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The lawn around the state Capitol was hopping with about 1,500 egg-collecting children Wednesday as Gov. Bob McDonnell and first lady Maureen McDonnell held Virginia's first "Governor's Easter Egg Hunt."
Just as the U.S. president traditionally opens the White House grounds for an Easter egg roll, the McDonnells invited children to participate in their free event at Capitol Square.
The McDonnells formally greeted their guests after exiting the Executive Mansion accompanied by the Easter Bunny, Smokey Bear, Virginia Commonwealth University's Rodney the Ram, the Richmond Flying Squirrels mascot Nutsy and several other costumed characters.
"I want to especially thank the first lady and her staff – all of the people from the First Lady's Initiatives Team Effort – for their great planning," Gov. McDonnell said.
He singled out "Sarah Scarbrough, the mansion director, who's been putting Easter eggs together for about three months, I think."
After the event, Scarbrough called the egg hunt a success. "We'd love to see it become another Virginia tradition," she said.
Eight thousand plastic eggs had been placed all over the lawn of Capitol Square, designated for children of different ages – with some eggs apparently containing more impressive treasures than others.
The eggs for the event had been donated by the Science Museum of Virginia, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Bow-Tie Cinemas and other organizations, according to a press release issued by Mrs. McDonnell.
Students from The Steward School, a college preparatory school in Henrico County, painted the faces of egg-hunters for free. Music and mild weather accompanied the late-afternoon and early-evening festivities as the governor and the first lady mingled with a long line of guests and friends. They included VCU President Michael Rao, his wife Monica and their two children.
Some attendees were displeased, however, with the first-time jamboree.
"It was unorganized," said Delethia Agyeibi, a mother of two. "When the governor said, 'Go!' or whoever said, 'Go!' everybody went – and they didn't acknowledge the times and the ages for each set area."
Agyeibi's children expressed disappointment at not having won any special "prize eggs." But they smiled at the eggs they did manage to gather.
As part of the first lady's Serving Our Service Member Families effort, the McDonnells encouraged guests to bring "baby shower gifts for expectant military moms." Mansion staff and volunteers set up boxes for these items around the Capitol grounds, and most of them were full by the end of the two-hour-long event.
Children were able to write thank-you cards to members of the military at a booth provided by the United Service Organizations, as well as create bracelets with supplies provided by the Science Museum of Virginia.
"We all agree that trying to come together and do what's best for Virginia, trying to solve problems, is the thing that makes Virginia really a great state," Gov. McDonnell said.
"Enjoy this time with your family. Have a celebration for the great blessing that God has given us as Virginians and Americans and do the things that you want to do to have fun."
Several state agencies helped with the event. They included the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, the Virginia State Police, the Virginia Tourism Corp. and the Virginia Egg Council.
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January 22, 2014
Bulky Hat Collection Winners!
Congratulations to our six Bulky Hat Collection winners! And thank you to everyone for participating.
Kristen is the winner of the Arctic Hat.
"I would make the Arctic hat. I have been knitting a sweater and reading."
"This is so hard to choose! I love these hats. I would pick the polar hat because that playful pompom on top just makes the grey winter skies in the northwest cheerful. I live on Whidbey Island in Washington State and I spend the winter days hoping for snow and praying we don't lose power, knitting on the one or two projects in every room of my house! But honestly, I do that all year round . I squeeze my work as a therapist and teaching boundary workshops around my knitting."
The winning comment for the Polar Hat from Sarri!
It looks like Kelly's husband is one lucky guy. Here is her winning comment:
"I live in Anchorage, Alaska and love the wonderful knits this season brings out. I would like the trapper hat for my husband."
Lucky Sarah is the winner of the Bear Hat, or maybe it's her grandbaby that is the winner!
"I've been enjoying the snow with a grandbaby, cozy and warm in more hand knits than he cares to wear…. I think he needs a bear hat too "
I wonder what color Sonja will make the Fox Hat in?
"I love the children's hats! I love to ski and sled-ride with my granddaughter, I refuse to let winter keep me inside the house. So, I do bundle up. In Ohio, our weather was terribly frosty, so I stayed home and continued to knit hats for my older children."
And congratulations go to Liz the winner of the Rabbit Hat.
"I would have to make the rabbit hat for my nieces. Could anything be more adorable!?! During the cold days I have been knitting ties and kippahs for my husband."
Keep watching this space for more fun!
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January 16, 2014
Wintery Mix (& Giveaway!)
The recent weather is right in step with our new toasty warm Bulky Hat Collection.
And if you're in need of a fun way to keep warm, today could be your lucky day.
We're giving away six Bulky Hat Collection booklets along with all the yarn needed to make your favorite from the collection.
To enter leave a comment (one per person please) telling us which hat you would like to make and how you've been spending these sub-zero days. Are you braving the wind and bundling up to play in the snow or keeping cozy inside by knitting the cold away?
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January 7, 2014
Baby it's Cold Outside
Georgia, our model for the Bear Hat from the Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky Hat Collection, wants to let you in on a little secret…
Blue Sky Alpacas photoshoots are lots of fun!
We bundled Miss Georgia up in a warm coat, mittens, boots, and the snuggly Bear Hat. She would have been happy to spend the whole day investigating our snowy base camp.
Yuji was our model for the Fox Hat. He had never been on a frozen lake before and decided to sliiide all the way out to the spot we had picked for our shoot.
Yuji was a daredevil, climbing on top of rocks and launching himself off. There was so much snow and it was so much fun. Kept comfy with ultra warm Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky (doubled for these hat patterns), we were able to play for a long time.
When it was all over, Yuji wasn't really ready to leave. His mom and I had to slide him back to the car.
Our fun and floppy Rabbit hat in Blossom coordinated perfectly with Jules's fluffy coat and pink pants.
All that girlie pink didn't hold Jules back a bit. The first thing she did was start scooping up snowballs!
We couldn't ask for a better way to spend an afternoon.
The Details
Designer: Sarah Smuland
• length – 6 (7, 8)"
Needle Size 17 (12.75mm) 16″ circular needle, or size needed to obtain gauge
• Size 17 (12.75mm) double pointed needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky shown in Polar Bear #1004, Silver Mink #1002, and Blossom #1210
Pattern available at Blue Sky Alpacas Stockists
Digital Pattern available in the Blue Sky Alpacas Pattern Store
• All six patterns are available in one collection, the Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky Hat Booklet
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December 4, 2013
Heads Up
How's the weather in your neck of the woods? Here in Minnesota things have decidedly taken a turn toward the chilly. So today we're taking a closer look at the cozy caps designer Sarah Smuland created for our Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky Hat Collection.
The Polar Hat was the first hat Sarah designed for this collection. We love the oversized pompom and the lush fringe. We also love how fast and easy it whips up. Good news with the holidays just around the corner.
We didn't just take pictures of the hats in this collection; we field tested them. Our model, Margaret, had no complaints about cold ears on frozen Lake George.
The Arctic Hat follows the same silhouette as the Polar Hat, minus the pompom. Both designs can be made without the fringe and look equally lovely.
Emma was lucky enough to be shooting when the sun came out. Thanks to the Arctic Hat she was plenty warm when it ducked back behind the clouds a few minutes later.
Sarah designed the Trapper Hat with her son and husband in mind (they spend a lot of time outside) and has since taken to wearing one herself. It keeps her toasty when she's walking her dog, Diesel, or tending to her chickens.
Optional snaps let you put the earflaps up and out of the way. We went with a classic color for our photoshoot, but you can easily give this a more fashion forward edge by stitching it up in a brighter color (Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky has 24 colors to choose from). Stay tuned to see the three hats for kids in the Bulky Hat Collection.
The Details
Designer: Sarah Smuland
• length (Polar Hat and Arctic Hat) – 7 (7½, 8, 8½)"
• length (Trapper Hat) – 9 (9½, 9¾, 10)"
Needle Size 17 (12.75mm) 16″ circular needle, or size needed to obtain gauge
• Size 17 (12.75mm) double pointed needles, or size needed to obtain gauge
• Size N (10mm) hook
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky shown in Frost #1211, Coyote #1223, Brown Bear #1006
Pattern available at Blue Sky Alpacas Stockists
Digital Pattern available in the Blue Sky Alpacas Pattern Store
• All six patterns are available in one collection, the Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky Hat Booklet
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November 26, 2013
You Are My Sunshine
A fresh burst of color is a welcome respite from the gray days of winter. So when the new shades of Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky arrived we decided that sunny-yellow Shine would be the perfect choice for our Trellis Scarf.
Of course the Trellis Scarf has more going for it than just the color. For starters, it's fast to knit (and by fast, we mean really fast, size 35/19mm needles). Better yet, if you take a little care as you work, you won't be left with any pesky ends to weave in.
