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In 1797 Finchcocks was bought by Robert Springett (1753-1826), from Hawkhurst.The Springetts however were only destined to remain at Finchcocks for two generations.The Reverend Richard Springett, eldest son of Robert, was forced to sell in 1860 torecoup the financial losses of his younger brother William, described by a descendantas a "well conducted bachelor, but not a business man".
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The history of this magnificent property dates back to 1138. Various prestigious families are mentioned in the history of the Manor including Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury, Queen Elizabeth 1, Sir William Springett and William Penn. The estate is half-moated with acres of lawns and surrounded by farmland. Ringmer Church
William Penn (who founded Pennsylvania) married Miss Gulielma Springett in 1672
The Manor of Great Dixter
The Gott family, sold Dixter in 1797 to George Springett (died 1819) for £2,550. He was a bachelor, as was his nephew and heir, another George Springett (died 1864), so in due course the house was inherited by the latter's niece Sarah Elizabeth Springett (1839–1928), who married a Dr Pout, but understandably perhaps, she retained her maiden name. She never lived at Dixter, using it only for the shooting but let the house until she sold it to Nathaniel Lloyd in 1910.
Bury Farm
Dating from the 1660's Bury Farm was the Quaker home of Isaac and Mary Pennington and it was here William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, came courting his future wife, Gulielma Springett, Mary's daughter.
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There's more than a bit of irony in the fact that New Jerseyans head to the polls today at a time when so many are experiencing first-hand - and in very personal ways - just what our federal government can do for us.
The proper role of Washington in nourishing the nation's economic health is at the heart of the choice between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Do we want an active government leading the way, or a more passive government getting out of the way in favor of the private sector?
The contrasts are stark, and many voters will cast their lots based primarily on how they feel about that one particular question. But even the staunchest of the free-enterprise folks could at least agree that when disaster strikes, as it did last week when Hurricane Sandy devastated the region, federal help can be a life-saver. So government can be good.
All of this just underscores the strange and unique nature of this election for New Jersey. With much of the Jersey Shore in ruins and hundreds of thousands of residents still without power, we venture out today not knowing in some cases if our usual polling place even still exists, or is in any way ready to accommodate voters.
The state was considering parking military trucks near polling places without power and collecting old-school paper ballots, but as of Monday it appeared that sufficient alternate arrangements had been made to avoid that scenario. Gov. Chris Christie is allowing electronic voting for displaced residents and emergency workers, much like the option already provided to troops and voters overseas.
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures, and this year's chaos happens to coincide with what will presumably still be a big presidential-year turnout. Most New Jersey communities for the first time also have school board candidates to consider on the November ballot. Plus, new voter ID rules are certain to add confusion to the mix.
For too many New Jerseyans, the election is far from their thoughts as they try to pick up the pieces of their lives and their homes. The importance of the political choice at hand doesn't seem to matter much when your possessions have been scattered to the winds and the sea and you have no place to live.
The practical impact of all these disruptions on the election figures to be minimal, at least at the top. Obama has always figured to win New Jersey easily, and that's not likely to change. While turnout and vote totals may be down, that won't matter as long as the state remains in Obama's column. But there may be some interesting post-election tales to be told in other races, especially in hard-hit communities where turnout may be slim, and some victors decided by odd voting patterns created by the storm aftermath.
Many have characterized this presidential election as the most significant in at least a generation - back to the days Ronald Reagan-Jimmy Carter in 1980, or back even farther to Franklin Delano Roosevelt - because of what it will say about the direction of the nation. Maybe they're right, maybe it's hyperbole. But in New Jersey we know this much: This election will coincide with some of the strangest and saddest circumstances that we've ever seen here. We just hope nothing ever tops it.

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Silverstein's 9-11 Partner Owns Olympics "Gateway"
July 19, 2012
The new Westfield Stratford City Mall, bordered on its north side by the new Stratford International Station, dominates the Olympics site, dwarfing the Aquatics Centre and Olympics Stadium to the south
Westfield Stratford City Mall, Europe's largest urban shopping mall, opened Sept. 2011 in the heart of East London.
The mega-mall will also double as the London Subway gateway to the Olympics.
By Salman An-Noor Hossain
Former Israeli commando Frank Lowy, 81, recently opened the Mega Mall adjacent to Olympic Stadium and Stratford subway station.
Frank Lowy was Larry Silverstein's partner in the World Trade Center on Sept 11. 2001.
Over two-thirds of all those attending the Olympics stadium are expected to transit through Westfield's new "Stratford City Center."
Lowy, a dual Australian and Israeli citizen, is co-founder of the Westfield Group, operator of over 100 shopping centers in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and UK. They also own Marriott Hotels.
Both these companies have suffered a long list of "terrorist attacks" for which large insurance claims were made.
A commercial promoting the London Underground as the main mode of transportation between different game sites in the Olympic village has marked the Stratford stadium with a red line connecting to it.
The Stratford station is also a part of both the Jubilee Line and Jubilee Extension Line. Insider "Red Ox" said on this site (Comments) that either the Jubilee and/or Jubilee Extension had been targeted for terrorist bombing since 1989 (23 years ago)! This information was given to him by Stella Rimington, ex-head of the Mi-5.
More ominous facts:
1) Insurance Companies To Pay Out At Least $7 Billion In Vested Interests in Case of Terrorism
This also happened prior to the 9-11 and 7-7 terrorist attacks. Certain companies and individuals are going to capitalize from the death and misery. Misery sure does love Insurance company!
The state-backed British Insurance company Pool Re is covering up to $7 Billion on the Olympic terror threat. Pool Re Chief Executive Steve Atkins said his team had closely scrutinized its customers' exposure to the Olympic Games. to prepare itself for a potential attack during the event.
Pool Re's biggest loss to date is the 260 million pounds it paid out after the Bishopsgate bomb in the City of London in 1993, and another 240 million pound plunge from the 1996 Manchester bombing. It is also expected to lose tens of millions from the July 7th 2005 terrorist attacks. It seems like Lowy is going to be just like his friend Lucky Larry (Silverstein) in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks!!!
