you to track the VB team's progress on it.
ハードで実り多い仕事の結果、次期バージョンの Visual Studio 、 Team System 、および .NET の開発に備える目標を掲げたマイルストーン品質 (MQ) を達成しました。 Visual
[原文作者]:Matt Gertz [原文链接]: Milestone Quality & Dogfooding 在辛苦又有成果的工作后,我们完成了质量控制的里程碑。这个里程碑的目的是让我们准备好开发下一版本的


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George Square awaits the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Special City Celebration in Glasgow, presented by Coca-Cola at George Square on June 8, 2012 in Glasgow, Scotland.- Martin Grimes/Getty Images
Ronald McDonald at the launch of the new McDonald's restaurant in the casual dining section of the Athlete's Village in Homebush, Sydney, Australia.- Nick Laham/ALLSPORT
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Track and field athlete Chaunte Lowe of the United States performs a high jump demonstration during the Team USA Road to London 100 Days Out Celebration in Times Square on April 18, 2012 in New York City.- Chris Trotman/Getty Images for USOC
A general view of the McDonald's restaurant inside the Olympic Park during the Sainsbury's 2012 U.K. School Games at the Olympic Stadium on May 9, 2012 in London, England.- Julian Finney/Getty Images
IOC head questions McDonald's, Coke sponsorship
Jeff Horwich: International Olympic Committee president Jacque Rogge is in a sticky spot. The Financial Times asked him whether he sees any problem with having McDonald's and Coke sponsor the world's biggest exposition of physical fitness. Rather than finesse a non-answer, the interesting thing is that he said "yes."
Marketplace's Stephen Beard is here live with more on the story. Hello, Stephen.
Stephen Beard: Hello Jeff.
Horwich: So is Rogge saying he regrets allowing McDonald's to sponsor the games?
Beard: No, but he's clearly not 100 percent happy about it. He said it wasn't an easy decision because of the global obesity crisis. But in the end, he said his first priority is the Olympic movement, and he says they need the cash to ensure the survival Olympic sports, and some national Olympic teams.
Horwich: And just how much cash are we talking about here?
Well, we don't have an exact breakdown. The 11 global sponsors have so far stumped up around $1 billion between them. That figure, though, is dwarfed by the broadcasting rights, which have so far raised about $4 billion from these games.
Horwich: McDonald's has sponsored the Olympics for 36 years now. This seems like a pretty essential contradiction between athletics and fatty foods. Why is this coming up now?
Well, I think it's because it's becoming more of an issue now that the obesity crisis worsens. And there are more health groups campaigning now on this issue; they've been critical of the McDonald's sponsorship.
Tam Fry of Britain's National Obesity Forum claims McDonald's mostly sells an unhealthy product and should not be associated with the Games.
Tam Fry: The Olympics is such a jewel that the sponsorship of that jewel should come from companies that have a really very high profile attitude towards health and nutrition. And I would not give McDonald's the credit for that.
In a statement, McDonald's said obesity is a complex issue, and ultimately it's up to individuals to make the right choice.
Horwich: Stephen Beard in London, thanks very much.
Beard: OK Jeff.

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• Manny Ramirez gets suspended for 50 games after failing a drug test.
How will the baseball media "experts" react to his Hall Of Fame status?
• But here's an even bigger story coming straight outta Dodgertown - Kim Kardashian threw out last night's first pitch!
• Is Red Sox Nation trying to fill the NL All-Star ballots full of Washington Nationals so Boston will have World Series home advantage?
• We figured Jelena Dokic's dad was crazy & abusive, but would he really take out an Australian ambassador with a rocket attack?
• Ex-Nebraska & Arizona State QB Sam Keller is taking the NCAA & EA Sports to court over his likeness being used in a video game.


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When big chains stop selling music, where will casual music fans turn to make impulse buys?
Some folks in the DJ community feel that there aren't enough legal protections for their chosen career, and are organizing a march in Washington D.C. this weekend.
Some details are beginning to trickle out about Nokia's Comes With Music initiative.
Speakerheart, a relatively new online service for selling downloads, shows the problem with digital distribution start-ups: lack of critical mass.
New EMI chief Guy Hands sent a memo to all EMI employees giving some assurances about the future of the company, but with surprisingly little emphasis on technology.
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Matador author rubs shoulders with the stars
The author of I AM DEAD and Icon's Request attended Wales Comic Con last weekend, 23rd September, where he not only signed and sold copies of books, but met plenty of famous people.
Gareth Wiles is pictured, below, on the right with John Challis, most famously known as Boycie from Only Fools and Horses. He was sitting opposite Warwick Davies (an actor in the Harry Potter films), seated next to John Chapman from Star Wars and also met Frazer Hines from Dr Who and Emmerdale.
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WordPress "Multisite" & Plugins — OMG
Since almost everything requiring technological gymnastics that happens in a WordPress website is made possible by a plugin, it's safe to say those 18% of all web sites built using WordPress are testaments to the value of "augmentation via plugin."
Nonetheless, web life with plugins is dangerous. Not for the faint of heart. Problems are diverse, but one frequent problem has to do with "versions colliding." For example, version 6 of Plugin-Y might have been crafted when the WordPress platform was in version 2.x. When the site owner updates his WordPress to version 3.0, Plugin-Y might start behaving badly. WordPress veterans know not to hurry into installing WordPress version updates; some go so far as to contact the support forums for their favorite plugins and wait awhile to see what happens (hopefully nothing).