What's the secret? The tails for the cast-on and bound-off stitches become part of the crazy-awesome fringe. Take care of all the other ends with a quick spit-splice. Knitty has a great tutorial that explains exactly how to do this.
This project is so much fun you're bound to make more than one. Luckily there are lots of Bulky colors to choose from. I already have a bunch lined up for my holiday gift list (I'm keeping the Shine for me!). Which color will you use?
The Details
Designer: Ellen Huber
• Width: 10″
• Size S (19mm) hook, or size needed to obtain gauge
Yarn: Blue Sky Alpacas Bulky, shown in Shine #1225
Pattern available at Blue Sky Alpacas Stockists
Digital Pattern available in the Blue Sky Alpacas Pattern Store
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The last time we posted about barn kittens, Sara and Lulu, they were happily settling into their new barn home, keeping company with a slightly older male barn cat named Bullwinkle whom our rescue organization, Shelter Me Inc, had placed about a year earlier. Bullwinkle's companion had disappeared, probably due to a predator and he was an unhappy guy. Jeff, his devoted owner, asked us to find new companions and we arranged for the New Hamphire-based rescue, Feline Friends, to bring Sara and Lulu to the barn.
After spending the winter in Jeff's barn office and wandering in-and-out of their acclimation cage safely ensconced in the barn, Jeff finally released the girls last weekend and today, we received this happy note from him-
Well, they're out! Sara and Lulu were free to roam starting last Saturday and boy, have they been roaming. I have more things in the barn that are knocked over, pulled down, tipped sideways or pulled apart than I've ever seen before. Clearly, they're enjoying their new found ability to explore. We've seen Sara outside the barn a couple of times sitting near the dog yard and the chicken coop. Neither cat sleeps in with Bullwinkle yet but they both come back into the shop quickly when I ring their dinner bell. All three cats get along quite well although Bullwinkle watches over them with a look that says "What's wrong with those two little kits, jumping around and bumping into me like that? They need some growing up and I hope it happens soon". When Bullwinkle is in the shop and the little ones come in, they both run up to him and bump his nose. Sometimes he rolls over and tries to play. Most of the time he just squints his eyes showing that he's OK with their energy.
Lulu "caught" a dead oak leaf earlier this week and spent a good hour shaking it madly and then dropping it only to pounce on it a few seconds later. It's good practice for the real thing which I'm sure will turn up in the near future now that spring has arrived (I could be wrong about that after this past winter). Sara is still very skittish but calmly stays in the shop with me every night even if the doors are open. If Lulu is walking by me, I can reach down and pick her up. She'll let me carry her around for about five minutes before she gets restless. And here's some exciting news.
Tuesday night I took down the cages and moved them from the shop into the barn. All three cats were interested in what was going on and when I was done, I relaxed in my recliner to watch TV. As usual, Bullwinkle was up in my lap immediately and stretched out from my waist to my ankles. He was warm….I was tired and we both fell asleep almost immediately. Hours later I woke up and glanced to my right. I saw Lulu sitting on the floor looking up at me, almost expecting something. Behind her, up on the window shelf was Bullwinkle. BUT, I felt a cat on my lap and sure enough, I looked down and there was Sara all curled up and sleeping soundly. I stroked her for a few minutes and before I knew it, Lulu jumped up and curled up too. We stayed like that until almost 3:00 AM before I finally got up and formally went to bed.
So, all is well so far. I've include some pics from last night. The two "kittens" eating as well as one picture of Bullwinkle being "Lord of the Shop". I had just finished grooming him and he was looking especially good so I snapped his photo. Of course, he's sitting on my hat. I'll never get that hat back again!
I wish you all a Happy Easter and send you my thanks for all your help and support.


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Lloyds Shrinks Footprint Outside The U.K.
Lloyds Banking Group made two moves Monday to scale back its international business lines.
It is looking to sell part of its international wealth business, people close to the matter said Monday. Lloyds has been looking in recent months to sell at least a substantial stake of the business to a top-tier wealth management company, according to a person familiar with the talks, which are at an early stage and haven't yet identified a likely buyer.
The business has offices in several locations around the globe including Miami, Dubai and Monaco, according to its website.
Earlier Monday Lloyds said it sold its Spanish retail and private banking operations to Banco Sabadell.
That deal follows earlier disposals in countries including Ecuador, Panama and Paraguay, as Chief Executive Antonio Horta-Osorio seeks to narrow the bank's focus to the U.K. and a dozen other key markets such as the U.S. and Australia. In a March presentation, Mr. Horta-Osorio said the bank has announced or completed exits in 12 of 15 targeted countries. It's been nearly two years since he started a three-year plan to improve returns and turnaround the 39% state-owned bank.
Analysts have cheered the reductions, even when they involve booking losses, since they help lower Lloyds' long-term capital needs, and make the bank a "cleaner" investment. Lloyds will take a £250 million ($388.2 million) loss on the Spanish business, while cutting risk-weighted assets by around £600 million.
Ian Gordon, an analyst at Investec Securities, said the Spanish exit adds to recent, "nuggets of good news for the bank, feeding heightened expectations ahead of (Tuesday's first-quarter earnings update)."
However, the fruits of Lloyds' recovery plan may only truly materialize when the U.K. economy picks up, and lending becomes more profitable. In the nearer-term, analysts want to know how big the bank's capital hole is under an exercise by the U.K.'s Financial Policy Committee in March, and how it will be filled.
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United played Chelsea for a fifth and final time this season. Chelsea needed to get something from the game to keep up the pressure on Spurs ahead of their big clash on Wednesday whilst United are champions already and although they had nothing to play for, a strong side was still put out, albeit with a few changes. As ever, we welcome comments from both sets of supporters.


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College Hockey:Iuorio's 'greasy' goal lifts Niagara to first AHA win
LEWISTON, N.Y. — After a sophomore season in which he trailed only senior stars Paul Zanette and Bryan Haczyk in scoring, the points haven't squeezed out as easily for Niagara's Giancarlo Iuorio this year.
Coach Dave Burkholder has been pleased with his effort, but Iuorio came into Friday night's Atlantic Hockey battle against Holy Cross with just a single point — an assist — in the Purple Eagles' first six starts.
His strong play was finally rewarded, however, as Crusaders goalie Matt Ginn's only slip-up of the evening led to a "greasy" goal for Iuorio, snapping a 2-2 tie in the third and pushing Niagara to a 4-2 victory at Dwyer Arena.
Isaac Kohls bounced the puck in from the point for Niagara (2-3-2, 1-1-1 AHA) and workhorse Matt Ginn, who made 28 saves in an otherwise yeoman's effort, couldn't corral it. The loose puck dropped down to Iuorio, who simply stuffed it in to give the hosts their first lead of the night with under 13 minutes to play.
After notching 33 points in 31 games last season, including nine goals, the lull before his first marker of this season made the celebration even more special.
"Coach always says, go around the net and you'll find a greasy one," said Iuorio, who also had an assist and was named the game's first star. "It feels good. I've talked about it with coach a bunch of times before practice. He just told me to keep working hard and don't worry about the points or anything like that. I listened to him, kept battling and one snuck in for me."
Holy Cross (2-3-0, 1-2-0) got the start it wanted, scoring twice in the first period, including Adam Schmidt's power-play goal with just 12 seconds remaining before the first intermission. For Schmidt, the tally pushed his goal-scoring streak to four games. Rob Linsmayer scored earlier for the Crusaders.
Burkholder, who's been known to have a temperamental trigger finger when it comes to pulling goalies, said he wasn't ready to give the hook to starting goalie Cody Campbell, who was chased last weekend in a 7-6 loss to Colgate. Waiting in the wings was freshman Colby Drost, who was the AHA's goalie of the week after knocking off No. 16 Colgate 2-1 in the second half of a home-and-home.
"He settled in. I thought he deserved that chance. We were going to monitor him," Burkholder said of Campbell, while noting that Drost will get the start in Saturday's rematch. "He's a competitor. There were a couple times when he got us whistles when we needed whistles. His game management after that was really good."
The Purple Eagles responded with a big second period as defenseman Kevin Ryan scored his first goal of the season with an extra man as Holy Cross nearly completed killing a 5-on-3 situation.
Freshman Sam Alfieri continued his stellar play by zinging one past Ginn from the slot just 92 seconds later, knotting the game at 2-2.
Holy Cross coach Paul Pearl said his team maintained its effort, but a pair of calls on Andrew Cox and Matt Clune breathed new life into the hosts.
"We took two stupid penalties and it changed the whole complexion of the game," said Pearl. "We didn't change anything, we just got really stupid."
That led to Iuorio's goal in the third, which Pearl said didn't shake his faith in Ginn. The freshman netminder has played every minute of the Crusaders' five games thus far, and already has a huge win over No. 7 Boston University under his belt this season.