2) Mossad and Shin Beit Running "Anti-Terror" Security Drills
According to a May 2011 news article from Ynet News, the Mossad is involved in Olympics security. A source at the British Olympic Association said that "certain Israeli elements are advising us on securing the Olympic games."
In addition, the Sayeret Yahalom (Hebrew language: יהל"ם - יחידה הנדסית למשימות מיוחדות) is a special elite combat engineering unit of the Israeli Engineering Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. The name "Yahalom" (Diamond in Hebrew) is an abbreviation of "Special Operations Engineering Unit". They specialize in covert engineering missions that include everything from Commando and "Counter-Terrorism" missions, planting and defusing explosives (Explosive Ordinance Disposal), landmines, and unexploded ordinance both on land and at sea.
3) "Spooks: Code 9" Series Pre-programming?
The BBC-3 serial drama "Spooks: Code 9", leaked classified information about a terrorist atrocity on August 10th 2008.
One of the MI-5 agents in the series explained the term "Code 9" - "A nuclear attack on London. In bomb terms, the blast was relatively small - but the death toll wasn't. Over one hundred thousand (100,000) incinerated and many more given a death sentence by radiation".
Why did they call the series Spooks: Code 9? The original Spooks series was just called "Spooks".
The word "Code" indicates that a coded message is being conveyed. Are the events the series fictionalizes being planned to happen in the real world?
In episode one of the series, one of the characters strangely asks to have five and a half hours (or 330 minutes) to find the killer of a colleague. Why exactly five and a half hours on the dot?
The one-eye symbolism is the same symbolism as the all-seeing eye on the back of the US dollar and is a favourite symbol of the "Illuminati". Underneath the One-eyed symbol, it says the word "WAR".
The "Illuminati" are using this symbol to indicate that the events portrayed in the series, are planned to take place in the real world and in the foreseeable future.
These clues and the many others in previous articles may be harbingers of what is to come after the Olympics open July 27.
Signs Point to Olympic False Flag
More Clues Point to Olympic False Flag
Olympics mascots satanic symbolism
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DFD1 said (July 21, 2012):
I agree with the commenter Tom. I do not believe there will be a false flag during the Olympics. It will be a full-blown ritual time for these satanic freaks and they won't mess it up with any false flag......that will come later. I believe the year 2012 to be a completely occultic, ritualistic year fully setting us up for hell on earth in 2013.
Strap on Jesus of Nazareth and your King James Authorized bible.
Joe said (July 21, 2012):
I just saw the movie The Dark Knight Rises, there is a bomb plot and the main villain says the nuclear bomb explodes 23 days after they turn it on. Since big budget movies always have significant dates and numbers attached to them this could mean we might see on attack on the closing ceremony on Aug 12 of the London Olympics (July 20 + 23 days). This is a good time to start an attack after all the conspiracy theories about the olympics have died down. I hope I am wrong.
I wanted to add that in the movie and also in the trailer for the movie you can see the ground of a stadium implode from the underground explosion.
Gary said (July 21, 2012):
his is a very interesting YouTube video I found online, it shows some very compelling evidence why the makers of the video believe there will be a "false flag" event at the Olympics that will be used as an excuse to take another huge step towards a one world NWO government.
This video has some amazing evidence to consider -
Now whether or not the particular false flag event the video predicts will happen only time will tell for sure, but even IF it does not happen you can still be pretty sure that the one world government of the Antichrist is likely to come about sooner than later, especially with the great potential for a nuclear war between the U.S. and China / Russia in the not too distant future.
The push towards a global NWO was a very long term plan that spanned generations, check out http://kenraggio.com/KRPN-DevilinNWO.htm for a good general overview of the history of the NWO agenda.
Peter Grifith said (July 20, 2012):
I dont think the false flag attack on the London Olympics could be any
more bloody obvious than it is!
Finding out that Larry Silversteins matey boy owns the westfield has
just nailed the coffin lid shut for me on this one.
We are truly living in the days of the "exteriorization of the
Hierarchy" spoken of by Alice Bailey where they just don't care anymore who sees them committing these atrocities in full view.
The completely obvious foment of war in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East is another shocking reminder of this.
The murderous belligerence of the USNS Rappahannock in the domestic waters of the UAE is still more proof.
Greg said (July 20, 2012):
from www.stevequayle.com
1. The Olympic opening ceremonies begin on the evening of Friday, 27 July (right after the markets in the US close and with the European and Asian markets having closed hours earlier). The ceremonies end in the early morning of 28 July…or the 9th of Av in the Jewish calendar….although the 9th doesn't officially start until sundown.
2. The 9th of Av (as you know) is the day Solomon's Temple was destroyed in 586 BC. It is the day the second Temple was destroyed in 70 AD. It is also the day of the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. It is a day of mourning.
3. On the "illuminati card" the time on the clock that is falling is 11:11. 1-1-1-1. Day one, one hour, one minute, one second into the ceremony?
4. Or, since the 9th of Av doesn't officially start until sundown on the 28th, does the attack come (in Blake's new Jerusalem) one day later when all the dignitaries are gone?
E said (July 20, 2012):
To Tom: (below)
If the majority of world's population cared about 'crazy' conspiracy talk, I'd say you have a good chance of being right. But sadly the majority is programmed by the mainstream media, so if the msm doesn't say much or nothing at all about (probable) false flag attacks, the majority won't care what conspiracy 'lunatics' have to say. To make the matters even worse: if such an attack does happen, most people will carelessly and all too willingly accept the mainstream line that it was Muslim terrorists who did it.
Tom said (July 19, 2012):
I believe there will not be a false flag terrorist attack at the Olympics in London.
The elite will then discredit conspiracy theorists and no one will believe conspiracy theorists again meaning no one will believe what is said about the criminal elite. That is what they want. Does that make sense?