More intractable plugin problems include one plugin conflicting with another. At berea.edu we've run into this a few times over the past year (our first year of deploying berea.edu as a WordPress CMS).
All this can lead to considerable anxiety for small site owners and bloggers, but when versions collide or plugins conflict in a massive WordPress "Multisite" installation like berea.edu it can be downright apocalyptic. And that's why web content managers cannot independently install and activate plugins (or widgets).
Before a plugin makes it into berea.edu it is vetted by a team of people inside and outside the college. (They study the effects of the installed plugins on a test site that is, effectively, "off line.") For their testing to remain useful, all plugins must run through the process and the ones that we decide to keep and activate remain on the server to interact with future plugins and WordPress versions.
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Ground Cover Plants for Sunny Spots
Ground cover plants can be very handy. They are like a living mulch, filling in between the other plants, helping the ground stay cool and making every inch of your flower bed or yard look pretty.
Ground cover can be a great choice for difficult spots like steep hills and shady spots. But even if you don't have one of these trouble spots, a ground cover plant can fill in the blank spots in your existing landscaping with ease.
Ground cover plants aren't necessarily low to the ground; it is their spreading habit that makes them useful. Mint is a great example. Though mint grows tall, it spreads like crazy. Plant a little in a sunny corner and soon it will be everywhere. I have a friend who fondly remembers the mint gone wild in his childhood yard—whenever he would mow the lawn the mint scent would come out.
Ground covers are planted in the spring or early summer so they have a long time to get established before the cold months. They usually don't need a lot of care but should be well watered for the first year or so to help them establish strong roots. Ground cover plants are usually spaced about a foot apart, but you can plant them closer together for an instant transformation, or farther apart if you are on a budget. It will all work out in the end.
There are many great ground cover plants for your sunny garden, in addition to mint. Here are just a few that you can choose from.
Creeping juniper: If you're looking for a evergreen creeping ground cover, creeping juniper is an excellent choice. It has blue or green foliage most of the year, which can turn purple or gray in the winter. Creeping juniper usually grows to a height of one or two feet and spreads two to four feet. This is a great choice for a steep slope that needs erosion control.
Creeping phlox: If you have a sunny dry spot where nothing grows, creeping phlox could be the solution. This dense, moss-like plant has pink, purple or white flowers and it is evergreen in warm climates. Creeping phlox is great for rock gardens, as it will naturally follow the contours of the rocks.
Yucca: If you live in the desert or somewhere that is warm year-round, yucca can be used as an effective ground cover. These plants are usually two or three feet tall, making them a little big for a traditional ground cover, but they look striking in a rock garden or planted with succulents.
Creeping thyme: Like mint, thyme is a creeping herb plant that is a wonderful ground cover. There are even ornamental varieties of thyme that have red flowers and are meant for planting as a ground cover instead of for eating. These plants range from one to four inches tall and can spread 12 to 18 inches, making them an ideal ground cover. Plant creeping thyme in between stepping stones or along a path so that you will smell it when you walk by and rub against it. (You can do this with lavender as well, though it tends to be a little tall for a ground cover.)
Ice plant: With a name like ice plant, you'd guess that this plant would be happy in shade, but this spiky plant that looks sort of like a flowering rosemary is a winner for the sunny garden. The best part is that you can grow it from seed and it will bloom in just four months and stick around as a perennial. Blooms are magenta or other colors and come in the summer. The plant is only about two inches tall and spreads to 12 to 15 inches, and it grows well even in your hottest spots.
There are many other options for ground covers in the sunny garden, including flowers like petunias, lily of the valley and crocuses, herbs like rosemary and chamomile, and small shrubs like sedum and sweet woodruff. Once you get started planting ground covers, you'll be tempted to pull up all your grass and fill your yard with these reliable beauties. You may never have to mow again!
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Defining 'marriage' III
The editorial on same-sex marriage maintains that there is a parallel between the current marriage issue and the issue of slavery. There is no such parallel!
Today there are strong forces that have redefined marriage from the traditional meaning of being a union between a man and a woman. And they want that redefinition to be included in our laws.
When slavery was outlawed in our nation, it was not a matter of redefining it. For both sides on that issue, slavery had the same meaning, namely that some persons were the property of others, who could demand any labor from them without compensation.
Marriage cannot and should not be redefined. Other structures of cohabitations should be defined in other ways.
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Vice-president of the European Commission Neelie Kroes has urged European Union members to agree online privacy standards by June 2012.
In a speech given to the 'Online Tracking Protection & Browsers Workshop' in Brussels this week, she argued for the creation of a tracking standard to uphold privacy on the web.
"The internet is a global achievement and privacy is a global concern. And I challenge [all interested parties] to agree a Do Not Track [DNT] standard by June 2012," she said.
Kroes also identified cookies as an area for concern. "Cookies allow many useful things; for example, personalisation of websites. But they can also be used to track users across different websites." The resulting information can be used to build user profiles which are valuable, for example, for targeting ads.
She added that a user's browsing habits could also be tracked through browser add-ons or browser fingerprinting (where the browser's combination of plug-ins, add-ons and installed fonts is used to identify a user).
This tracking can then occur without the user's knowledge or consent, thus contituting an invasion of privacy.
She praised a solution found by two advertising bodies, the EASA and IAB Europe. "Their approach consists of an icon on each targeted ad, coupled with an information website that allows the user to switch off behaviourally targeted display ads [disabling cookies] from any participating company," she said.