"It took a bounce. It happens. We like Matt, Matt's a good goalie," Pearl said. "It looked like it bounced a little bit, chipped up on him. Their guy did a good job going to the net."
Jeff Hannan, the son of former NHL player Dave Hannan, added an empty-netter in his return to action. Hannan had been out since last season with a concussion, and he and senior Danny Baco — who also suffered a concussion last year — returned to give the Purple Eagles some much-needed senior leadership.
That might have been one reason the Purple Eagles didn't lose focus when they fell behind early.
"I was pretty happy with the response," Burkholder said. "The great news is, the last 40 minutes, we slowly took the game back."
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Macro Watch – Europe & Central Asia: The last months of 2011 were a turning point for the Icelandic Housing Financing Fund (HHF). The HFF is a government-owned company focused on granting mortgage loans to households, municipalities, and enterprises. It was one of the worst hit by the real estate market collapse in the country in 2008, when many Icelandic households faced difficulties in performing their mortgage loans. In March 2011 the Icelandic government had no option but to bail out the HFF by granting ISK 33 billion in state aid.
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Following the government's involvement in the fund's operations and restored confidence in the Icelandic financial system — in February, three years after the collapse, Fitch Ratings upgraded the credit rating of the country — HFF bonds have become one of the most secure investments in the country. Rising real estate prices also contributed to the recovery of trust in the HFF.
The yields on HFF bonds continued to fall during the first quarter of 2012, reflecting declining risk. During the third week of February, the yields on HFF bonds with maturity 2024, 2034, and 2044 dropped to 0.867%, 1.952%, and 2.402%, respectively, which were the lowest levels since the HFF was founded. The bond yields with maturity 2014 continue to hold their negative levels, making them one of the lowest-risk financial instruments.
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Cardiac disease
Note: Issues related specifically to the evaluation of carotid or peripheral vascular disease are beyond the scope of the guideline.
To provide recommendations regarding cardiac risk evaluation and management in kidney transplantation and liver transplantation candidates
Candidates for kidney or liver transplantation
The American Heart Association (AHA) Writing Committee on Cardiac Disease Evaluation and Management Among Kidney and Liver Transplantation Candidates conducted a comprehensive review of the literature relevant to perioperative cardiac evaluation of potential kidney or liver transplant recipients, including the prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in these populations; incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) before and after transplantation; accuracy of clinical risk markers, symptoms, and noninvasive testing before and after transplant listing for detecting active cardiac conditions and CAD; and clinical outcomes of revascularization and the medical management of atherosclerosis.
Literature searches were conducted in the following databases: PubMed, MEDLINE, and the Cochrane Library (including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register). Searches were limited to the English language, the years 1990 through March 2010, and human subjects. Related article searches were conducted in MEDLINE to find additional relevant articles. Finally, committee members recommended applicable articles outside the scope of the formal searches.
Evidence Level: Estimate of Certainty (Precision) of Procedure/Treatment Effect*
A Consistent direction and magnitude of effect from multiple randomized controlled clinical trials
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C Case-series studies or extrapolations from Level B studies
*A recommendation with Level of Evidence B or C does not imply that the recommendation is weak. Although randomized trials are not available, there may be a very clear consensus that a particular test or therapy is effective.
This report evaluates the state of evidence regarding cardiac risk evaluation and management in kidney transplantation and liver transplantation candidates, considering data specific to these populations and the appropriateness of extrapolations when data from these populations are lacking.
The American Heart Association (AHA) Writing Committee on Cardiac Disease Evaluation and Management among Kidney and Liver Transplantation Candidates conducted a comprehensive review of the literature. Each section was assigned to a lead author and coauthor. Interval drafts were discussed during conference calls and two face-to-face meetings. Recommendations included an evaluation of the strength of the evidence for or against a particular procedure or treatment in terms of the magnitude of effect (evidence class) (see the "Rating Scheme for the Strength of the Recommendations" field) and estimate of certainty (evidence level) (see the "Rating Scheme for the Strength of the Evidence" field). Recommendations were subjected to formal, anonymous voting. The volume of text devoted to cardiac evaluation and management issues for kidney and liver transplantation candidates, respectively, reflects the relative sizes of the target populations; the number of patients awaiting and receiving kidney transplants is >4 times the number of patients awaiting and receiving liver allografts. Correspondingly, a substantially larger number of publications to date have addressed these issues for kidney compared with liver transplantation candidates.
Class of Recommendation: Magnitude of Procedure/Treatment Effect
Class I Conditions for which there is evidence for and/or general agreement that the procedure/therapy is useful and effective
Class II Conditions for which there is conflicting evidence and/or a divergence of opinion about the usefulness/efficacy of performing the procedure/therapy
Class IIa Weight of evidence/opinion is in favor of usefulness/efficacy
Class IIb Usefulness/efficacy is less well established by evidence/opinion
Class III Conditions for which there is evidence and/or general agreement that the procedure/therapy is not useful/effective and in some cases may be harmful
The guideline developers reviewed published cost analyses.
Expert peer review of American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statements is conducted by the AHA Office of Science Operations. The original guideline document was approved by the AHA Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee on October 11, 2011, and by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees on November 16, 2011.
Additionally, the document was reviewed by a group of external peer reviewers and by representatives of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS), American Society of Transplantation (AST), and National Kidney Foundation (NKF).
Message from the Guideline Developers: The American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology are all in the process of completing updated versions of our Guidelines for Perioperative Care. Our respective writing committees are undertaking a careful analysis of all relevant validated studies and always incorporate appropriate new trials and meta-analyses into our evidence review. In the interim, our current joint position is that the initiation of beta blockers in patients who will undergo non-cardiac surgery should not be considered routine, but should be considered carefully by each patient's treating physician on a case-by-case basis. Please see the expression of concern which is free to view in Eur Heart J (2013) 34 (44): 3460; doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/eht431.
Definitions for the Evidence Level (A-C) and Class of Recommendation (I-III) are provided at the end of the "Major Recommendations" field.
Determining Whether the Transplantation Candidate Has an Active Cardiac Condition
Summary and Recommendations Regarding Noninvasive Stress Testing in Kidney Transplantation Candidates without Active Cardiac Conditions
Cardiac Surveillance after Listing for Transplantation
Supplemental Testing
Evidence for Resting Echocardiography in Kidney Transplantation Candidates
Valve Disease
Pulmonary Hypertension
Evidence for Preoperative 12-Lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) in Kidney Transplantation Candidates
Biomarkers as Tools for Cardiac Evaluation in Kidney Transplantation Candidates
Evidence for Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) in Kidney Transplantation Candidates
Recommendations for Referral to a Cardiologist
Recommendations for Coronary Revascularization and Related Care before Kidney Transplantation
Recommendations for PCI and Duration of Thienopyridine Therapy before Kidney Transplantation
Preoperative Cardiovascular Risk Factor Modification in Renal Transplantation Candidates
Lipid Management in Kidney Transplantation Candidates
Perioperative Medical Management of Cardiovascular Risk before Kidney Transplantation
Postoperative Medical Management of Cardiovascular Risk after Kidney Transplantation
Treatment of Elevated LDL Cholesterol Levels in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Evaluation for CAD in Liver Transplantation Candidates
Management of Flow-Limiting CAD in Liver Transplantation Candidates
Evaluation for Pulmonary Hypertension in Liver Transplantation Candidates
Medical Management of Cardiovascular Risk in Liver Transplantation Candidates
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The type of supporting evidence is identified and graded for each recommendation (see the "Major Recommendations" field).
Appropriate evaluation and management of kidney and liver transplantation candidates to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease
An implementation strategy was not provided.
Not applicable: The guideline was not adapted from another source.
American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology Foundation
Writing Committee on Cardiac Disease Evaluation and Management Among Kidney and Liver Transplantation Candidates
Committee Members: Krista L. Lentine, MD, MS (Co-Chair); Salvatore P. Costa, MD (Co-Chair); Matthew R. Weir, MD, FAHA; John F. Robb, MD, FAHA; Lee A. Fleisher, MD, FAHA; Bertram L. Kasiske, MD; Robert L. Carithers, MD; Michael Ragosta, MD; Kline Bolton, MD; Andrew D. Auerbach, MD; Kim A. Eagle, MD, FAHA (Chair)
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See Appendices 1 and 2 in the original guideline document for a complete list of disclosures for the writing group and reviewers.
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General: 2003 Mercury Bay Open Champion...A few years of experience under her belt makes Miriam Kraschinski one of the nation's top golfers... An integral part of the lineup that won the 2002 Pac-10 Championship and placed second at the 2002 NCAA Championships... Can routinely post scores of par or better...The first recruit to enroll at Arizona under head coach Greg Allen.
