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Akron/Family's fans must have thought it serendipitous to be at the September 11th show, on the band's tour behind their newest disc Love is Simple. The young faces in the audience – a few of which were brightly painted – let Akron/Family's message of love push away any sadness on this infamous date. If they came for an escape, they got just what the doctor ordered.
First up was local musician Matt Butcher. A smart raconteur backed by handsome country-folk, Butcher's soulful folk set the template for the evening. Things tipped toward the bizarre when Megafaun mounted their moonshined, Appalachian folk that staggered into Sonic Youth-style outbursts and breakdowns. Sitting cross-legged in front of his laptop, Greg Davis simply made us a deal that he would "play some sounds" for us and he hoped we liked it. He conjured a crackling campfire loop over which he layered live vocal swells and drones.
When Akron/Family finally took the stage, they figuratively (and literally) absorbed the bands before them, including all three members of Megafaun and laptop conductor Greg Davis. It didn't take long to see why it was necessary to have all hands on deck. Akron/Family veered in and out of Native American-style chants, stupefying Zappa-esque guitar leads, broken funk grooves, baroque Beach Boys harmonies, and straight ahead indie-pop. With a two-drummer set-up, Akron/Family leaned heavily on the percussion, which featured an African djembe and shekere, Moroccan cymbals, sleigh bells and even a gong?
This being the first time I had heard Akron/Family, I was pleasantly surprised to find their music to be a bit weightier than the freak-folk of the oft-compared Devendra Banhart. Though this is a jam band in every sense of the word, the music was explosive. As the wiggly grooves got the audience undulating, lead guitarist Seth Olinsky shot his blistering licks through with a Lynyrd Skynrd swagger.
Listening back to their catalogue, it's evident that this noisier side of Akron/Family is evolutionary. Without ex-producer Michael Gira's guiding hand (formerly of the Swans), the band have inverted their formula of quiet folk sprinkled with bursts of chaos. This is both good and bad. Of all the bands Akron/Family absorbed that night, they needed Matt Butcher the most. His lyrical skill would have added structure to the slight, mish-mashed lyrics, and a melodic heart to the sprawling tunes. The title of one of their new tunes shows the band's split personality: "Lake Song/New Ceremonial Music for Moms." It started out beautifully, with a springy little guitar riff, booming hand drums, and soft vocals, before erupting into five minutes of atonal squealing.
The pop meltdowns were fun for the first hour and a half, but as their set lurched past the two-hour mark, the constant changes began feeling self-indulgent. I left before Akron/Family finished, not because they weren't good, but because long ago I'd seen enough to be impressed. Love may be simple, but Akron/Family's expression of it is quite complex.


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Established in 1913, Children's Aid Society (CAS) is the parent organization of The Nicarry Center in New Oxford.
The banquet will also highlight music by the King's Strings of Mechanicsburg, children of the York Area Suzuki Superbows, a visit from Frances Leiter who was one of the founders of the Carlisle Children's Home, client testimonials and spotlight moments by Pennsylvania's Attorney General, Linda Kelly; Congressman Todd Platts; and Bev Mackereth, Deputy Secretary of Children, Youth & Families, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare.
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A special chapel event will be held in his honor on Multnomah's Portland campus at 10 a.m. on September 28, 2010, where Mr. Johnson will share his story with the student body. The Alumnus of the Year chapel is open to the public. Refreshments will be served at a reception in the JCA Student Lounge immediately after the chapel.
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Before breaking the sideline huddle for Auburn's biggest moment of this short, yet unbeaten start to the 2013 season last week, the coaches picked the play, the formation and the player personnel.
Then Nick Marshall picked the target - C.J. Uzomah.
"Nick said we'll run this formation, and that's when we looked at each other," Uzomah said. "He was pretty much saying, 'I want to throw the ball to C.J.' I was like, all right, quarterback has confidence in him. Coach (Gus Malzahn) said, 'All right, let's do that.' I was like, coach has confidence in me." ...


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Some Michigan schools are closed as record-breaking subzero temperatures plunge much of the state into a deeper freeze.
Detroit reached zero degrees, a smidge from the record of -1 degrees set Feb. 28, 1994. Flint, Saginaw and White Lake all broke records also set that year, according to the National Weather Service. White Lake got coldest overnight, at -18 degrees.
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Ex-Townsville soldier said steroids weren't for vanity, but injuries
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- May 29, 2014
A SOLDIER who imported synthetic steroids to supply colleagues, says he did it to help them recover from their injuries.