But she also stated that this was not enough, and that a recognised standard was needed to protect consumers.
"We need to standardise the DNT signal. The standard must be rich enough for users to know exactly what compliant companies do with their information and for me to be able to say to the industry: 'if you implement this, then I can assume you comply with your legal obligations under the ePrivacy Directive'."


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Booklist Editors' Choice for 2012
Library Journal Best Book for Teens 2012
"Doig cranks into motion a dense valentine of a novel about a father and a small town at the start of the 1960s… Doig writes the tenderness between Rusty and his father vividly, and his facility with natural, vernacular dialogue is often hypnotizing… The Bartender's Tale is thoroughly engaging, and the book's soft focus of nostalgia is in itself a kind of pleasure." –NPR
"Pick it up, lose yourself in the past and remember what it was like to be 12 years old, when your world and all the people who entered into it felt as fresh as the Montana mountain air." –The Associated Press
"Doig is at his best with coming-of-age stories. And he is masterful at exploring the emotional complexities of family and community through the eyes of a precocious youth… [He] has fashioned a moving tale of tolerance, self-discovery and forgiveness in which a child comes to terms with his own origins and in the process opens a new door to his future." –The Seattle Times
"With this expert novel, [Doig] sets himself a larger canvas and fills it with a diverse cast… Fact and fiction are skillfully fused to document a boy's last days of youth and a history his father can't leave behind… Rusty's youthful adventures are enchanting, but Doig does something more—he punctuates them with the colorful local idiom of his father's grizzled punters." –Newsweek/Daily Beast
"Doig expertly spins out [the] various narrative threads with his usual gift for bringing history alive in the odysseys of marvelously thorny characters… Possibly the best novel yet by one of America's premier storytellers." –Kirkus (starred review)
"Highly textured and evocative… Doig gives us a poignant saga of a boy becoming a man alongside a town and a bygone way of life inching into the modern era. " –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[The] rewards of The Bartender's Tale—a subtle and engaging narrative, characters who behave the way real people behave, the joys of careful and loving observation—remain very great and extremely rare." –The Washington Post
"[An] enjoyable, old-fashioned, warmhearted story about fathers and sons, growing up, and big life changes." –Library Journal
"Essential reading for anyone who cares about western literature." –Booklist (starred review)
"Ivan Doig's new novel reveals why he's considered one of fiction's premiere storytellers." –Barnes & Noble Review
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by Bob Doherty
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Looking out for internists . . . and their patients
A defining characteristic of the American College of Physicians is that it has a very broad public policy/advocacy agenda that emphasizes what it believes to be best for the public. In the past 15 months alone, ACP has published position papers on such topics as health care transparency, racial and ethnic disparities, EHR quality based measurement and reporting, tobacco control and prevention, accountable care organizations, FDA regulation of prescription drugs, and controlling the costs of health care.
The downside of having such a broad agenda is that some ACP members question if the organization also is looking out for their interests. They want to know if the ACP understands the daily frustrations faced by practicing internists – the drip, drip, drip of dissatisfaction created by unrelenting paperwork and unfair and inadequate pay.
The answer is yes. While ACP prides itself on addressing broad societal issues that affect access to care, much of ACP's advocacy is directed at reversing, preventing, or altering policies that threaten to make members lives miserable, and getting policies adopted to make things better.
Yesterday, Congress cleared legislation for President Obama's signature to exempt physicians from the FTC's "red flags" rule. The FTC rule would have defined physicians as "creditors" and as creditors, physicians would have been required to implement burdensome procedures to prevent and detect identity theft. ACP joined in a lawsuit to challenge the rule and was part of a coalition of professional organizations to persuade Congress to get involved. Now that Congress has expressly exempted physicians from the Red Flags rule, judicial intervention should no longer be necessary to prevent the FTC from imposing more hassles on doctors.
Also, today the House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing bipartisan legislation to prevent a 23% Medicare pay cut that would have gone into effect on January 1 and extend current rates through 2011. President Obama has promised to sign it into law. For many years now, putting an end to the cuts caused by the Medicare SGR formula has been a top ACP priority. Most recently, ACP distributed to Capitol Hill a video of internists making a heartfelt plea for Congress to "just fix" the SGR. Although the bill passed by Congress doesn't provide the permanent solution to the SGR sought by ACP, physicians can at least be ensured of stable updates through the end of next year. For most physicians, this means a continuation of their current Medicare rates for another year, but as a result of ACP advocacy, primary care internists stand to get a big Medicare raise on January 1.
The Affordable Care Act directs Medicare to provide a 10% bonus payment to primary care physicians for designated "primary care services" – office, nursing home, home and custodial care visits. To qualify, the ACA requires that a physician be in a recognized primary care specialty (internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and geriatrics) and that 60% of their total Medicare billings must come from the designated primary care visits.
Originally, CMS interpreted the ACA as requiring that Medicare count hospital visits and ancillary procedures against the 60% billing requirement. ACP pointed out to CMS that this would exclude many office-based internists who see patients in the hospital or operate an in-office lab from the bonus. Now, in response to ACP's comments, CMS has decided that hospital visits and ancillary procedures no longer will count against a primary care physician in determining eligibility for the bonus. With this change, the vast majority of general office-based internists will get the 10% increase in pay for their primary care services. For an office-based general internist with a typical number of Medicare patients and primary care services, the result will be a $12,000 increase in total Medicare payments, starting on January 1 and continuing each year through 2015, or an average total gain of $60,000 over next five years for each eligible internist. (Internists with an above average mix of Medicare patients and primary care visits will do even better.)