Junior (2003-04): Carded a season low 222 (+6) in the PING/ASU Invitational...Tied for 22nd at the PING/ASU Invitational...Tied for 34th at the Wildcat Invitational...Shot a 230 (+17) at the Wildcat Invitational...Posted a 78.66 stroke average in fall competition...Participated in two events during the fall...Competed as an individual in the Mason Rudolph Invitational...First saw action on the course at the Mason Rudolph Invitational where she posted 235 (+19) to tied for 57th.
Sophomore (2002-03): One of only three golfers to compete in all four of Arizona's fall events... Finished the fall season with a tie for 40th place at the Auburn Tiger-Derby Invitational... Tied for 49th place at the Stanford-Pepsi Intercollegiate... Shot six-over-par 222 to tie for fifth place at the Mason Rudolph Collegiate Championships, one of three Wildcats in the top five... Opened her sophomore campaign by winning the NCAA Fall Preview... Finished with a total of one-under-par 215, which included identical second and third rounds of two-under-par 70...Began the spring events with the Regional Challenge tied for 13th scoring 10-over-par 152...She shot 28-over-par 241 in the Wildcat Invitational tie for 71st place...While in Hawaii at the Dr. Thompson Rainbow Invitational, she tied for 47th place, shooting 30-over-par 246...At the PING/ASU Invitational Kraschinski tied for 21st with a score of nine-over-par 225...In the Pac-10 Championships she tied for 26th place with the score of 17-over-par 233...As one of the five golfers to compete in the NCAA Regional, Kraschinski went on to shoot 13-over-par 226...In the NCAA Championship she tied for 73rd with the score of 26-over-par 314.
Freshman (2001-02): A highly-touted recruit who had an immediate impact on the Wildcat lineup... Tied for 88th place at the NCAA Championships with a total of 18-over-par 306... Her three-round score of 230 at the national championship tournament marked a career-best 54-hole score... Carded a career-best round of 74 in the final round of the NCAA West Regional where she tied for 43rd... Closed the regional tournament at 16-over-par 232... Shared 26th place with fellow Wildcat Cristina Baena at the Pac-10 Championships... Shot 18-over-par 234, including a final-round of 75 (+3), at the conference tournament... Claimed a tie for 53rd place at the PING/ASU Invitational, the Wildcats' final regular season event... Shot a three-round score of 231 (+15)... Her performance in Tempe, Ariz., included a second round of 3-over-par 75, which matched her career-low round... Along with the rest of the team and field, battled terrible conditions at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational including fierce winds and freezing temperatures... Still managed a top-25 finish at the tournament in Austin, Texas... Finished in a tie for 24th at 26-over-par 239... Tied for 65th at the Wildcat Invitational where she competed as an individual... Opened play at the TRW Regional Challenge with a first-round 75, her low-round of the season... Finished in a tie for 43rd place at the TRW... Claimed a tie for 39th place at the Auburn Tiger-Derby Invitational, her low finish of the year... Shared 54th place at the Hawaii Fall Invitational after shooting 21-over-par 237... Made her Arizona debut at the NCAA Fall Preview, finishing tied for 93rd place... With two rounds of 8-over-par 80 at the NCAA Fall Preview.
High School: Earned two varsity letters in golf for coach Neil Postlethwait at the Saddlebrook Academy in Wesley Chapel, Fla... Led team to a conference championship in her senior year... Named to the principal's honor roll in 10th, 11th and 12th grades... Member of 2000 American Junior Golf Association All-America team... Also member of Florida Junior Golf Association All-America team in 2000... Won four tournaments in 2000... International Junior Golf Tour first team All-American in 2000... Finished in the top ten at the Florida state high school championships twice.


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Artist: The Golden Dogs
Song: Weapon
Recorded at Soundscapes, September 23, 2010.The Golden Dogs - Weapon
My notes for this set can be found here.
Artist: The Golden Dogs
Song: Weapon
Recorded at Soundscapes, September 23, 2010.The Golden Dogs - Weapon
My notes for this set can be found here.
Founded as a blog about one curmudgeon's love affair with the em dash, Mechanical Forest Sound has grown to become a community-based archive of local musical culture. Assuming that "independent music" isn't just boys with guitars and "culture" isn't just some sort of pageant, MFS is an investigation of a wide range of artists, reflecting on concerts as shared experiences, acts of citizenship and a chance to get down — fuzzy photographs and clear-sounding original live recordings a specialty.
Current manifestations of this project include Track Could Bend, a monthly concert series featuring "improvised music and weird rock offshoots", presented in a casual environment.
At one point I wrote full-on concert reviews, and for longer I thought I would catch up and write about shows in the past. But these days, because of, y'know, life, do not expect much in the way of full show reviews — but live recordings with blurbs will be posted as quickly after the fact as is feasible.
Check out my original live recordings from many of the gigs discussed here.
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Music Gallery Departures Series (feat. Endangered Blood / The Mike Smith Company / Body Help) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-06-28 (Tuesday) [FB event]
Somewhere There Presents (feat. Tatsuya Nakatani [solo percussion] / Ken Aldcroft/Rob Clutton/Tatsuya Nakatani / Horseman, Pass By) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-06-29 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Silent Shout presents: No Borders Kitchen Benefit Show (feat. Sean Nicholas Savage / Cadence Weapon / Calvin Love [solo acoustic] / Petra Glynt) / The Garrison 2016-07-01 (Friday) [FB event]
Okavango African Orchestra / Harbourfront Centre – Concert Stage 2016-07-03 (Sunday – free! afternoon show @ 2:30 p.m.!) [more info]
Track Could Bend #16: unc_RLed (feat. Germaine Liu with Jonathan Adjemian and Matt Smith / Nicole Rampersaud with Colin Fisher / Allison Cameron with Jason Doell and Stephen Parkinson) / Dundas Video 2016-07-05 (Tuesday – PWYC!) [FB event]
Invocation presents (Dirty Inputs [The Runcible launch party!] / Cares / Memorex) / Array Space 2016-07-07 (Thursday) [FB event]
Feast In The East 58 (feat. Doomsquad with Not The Wind, Not The Flag / Isla Craig / Pantayo) / Prairie Drive Park 2016-07-09 (Saturday – outside! free! all ages!) [FB event]
Music at Tibet Kitchen (feat. Simone Schmidt / Valueblast [Josh Cole/Matt Pencer/Thom Gill] / Blunt Chunks / Karen Ng) / Tibet Kitchen & Garden 2016-07-10 (Sunday – excellent patio vibes! afternoon show @ 2 p.m.!) [FB event]
Habari Africa Festival (feat. Mamy Kanouté / Djely Tapa / more TBA) / Harbourfront Centre 2016-08-12–2016-08-14 (Friday–Sunday – free!) [more info]
Camp Wavelength (feat. Cloud Nothings / Operators / Young Galaxy / Odonis Odonis/ Jef Elise Barbara's Black Space / Guerilla Toss / LAL / Bruce Peninsula / Moss Lime / Brendan Philip / Spek Won / Bart / Casper Skulls / Michelle Mcadorey / For Esmé / WOLF SAGA / more TBA) / Artscape Gibraltar Point 2016-08-19–2016-08-21 (Friday–Sunday)
Dolly Parton / M----- Ampitheatre 2016-09-09 (Friday)
These are shows that I can vouch for, but that I probably just won't have time to make it to.
Jerry Paper & Easy Feelings Unlimited (Jaunt / Dougie Poole / Ducks Unlimited [first show! members of Germaphobes/Blonde Elvis!]) / Smiling Buddha 2016-06-27 (Monday) [FB event]
Graeme Stephen Trio / The Emmet Ray 2016-06-27 (Monday) [FB event]
Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche (Several Futures) / Monarch Tavern 2016-06-28 (Tuesday) [FB event]
Nick Fraser Presents (feat. Nick Fraser/Emily Denison/Anthony Argotoff/Victor Vrankujl) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-06-28 (Tuesday) [FB event]
Wolf's Nacho Wednesdays (feat. Fahmid Nibesh/Matt Smith/Jonathan Adjemian [early] / Nidus [late]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-06-29 (Wednesday)
Jaggery (Clara Engel) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-06-30 (Thursday) [FB event]
Wavelength 704 (feat. Xiu Xiu / Ice Cream / New Fries / La timpa) / The Garrison 2016-06-30 (Thursday – $3 with RSVP) [FB event]
Burn Down The Capital/Somewhere There/Rough Idea present (feat. Flat Earth Society / Pugs & Crows with Tony Wilson / Lemon Water) / Monarch Tavern 2016-06-30 (Thursday) [FB event]
Crosss (Foam / Jons / Wido) / Smiling Buddha 2016-07-01 (Friday) [FB event]
Burn Down the Capital presents (feat. SEF III [members of Drainolith + Horse Lords] / Prince Nifty / Fake Humans / Fresh Flesh) / 8-Eleven 2016-07-01 (Friday) [FB event]
Pride Toronto: Alternaqueer (feat. Vag Halen / JD Samson) / South Stage 2016-07-01 (Friday – free! all-ages! outside! fabulous!) [FB event]
Cowboy Junkies / Harbourfront Centre – Concert Stage 2016-07-02 (Saturday – free!) [more info]
Blunt Object: More music of Carla Bley / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-07-02 (Saturday) [FB event]
FASTER Presents: Summer Sounds (feat. Bob Vespaziani/Ambrose Pottie/Brian Abbott/Kayla Milmine / Aki Takahashi + guests / Naman Cale [solo vibraphone + effects] / Brian Abbott) / Gerrard Art Space 2016-07-02 (Saturday) [FB event]
Avesta Nakhaei's Collective Improvisation / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-07-03 (Sunday – afternoon show @ 2:30 p.m.!)