Robert Colin Turner, 27, was caught when police searched Lavarack Barracks and found a mobile phone that contained incriminating text messages.
Turner allowed police to search his Bohle Plains home where they found an empty vial and a needle, Townsville Magistrates Court heard.
His lawyer, Ross Malcomson, said his client first got the drugs to help him recover from shoulder injuries and wanted to help others do the same.
He said Turner supplied the drugs to only one soldier, and intended to sell it to others but he wasn't doing it to make money.
"The sole purpose for his own use of steroids and his intended supply was not, as is usually the case, for reasons of vanity," he said.
"Rather, it was for injury rehabilitation and recovery both for my client and other members of the Defence Force who'd commented to him about difficulty in recovering from injuries sustained while on service."
Turner pleaded guilty to seven counts of supplying dangerous drugs, as well as possessing a needle used in connection with a drug offence.
Magistrate Cathy Wadley fined him $200 for each offence, and didn't record any convictions.
Turner, who was posted with the 3rd Combat Service Support Battalion at Lavarack, has been stood down from the Army and is now working for a medical supply company.
He told police he found the drugs on an overseas website and purchased them in bulk.
Mr Malcomson said his client had recurring shoulder problems after dislocating both shoulders.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Sharon Steward said the offence was serious, given the drug was not legal anywhere in the world.
"The text messages indicate a supply to five different people ... the drug he supplied is not licensed or fit for human use," she said.
The drugs, labelled MK2886 and LGD4003, are research-only chemicals.
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A job with a medical supply company, isn't that a case of putting the cat amongst the pigeons :)


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Local children in need are getting some help thanks to the West Virginia Oil Marketers & Grocers Association.
During a four week campaign, OMEGA raised over 93 thousand dollars for the Children's Home Society of West Virginia.
The funds will be used to support programs like emergency child shelters, foster care and mentoring.
Mother's Day paper flowers were sold at OMEGA member convenience and grocery stores throughout the state. It's the one dollar donation through those purchases that helped this fundraising effort.
"We serve our communities. We're there in the morning to give you your coffee, your newspaper. We are community based. We do a lot of things in our communities. We give ice to little leagues. We give hot dog buns to churches, but we wanted to do something state wide to make an impact," says Jan Vineyard, OMEGA President.
Over the past three years, OMEGA members raised 246 thousand dollars for the campaign. Since 2003, they've raised 1.6 million dollars for West Virginia children.
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PLATTI: Sonatas for Harpsichord (18) – Filippo Emanuele Ravizza – Concerto (4 CDs)
Published on November 23, 2011
GIOVANNI BENEDETTO PLATTI: Sonatas for Harpsichord (18) – Filippo Emanuele Ravizza, harpsichord – Concerto Classics Vol. 1 thru 4 – Concerto Classics CD Box 2011 (Vol. 1=1 hr 11:04, Vol. 2=1 hr 15:33, Vol. 3=1 hr 5:51, Vol. 4=1 hr :39) [Distr. by Naxos] ****1/2:
Platti was an important part of the 18th century musical world in Europe. He was attached to the court in Würzburg, Germany—working there as a composer, tenor, violinist, harpsichordist, cellist and teacher—and lived until 1763. Some musicologists credit him with being the first composer to use the classical sonata form. Even if he wasn't, Platti did have a vital role in the transition from the Baroque to the Pre-Classic period. He used daring constructions which often showed the influence of German composers as well as Pergolesi and Marcello. His keyboard works may have been a major reference point for the early keyboard works of both Haydn and Mozart.
I had been expecting a tuneful but unfamiliar Italian composer's work, with many of these four volumes of harpsichord sonatas sounding very similar, but instead was astonished by the originality, rhythmic interest and general liveliness of all of these sonatas. They have a similar sprightliness to Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord sonatas, but with much more complex compositional development. Only five of the 18 are in minor keys. The first ones are in a straightforward setup of four short movements, with the later ones becoming more complex and having more movements. There is a great attention to texture and instrumental color, and a number of dense passages of rich harmonies, harking back to the concerti grossi of the Venetian School.
The recording quality is excellent, with 32-bit PCM original audio recording involved. I couldn't find any notes on the harpsichord used, but it sounds very musical and unclangy. Hearing these exciting works made me want to obtain the music for some of those in the fourth volume to play myself.
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The various popular media outlets regularly bombard America's already increasingly self-centered, youth obsessed culture with negative messages about aging and the aged. Even ads, created to promote products that benefit older Americans, contain stereotyped, fear-based messaging that contributes to prejudice or indifference toward the older generation.