ACP is unapologetic about caring deeply about broad societal issues that affect the public, including ensuring that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance coverage, but advocacy on such issues does not come at the expense of looking out for the interests of members. The fact is that in recent weeks ACP has achieved several substantial victories for its members: preventing a federal agency from imposing another unnecessary administrative burden, ensuring stable Medicare payments for 12 more months, and ensuring that most primary care internists get a raise. More needs to be done to slow the drip, drip, drip of dissatisfaction created by unrelenting paperwork and unfair and inadequate pay, but these wins will certainly make things better for most ACP members.
Today's question: What is your reaction to ACP's successful advocacy on exempting doctors from the FTC's red flags rule, stopping the SGR cuts, and ensuring that most general internists will qualify for increased Medicare payments?
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- ryanjo said...
Thank you ACP. Of course, many of us privately contacted our legislators as well, but the organized approach and video made an impact, I'm sure.
I hope that the ACP realizes that focusing on a target and enlisting broad member support made a difference.
A lesson for the future.
- PCP said...
Out of the three "victories" you point out Bob. I would consider only one a "victory" that being the 10% bonus payment. That is the only one that gives any respite to the beleagured general internist.
I consider the other two defensive plays. Trying to stave off yet more burden.
That difference between defence and offence is vital to point out.
The reason is simple. The status quo is sufficient to ensure the demise of General IM. Further angst is bad to be sure but will not change the downward trajectory. True "victories" are to be measured as factors that will lead to more young doctors deciding to open up private practices. On that we have some far way to go.
- Jay Larson MD said...
Not having the SGR ultra-short time fixes, not having increased governmental red tape and a 10% bonus is welcomed for 2011. Will this stop war weary general internists from leaving practice or infuse internal medicine training programs with residents planning to become outpatient internists, hardly.
One of the biggest strengths of the ACP has been its educational wares. Brain food to nourish intelligence that later is used to improve people's lives and health. Over the years the financial allure of endoscopies, angiograms, and other procedures have drawn many medicine sub-specialists away from the exam room to the procedure room.
The ACP should focus on its strength and fight for the value of Knowledge. The value of Evaluation and Management codes have to increase compared to procedure codes or the thinking internist is doomed to extinction. Personally, I rather have the RBRVU become extinct rather than the general internist. Many people with complex chronic disease would also agree.
- Arvind said...
Very interesting analysis, and celebrating, Bob. Just want to point out - not loosing is not the same as winning.
Also, you have very succinctly avoided mentioning the very cold calculation that the ACP did in hanging out all dues-paying sub-specialist members and Fellows of the ACP out to dry.
Its time to admit the disastrous decisions taken by the ACP.
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Okay I was goofing around on the internet and I read that in 2009 or 2010 that they will be making Brian Keene's book The Rising into a movie? I'm excited. I love that book and City Of The Dead. I love all his books. Can't wait.
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Yeah, I think "The Rising" is already in the works. It's also a possibility that "City of the Dead" will get the adaptation treatment as well. Gonna need a hell of a budget, but I think it can be done. I'm excited.
oh yeah!!!:P Keene rules!!
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I so want to see these books made into movies
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I know I love those books and the movies will be freaking awesome!
I accidently read City Of The Dead before The Rising so the story was a bit wierd, but I couldn't put it down. I heard The Rising is very good! I'm going to try and get my hands on it - I'm sure t will connect the dots!
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The Rising is a must read, if you loved CoTD, you really need to check that one out.
His other book "Dead Sea", was great too.
I'm just finishing up TERMINAL. The guy has a great ear for dialogue.
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I read that book a couple of months ago. It was kinda like the The Green Mile with a twist and a better ending. Really good book.
Yeah I just finished it last night... too bad Sam Peckinpah's dead. HE mighta been a good director for the film version, though I doubt he'd have any patience for teh chav leads.
It kinda played out like a twisted postmodern Dog Day Afternoon... and you're right... TERRIFIC ending!
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Yeah I just finished it last night... too bad Sam Peckinpah's dead. HE mighta been a good director for the film version, though I doubt he'd have any patience for teh chav leads.!
What's not to like about a character with a nickname like Carpet Dick?:lol:
Yeah, but Peckinpaugh'd have no patience for Tommy or Sherm and plug them himself.
I can hear him reading the script... "'What up Holmes?' There's no f*ckin' 'Holmes' in this story! 'How's it hangin...Dawg?!' What teh F*ck is this cockamamie horseshit?! What's he supposed to F*ckin' be, Deputy f*ckin' Dawg? Here, boy, Here's a gun, go shoot something before I shoot you. (muttering) F*ckin' Hollywood Horseshit..."
I need to read more Brian Keen books. I was going to buy Dead Sea and Dark Hallow or Hollow. I know it's one of those. I need to get on Amazon.
The Rising is a must read, if you loved CoTD, you really need to check that one out. His other book "Dead Sea", was great too.
I definitely will
I read Dead Sea straight after and you're right, it was a great read! Loved it!
I think I'm going to buy Dead Sea next week when I get my money. YEAH!
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Those curious about the whole Live P.A. experience are encouraged to check out this thoughtful article at the Remix Magazine website. A full listing of STS9 Live P.A. dates can be found here.