Nite Comfort 35 (feat. JFM / Let There Be Light) / Handlebar 2016-07-03 (Sunday) [FB event]
Manticore (Within / Cares) / 8-Eleven 2016-07-03 (Sunday) [FB event]
Night Owl Festival (feat. Moonwalks / Wine Lips / Crazy Bones) / The Silver Dollar Room 2016-07-03 (Sunday) [FB event]
Nicole Dollanganger (Chastity / Drofnosura) / Smiling Buddha 2016-07-07 (Thursday – all ages!) [FB event]
The Scenics [T.O. first-wave art-punks!] (Fat as Fuck / The Two Koreas) / Rivoli 2016-07-07 (Thursday) [FB event]
Os Tropies / Harbourfront Centre – Stage in the Round 2016-07-08 (Friday – free!) [more info]
Invocation presents (feat. Nite Jewel / New Chance / Tenderness) / The Garrison 2016-07-08 (Friday) [FB event]
HAVN Records split VHS release [music + live visuals!] (feat. DF / Versa) / The White House 2016-07-08 (Friday) [FB event]
Orlando Julius and the Afro Soundz / Harbourfront Centre – Concert Stage 2016-07-09 (Saturday – free!) [more info]
Not Dead Yet (feat. Crazy Spirit / S.H.I.T. / V.C.R. / Prom Nite / Tashme) / Soybomb 2016-07-09 (Saturday) [FB event]
Tonkapuma (Worst Gift / Alpha Strategy / WLMRT) / The 300 Club 2016-07-09 (Saturday) [FB event]
Molly Nilsson (Scott Hardware / Katana) / Double Double Land 2016-07-09 (Saturday) [FB event]
Vallens [Consent LP release party!] (Casper Skulls / Yi [Jessica Upton Crowe's new project feat. members of Rolemodel]) / Smiling Buddha 2016-07-09 (Saturday) [FB event]
Not Dead Yet presents (feat. Rakta / The Noids / Triage / The Brain / Inactivist) / Faith/Void 2016-07-11 (Monday) [FB event]
Yonatan Gat (The Holy Gasp / The Sulks) / Smiling Buddha 2016-07-13 (Wednesday) [FB event]
High Waisted (Blonde Elvis / Explorer) / The Silver Dollar Room 2016-07-13 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Nap Eyes (Calvin Love) / Double Double Land 2016-07-13 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Live on the Patio (feat. Daniel Nebiat) / Roy Thomson Hall Patio 2016-07-14 (Thursday – free! outside! early show, sets @ 6:30 and 8:00 p.m.!) [more info]
Prince Ness [cassette release! (The Holiday Crowd / Persian Rugs) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-07-14 (Thursday) [FB event]
Live on the Patio (feat. Hampaté & Sahel Blues) / Roy Thomson Hall Patio 2016-07-15 (Friday – free! outside! early show, sets @ 6:30 and 8:00 p.m.!) [more info]
Melkbelly (Planet Creature / Trim Hogs) / Smiling Buddha 2016-07-17 (Sunday) [FB event]
Vector Festival Wrap Party (feat. Castle If) / Reposado 2016-07-17 (Sunday – free!) [FB event]
Così e Così (Bears & Children / The Databats / L-Spex) / Smiling Buddha 2016-07-18 (Monday) [FB event]
Weird Lines (Adrian Teacher and the Subs / Jon Mckiel) / Monarch Tavern 2016-07-19 (Tuesday) [FB event]
Cloud Becomes Your Hand (Bile Sister / Fake Humans / Mr. Joy) / Double Double Land 2016-07-19 (Tuesday – all ages!) [FB event]
Mar On Music presents (feat. BART / Jay Arner / Supermoon) / The Piston 2016-07-20 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Naghmeh Farahmand & Pejman Zahedian ["ancient Persian music for a new age"] / Toronto Music Garden 2016-07-21 (Thursday – free! all ages! outside!) [more info]
The Elwins / Harbourfront Centre – Concert Stage 2016-07-22 (Friday – free!) [more info]
Nhapitapi / Island Café 2016-07-22 (Friday – PWYC!) [FB event]
Evening Hymns / Adelaide Hall 2016-07-22 (Friday) [more info]
The Radiation Flowers (B-17 / Vypers / Denim Skeletons) / The Silver Dollar Room 2016-07-22 (Friday) [FB event]
UNITY Concert (feat. Dam Funk / Zaki Ibrahim / The Soul Motivators / Above Top Secret / Sacha Williamson / Dynesti Williams / Rise Ashen / Lex Leosis / Testment & Nilla w/ Ghettosocks) / Yonge-Dundas Square 2016-07-23 (Saturday – free! outside! all ages! all day long!) [FB event]
Great Lake Swimmers / Harbourfront Centre – Concert Stage 2016-07-23 (Saturday – free!) [more info]
Nhapitapi / Burdock Music Hall 2016-07-23 (Saturday) [FB event]
Steve Adamyk Band (Needles//Pins / Sonic Avenues / First Base) / Smiling Buddha 2016-07-23 (Saturday) [FB event]
Subhadra Vijaykumar/Vasudevan Govindarajan/Ramana Indrakumar ["Carnatic classical music from South India"] / Toronto Music Garden 2016-07-24 (Sunday – free! all ages! outside! afternoon show @ 4 p.m.!) [more info]
LUKA [Summon Up a Monkey King release show!] (Eucalyptus [early show] / Stephen Prickett [late show]) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-07-26 (Tuesday – early + late shows!) [FB event]
VATS (HSY / Retired / Rambo Tonka / The Ghoul) / Faith/Void 2016-07-28 (Thursday) [FB event]
Heaven For Real [album release show!] (Ice Cream / Eggs [new project from Tim Fagan!] / Carl Didur) / The Silver Dollar Room 2016-07-30 (Saturday) [FB event]
Peaches (The Hidden Cameras) / Massey Hall 2016-08-04 (Thursday) [FB event]
Sinkane / Harbourfront Centre – Concert Stage 2016-08-05 (Friday – free!) [more info]
Freak Heat Waves (New Fries / Cindy Lee / Hellier Ulysses) / The Garrison 2016-08-05 (Friday) [FB event]
Jungle Brothers / Harbourfront Centre – Concert Stage 2016-08-06 (Saturday – free!) [more info]
Eric Chenaux (Ryan Driver) / Burdock Music Hall 2016-08-13 (Saturday) [FB event]
case/lang/veirs / The Danforth Music Hall 2016-08-16 (Tuesday) [FB event]
Live on the Patio (feat. Aline Morales) / Roy Thomson Hall Patio 2016-08-26 (Friday – free! outside! early show, sets @ 6:30 and 8:00 p.m.!) [more info]
Weaves [record release show!] / The Horseshoe Tavern 2016-08-27 (Saturday) [FB event]
Taktus ["contemporary compositions for dual marimbas"] / Toronto Music Garden 2016-09-01 (Thursday – free! all ages! outside!) [more info]
Eucalyptus / Island Café 2016-09-02 (Friday – early show! island vibes!) [FB event]
Revue & Shadow Show (feat. Kith & Kin) / Island Café 2016-09-05 (Monday – early show @ 6:30! PWYC!) [FB event]
2016 Gigs
Track Could Bend #10 (feat. Cris Derksen / {AN} Eel + Ronley Teper / Man Made Hill)
Dundas Video 2016-01-05 (Tuesday)
Channel: Vlog (feat. Burglar / Doom Tickler / Brigitte Bardon't)
Katzman Contemporary 2016-01-12 (Tuesday)
Channel: Reality (feat. Sylvermayne / Hexzuul / Fin)
Katzman Contemporary 2016-01-13 (Wednesday)
Casual Drones 13 (feat. E ADI / Fleshtone Aura / Eric James Mayer / Ando Laj / Nyles Miszczyk & Justin M Ladd / North Atlantic Drift / Derek McKeon)
Smiling Buddha 2016-01-14 (Thursday)
Long Winter 4.3 (feat. TUNS / Vallens / LOOM / Michelle McAdorey / Indoor Voices / STÜKA / Pantayo / Khôra / STRANDS / kiwi jr. / THE SEAMS / Bossie / Overnight)
The Great Hall 2016-01-16 (Saturday)
This is Awesome
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-01-20 (Wednesday)
Josh Cole Quartet
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-01-20 (Wednesday)
Piano Party 4 (feat. Anastasia Tchernikova / Jesse Levine)
