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To block or not to block. That is the question surrounding NASCAR following the race at Auto Club Speedway two weeks ago.
We all know what happened by now. Tony Stewart was fired up following a block from Joey Logano on the final restart, resulting in a 22nd-place finish for Smoke ... and this post-race reaction: "The dumb little (expletive) runs us clear down to the infield. He wants to (expletive) about everyone else and he's the one that drives like a little (expletive). I'm gonna bust his ass."
He tried, too, confronting Logano on pit road as the two attempted to exchange punches, slaps and even water bottles while their respective crews peeled them apart.
Of course, it wasn't that long ago that Stewart caused a 25-car pileup at Talladega. In an attempt to block Michael Waltrip, Stewart cut inside too soon, resulting in "The Big One" ... and this post-race reaction: "I screwed up."
Blocking happens all the time. Sometimes it goes without being seen. Other times it results in an emotional and, as it so happened at Fontana, a physical reaction. So, should NASCAR start penalizing such an action?
"I would expect and accept to be blocked in certain situations," said NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader Dale Earnhardt Jr. "But you've got to give me racetrack. You've got to give me somewhere to run. You can't just run me up into the fence. You've got to give me a lane. ... If you give me a reasonable amount of racetrack to race on, then I really can't complain in regards to what you're trying to do to maintain the position."
Junebug seems to think that this is just part of racing and that as long as there's respect between drivers, then it shouldn't be an issue to block another driver from stealing a position. Stewart's teammate, Ryan Newman, agreed to a certain extent.
"I think blocking is a chicken way to drive ... it's just something I don't do," said Newman. "If you've got a run on me, take it. If I can get through the corner better than you, then we'll race, but blocking is an IndyCar form or F1 form or an open wheel type move it seems like. It's not to say they don't do it in NASCAR; obviously they do, but to me it's just a chicken way of driving and not very respectful for the guys around you."
The fact of the matter is that blocking is simply one of those racing deals. Some drivers do it. Some don't. But the most recent case involving Stewart and Logano could simply be a case of frustration for the 2011 Sprint Cup Series champion, whose off to a slow start with just one top-10 in his first five races. And he took out that frustration on Logano - he just didn't expect a push-back.
Logano has been bullied for much of his Sprint Cup career. But the switch in teams (Joe Gibbs to Penske) and another year of maturity have toughened Logano.
"That was the race for the lead," said Logano when asked about this dustup with Smoke. "I felt if the 14 (of Stewart) got underneath me, that was going to be the end of my opportunity to win the race."
In reality, Logano didn't do anything that Smoke hasn't done numerous times in his career. Logano ended up in third, while Stewart faded after having to slow down to avoid smashing into the back of the No. 22 Ford.
But would Stewart have let Logano sneak by on the low side with ease? Doubtful. Because that's what's made Smoke one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. It's why he's uber-popular and super-hated by NASCAR Nation. He's aggressive and speaks his mind. And it's a safe bet he'd have done the exact same thing to Logano in a similar situation.
So, does blocking need to be enforced? Does it need to penalized? Does it need to be banned altogether?
If it leads to this kind of conversation and this kind of on- and off-track excitement, then the simple answer is no way.
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Summer 2009 will mark the fourth annual Azerbaijani Boys' Leadership Experience (A.B.L.E.) Camp. This camp is a unique way to show promising Azerbaijani boys, ages 14-17, how to recognize their abilities and roles in community development. It takes place over six days in August and consists of forty-eight campers from across Azerbaijan, sixteen Peace Corps Azerbaijan volunteers, seven Azerbaijani camp alumni who will serve as junior counselors, and eight Azerbaijani counselors. The high counselor to camper ratio ensures a fun and safe environment while we encourage the campers to also direct themselves by assigning small group leaders.
The primary objective of the camp is to show the campers how they can make a positive difference in the communities from which they come. We guide them in a process of defining community, identifying needs and assets, and leading initiatives that benefit their communities such as park cleanup campaigns or new, educational opportunities for students. We also emphasize teamwork, motivation, and respect for others. The campers learn lessons in a variety of ways, and our interactive way of teaching ensures that the young men will retain what they have learned. The boys also review these lessons in small groups so the counselors can observe if they understand the concepts. What we teach in our lessons is also reinforced in activities such as: morning exercise, American football, and the "I can" campfire.
The experience, of course, does not stop when the camp ends. Upon the conclusion of camp, the boys are inspired to go out and use their abilities for the greater good of their communities. Counselors and volunteers guide the campers in their own development projects long after the camp is over. Those of us who are fortunate enough to take part in this project, Americans and Azerbaijanis alike, are proud to carry on the tradition started by Peace Corps volunteers and their counterparts before us. The smiles and newfound confidence in the campers are well worth all the efforts that go into making A.B.L.E. Camp possible.
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An "NTLDR is missing" error is displayed when restoring your system to a new Acer motherboard.