Sound Tribe Sector 9 has also recently made available Here, Catch…, an album released exclusively in Japan in 2007. It includes re-mastered, matrix recordings of highlights from STS9's 2007 shows. Packaged for Japanese retail, the band has a limited number of copies available through their website while supplies last.
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man PA sets r lame, just a bunch of button pushing... the import cd looks pretty hot tho
PA sets are no substitute for a real show, but the tribe at the fox on my 21st? i'm not complaining
Been announced for weeks...Jambase can I work for you? I don't think the people who you employ are really "in the loop" and it makes your news coverage look like dial up in an high-speed era
Will somebody please help an electronica-illiterate fella out? What is a P.A. set?
3 guys on laptops
^ not necessarily, i saw their PA set after their Fillmore run last January and their were keys guitar and bass, and zach had a smaller kit
mmmh maybe not
these PA sets are probably going to be a bit more than normal. all members except maybe not jeffrey will be there. zach will have a small kit, phipps will probably have some keyboards, and hunter will have his guitar. should be interesting for sure
thanks for the badass link michael jackson!
Not necessarily true... I have seen STS9 PA where there are only laptops, so don't assume there will be live drums and unlikely that guitar will be live, too. The PA sets I have seen by them have been really enjoyable.
how lame, a bunch of overrated musicians "playing" a laptop??? come on, thats some incredibly weak sauce
I've spoken to crew members that will be on for these shows and they are bringing a near full rig of gear. i was told it would be alot like the first live PA shows in may of 06 i believe in colorado. jeffrey is staying home with new baby, but i've been told they'll have live drums, live keys and guitars for these shows. i'm a fan of their electronic music. to talk negative about "playing on laptops" is like saying kraftwerk sucks. just assuming that laptops mean no talent. or countless other electronic acts these days. anywho, i'm pumped to hear sts9 music in a 300 cap venue like the note.
Bunch of rich kids spendin their parents dough on X and Sts9- I would b pissed if I paid for that/or pretend like it was a deece show like everybody else. That PA shit is F%$#n lame unless your a raver, STSuck9 big ones! Sorry for all you teens who I may have offended
"the boys"?
Hey guys I like clicking on stories on jambase that don't interest me just so I can be in a position to tell you that what you like sucks. No seriously I don't get it, why does everyone use these boards to talk shit about bands they don't like? If you don't like STS9 how about you don't click on the article about them. Sheesh all this negativity all the time on jb. Where's the love?
What's wrong with spending a bunch of money to roll my balls off and dance the night away to fucking incredible music no matter how it's made? Oh yeah, I forgot absolutely nothing. I hope more east coast dates are added for my post new years sts9 withdrawals.
im pumped for this, the last PA set I saw at gramercy was fire thru and thru I can't wait for Bowery
Kiddisaster: You couldn't be more right on! Its music...its opinion...the negativity is ruff...music brings happiness and other great feelings...why so much negativity...
Smoke some grass and F'ing relax...stop bitching about the music and be happy...
sick! its about time STS9 returned to The Fox!
Wheres the VT love at? I need to see this....
What is a PA set?
if you are really into PA sets, go see some real djs who just rip the house, techno or minimal. that is the stuff to go to if you are into electronic dance music, but too bad miami and detroit really only have a good scene for it. although deadmau5 at redrocks would have been inexplicably amazing.
^^ Ever heard of a little city called Chicago?
i hope they don't make a habit of PA sets. i like sound tibe as much as the next guy but PA sets... come on
helll yea
i cant wait!
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Just got Here, Catch in the mail today. It's pretty tight, but it cost $30 w/ shipping. Replay value makes it worthwhile. They did a good job of selecting excellent live performances. Plus it's fun to toss the CD case at friends who haven't heard about it and say "Here, Catch." By the way, has anyone else noticed that jambase is way behind on sts9 news? I bought this cd last wednesday off soundtribe's website.
damn, colorado gets a lotta love, you kids out there better stock up on your fix if these are the last sts9 shows in the northwest for a while =P i'm just hoping they come back to chicago soon. i hear so many good things about sts9's new years jams, but i'm prolly gonna miss out. looks like milwaukee's gonna be my last sts9 show this year unless i can get a ride up to minnesota to finish the tour...
I ws kind of under the impression that they always played "Live PA" sets...
I mean, they've used computers every time i've seen them...
LOL @ miami and detroit being the only good place for electronic music ever heard of LA, chicago, NYC, london, tokyo?, and what does techno or minimal have to do with sts9?
oh and berlin
Oh Ya, STS9 in the Fort. Can't wait to see them in a smaller venue setting. Should be a good time and who cares if it's a PA set, still gonna be awesome. But ya would be nice if they did show up with the kit and the guitars
can't wait for this!! and hope to see you all for 4 nights in december!
i'll keep you informed jambase sts9 is gonna play 2 nights at the wiltern in january so please inform the readers in 4 months. by the way this is bull shit give me a live band not a pa in colorado, we love sts9 in CO give us the proper love
artifact perspectives. a REMIX, with lots of lap top action.
I could not stand it. however, thats really my only bitch.