Ratio 2016-01-21 (Thursday)
Wavelength 686: Class of 2016 #5 (feat. Elliott Vincent Jones / Nailbiter / Germaphobes / Scott Hardware / West Nile)
The Silver Dollar Room 2016-01-22 (Friday)
Adam Rudolph: Go: Organic
The Music Gallery 2016-01-23 (Saturday)
Nick Fraser/Emily Denison/Josh Cole/Trevor Hogg
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-01-26 (Tuesday)
Lina Allemano's Titanium Riot (Lina Allemano Four)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-01-26 (Tuesday)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-01-27 (Wednesday)
Long Winter: Galleria (feat. New Fries / VCR / The Highest Order / S.H.I.T. / Teenanger)
Galleria Mall 2016-01-30 (Saturday)
Endless City: Invoking the Spirit/Vibrational Healing (feat. Cetacea / Cares / Fog Spirits / Blunt Chunks / Cyclopean Wall)
1161 Dundas St W. 2016-01-31 (Sunday)
Somewhere There Presents (feat. Radio Intro / Amy Brandon)
Array Space 2016-01-31 (Sunday)
Track Could Bend #11 (feat. David Jones/Cares/Deenzi)
Dundas Video 2016-02-02 (Tuesday)
Emergents II (feat. Lisa Conway / Linsey Wellman)
The Music Gallery 2016-02-05 (Friday)
Several Futures (Kurt Marble / The SULKS / SPOILS)
CineCycle 2016-02-06 (Saturday)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-02-07 (Sunday)
Wavelength Music Festival 16 – Night 1 (feat. Foxtrott / Calvin Love / Keita Juma / Blunt Chunks / Organ Mood)
The Garrison 2016-02-12 (Friday)
Wavelength Music Festival 16 – Afternoon All-ages Show (feat. Foxes in Fiction / Merganzer / Steven Lambke / Partner)
Markham House 2016-02-13 (Saturday)
Wavelength Music Festival 16 – Night 2 (feat. Duchess Says / Soupcans / Beliefs / Partner / VERSA)
The Garrison 2016-02-13 (Saturday) [FB event]
Wavelength Music Festival 16 – Night 3 (feat. Thus Owls / She-Devils / Prince Innocence / Clairmont The Second / Pantayo)
The Garrison 2016-02-14 (Sunday)
Acoustic Laptop Music (feat. Allison Cameron/John Oswald/Dan Pencer/Mark Segger/Nicholas Buligan / Victor Bateman/Rob Grieve/Tom Richards/Joe Sorbara/Steve Ward)
Array Space 2016-02-16 (Tuesday)
Long Winter 4.4 (feat. The Wooden Sky / For Esmé / Pavilion / DATU / Pet Sun / Tokyo Air Show / Ice Cream / Poster Boy / Craig Dunsmuir and Dun-Dun Band / The Jim Storie Juniors / Myriad3 / The Nick Fraser Sextet)
The Great Hall 2016-02-19 (Friday)
Inyrdisk Death Match (feat. Not The Wind, Not The Flag / Fleshtone Aura / Doom Tickler / Brothers In Milk)
1161 Dundas St. West 2016-02-25 (Thursday)
Somewhere There Creative Music Festival 2016 – Show 1 (feat. Joe Strutt [talk] / The Nick Storring Band / SlowPitchSound / Ronley Teper & The Lipliners)
The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2016-02-26 (Friday)
Somewhere There Creative Music Festival 2016 – Show 2 (feat. Solo Improvisation Roundtable plus solo sets from Peter Lutek / Germaine Liu / Paul Newman / Kyle Brenders / Ken Aldcroft / Nicole Rampersaud)
The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2016-02-27 (Saturday)
Somewhere There Creative Music Festival 2016 – Show 3 (feat. Interstellar Tentet / Ugly Beauties / Kyle Brenders Ensemble / The Polka Dogs)
The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2016-02-27 (Saturday)
Somewhere There Creative Music Festival 2016 – Show 4 (feat. The Humber Composers Collective / Swankey, Duncan, and Oore)
The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2016-02-28 (Sunday)
Somewhere There Creative Music Festival 2016 – Show 5 (feat. FOG / Ways / THREADS (Quintet))
The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2016-02-28 (Sunday)
Track Could Bend #12 (feat. Ways+ / James Bailey / Remedy Malahyde)
Dundas Video 2016-03-01 (Tuesday)
Older Altar: Music by Colin Labadie and Jeffrey Roberts (feat. Jeffrey Roberts / CelloPhone / Wesley Shen)
Canadian Music Centre 2016-03-04 (Friday)
Somewhere There presents: All-Set! Triple Album Launch (feat. Ali Berkok / Mike Smith and Jonathan Adjemian / See Through Five)
Array Space 2016-03-05 (Saturday)
Somewhere There presents (feat. Jeffrey Roberts / Heidi Chan/Branko Džinovic / Shahriyar Jamshidi/Sarah Peebles)
Array Space 2016-03-06 (Sunday)
Aurochs with Christine Bougie
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-03-08 (Tuesday)
Rangda (Wyrd Visions / Sacred Lamp)
Double Double Land 2016-03-08 (Tuesday)
MIMICO (Moonwood / zhang³ / Fake Humans)
Smiling Buddha 2016-03-10 (Thursday)
Daniel Pencer/Christopher Willes/Colin Fisher (Nick Storring/Phillipe Melanson)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-03-12 (Saturday)
Somewhere There's Second Sunday Series: COBRA / Temporary Ensembles (feat. Chris Adriaanse/Rob Diack/Cory Latkovich/Jonathan Luke/Paul Newman/Daniel Pencer/Joe Sorbara/Laura Swankey/Logan Mills)
Array Space 2016-03-13 (Sunday)
Josh Cole Quartet with Dan Pencer
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-03-16 (Wednesday)
Long Winter 4.5a (feat. No Record / Triple Gangers / WHOOP-Szo / BABY CAGES / The Queer Songbook Orchestra / The Holy Gasp / AVANT KOOL / Spots / Isaac Vallentin)
The Great Hall 2016-03-18 (Friday)
Long Winter 4.5b (feat. Cousins / JOOJ / Phrase Velocity / TRIAGE / Witch Prophet / Thin Edge New Music Collective/ Long Branch / Dorothea Paas / CCMC)
The Great Hall 2016-03-19 (Saturday)
Bedroom Projects (feat. Gambletron / Castle If / Dead Neighbourhoods / Roljui)
Handlebar 2016-03-20 (Sunday)
Music for Small Spaces (feat. TorQ Percussion Quartet)
Canadian Music Centre 2016-02-22 (Tuesday)
No Octopus Dances
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-03-23 (Wednesday)
Dust: The Quietest Big Band in the World
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-03-23 (Wednesday)
Os Tropies
Burdock Music Hall 2016-03-24 (Thursday)
Wavelength 696: Don't Speak (feat. Benoît Pioulard / North Atlantic Drift / David Jones)
Array Space 2016-03-25 (Friday)
Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. M. Lamar / Clara Engel / Bryan Bray & Germaine Liu / Manticore)
Ratio 2016-03-26 (Saturday)
King Weather (No Angels Dancing)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-03-27 (Sunday)
Made To Break (Nicole Rampersaud)
Burdock 2016-03-31 (Thursday)
FASTER Presents (feat. FASTER / Darlene Cuevas/Michael Lynn/Yusuke Furutate)
Gerrard Art Space 2016-04-02 (Saturday)
Track Could Bend #13: First Anniversary All-Star Spectacular! (feat. Jason Doell/Ted Phillips / Matt Miller/Ben Sirois/Leslie Predie/Minesh Mandoda / Anna Mērnieks/Mike Duffield/Colin Fisher/Kristel Jax / Neil Rankin/{AN} eel/Michael Kaler/Glen Hall / Ah! la lettre!/James Beardmore/Ian McPhedran/Dave Rodgers / David Jones/APA / Scott Cameron/Chris Sankey/Michelle Breslin/Brian Abbott / Randy Gagne/Kayla Milmine/James Bailey)
Dundas Video 2016-04-05 (Tuesday)
Emergents III (feat. Jeremy Bellaviti / The Science of What?)