Devi said (July 19, 2012):
I've been noting with interest your articles regarding the coming Olympics and the potential for a "terrorist" attack. About 20 years ago, a friend had a vivid dream where a person wearing the traditional white robes and forehead marking of a Hare Krsna devotee appeared to him and told him that his name is Loi Taksha and that he was there to give him the date for WW3. Then he told my friend the date and my friend woke up and was unable to get back to sleep. Later that day my friend was told by another friend that Loi Taksha had died the previous day in Vrndavana, India. My friend was able to determine that Loi Taksha had appeared to him at about the same time as he died. Although my friend knew who Loi Taksha was (our godbrother), he had never met him.
The date that he gave him was July 28th. My friend was unable to remember the year and has been unable to recall it even when trying under hypnosis. My husband and I are looking with interest at what is happening and think it is possible that a spark that could ignite WW3 could happen in these first days of the Olympics.
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Listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, the Daly House is the only pre-1900 building remaining on 18th Street and one of the oldest buildings in the city of Brandon.. Thomas Mayne Daly II was Brandon's first lawyer and mayor, Manitoba's first federal cabinet minister and Canada's first juvenile court judge. He lived in the Daly House from 1882 to 1896, moving to further his carreer in politics. At this time the house was only two levels and without running water.
George Robson Coldwell, 1896-1928George Robson Coldwell, Thomas Daly's law partner purchased the home in 1896 when Mr. Daly moved to Roseland, B.C. The Coldwell family resided in the home for approximately 32 years during which he added the 3rd floor to accomodate his large family (9 children) and installed running water to heat the house through boiler heat. After Coldwell passed away, his remaining family was forced to leave due to taxes.
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It next served as " The Maples " - a children's shelter operated by the Children's Aid Society for 44 years. During this time they added the bathroom and an extension onto the house to accomodate up to 25 children. They also adapted the house so that it was up to fire safety regulations at that time, invovling covering the hardwood with linoleum and electric lighting.
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No, black is not one of their colors. But who cares with these suckers! (Sorry if posted already)
That is pretty sweet but how will they blend in with their blue field now?
That is cool
32 years later and I am still riding on the back.
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Football uniform pants are now the same length or shorter than basketball shorts.
How long before the boys are wearing butthuggers like volleyball? Scary.
cool, but not the school colors at all....call me old fashioned, but I like the use of the school colors.
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They are ok, makes me think arena league or USFL. Whatever works for them.
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Not a big fan of this one. Oregon has better helmets than this. That and I don't like Boise State.
i still hate their blue field
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I like it, but I really liked the white one that is nearly identical that I think they wore against michigan state this year. Good stuff outta Boise.
I think that is sweet, the orange eye ties it all together.. nice job by BSu
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ESPN.com picked Hilton Coliseum as the "Hot Arena" in the Big 12...coaches in the league noted that, "regardless of talent, the Cyclones have a home court like no other."
I like it but Oregon has multiple better helmets, Rutgers new helmet is cooler, TCU's are cooler. It's nice but not the best.
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At 8:00 PM, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE was first in viewers (7.00m), second in households (4.5/08, -0.1 behind NBC), adults 25-54 (2.6/07, -0.1 behind FOX) and adults 18-49 (2.1/06). THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE matched last week's viewers and adults 18-49 deliveries.
At 8:30 PM, GARY UNMARRIED was tied for first in adults 25-54 (2.8/07, with FOX) and second in households (4.5/07), viewers (7.12m) and adults 18-49 (2.2/06).
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I don't think I mentioned it yet, but I treated my Brooks saddle the other day. Not with any Brooks sanctioned product, but with some Coach something-or-other that would, I hope, meet with the Brooks' stamp of approval. Either way, it seemed to do a terrific job moisturizing the saddle after what has been over 2,000 km of supporting my bum so far this season. The saddle has aged beautifully in fact. It's developed a marvellous patina and is quite possibly one of the most comfortable bum gloves I have ever had the pleasure to rest my buttocks on.
Humid, humid, humid. I was dripping with sweat after just twenty minutes of the ride in. The summer continues to be one of the hottest and driest on record, and I can only hope that this means a long, warm fall followed by a bizarre winter that includes no snow whatsoever. This would not be a popular vote with the kids, but then they don't have to drive to work in the muck now, do they?
The water is at the lowest point that I have ever seen it at. Here in the basin near one of the yacht clubs the plant growth, usually hidden completely by the glassy water, is entirely visible. I suspect that the local fish are watching the ceiling come down on their little bit of paradise and praying daily to the rain gods. Meanwhile the rest of the city is praying that the warm, dry weather continues. So who's praying loudest?
It'll be back on the Marinoni today. Next week looks like more trips to the office so plenty more fixed gear riding to come this season. Oh, and I have to adjust the chain. Ever since I last tightened it it has been feeling 'off'. Hard to explain other than I can feel it when I pedal. It's as if it is not quite lined up correctly, although the wheel is running true and it's neither too tight or too lose. I'll keep you posted.
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Nashville (AP) - Tennessee's unemployment rate in august dropped slightly to 5.7% from July's 5.9%.
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Minnesota Democrats (the state affiliate is the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party or DFL) under Governor Mark Dayton have raised taxes in the Gopher State by $2.1 billion a year. In addition to hiking income taxes and instituting an unpopular business-to-business tax on commercial warehouses, the DFL-controlled legislature has passed numerous new regulations on businesses small and large, even enabling mandatory unionization of private day-care workers in a transparent payback to unions for their longtime support of the DFL.
For over half a century after gaining statehood in 1858, Minnesota was dominated by Republican and conservative leaders. It shifted along with the rest of the country in the 1930s, and many outside the state still hold the image of it in the liberal heyday of Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale later in the century. But the state had made a dramatic right turn in the elections of 1978, putting two Republican senators and a Republican governor in office. Conservatives such as Rudy Boschwitz, Al Quie, and Vin Weber took control of the state GOP, and they and their political offspring, including Norm Coleman, Tim Pawlenty, and John Kline, gave Minnesota politics a strong center-right character. It was only when much more conservative figures surfaced that voters turned back to the DFL. The emergence of a significant third party, the centrist Independence party (IP), in 1998 added to the political identity confusion in the state.