I want to see A REAL BAND< play REAL INSTRUMENTS. as far as the last tribe show I saw in ATL this past summer. it was kick ass. I prefer not to hear PA sets, based on what I read here.. thanks!! and motribenow :)
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A psychopath has killed all the men Holly Frasier has ever loved and now she is being stalked by him. Gorgeous special agent Jack "Ice Man" O'Hara goes undercover as her husband, and the killer steps up his threats. Holly has more at stake as she begins to fall for Jack while he tries to maintain a cool distance. BODYGUARD/HUSBAND (4) by Mallory Kane keeps readers on the edge of their seats with a spicy romance, plenty of suspects and deftly handled psychological suspense.
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Ronda Dendinger, left, picks up her daughter from school Monday. Benjamin Harrison Elementary School teachers make sure children get to their bus or to their parents' cars, while some parents greet their children at the school doors and walk them to their car or home. Safety has been of utmost concern for schools since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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The Friday shooting in Connecticut has local school administrators reviewing their safety plans and keeping a more visible presence in buildings.
School officials throughout the county said, while they may not necessarily change anything, they are spending time to look over their plans with their staff. They also made an effort to have guidance counselors and teachers ready in case if students needed to talk.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities say three suspects have been arrested in the deaths of an elderly married couple in Tucson.
Tucson police say the bodies of 87-year-old Erskin Fulgham and 84-year-old Mary Fulgham were discovered Tuesday in their midtown Tucson home and had obvious signs of trauma.
The couple's stolen vehicle was found Wednesday night in Nevada and three occupants were detained and interviewed.
The two men and one woman were booked Thursday into Nevada's Nye County Jail. Pima County authorities are working to extradite the three suspects to Tucson.
Police say 20-year-old Kyle A. Drattlo, 20-year-old Christopher E. Terry and 21-year-old Brianna Harding each are being held on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder.
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Pasadena's finest museums7 Aug 2014 9:30 AM
Pasadena is a place of great culture. If you live in some of the luxury real estate lining the location, you're surely already well aware of that fact. There are great places to eat on every corner, fantastic attractions you can visit every day, and informed people ready to have lively discussions on any street.
Yet - perhaps due to the proliferation of such places in nearby Los Angeles and Long Beach - many of Pasadena's museums and other cultural attractions are often given the short shrift. You probably even hear of many locals traveling to those two aforementioned places to visit museums - before they even visit any of the places residing in their own backyard! To prove that Pasadena is a formidable cultural hub, we've written about a few of its finest museums. If you live nearby and haven't visited any of these yet, then you're doing yourself, and your town, a major disservice.
The Norton Simon Museum
The Norton Simon is undoubtedly the most comprehensive museum that Pasadena has to offer. The sheer breadth of the exhibits on display here are breathtaking: at this very moment, you could see an exhibit detailing photographic portraits, or one that investigates the Buddhist art of the Himalayas, among many others. And we'd be remiss not to mention the many great works that reside here permanently, including some by masters like Picasso, Warhol and Degas.
Then there are the public services that the museum provides: there are drawing classes, family art nights, attractions aimed specifically at educating teenagers about history, and much more. You don't need to go to LA for a big-time museum - the Norton Simon provides Pasadena residents with much more than anyone can take in during a single visit.
The Gamble House
Do you maintain some architectural interests? Then you can't afford to skip the Gamble House, often cited as "an outstanding example of American Arts and Crafts style architecture." The House - which is now maintained by the city as a historic landmark - reveals exquisite craftsmanship rarely seen in modern works. And if you can, be sure to take the "Behind the Velvet Ropes" tour, which reveals parts of the home not usually accessible to visitors. This may not be a museum by-definition, but it serves the same purpose: it reveals beautiful works of art sure to enrich the minds of all who are lucky enough to visit.
The Pasadena Museum of History
Maybe you want to learn about Pasadena while you're living there - and if so, the Pasadena Museum of History should be your first stop. This museum plays host to numerous revolving exhibits sure to educate you about your surroundings. For example, the building is currently playing host to the "Crown City Jubilee" exhibit, which reveals and studies many of the Pasadena organizations and institutions celebrating significant landmarks this year.
Pasadena's Historic District
This one's not exactly a museum - but it's still a must-see cultural attraction. The Old Pasadena Historic District is made up of roughly 22 blocks of land, which serve as the home to numerous restored buildings - some of which are well more than a century old. There are many walking tours that you can take throughout the district, but even a quick stroll by yourself is sure to serve you well. There are few sights - in museums or elsewhere - that can measure up to the beauty on display in this district.
As you can see, culturally speaking, Pasadena is much more than just "a short drive from Los Angeles" - it's a hub in its own right, filled with exciting landmarks all locals should visit.


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who needs a warm embrace
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Rajon Rondo, who tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee on Jan. 25, underwent surgery to repair the damage on Tuesday.
The operation was performed by Dr. James Andrews in Florida.
According to the Celtics, Rondo is expected to be ready for the start of training camp next fall.
Rondo was injured during a game against the Atlanta Hawks. He opted to have Dr. Andrews perform the surgery after getting various opinions following the diagnosis from the Celtics' medical staff last month.


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Gordon Blackcloud is a mechanic with Beltem Heating and Air Conditioning.
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Gordon Blackcloud couldn't find a job in the communications' industry after earning a bachelor's from the State University College at Fredonia, so he went to work for a friend of his cousin's, installing residential and commercial heaters and air conditioners.
"I was nervous, not being too handy with tools and not knowing anything about the trade," he said. "But after a while I got used to it, pushed my degree away, and decided to keep going on in the field."