The Music Gallery 2016-04-08 (Friday)
Make Some Noise 10th Anniversary (feat. Weaves / Twist)
Toronto Reference Library 2016-04-09 (Saturday)
Somewhere There's Second Sunday Series (feat. sLAB / Queen Victrola)
Array Space 2016-04-10 (Sunday)
Somewhere There presents (feat. Jazz Bras Dot Com / Luscar / No Seas)
Array Space 2016-04-13 (Wednesday)
Soundstreams: Steve Reich at 80
Massey Hall 2016-04-14 (Thursday)
Record Store Day (feat. Partner / Eucalyptus / Above Top Secret / ZONES)
Sonic Boom 2016-04-16 (Saturday)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-04-16 (Saturday)
The Beverleys (Plasmalab / Surinam / Crosss)
Smiling Buddha 2016-04-16 (Saturday)
No Octopus Dances
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-04-20 (Wednesday)
Christine Duncan/Patrick O'Reilly/Laura Swankey
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-04-20 (Wednesday)
Images Festival: Earwitness 2016 (feat. Eve Egoyan)
Aga Khan Museum 2016-04-21 (Thursday)
Invocation presents Quiet Quiet Annex Lights (feat. Michael Hurley / Fiver)
The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2016-04-22 (Friday)
St. Dirt Elementary School (DUST: The Quietest Big Band in the Known World)
The Music Gallery 2016-04-29 (Friday)
Hirut Restaurant 2016-04-30 (Saturday)
Track Could Bend #14 (feat. Glamour Nails / Kosher Dill Spears / Terms Of Venery)
Dundas Video 2016-05-03 (Tuesday)
The GGS New Music Ensemble
Conservatory Theatre 2016-05-05 (Thursday)
Shhhhh (feat. Retired / New Positions / Blue Light / Kapali Carsi)
Toronto Public Library – Parkdale Branch, Basement Auditorium 2016-05-07 (Saturday)
Feast In The East 5 Year Anniversary – Day 2 (feat. MATROX / Blonde Elvis / Germaphobes / Castle If)
Anchored Social Club 2016-05-07 (Saturday)
Somewhere There presents (feat. Xavier Charles + Éric Normand / Waniuk + Arulanandam / Saumer + Tielli)
Ratio 2016-05-12 (Thursday)
Josh Cole/Colin Fisher/Brandon Valdivia
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-05-18 (Wednesday)
The Mean (Toblerone Boys / Processor / James Wyatt Crosby)
The Piston 2016-05-19 (Thursday)
B-17 (Prince Ness / Glass Slipper / Sissy Boy)
The Silver Dollar Room 2016-05-20 (Friday)
Audiopollination #42.2 (feat. The Lady Hedonism Consort of Toronto / Alexandra Spence/Diane Roblin / Alexandra Spence/Paul Newman)
Array Space 2016-05-22 (Sunday)
Dun-Dun Band (Craig Dunsmuir [solo])
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-05-24 (Tuesday)
Wolf's Nacho Wednesdays (feat. Brodie West & Fleshtone Aura / Matt "Doc" Dunn)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-05-25 (Wednesday)
Peter Brötzmann & Heather Leigh (Doc Dunn + The Petit Range)
The Velvet Underground 2016-05-27 (Friday)
Drone Therapy: National Drone Day at the Music Gallery
The Music Gallery's courtyard 2016-05-28 (Saturday)
Wavelength 701: 21C Festival (feat. Jherek Bischoff / Dawn Of Midi / The Visit)
Koerner Hall 2016-05-28 (Saturday)
Octopus Curls
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-05-29 (Sunday)
Gilliam/Milmine/Pottie (Brian Abbott/Nilan Perera)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-05-29 (Sunday)
Last Minute Quintet (Brian Abbott/Paul Newman/Ted Phillips)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-05-31 (Tuesday)
Wolf's Nacho Wednesdays (feat. Ghostlight)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-06-01 (Wednesday)
Music in St. James Park (feat. The Holy Gasp)
St. James Park 2016-06-02 (Thursday)
Invocation presents (feat. Colleen / Picastro / Justin Small)
Ratio 2016-06-02 (Thursday)
The Highest Order
Comfort Zone 2016-06-04 (Saturday)
Martha (GREX)
Church of St. Andrew by-the-lake 2016-06-05 (Sunday)
Track Could Bend #15 (feat. Cetacea / KASHKA / Swankey/O'Reilly/Furlong)
Dundas Video 2016-06-07 (Tuesday)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-06-08 (Wednesday)
Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. Jooklo Duo with Colin Fisher / CCMC / Cory Latkovich & Robert Grieve)
Ratio 2016-06-13 (Monday)
The Burning Hell (Dave Bidini)
Monarch Tavern 2016-06-15 (Wednesday)
NO FEST: Day Party (feat. Casper Skulls / Pet Sun / PONY)
The Garrison (front room) 2016-06-18 (Saturday)
Music Gallery Departures Series (feat. The Out Louds / MTT / Michael Keith/Pedram Khavarzamini)
Array Space 2016-06-18 (Saturday)
Somewhere There presents (feat. Castor & Compagnie)
Array Space 2016-06-19 (Sunday)
Toronto Creative Music Lab: Open Score Performances
Ratio 2016-06-21 (Tuesday)
Brodie West Quintet (Rob Clutton)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-06-22 (Wednesday)
Isla Craig (Jess Kussin)
The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2016-06-22 (Wednesday)
Solonation (feat. Heidi Chan / Kayla Grant / Aki Takahashi / Nicole Rampersaud / Xuan Ye)
Array Space 2016-06-25 (Saturday)
Longform reviews of these shows are not currently likely. Recordings from many of these can be found if you dig through the tag cloud below.


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Situated on a hill overlooking the Hudson River, this lovingly restored Victorian offers three charming rooms for guests. Each room is furnished with a unique style of antiques. We welcome you to enjoy the large wraparound porch and stroll through grounds with flower and vegetable gardens.
4.6 on June 23, 2014
This will be my go to place when I need a quick escape from the concrete jungle. It is only a one and a half hour drive from the Upper West Side of Manhattan---convenient. I needed to do nothing but look at the view from the front porch, the yard or our room and I was happy. The house is beautifully decorated. Ellen has spent years collecting antiques. She has a design background and it shows. There is love and an eye for detail in every nook and cranny. We walked the Sky Walk Over the Hudson. We dined at the nearby Ship's Lantern (surprisingly good) and went to Poughkeepsie to have an early dinner at La Brasserie (highly recommended---hip French bistro).
4.4 on February 26, 2014
Finest mattress ever! Beautiful rooms million dollar view great breakfasts congenial & friendly host
4.8 on February 26, 2014
My fiancè and I stayed overnight at River Hill while we explored the wineries in the area. For the price, this place was spectacular! The home is cozy & the view of the river is with a million bucks. The owner is wonderful and welcoming. Would definitely recommend to a friend or stay again ourselves.
5 on December 30, 2013
When I think of a perfect, picturesque, romantic bed and breakfast, this is what I dream about. Ellen's home is just lovely, decorated for the holidays and super cozy. And she went out of her way to accommodate my food allergies. Felt like a nicer version of home.
5 on October 09, 2013
Every comfort in a lovingly restored and decorated Victorian with beautiful gardens and a spectacular view. Ample gourmet breakfasts made lunch redundant.
5 on October 08, 2013
My wife and I spent 4 nights in this beautiful home, in the Empire room. Ellen is a warm and gracious hostess. The breakfast's were outstanding and served in the richly decorarted dining room. The house is centrally located to many of the nearby attractions. Our stay was very relaxing. The views of the Hudson are captivating.
3.8 on October 01, 2013
Stayed at the Empire room for a weekend. The room decor is cozy and the view is stunning. Sharing the bathroom was not a problem, it is clean and has the essential toiletries. The rest of the house is charming, one could spend a whole day looking at small details in the decor, the view of the Hudson and the garden are stunning. The breakfast was fresh, balanced and delicious. Ellen is very friendly and made good recommendations for sightseeing and dining. The BB is conveniently located,15 min drive to Poughkeepsie center.
5 on September 06, 2013
Our 3rd stay at this facility and always perfectly satisfied. Courteous, helpful and beautifully appointed rooms.
5 on August 12, 2013
My Wife and I had a tremendous weekend at River Hill B&B. Ellen was fantastic and so to were the accommodations and food. The views of the river made the entire experience one of the most relaxing weekends we've had in years. Cannot wait to come back in the future.
4.8 on July 31, 2013
My best friend of more than 40 years and I like to get away for a few days every couple of years. The place we usually stay became too expensive, so we took a chance on River Hill and couldn't have been happier! It's intimate with only 3 rooms and was the family's home; the innkeeper made us feel as if we were family, too. She cooks up a sumptious breakfast. The porch overlooking the river is a great place to unwind after a day of nearby sightseeing.