IP candidate Jesse Ventura actually won the governorship in 1998, following the two terms of moderate Republican Arne Carlson. In 2002 and 2006, the conservative Pawlenty won, but only with pluralities. In 2010, an otherwise Republican year, GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer made a major blunder early in his campaign and never fully recovered. Thanks to Emmer's missteps, Mark Dayton, a one-term state auditor and single-term U.S. senator, narrowly won the governorship running a very liberal campaign. Republicans did, however, take control of both houses of the state legislature. But two years later, GOP legislative leadership signed on to a referendum campaign to make same-sex marriage unconstitutional and their efforts backfired. The governor who had campaigned on raising taxes on the rich and other progressive policies then gained the political resources—that is, control of the state legislature—to put them into law. And that's exactly what took place in the 2013 legislative session.
Governor Dayton's agenda in Minnesota in many ways resembles President Barack Obama's national agenda, which culminated in the unpopular health care reform bill. Other governors and legislatures, meanwhile, have been taking their states in the opposite direction. Next door in Wisconsin, for instance, conservative governor Scott Walker and a Republican legislature are reducing taxes, spending, and the power of public-labor unions. Similar measures, in various forms, are taking place in Indiana (by former governor Mitch Daniels and his successor, Mike Pence), New Jersey (rising GOP star Chris Christie), Louisiana (Bobby Jindal), Texas (Rick Perry), South Carolina (Nikki Haley), New Mexico (Susana Martinez), Ohio (John Kasich), Virginia (Bob McDonnell), Florida (Rick Scott), Iowa (Terry Branstad), and Michigan (Rick Snyder).
The question now is whether or not the very liberal policies put into place by Governor Dayton and the Minnesota legislature are working—and politically popular. It is too early to judge their effectiveness, but the promised increased income taxes on high-earners have turned out to be higher taxes in general for almost everybody. Minnesotans probably won't be fully aware of the hikes until 2014 and 2015, when voters will see the increased taxes and fees.
Public policy gurus, such as Peter Nelson of the Minnesota think tank Center of the American Experiment, persuasively argue that many high-income residents of states, like Minnesota, that levy increased taxes simply move and take up residence in low-income-tax states. As the tax and regulatory costs for small businesses and other corporations rise, so too many companies leave such states entirely or reduce their employment presence in them. Minnesota, in spite of its winter weather, had been attracting high-tech businesses, but that is unlikely to continue under the new tax and regulatory conditions.
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All kinds of interesting records on deck today including a couple of sets devoted to guitarist Floyd Murphy and harmonica blower Bud Spires who recently passed. We spin quite a number of tracks from some great out-of-print records, a twin spin of Gatemouth Moore, some fine early harmonica blues, a batch of great blues ladies and more.
|Jack Owens & Bud Spires photo by David Evans circa 1969-1970
Bud Spires passed away March 20th. Bud Spires is the son of Arthur "Big Boy" Spires who recorded for Chess Records during the 1950's and 60's. Bud was born May 20th, 1931 just north of Bentonia in Anding, MS. He played with his good friend Jack Owens for over 30 years, from 1967 until Jack passed away in 1997. In the book The Land Where the Blues Began, Alan Lomax describes Spires: "Bud was a one-man, red-hot singing orchestra, accompanying himself o the harmonica, putting rough, bluesy chords after some lines and squealed comments to underscore the sexiest images. Sometimes his instrument almost disappeared in his mouth as he both blew and sucked notes out of its metal reeds." He and Owens were first recorded in 1970 by David Evans the results issued on Testament's It Must Have Been the Devil. In more recent years he recorded behind Jimmy "Duck" Holmes of Bentonia.
Floyd Murphy passed away on March 27. Floyd was the brother of Matt Murphy and worked with many Memphis greats like James Cotton, Junior Parker, Rufus Thomas, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, Johnny Ace, Willie Nix, Bobby Blue Bland and many others. Murphy recorded classic sides with singer/harmonica player Junior Parker and The Blue Flames for Sam Phillips' including "Feelin' Good" and "Mystery Train." He also recorded with Rufus Thomas and Eddie Snow. In the early 60's, Murphy recorded the VeeJay Records release of Birdlegs and Pauline's tune "Spring" which rose to number 18 on the R&B charts. For the next 30 years Murphy has continually performed throughout the Midwest. In 1990 Floyd collaborated with his brother Matt "Guitar" Murphy on the CD Way Down South for Antoine's Records.
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My shows are always littered with great blues records that are long out-of-print and today we spotlight some excellent ones by Rabbit Muse, Lovey Williams, Junior Parker, Arbee Stidham and some recordings from the Spivey label. Rabbit Muse, was in born 1908 and learned soprano ukulele from a childhood friend before transferring to baritone and setting out on a career that spanned seven decades. Despite this long career he recorded only two albums: Muse Blues in 1976 and Sixty Minute Man in 1977 both on the Outlet label.
The Lovey Williams track comes from The Blues Are Alive And Well, a collection of sides recorded by William Ferris in 1968 and includes sides by James "Son" Thomas and Lee Kizart. Ferris wrote the following about Williams: "Lovey Williams has led the most isolated life of the three singers on this record, having never been over fifty miles away from Morning Star, his birthplace and present home. Lovey lives in a sharecropper's home with his wife and ten children and performs his blues in the homes of friends. …Lovey learned to 'blow the blues' from his father who was also a sharecropper." A couple of spoken pieces and performances appear on the album Bothered All The Time which are from the same session. As far as I can tell these are the only recordings he made.
Junior Parker was an extraordinary blues singer and harmonica player who laid down some superb material over the course of a twenty year career (1952-1971) before his life was cut short just prior to his fortieth birthday. Before he passed he sailed into the 1970's in promising fashion cutting a pair of terrific albums; You Don't Have To Be Black To Love The Blues circa 1970/1971 for Groove Merchant and I Tell Stories Sad And True for United Artists which was released in 1972. One record I don't think I've played before is Blues Man cut for the Minit label in 1969. Parker is backed by a great uncredited band and delivers a superb performance on Jimmy McCracklin's "I Just Got To Know" featured today.