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LaVell Edwards misses BYU's league ties
The schedule suddenly is much more intriguing, the kickoff times are becoming more tolerable and the BYU Cougars have shown that they'll keep competing in November, even with no conference championship available to them.
My stance was to give BYU's football independence a chance, and even so, I'm surprised how well it's working logistically. Yet one major issue remains: Judging the Cougars' success is very difficult.
Living outside of the framework of a conference, BYU lacks any defined, built-in measurement of performance. Basically, there's bowl eligibility and there's a national championship and a lot of subjectivity in the middle. While coach Bronco Mendenhall likes to cite Top 25 finishes and bowl victories, those benchmarks are hollow when the postseason opponents are Tulsa and San Diego State.
And that's the problem the Cougars will always have. Unless they beat Utah and they won't have that opportunity in 2014 or '15 or stage a signature road victory over the likes of Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Nebraska or Michigan in the coming years, they can win eight or nine games in a season and nobody beyond their own fan base will care.
Notre Dame has multiple rivalries and much greater access to elite-level bowls. Army and Navy have the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy series to define their seasons.
BYU's 2013 schedule is attractive, giving the Cougars "an opportunity to be relevant nationally," according to Trevor Matich, the ESPN analyst and former BYU offensive linemen. Yet that will happen only if the Cougars win a bunch of games against the right opponents. Otherwise, all they're doing is filling ESPN programming slots and staging road shows for the benefit of their church members around the country.
That's why former coach LaVell Edwards, while not wanting to come across as a contrarian, just can't quite get behind independence. "Personally, I always liked playing for a conference championship," he said during the recent BYU Football Media Day. "I'm a traditionalist, I guess."
He's also a realist, which is why he never talked about trying to win a national championship even if he once succeeded in doing so. The conference title always was his priority, and that's how he judged the program.
Again, I like BYU's 2013 schedule much better than anything the Cougars would have faced as Mountain West members. Going against Wisconsin and Notre Dame will make November "more fun for everybody," as Mendenhall said, and booking USC in future late-season games is another breakthrough.
BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe, Mendenhall and ESPN executives deserve credit for scheduling advancements, only three years after launching this scheme with a desperate initial strategy. There's now sufficient motivation for fans to follow BYU for an entire season.
But ultimately, what's the difference if the Cougars win six or eight or even 10 games in the regular season? They're playing in a lower-tier bowl game, regardless, and not necessarily against a power-conference member (after meeting a Pac-12 opponent in this year's Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl).
By belonging to a conference, they would have avenues to bigger and better bowls. Just as important, they would be able to test themselves year after year against the same schools. Pac-12 competition may be sobering to the University of Utah's football program after two seasons, but at least the other five schools in the South give the Utes a comparative baseline.
In contrast, BYU's criteria will keep changing. The Cougars are determined to make independence work for them, and they say they're succeeding. That's fine. I'm saying the rest of us are entitled to judge them by whatever standards we choose, in the absence of any traditional guidelines.


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Pre-Diagnosis Coffee Intake Tied to Prostate CA Outcomes
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TUESDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Higher coffee consumption before prostate cancer diagnosis is associated with a lower risk of recurrence/progression, according to a study published in the August issue of Cancer Causes & Control.
To examine the correlation between pre-diagnostic coffee and tea consumption and the risk of prostate cancer recurrence/progression, Milan S. Geybels, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and colleagues assessed the usual pattern of coffee and tea consumption in men diagnosed with prostate cancer (2002 to 2005) for two years before the date of diagnosis.
The researchers included 630 patients with a median follow-up of 6.4 years, during which time there were 140 recorded prostate cancer recurrence/progression events. About 61 percent of patients reported intake of one or more cups of coffee per day. The risk of prostate cancer recurrence/progression was significantly lower with coffee consumption (adjusted hazard ratio for at least four cups/day versus no more than one cup/week, 0.41). About 14 percent of patients consumed at least one cup of tea per day, but there was no correlation seen between tea consumption and prostate cancer recurrence/progression.
"Results indicate that higher pre-diagnostic coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer recurrence/progression," the authors write. "This finding will require replication in larger studies."
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"One day my son, all of the kingdom will be yours! Including this regal mustache!"
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How to Become a State Police Officer
Making the career decision to become an officer of the law can give you a highly rewarding job. If you meet the physical, psychological and personal qualifications of the work, the overall opportunities of the field are excellent. Many openings are available in the field from workers who retire, those who leave police work to go back to working in the private sector, or from those who go on to work for other law enforcement agencies. Median annual earnings vary by area and responsibilities, but continuing training allows for faster advancement. The benefits packages offered by police departments are generally also high quality as well!
1Decide if you fit the bill. Because police officers are held to a higher standard, to become a police officer you have to have a certain set of personal characteristics. Officers have to be honest, exercise sound judgment, be responsible and hold themselves to a high level of integrity. They must put the lives of those they protect first, and they must be capable of making fast life-or-death judgment calls to ensure the safety of as many people as possible.Ad
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- An Associate's or Bachelor's degree is preferred, though, and/or prior military experience is another route to joining the force.
- Colleges offer programs for criminal justice, and other educational training can include the study of human behavior, computer systems and legal issues.
- Knowledge of foreign languages will also put you at an advantage.
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The Chicago Park District could clear the way today for the cleanup of a Superfund site in Little Village that the city intends to turn into a park.