Lovely light queen bed room with private bath
Nightly Rate: $185 - $185
Hudson River View, Small town, Wine country
Newburgh, NY (SWF-Stewart) 15 miles
From South: I 84- Exit at Newburgh, 9W North, take 9W, 10 miles north, turn right at light at Stewart's (Milton Tpk.) Turn left onto Main St. Go two blocks and turn right onto Church St. Go down small hill to River Hill Bed and Breakfast straight ahead at corner. From North: I 87- NYS Thruway Exit at #18m New Paltz, onto Rt. 299, turn right, east; go 6 miles to 9W. Turn right, south, and go about 6 miles to light at Stewarts on left, turn left. Follow directions above.
Antique Shopping, Art Galleries, Concert venue, Gourmet/Fine Dining, Historical interests, Live Music, Movie Theater, Museum, National/State parks, Nature area, Hiking, Biking, Colleges, Outlet Stores, Performing Theater, Picnic area, Religious Services, River, Rodeo, Vineyard, Winery
Private Home Bed and Breakfast, Bed and Breakfast
Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Amenities Basket, Board games, CD player, Ceiling fans, DVD Player, Fireplace, Library, Satellite/Cable TV, TV, Telephone, VCR, Wi-Fi , refrigeraton on site
Bath robes, Hairdryer, Internet Service, Radio
Bicycle riding trails, Bird watching, Cross-country ski trails, Golfing, Hiking trails, Horseback riding, Kayaking, Mountain Bike trails, Shopping, Sight-seeing
Ellen Mann
Perennial flower gardens.


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Subject of Elkhart FBI raid convicted of fraud in past
A man whose Elkhart business was raided by federal agents Friday was imprisoned for bank and wire fraud during the 1990s.
A man whose Elkhart business was raided by federal agents Friday was imprisoned for bank and wire fraud during the 1990s.
James P. LeDonne, 59, of Granger, was sentenced in 1993 to more than five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to orchestrating fraudulent check and check kiting schemes in Elkhart.
LeDonne is listed as chief financial officer of Paragon Technology LLC, the business raided Friday, in a lawsuit pending in Elkhart Superior Court 1. In the suit, Bildco LLC alleges that LeDonne, Paragon Technology Group, and LG Engineering & Design Inc., which LeDonne incorporated, violated terms of their lease in their former location at 2110 Aeroplex Drive in Elkhart by, among other things, failing to pay rent and damaging the building. LeDonne has until Thursday, May 15, to reply to the complaint in court.
The Bildco suit lists a Carrigan Court address in Granger for LeDonne. A reporter's call to a phone number publicly listed for LeDonne at that address could not be completed as dialed, according to a recording.
FBI and U.S. Postal Inspector Police removed about 100 boxes of documents Friday from the business at the northwest corner of Dexter Drive and C.R. 6, north of the Elkhart Municipal Airport. Dave Crawford, the FBI's spokesman for northern Indiana, confirmed the business is being investigated but declined to elaborate.
LG Engineering & Design claimed to build vehicles and mobile labs for fiber-optic splicing. Fiber-optic businesses throughout the United States and Canada have posted complaints about LeDonne on industry-related web forums line-man.com and cabl.com. They say LeDonne took their down payments for vehicles, often as much as 50 percent of the vehicles' total cost, without ever delivering the vehicles or refunding their down payments.
"That's awesome," Jim Drew, owner of DCL Telecommunications in Alberta, Canada, said when hearing about the FBI raid.
DCL Telecommunications is contracted by clients such as cable companies to lay new fiber-optic lines. In the spring of 2012, Drew said he wired LG Engineering $35,000, which was a 50-percent down payment, for a splicing unit that LG Engineering said it would deliver in three months. The three months came and went with no sign of the vehicle, Drew said.
"I started getting an uneasy feeling when he couldn't even produce progress pictures," Drew said.
Drew said he then traced the vehicle identification number of the vehicle LG said it was building, and it came back to a new Ford truck that was still sitting unsold on a dealer's lot.
Drew noted that LeDonne, while pitching the sale of the unit, spoke with a high level of expertise.
Russell Skinner, owner of Spectrum Advantage LLC in Huxley, Iowa, has a similar story. He said he sent LeDonne $12,000 as a 50-percent down payment on a mobile splicing lab.
"I didn't think that was out of line because it was a custom-fabricated unit," Skinner said. "It didn't take long to realize I wasn't ever going to see the unit or my money back."
Skinner said when he first started dealing with LeDonne in 2011, he was operating as a company called L6 Systems LLC. But Skinner was told that L6's "sister company," L & H Engineering and Design, handled the type of unit he wanted, so he began dealing with that entity. He said he later learned that L6 was seeking bankruptcy protection from creditors at that time.
He later discovered LeDonne's 1993 bank and wire fraud conviction with a web search.
"I felt like I'd been duped," Skinner said. "It's not even about getting my money back. The money's gone and I don't expect to see it again. I want to make sure he pays his dues."
At the request of Indiana State Police Det. Joseph White, Skinner on Friday posted a message on the line-man.com forum seeking similar stories from anyone who has dealt with LeDonne or any of the four company names he has used: LG Engineering & Design, L&H Engineering, L6 Systems LLC and most recently, Paragon Technology LLC.
L6 filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2010, while LG Engineering & Design filed in December 2013, according to U.S. Bankruptcy Court records.
"If you have suffered a monetary loss or believe you may be a victim of a crime, can you call me at your convenience?" Det. White says in the post, then gives the phone number, 219-263-9572.
White confirmed with The Elkhart Truth that he asked Skinner to post the message. White declined to comment further, referring a reporter to the FBI's Crawford.
LeDonne has not been charged with a crime connected to Friday's FBI raid.


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Our Team
Our Board Of Directors
Our Board of Directors comes from both the private and the public sectors. They are seasoned professionals from multinational and public listed companies and are senior civil servants who are familiar with implementing projects in the northern states of Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak.
ATES Sdn. Bhd.'s involvement in the AES project and traffic related business is through its major shareholder, Commercial Circle (M) Sdn. Bhd., which is generally regarded as a pioneer in traffic violation cameras throughout Malaysia. Amongst the traffic related projects of the company is the supply and installation of 150 traffic violation enforcement cameras in 6 Malaysian towns over a 20 year period in 1994.
Since its incorporation in 1985, Commercial Circle (M) Sdn. Bhd.'s principal business activities include the supply and installation of law enforcement related ICT, communications and forensic equipments. Its major customers are the police (PDRM), prisons department, Malaysian Anti Corruption Commissions (MACC), Registrar of Companies/Business and law enforcement departments of other ministries.
Lawrence Foong
Lawrence Foong is the Director and Co-founder of ATES Sdn. Bhd, since its incorporation in 2009.
He is also the Director and Co-founder of Commercial Circle (M) Sdn. Bhd, whose principal business activities since its incorporation in 1985 are in law enforcement related equipments in Malaysia. The company is a major supplier of communications, forensic and ICT systems to major law enforcement agencies in the country from the police (PDRM), prisons department, Malaysian Anti Corruption Commissions (MACC) and other government departments.
He graduated with an MBA in 1980 from the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, and had held various senior management positions in a large family-owned conglomerate which was involved in property development, finance, plantations, motor vehicles assembly and distribution in Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
ABDUL Hamid
Abdul Hamid is a member of the Board of Directors and is currently an Executive Director of Symphony House Berhad, a public-listed Business Process Outsourcing company.
He started his career with Messrs Lim Ali & Co / Arthur Young before moving on to merchant banking with Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Berhad. He later moved to investment banking and finance group, Amanah Capital Malaysia Berhad Group. There, he lead the corporate planning and finance unit until 1998, when he joined the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), now known as Bursa Malaysia Berhad.
He is also a member of the Association of Charted Certified Accountants.
Michael Foong joined Commercial Circle (M) Sdn. Bhd. as General Manager in 1994, and became its Chief Executive Officer in 2004 after successfully diversifying the company's principal business activities from traditional type police and defense equipment to law enforcement related high-tech communications and ICT projects.
He has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Finance from the University of Melbourne, and an MBA in Technology Enterpreneurship from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He was also an Asean Scholar at the Raffles College in Singapore.
Norsiah Abu Asid has been the Administrative Director in Commercial Circle (M) Sdn. Bhd. since 2006.
She joined the company in 1986 as the Administrative Manager, and has vast experience in the tendering of government projects. Of her many responsibilities, she also serves as a Director of an insurance company.
Danny Chee
Danny Chee was trained as a Chartered Accountant in the London office of Ernst & Young within banking and capital markets sectors.
As part of Deutsche Bank London, he was Business Manager for DB Global Equities Prime Services taking his work across seven major financial hubs.
He was then part of a regional risk management team with PricewaterhouseCoopers upon his return to Malaysia.
As an entrepreneur, he was one of the co-founders of Ethos & Company and Ethos Capital, both successful in their respective fields of management consultancy and private equity.
He graduated with a BSc from Warwick University in the United Kingdom and is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountant in England and Wales.