Arbee Stidham is held in rather low opinion among the blues collecting community. The truth is that Stidham's music isn't, for the most part, all that exciting but A Time For Blues is a terrific outing with Stidham backed by the swinging Ernie Wilkins Orchestra. Stidham cut sessions for Victor, Sittin' In, Checker, Abco, Prestige/Bluesville, Mainstream, and Folkways in the 50's and 60', and appeared in the film The Bluesman in 1973. Stidham also made many festival and club appearances nationwide and internationally. He did occasional blues lectures at Cleveland State University in the 70's. He passed away in 1988.
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I've been threatening to do a feature on the Spivey label for years and this year I'm finally getting around to it – really! Spivey Records was a blues record label, founded by blues singer Victoria Spivey and her partner and jazz historian Len Kunstadt in 1961. Spivey Records released a series of blues and jazz albums between 1961 and 1985. The label recorded a wide variety of blues musicians who were friends of Spivey and Kunstadt, including Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Big Joe Williams, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Slim, Little Brother Montgomery and many others. Spivey died in 1976. The label became dormant after the death of Len Kunstadt in 1996. Today's track come from the 1962 album Three Kings And The Queen probably most famous for having a young Bob Dylan backing Big Joe Williams.
I've always had a soft spot for the larger-than-life Gatemouth Moore who summed his talents as a blues singer this way: "I am one of the ultra-men blues singers. I am not accustomed and don't know nothing about that gut-belly stuff in the joints…I put on tuxedos, dressed up, sang intelligent…Without a doubt, and I'm not being facetious, I'm the best blues singer in the business with that singing voice. Now I can't wiggle and I can't dance, but telling a story, I don't think them other boys are in my class." Often labeled a blues shouter,with his perfect diction and huge, mellow, enveloping voice he was more accurately a blues crooner of the highest order. His heyday as a blues career was short lived, cutting a couple of dozen sides between 1945 and 1947 that saw release on Gilmore's Chez Paree, Savoy, National with his final records cut for King at the very end of 1947. s blues career came to a close in 1949 when he had a religious conversion on stage at Chicago's Club DeLisa. After walking off stage he eventually became a preacher, gospel disc jockey and gospel recording artist. Gatemouth cut two LP's in the 70's: for Bluesway he cut the gospel record After Twenty One Years and for Johnny Otis' Blues Spectrum label he cut the blues album Great Rhythm & Blues Oldies Vol. 7 in 1977 both long out-of-print.
We hear from several fine blues ladies today including Edith Wilson, Clara Smith, Minnie Wallace, Florence White and Mary James. Edith Wilson and Johnny Dunn deliver a rousinng version of "He Used To Be Your Man But He's My Man Now." Wilson and trumpet player Johnny Dunn first worked together in the musical revue "Put And Take" in 1921 and then went on to perform in Lew Lesile's Plantation Revue in 1922. The group toured the TOBA vaudville circuit in 1921. Perry Bradford set up the recording sessions at Columbia for Wilson to compete with the Okeh's Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds records. Instrumental records were also released without Wilson under the name of Johnny Dunn and his Original Jazz Hounds. Dunn had also been a member of Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds.
I've written about Clara Smith before and she gives a mesmerizing performance on backed by just a reed organ giving the recording a haunting quality. Florence White was a powerful singer who cut one fine 78 in 1927 backed the superb piano of Simeon Henry who would ably back singer Lil Green in the 1940's. Mary James was recorded in the Sewing Room at Parchman Farm Penitentiary in 1939. She's featured today on the spine chilling "Go 'way Devil Leave Me Alone" backed by "four girls." Minnie Wallace was a known associate of the Memphis Jug Band and on 1936's ebullient "Field Mouse Stomp" she's backed by a blues super group that includes Will Shade, Robert Wilkins and Harry Chatman.


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The upcoming election for the Iowa City Community School Board is an important election for our teachers and children. Too often I have heard people say that they are going to vote for a candidate simply based on where they live or how they answered a question about whether or not to close a school.
If you are making your decision solely based on that type of criteria, you are missing a chance to really choose the best candidates for the entire district.
On Tuesday, I will be casting one of my votes for Brian Kirschling. Like Kirschling, I have had the great fortune of receiving my entire education here in Iowa City, from Lucas all the way through the University of Iowa. Like Kirschling, I know first hand how great this entire school district is.
Kirschling has ideas and leadership qualities that I think will help continue to build on this tradition of greatness. He has shown in this campaign alone that he is willing to listen to all sides of an issue.
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|Transepidermal water loss during halogen spotlight phototherapy in preterm infants.
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|Among preterm infants there is a relationship between skin blood flow and transepidermal water loss (TEWL). The aim of this study was to assess whether halogen spotlight phototherapy without significant heat stress increases TEWL and affects maintenance fluid requirements in preterm infants. TEWL was measured noninvasively before the start and after 1 h of halogen spotlight phototherapy in a group of preterm infants, nursed in double-walled incubators with moderately high relative humidity. Relative humidity and ambient temperature in the incubator were tightly controlled. Mean +/- SD birth weight of the 18 infants was 1412 +/- 256 g, gestational age 30.6 +/- 1.6 wk, and age at measurement 5 +/- 3 d. Nine infants received ventilatory assistance. Relative humidity was 40-80% (mean 52%). Average TEWL increased from 13.6 to 16.5 g/m(2)/h during phototherapy. These data show that TEWL increases by approximately 20% during phototherapy despite constant skin temperature and relative humidity. Maintenance fluids of preterm infants should be increased by 0.35 mL/kg/h during exposure to halogen spotlight phototherapy.
|Dirk J Grünhagen; Mark G J de Boer; Arnout Jan de Beaufort; Frans J Walther
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3:34 PM MDT | July 9, 2009 | By VINCENT VALK
Deloitte, the consulting major, recently released its mid-year outlook for the chemical industry. Here are some interesting takeaways, along with some other thoughts:
Consolidation, which the report says will be a "major trend," came up several times in the reprinted discussion among industry experts. It will be driven by an overall demand reset and the sale of highly leveraged players, says Deloitte's Tim Hanley.