How Media Contributes to the Problem
At a 2006 Special Committee hearing at the U.S. Senate, 70-something actress, Doris Roberts of the popular sitcom, "Everybody Loves Raymond", decried Hollywood's depiction of the elderly in movies, television sitcoms, and advertisements. Roberts testified that the elderly are most frequently depicted as helpless, unproductive, senile, and overly demanding rather than deserving.
Negative Ad Messaging
Ads that promote products designed to benefit older people often deliver their messages in negative, fear inducing ways. For example, a message for calcium supplements might depict an elderly person slowly becoming debilitated by her bone loss. Another shows a lonely, elderly man cloistered in his home because of his inability to walk on his own; the ad conclusion shows him happily zipping through town on an electric scooter. Older Americans want to see positive messages coming from ads selling products targeting their age group. For example, the calcium commercial could show a couple of older, yet active, adults taking a brisk walk together on an exercise trail stating how strong and vibrant the feel as a result of taking calcium supplements to prevent bone loss.
Ageism's Effect on American Society
According to a 2001 Duke University survey, 80 percent of Americans aged 60 and above have experienced ageism. Survey participants reported experiences ranging from people assuming they had memory problems or were impaired physically to jokes poking fun at the elderly. Fully 31 percent of those surveyed said they were regularly ignored or not taken seriously due to their age group. Just as overt, oppressive racial discrimination victimized African Americans before the Civil Rights movement, ageism inflicts the same pain, sorrow, shame and depression on America's fastest growing population segment – the elderly.
America's aged fought in the wars that ensured her continued freedom. The aged marched in the Civil Rights protests of the 1960s. America's obsession with youth has blinded her citizens to the wisdom, experience and emotional support that the aged have to offer them. The younger generation in America stands to benefit immensely from the friendship and mentorship of an older citizen. Instead they pass up freely offered stories of the past and experiential or spiritual wisdom for the instant gratification of modern society.
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West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith clocked in at 4.59 seconds in the 40-yard dash Sunday.
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The Eagles may be looking for a quarterback who can run quickly. Their potential top two candidates - West Virginia's Geno Smith and Florida State's E.J. Manuel - did just that at the NFL scouting combine.
Smith was timed at 4.59 in the 40-yard dash Sunday, the fastest among the quarterback candidates. Manuel wasn't that far behind with a time of 4.65. As a comparison, San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick ran a 4.53 at the 2011 combine while Seattle's Russell Wilson ran a 4.55 in 2012.
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SHINGLE SPRINGS — Ponderosa's golden opportunity to overtake Pleasant Grove both on the field and in the Delta River League standings slipped through its hands Thursday.
Trailing by a run but with runners perched at second and third and no outs in the bottom of the sixth inning, three straight Bruins went down and so did host Ponderosa in a 3-1 loss.
The Eagles clung to a 2-1 advantage when Rachel Timberman doubled to the gap in right-center. Pleasant Grove pitched around Terra Jerpbak to put her on and after Ponderosa showed bunt, both stole the nearest base. The Bruins had their 3-4-5 hitters due but two strikeouts and a flyout ended the threat.
"We had the same thing at their place (1-0 loss) where we had opportunities and couldn't execute," Ponderosa coach Dwayne Brekke said. " We've worked on those situations of putting the ball in play but unfortunately the one we did came with two outs. If we score twice there then it's Pleasant Grove the one's chasing uphill."
Jerpbak started on the mound for Ponderosa and pitched all seven innings. She was touched by a double and Alexa McGoin's (4-for-4) two-run home run in the first but put zeros up until the seventh when McGoin singled in the Eagles' third run.
"We came in knowing it'd be a tough game and today they got ahead of us and we couldn't come back," Jerpbak said. "I worked the corners and pitched up and down on No. 14 (McGoin) to get her to roll over or pop up but id didn't turn out that way."
In need of some offense, Jerpbak and Veronica Greene doubled to lead off the fourth to get the Bruins on the board. Cassidy Lujan's productive at bat moved Greene to third with one away but Pleasant Grove pitcher Celina Matthias stranded her there to hold the lead.
Defensively for Ponderosa, Madison Anderson dove to catch an Eagle bunt; Bailey Nordquist made a diving catch in right field; and Taylor Doane crashed through the center field fence on a catch to save several runs in the seventh.
Matthias retired the side in order in the bottom half.
"We had some good defense today … Bailey made some nice plays and Taylor knows no fear … but the key for us staying in the game was that Terra threw real well," Brekke said.