The district board will consider an agreement would prevent the federal Environmental Protection Agency from suing the city if the EPA were to decide the land required further cleanup.
The agreement is a part of the city's preparations to purchase the 24 acres of land located at 28th street and South Sacramento in Little Village.
Lorena Lopez is the community organizer for the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, a community group that's trying to ensure the future park will be safe for residents.
"We support the park," Lopez says. "There's a need for positive redevelopment like open space in the community. But when we have a park, we want our children to be able to play there and be healthy."
The area became a Superfund site in 1996, when the EPA declared the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs. PAHs are listed as a likely, but not proven, carcinogen by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The chemicals came from an asphalt company, Celotex, which operated at the site for 71 years. The land is currently owned by Sacramento Corp, a trucking company.
Cleanup efforts began last week to cover the contaminated soil with a gravel cap, which the EPA says will make the site safe for residential and recreational use.
The efforts also include filling in the sides of the park with soil and gravel to cut down on the steep grade from the gravel cap.
Jena Slodoba is the remedial project manager with the EPA for the Celotex site. She says the cleanup efforts will make the land safe for park use.
"We do a risk assessment and that's how we determine how the land can be used," Slodoba says. "PAH's prefer to stick to the soil and don't tend to evaporate. The chemicals are safer where they are right now, six to eight feet under the soil. There are greater risks posed with digging the soil up and transporting it."
However, Little Village residents still doubt the cleanup efforts, saying that even after it's finished, the site will not be safe enough for a park. Lopez says the legal agreement is just an effort by the city to restrict its liability if the site does turn out to be dangerous to residents.
Slodoba says the agreement is routine, but also added that the EPA does not usually enter into specific legal agreements with municipalities and it generally relies on current brownfield laws to restrict liability surrounding Superfund sites.
Marta Castillion, 65, who's lived across the street from the Celotex site for 10 years, worries about the health of her two grandchildren who often visit her. She feels the site may be responsible for her grandson getting sick earlier this year.
"His mother took him to the doctor and the doctor found chemicals in his bloodstream," she says. "She came to me and said, 'Mama, this must be from visiting you, from this pollution here.'"
Lopez and Castillion want the soil to be dug up and a clay and film layer laid down to prevent the chemicals from continuing to drain into the surrounding soil. The two also agree that if the proposed park were in a wealthier neighborhood, the cleanup efforts would be decidedly different.
"It's environmental racism," Lopez says, "It wouldn't happen in Lincoln Park, but because this is a primarily immigrant neighborhood, they can get away with this."
Slodoba says the EPA has one standard for determining clean up level - the risk that people who live or work around a site could develop cancer - and that standard does not vary by who lives in the neighborhood or how much the cleanup would cost.
Alderman George Cardenas is confident the project will be safe.
"I think we have to refer to the experts on this." Cardenas says, "Other brownfields have been remediated successfully, and this will be one of them."
For now, Lopez says her group is concentrating on getting community input on what the park should be like.
The Park District's Committee on Administration will meet at 10:30 a.m. today on the eighth floor of 541 N. Fairbanks Court to review the motion. The full Board of Commissioners will take up the matter at 4 p.m. today at the same place.


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This is a discussion on Just picked up my 09 STI within the New Member Hangout forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; Just picked it up yesterday. 31 miles on the odometer...
Nice wheels, I am north of the border from ya. I wish I would have waited and got the STI, but heck my 09 WRX is still really nice. Took it out to Colorado last week (with snow tires naturally) and it was a blast to drive. Subie love... oh yeah... NOW I want to live out there... many more subies out there.
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$ 33000. I love this car. When i was driving home i took a side road with lots of turns and hills. Love that feeling of awd. It felt so mutch different then a fwd ora rwd car, i have a nissan 240sx that i'm selling loved that car but this is over the top.
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LG intros two ultra-thin, 600Hz plasma HDTVs
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LG Skinny Frame HDTVs are under 1-inch thick
LG on Wednesday introduced two new ultra-thin plasma HDTVs that are just under one inch (25mm) thick. Appropriately nicknamed Skinny Frame, they include the 60-inch XCanvas 60PK550 and the 50-inch 50PK550. The sets are about half the thickness of LG's current plasmas. Both still have 600MHz refresh rates, common to modern plasma HDTVs and key to preserving detail in fast-moving scenes.
Other features of the Skinny Frame HDTVs include a USB port that allows users to play back photos, videos and music, three HDMI ports and LG's adaptive backlighting that lowers power consumption.
The 50-inch plasma will cost the equivalent of nearly $1,500, while the 60-inch set will be priced at about $3,325. LG has not revealed plans to bring the sets to markets other than its native Korea but usually exports them within a few months. [via Akihabara]


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PARACHINAR: A complete shutdown was observed as Mehdi Al-Hussaini, the grandson of Arif Hussain Al-Hussaini, who was killed in a bomb explosion in Peshawar, was laid to rest here Saturday.
Mehdi Al-Hussaini and 14 other persons were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside Madrassa Al-Hussainia in Peshawar on Friday.A large number of people attended his funeral in Parachinar where three-day mourning had been announced to condemn the terrorist act. All the shops and markets remained shut in Parachinar, headquarters of Kurram Agency.
Talking to reporters, father of Mehdi Al-Hussaini, Allama Syed Ali Hussaini said that his son had embraced martyrdom and he was proud of him. However, he lamented that innocent people were being killed, which was against the teachings of Islam.


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Scrub Club
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