Forecasting is still a problem – "Companies are struggling with how to effectively plan for the future given current marketplace uncertainty," says Deloitte's Jim Manocchi. Some companies can cope by using more flexible forecasting, but this takes experience, adds Williem Vaessen of Deloitte in the Netherlands.
"Many of the executives that I talk to do not see the recovery bouncing back to the demand we saw a few years ago. They are anticipating that the location of demand will change, there will be a different mix of customers, and buying patterns will change significantly," says Jim Manocchi.
This echoes something I was told by A.T. Kearney's Vance Scott, who nonetheless characterized himself as a relative optimist: consumption patterns in developed nations are changing. Scott's main point was that discretionary funds in developed economies are increasingly being spent on "experiences," such as travel or education, so the industry will need to reconfigure itself to better serve the locales where consumer demand will continue to see robust growth. This is something that stuck with me because I see it in my own life – I'd rather spend my extra cash on a vacation than a new car. I don't think anybody in the chemical industry harbors any delusions about how the industry will look on the other side of the downturn, but I do wonder if people can quite grasp the possible extent of the change. What happens if Americans stop moving around all the time? What happens if, as U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently told the New York Times, we go back to the one-car family?
There are other markets for the chemical industry, such as China and India, and other opportunities, such green materials and electronics. It's hard to say whether this will be enough to make up the difference, as Scott thinks it will, or if demand will remain off-peak, as Manocchi suggested. But it should be clear to everyone by now that 2007 is not coming back.
CW's consulting cover story, which will have more from Tim Hanley, Vance Scott, and other leading industry consultants, will appear in the July 27 issue.
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And in comparison to yesterday's image she's all smiles
I think my grandmother is certainly the strong noble woman I hoped to portray in yesterday's image, but most of the time she is simply this dear warm person you're seeing in this image. She's actually rather camera shy, but there's no chance she'll say "no" to her granddaughter
I'll appreciate you comments on this one plz.
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love the tones and the diffuse light, but the window seems to grab my attention more than the old lady and the table set... still, nice, really nice.
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I love her. I love everything here. Warm and glowing.
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Again you have chosen your composition beautifully. A fine and charming study.
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A beautifuly lit composition. Love the setting. Well done
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Thats better a happy smiley face much prefer this one. - gary
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A lovely image, Ayelet, good light. Carol
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A lovely comp Ayelet,
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Oh yes, a very different image from yesterday's with all the eye contact and warmth you could want. An interesting comparison, well done.
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Look like your heart had been out to take pictures again you certainly know how to put the warmth into an image.
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excellent Buddie
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superb candid image ayelet.ray
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The love you and your grandmother feel for each other is so obvious in this shot.
The focus looks a bit soft but I think that actually enhances the photograph, especially in the appearance of the candle flames. The composition seems a bit odd to me, though. Shooting portrait means that your grandmother is leaning in from outside the frame and the left-most candle is hard against the other side. It also puts a lot of bright window in the photograph, which draws a lot of attention. Was there any reason you didn't go for a landscape orientation? That would seem more natural, as long as it didn't bring anything unwanted into the image.
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Hi Ayelet,
Thank you for your most appreciated comments on the Macaque series. Japan was fascinting and an experience ! Ryokan's and fish !
A time of our lives, many thanks for giving us an earlier insight.
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Thanks everyone, I'm sure grandma would be delighted for such responses
Dave, thanks for the critique. I usually prefer to shoot in portrait crop, can't really explain why I find it more appealing usually in the composition than landscape crop.
In this specific image the subject wasn't necessarily a portrait of my grandmother but more of the entire room and atmosphere. I felt she has a strong enough personality to shine through even if not placed in the center of the image. I also really liked the window, with the wooden frame and delicate drapes. The light was the crucial choice I think for me to choose this orientation, and I felt the image was better illuminated using this crop.
If I'm not mistaken (it was almost a year ago) the room was rather small and a nasty fridge was placed on the left which would have shown on a landscape orientation.
After all this being said, both you and Lesley commented on the portrait orientation, so maybe it was just a personal preference, and not necessarily the right one
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On the face of it 2012 was another busy year for the team with a total of 121 – 999 calls received. As shown in the graph below this makes 2012 the second busiest year for the team. The presentation of data and definitions used is the same as that previously published on the team website in the review of calls between 2003 – 2011.
However, digging a little further into the data reveals some interesting trends. Full team callouts are marginally down on the previous year and limited calls up. Whether these changes are significant is less certain. As shown, less than half the 999 calls result in a full team response. What is apparent from the figure is the increase in alerts, where the team is contacted but there is no need for deployment on the fell.
Types of Incident
Of the 121 incidents the breakdown is shown overleaf using the same definitions as in previous reviews. The proportions of types of calls are consistent with previous years, except the injuries & medical which shows a fall as a % of the total.
Callouts by Month & Time of Day
The plots overleaf show the breakdown of calls by month of the year and time of day. The axis for time of day corresponds to the end of the data bin, ie : 18:00 = 17:01 – 18:00.The breakdown by month is broadly consistent with previous years. The winter months, December – Feb are relatively quiet and the majority of rescues occur between April – October. August was uncharacteristically quiet in 2012, whilst June saw the most calls. This includes a high number of lost and overdue even though it has the most daylight showing the influence of 3 peaks and similar events.
The breakdown by time of day is also broadly consistent with previous years. The same pattern of peaks in injuries, lost and overdue is observed, with > 60 % of the injuries being reported between 15:00 – 19:00, > 60 % of the losts between 16:00 – 20:00 and > 60 % of the overdues between 18:00 – 00:00.