Ponderosa is at Oak Ridge tomorrow for the annual 'Pink Game.' Junior varsity plays at 3 p.m. and the varsity is at 5.


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Wednesday 16th of March 2011 08:13 AM
By Kim L. Fritzemeier
KFRM Central Kansas Reporter
Farm Wife along the Stafford/Reno County Line
I probably spent more time Saturday on a state basketball court than I did 38 years ago.
I was not the star of my high school basketball team.
As I like to tell people, "I held down my end of the bench pretty darn well."
Or "That 13 seconds at the end of the game made all the difference."
But, as I look back, maybe it really did make all the difference.
Last weekend, the Kansas State High School Activities Association celebrated 100 years of providing service to schools throughout the state. To commemorate their 100th anniversary, KSHSAA invited past state championship teams to this year's tournament sites.
The 2A women's teams gathered at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan and were recognized prior to the championship game between Moundridge and Ell-Saline.
My alma mater, Skyline High School, was state champ in 1973, 1974 and 1977. I was on the 1973 and '74 teams, as well as the 1975 team that took 3rd at state. My sister, Darci, was on the 1977 championship team.


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One thing Kanye West is probably not doing in India: picking out textiles.
Two days after photos hit the Internet featuring a number of looks from his long-gestating Pastelle clothing line, the official word now is that West and his backers are closing up shop.
Talk about one day you're in and the next you're out!
West, a fixture at fashion shows and an avowed fan of his own style, has been gabbing about starting his own line for years, taking time to collaborate with Nike and Louis Vuitton on shoe collections in his spare time.
Something which he has more of now than in recent months, thanks to his outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards (alas, critics focused more on what he said than on what he was wearing), Lady Gaga subsequently pulling the plug on their joint tour and his decision to cancel a New Year's Eve show at Madison Square Garden.
Just a year ago, West modeled a Pastelle logo jacket while accepting an American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist.
And just today, he received zero nominations for the upcoming AMAs. (A year, of course, is a long time—Chris Brown was named Artist of the Year in 2008.)
So it's back to the drawing board for Kanye West, Designer. But perhaps he'll bounce back to join our Celeb Fashion Lines gallery another day.


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Ghost Traps is a fun and exciting arcade game where the aim of the game is to catch ghosts and score big points, armed only with your Ghost Trappers and your wits.** Be warned these ghosts don't like to be captured so its not as simple as say, slicing fruit! So you will have your work cut out for you!** HOW TO PLAY:* To catch ghosts stun them with your finger. Once stunned the ghosts can be trapped within the ghost Trapper but only once the Trapper is fully charged. Make sure the ghosts colour matches the colour of the trapper you are trying to capture them in or instead of capturing the ghosts you will make them mad!! ** GAME MODES:** TIME OUT* You're up against the clock so try to catch as many ghosts as you can in the set amount of time. Using power-ups to your advantage can really help you to boost your score!** LIFE LINE Last as long as you can on only 3 Lives. On this mode, ghosts left on screen too long get mad which causes them to attack you if not captured early enough.


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Patients at El Camino Hospital, a two-campus health system serving Silicon Valley, used to struggle to understand how their hospital bills correlated with their insurance benefits and their year-to-date out-of-pocket spending.
No more. In early 2013, El Camino began providing patients with online statements that include all bills from all healthcare providers—even those not associated with El Camino—fully reconciled with patients' insurance benefits and adjusted to reflect patients' deductible balances. The result: Patients pay their bills more quickly. In addition, El Camino experienced the following improvements within the first six months of launching the billing system:
Judi Ashline, El Camino's director of patient financial services when the new billing system launched, says combining information from multiple sources into the easy-to-understand statement (see the exhibit below) is a patient-friendly service that benefits the health system. "Even though I am a healthcare professional, sometimes I even get a little confused about my own bills," she says. "This really brings clarity around a process that is very confusing."
As patients' out-of-pocket responsibilities have increased in recent years, El Camino patients often struggle to understand exactly what is expected of them. Matching billing statements against an insurer's explanation of benefits is daunting, especially when multiple providers are involved.
Ashline offers an emergency department (ED) visit as an example of how even a brief encounter with the healthcare system can turn into a confusing financial situation for patients. "After an ED visit, the patient gets a facility bill and an ED physician bill and, if there are X-rays, there will be a bill from the radiologist, and there may be a bill from a pathologist for some of the blood tests we do," she says. "If the patient is getting four bills and then four separate explanations from the insurance company, it gets a little hairy."