2012 was a busy year for the team in terms of 999 calls taken but as shown in this review in many respects it was not unusual, the main change being the rise in alerts.
To try to understand the increased number of alerts each one has been reviewed to try to determine any underlying issues. The breakdown of the alerts was as follows,
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|% of Total Alerts
|Callers talked off mountain over the phone
|The call was mis-directed to the wrong team
|The caller reported someone overdue who subsequently arrived without assistance
|The caller(s) was helped by someone else, normally passing walkers
The biggest category, 38 % correspond to people reported missing who later turned up, without requiring assistance from the team. It can be hard to know when is the right time to call for assistance, particularly for people who are not on the fell and are unaware of the mountain conditions. It would be inappropriate for this article to suggest anyone should hold back from reporting missing people, particularly if there are any additional reasons for concern. Perhaps the best use of this information is to show that often there is no cause for undue alarm for anyone who does call in.
2012 saw the introduction of Sarcall, a new system for calling out teams now used by both Cumbria Police and North West Ambulance. The software includes a Gazetteer of place names and the team covering them to allow the call handler to task the right team based on the information supplied. It might have been expected that some 'bedding in time' would be needed for Sarcall and the gazetteer. There were certainly one or 2 unusual allocations during 2012 however 6 mis-directions out of a total of 120 does not appear unreasonable.
Just under ½ of the alerts (talk offs and other help) correspond to situations where the incident was resolved either by phone or by passing walkers. It follows from this that the situation was not particularly serious, normally either navigation problems or difficult ground. A positive recent development in this area is the ability to locate a modern 'smart phone' with a built in GPS so long as there is a good signal. This has enabled a number of callers to be located and then given precise directions to make their own way off the mountain, avoiding team deployment however, as it needs both a good signal, good battery life and the ability to keep the phone dry it should not be relied on. It is these categories of alerts where a little more ability and self reliance would have avoided the need for any team involvement.
Overall the increase in alerts should not necessarily be seen as a bad development as by definition it shows that mountain incidents are being managed without the need to send people onto the fells.
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These guys would go out any time of the day or night and the hills were always done.
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"2008, 2009 and 2010 were difficult years for us," he said, but after the charity weathered the lean years of the recession, things seem to be heading in the right direction.
On Friday, the Salvation Army kicked off its annual Red Kettle Christmas Campaign at Continental Square, setting a $240,000 fundraising goal for this year's drive in York County.
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Kettle drive funds go toward helping families during the Christmas season and to the Salvation Army's family services program, which offers rent, utility and grocery aid.
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President Obama met Thursday with state representatives from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to discuss what's coming up in 2015 for the health care law. While much of the focus on enrollment is at a national level, who is enrolling in each state will determine insurance risk pools and premium prices — and thus the law's continued success.
Insurance commissioners are government officials who regulate insurance companies within their state or territory.
"[We appreciate] the continued flexibility that [the administration] promised with working with us, and the recognition that we do have different marketplaces and concerns," said Sharon P. Clark, who is NAIC secretary-treasurer and Kentucky's insurance commissioner.
The meeting addressed five main issues for the states: the transition to new leadership at the Health and Human Services Department following the resignation of Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; the upcoming 2015 open-enrollment period; unique challenges U.S. territories face with the Affordable Care Act; issues with "navigators," who assist enrollees; and 2015 rates for insurance plans.
A major question moving into 2015 is whether premiums will rise following the law's first open-enrollment period. State commissioners said the rates for insurance plans are still unknown, but they emphasized that their process for rate approval will remain the same.
"I don't have specific information for you, I would be speculating; we'll see the rate-increase requests when they come into our office," said Adam Hamm, NAIC president and North Dakota insurance commissioner, regarding 2015 rates. "All of us will do the same job on those rate-increase requests as we've done historically — [which is] only approve those that are justified."
Those rates need to be a balance between what consumers are able to pay and what is necessary to keep insurance companies solvent, Hamm said. Some factors, such as unknown risk pools or transitioning grandfathered plans, might lead to higher rates; in some cases plans might see decreased rates. Hamm emphasized that any requests for rate changes next year will face the same level of scrutiny as any other time.
"You can't play politics with rates, and that's not something we're going to do," he said.
The administration told the commissioners that 35 percent of enrollees are under age 35, and later said 28 percent are in the coveted 18-to-35 age bracket. However, Hamm emphasized, the health status of those individuals is still unknown.
Concerns over HHS changes are linked to the emphasis on local differences. Insurance commissioners are losing an administration ally with the departure of Sebelius, who is a former Kansas insurance commissioner and NAIC president.
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Minnesota deer hunters wanting more than a memory and meat have a place to take their hides again.
A storied Minnesota tannery, formerly known as Uber Tanning, is up and running -- following more than a year of tumult -- and ready for the coming rush of rawhides that have arrived at its Owatonna facilities each fall for 108 years.
"We're back in the saddle and all the old work has been completed," said Lanny Uber, the sixth generation Uber to run the one-of-its-kind tannery and clothier. "We're all caught up."
Catching up was more than wading through a slight backlog of inventory.
In 2006, Lanny Uber, then president, sold the operation to Jared Rinerson, a software engineer from Ham Lake who had a vision to take the company's vision into the digital age.
It didn't happen. Trouble started in 2010, when the tannery on the banks of the Straight River in Owatonna flooded. In the summer of 2012, Rinerson declared bankruptcy, and the tannery and upholstery shop located in a residential neighborhood shut down, as did a satellite facility in Ham Lake that Rinerson had opened.
That left thousands of unfinished hides in limbo, and hundreds of hunters from throughout the country without much recourse in federal bankruptcy court.
It was a mess that revealed Uber's uniqueness. No other business in the continental United States still did what Uber did: Accept raw hides from hunters and transform them into custom clothes and accessories, from jackets and gloves to gun cases and luggage.
First State Bank of Red Wing, which owned Rinerson's loan to purchase Uber, found itself holding assets it couldn't sell or easily restart. The bank's owner was Mike Collins, who, as it happened, was a deer hunter and lifelong Uber customer, having brought his first hide there when he was a teenager.
Collins contacted the only guy he knew who might be able to salvage the business: Lanny Uber.
Uber agreed, and in October 2012, the work began.
Specialized supplies, some of which were hard to obtain, had to be restocked. Employees, some of whom had worked for elder Ubers, had to be rehired. Equipment, much of which outlived their manufacturers, had to be repaired.
Phones had to be set up, and a website had to be built.
It took months of sifting through piles of thousands of hides, trying to match each with its owner. Trying to complete orders. Trying to ensure the family's namesake business and relationships with its customers survived.
Usually, Uber said, he succeeded. But not always.
"Let's just say we've been blessed on the phone and we've been cursed on the phone," said Uber, who is 55 years old and now in his 41st year of working at the tannery.
Around Labor Day, he and his staff finished the last of the backlog, some of which dated back more than a year. They also had worked through hides they received last season. Some came from hunters unaware of the company's pitfalls; others came from those who had heard Uber had reopened. But the volume of orders was expectedly down.
Uber said when he decided to take the company over again, "I knew it was not going to be a one- or two-year situation. I'm here for as long as I can foresee."
But will the business make it? Will the hides return this fall as they used to, out of the beds of pickup trucks from hunters from Wisconsin and Minnesota and in express delivery boxes from places farther off?
"I hope so," Uber said. "We're ready. We do rely a lot on word-of-mouth, and that takes time."
Here's a little turbo boost for word-of-mouth:
The business is now officially known as Century Leather Products (although Lanny Uber said he might reinstitute the Uber Glove Company and Uber Tanning Company names).
The website is clpuber.com.
The "glove shop," where hides can be brought, is still 308 Adams Ave., but call first; the phone number is 507-451-0762.
Some 500,000 hunters are expected to take to Minnesota's woods and fields on Saturday, opening day for firearms deer hunting in Minnesota.
Dave Orrick can be reached at 651-228-5512. Follow him at twitter.com/OutdoorsNow.


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|Predicting the outcomes of electrophysiologic studies of patients with unexplained syncope: preliminary validation of a derived model.
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|PMID: 2023017 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|PURPOSE: To develop and validate a predictive model that would allow clinicians to determine whether an electrophysiologic (EP) study is likely to result in useful diagnostic information for a patient who has unexplained syncope. PATIENTS: One hundred seventy-nine consecutive patients with unexplained syncope who underwent EP studies at two university medical centers comprised the training sample. A test sample to validate the model was made up of 138 patients from the clinical literature who had undergone EP studies for syncope. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of patients undergoing EP studies for syncope. The data collector was blinded to the study hypothesis; the electrophysiologist assessing outcomes was blinded to clinical and historical data. Clinical predictor variables available from the history, the physical examination, electrocardiography (ECG), and Holter monitoring were analyzed via two multivariable predictive modeling strategies (ordinal logistic regression and recursive partitioning) for their abilities to predict the results of EP studies, namely tachyarrhythmic and bradyarrhythmic outcomes. These categories were further divided into full arrhythmia and borderline arrhythmia groups. RESULTS: Important outcomes were 1) sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) and 2) bradyarrhythmias, including sinus node and atrioventricular (AV) conducting disease. The results of the logistic regression (in this study, the superior strategy) showed that the presence of organic heart disease [odds ratio (OR) = 3.0, p less than 0.001] and frequent premature ventricular contractions on ECG (OR = 6.7, p less than 0.004) were associated with VT, while the following abnormal ECG findings were associated with bradyarrhythmias: first-degree heart block (OR = 7.9, p less than 0.001), bundle-branch block (OR = 3.0, p less than 0.02), and sinus bradycardia (OR = 3.5, p less than 0.03). Eighty-seven percent of the 31 patients with important outcomes at EP study had at least one of these clinical risk factors, while 95% of the patients with none of these risk factors had normal or nondiagnostic EP studies. In the validation sample, the presence of one or more risk factors would have correctly identified 88% of the test VT patients and 65% of the test bradyarrhythmia patients as needing EP study. CONCLUSION: These five identified predictive factors, available from the history, the physical examination, and the initial ECG, could be useful to clinicians in selecting those patients with unexplained syncope who will have a serious arrhythmia identified by EP studies.
|M Linzer; E N Prystowsky; G W Divine; D B Matchar; G Samsa; F Harrell; J C Pressley; D B Pryor
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|Title: Journal of general internal medicine Volume: 6 ISSN: 0884-8734 ISO Abbreviation: J Gen Intern Med Publication Date: 1991 Mar-Apr
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|Created Date: 1991-06-06 Completed Date: 1991-06-06 Revised Date: 2009-02-24
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|Nlm Unique ID: 8605834 Medline TA: J Gen Intern Med Country: UNITED STATES
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 113-20 Citation Subset: IM
|Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
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|MeSH Terms
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Cardiac Pacing, Artificial*
Middle Aged
Models, Statistical*
Odds Ratio
Predictive Value of Tests
Regression Analysis
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
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In other words, one directory per backup named with the date and time of the backup. This is done with rsync(1)'s wonderful ability to hard-link across directory trees - each file in each directory is hard-linked to the same file in the prior directory. Only files that have changed actually get a new file saved there.
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backup-copy(1) needs an init file to direct the backup. The sample here .backup-copy.sample should give you an idea what to do.
.backup-copy.hostname with 'hostname' being the name of the system that is being backed up (without any dots or domainname).
/var/backup-copy/HOSTNAME must exist - otherwise backup-copy(1) assumes you've made an error in the name of the destination directory and stops. You can force it to create that new directory with the
-i option.
** wildcard which means any directory - see the rsync(1) man page for full details.
To use a remote destination just use the usual ssh(1) syntax eg
surfers:/var. It's generally a good idea to push your ssh key to the remote machine otherwise you have to constantly provide a password - and you can't do that in unattended jobs eg in a crontab(1) job.