Typical patient behavior is to wait until all statements arrive, stare at the confusing paperwork for a while, and then call the health system for help, Ashline says. Patient financial services representatives field the same questions repeatedly: "Why am I getting this bill from an El Camino ED physician?" "What's a radiologist?" "Who are these people?"
That is why El Camino's interim CFO, Ned Borgstrom, was willing to try a patient-payment technology, suggested by the health system's CIO, which offered a new way of communicating patients' financial responsibilities. "I was intrigued with the fact that maybe we could improve patient satisfaction by giving patients bills that they could understand," he says.
Participating in the online service is optional. Patients who prefer to receive regular paper bills, which are not consolidated with insurance benefits, simply do not sign up for the service.
Those El Camino patients who do want to sign up start by going to the health system's website to set up a password-protected account with the vendor that developed the online payment service. Patients provide the names of their health, dental, drug, and vision insurance plans, plus their log-in information to their online accounts for those plans. After the insurance accounts are linked, the technology pulls claims from the insurers' websites daily and presents the information on a dashboard so patients can see all their healthcare bills, regardless of the provider.
The dashboard explains every line of the statements, including why coinsurance applies to certain bills, why a copayment is required for others, and why some expenses listed on the bills do not have to be paid. Insurance claims are pulled each day so patients' deductible balances and out-of-pocket spending tallies are current. Patients can also see the deductible status and spending breakdown by family member, as well as total year-to-date healthcare spending by provider.
Patients who sign up for the insurance-reconciled online statements and other information provided on the patient-engagement platform receive an email message when an El Camino bill is owed. Patients can pay their bills directly on the website. "We are getting paid quicker because patients understand their liability," Ashline says. "Many patients pay as soon as they get that email, so we don't need to send multiple statements to them, which is fabulous from our perspective."
El Camino and its patients—even those who choose not to sign up for online access to consolidated bills—receive several other benefits from the new approach:
Improved customer support. Some patients who sign up for this service prefer not to go online to see their hospital bills, electing instead for regular paper bills. However, when patients call to ask questions about paper statements, patient financial services staff can send the patients their online consolidated bills by email to ensure they are viewing the same information. "We say 'Hang on a sec, let me email you something so that you and I are looking at the exact same thing,'" Ashline says. "Then we can walk through it line by line so that we are not talking about apples and oranges. Customers respond really well to it, and our employees really like it."
Payment plans. Patients can set up payment arrangements online, creating orders for payments to be made automatically every month. Conversely, patients can opt to be notified each month when payments are due and then use the website to make payments.
Patient eligibility and cost estimates. Because patient financial services staff have access to patients' insurance information, they use the web tool to verify insurance coverage for specific tests and procedures. They can also provide cost estimates that reflect patients' real-time deductible balances.
The easy-to-understand bills have reduced El Camino's revenue cycle workload. "We reduced staff by a half-FTE in the customer service area, and we have reduced our overall talk time on the phone with our patients by an average of approximately 20 percent," Ashline says.
One surprise area of savings: reduced fees for collecting past-due accounts. El Camino does no in-house collecting; after three statements, patient bills are referred to an agency for "soft" collections. About six months after adopting the new online billing approach, the agency called Ashline to find out why the volume of accounts had fallen by nearly 50 percent."The reason is because people are paying their bills more quickly, so we save the collection fees," she says.
Ashline shared the following tips from her hospital's experience to date.
Email addresses are essential. Before launching the new online approach, El Camino had not collected patient email addresses, which are needed so that auto-generated email messages can notify patients when their bills are due. Thus, Ashline encourages hospitals that may want to adopt a similar approach to start collecting email addresses now. That will allow them to notify their patients about the service and how to sign up, independent of a medical encounter.
Old technology may impede savings. El Camino's computer system is currently set to send three statements and "turning off" that function has been a technical challenge. "We are working to fix that, and considering that it costs us $1.50 per statement, eliminating the extra statements will be a significant savings," Ashline says. "We are finding that for many patients, we do not need to send three statements because they pay when they get the emails."
One thing that has not been a challenge: Getting patients to try the portal. "It has not been difficult to convince patients to use the portal. Maybe that is because we are in the very tech-savvy Silicon Valley," Ashline says. "We are just keeping up with today's technology."
Lola Butcher is a freelance writer and editor based in Missouri.
Ned Borgstrom is interim CFO, El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif.
Judi Ashline was previously director of patient financial services at Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif.
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