This is specific to Acer systems. The file system is NTFS, but Acer sets the partition type incorrectly as FAT32 on their preloads. When Rescue and Recovery performs a complete restore, it formats the file system incorrectly to FAT32 based on the partition type set by Acer. Since the partition is FAT32 when it used to be NTFS, this problem occurs.
CMVC Defect #: 364748
When you create backups on your local hard disk drive as well as on a CD/DVD or a USB storage device, and then later restore from the CD/DVD, the backups that you created on your local hard disk drive will be listed in the Rescue and Recovery interface, but they are disabled.
The records for those backups were in the registry when the backups to CD/DVD or USB were made, and those registry keys were restored when you restored your system. However, the corresponding backup folder was not restored, because it was not backed up.
If the Rescue and Recovery application does not find the backups, it disables the controls to prevent you from deleting backups that it cannot find. These backups do not really exist and can be ignored.
CMVC Defect #: 366615f_1
When storing a backup to a second hard disk drive, there is an option to make that drive bootable. Sometimes the backup process will succeed even though the hard disk drive does not actually boot. If this issue occurs, a blinking cursor is displayed at the top left of the screen and the computer will not boot.
If you are concerned about this issue occurring, do the following:Perform a bootkill or diskpart clean operation on the second hard drive before creating a backup or making the second hard drive bootable, and then create and format a new partition on the hard drive.
If this issue occurs, do the following:Boot from another rescue media such as a CD/DVD or USB hard drive.
CMVC Defect #: 366622
Files which are excluded can still be selected for Single Instance Storage, and files that are selected for Single Instance Storage can still be selected for exclusion. However, when this occurs the files will treated as though only Single Instance Storage was selected.
CMVC Defect #: 367258
The Rescue and Recovery rejuvenation process appears to hang when restoring a large number of files (10,000 or more) to the system. The system does not really hang, but adding this many files to the system causes the rejuvenation process to take an extremely long time. The progress bar might remain at 0% for hours, but the rejuvenation process will eventually complete successfully.
CMVC Defect #: 368292
The file size information displayed for a CD/DVD backup is incorrect when restoring your system from the Rescue and Recovery interface. The CD/DVD backup file size has not changed.
CMVC Defect #: 368796, 368797
In the Rescue and Recovery workspace, the drive letter of an external drive appears to be the same as the local drive from which files are going to be restored. The Rescue and Recovery workspace maps drives differently than Microsoft Windows does, so the two different drives might appear to have the same drive letter.
CMVC Defect #: 368802
The launch antivirus application option is not active in Rescue and Recovery on computers running Windows Vista (64-bit version). This option is disabled because the antivirus application is not installed.
CMVC Defect #: 368804
When you rejuvenate your system using a backup that was taken prior to a user being created, that newly created user's settings are not restored. Only settings for users who exist when the backup is taken can be restored.
CMVC Defect #: 363051, 369215
The message to insert the final recovery CD is sometimes hidden behind other windows during the recovery process. This will cause the process to appear to hang, even though it is operating correctly.
If the recovery process appears to hang, press the Alt + Tab keys to display a list of open applications. Continuously pressing Alt +Tab will toggle through the list of all running applications. Stop pressing Alt +Tab when the Insert Final CD ... message is displayed and follow the instructions on the message box.
CMVC Defect #: 369976
The extract file interface displays multiple times when using Rescue and Recovery to create a migration file. Clicking the Next button during the process of creating a migration file in Rescue and Recovery causes the extract file interface to display multiple times.
CMVC Defect #: 370688
After restoring your computer to the original factory settings, links in the Rescue and Recovery Workspace might not work.
If you encounter this problem, complete the following procedure:
CMVC Defect #: 370790
You cannot restore individual files from a backup saved on a CD/DVD to a floppy disk. You can restore files to any other external or internal storage device, such as a hard disk drive or USB flash drive.
Restore files to a hard drive or other storage device.
CMVC Defect #: 370862
The Rescue and Recovery Quick Restore function will not be active after creating a backup on a DVD. A quick restore operation can only be performed from a backup created on non-optical media.
CMVC Defect #: 373439
When you choose a second hard disk drive as the backup location, the progress bar on the Rescue and Recovery interface indicates that the backup location is a USB hard disk drive. The backup will be made to the correct location, even though the interface incorrectly identifies the hard disk drive.
CMVC Defect #: 373584
The Rescue and Recovery Quick Restore function might be disabled if you change the backup location and then cancel the backup process before it completes.
The Quick Restore function is programmed to perform a restore operation using the last backup made on the current backup location. When you start a backup operation, the current backup location is changed to the location that you specified. If you cancel the backup process before it completes, the result is that the current backup location was changed but no backup was made. If no backups are found at the current backup location, the Quick Restore button on the Rescue and Recovery interface is disabled.
If the Quick Restore button on the Rescue and Recovery interface is disabled, complete the following procedure:
CMVC Defect #: 375013
CD/DVD backups are not displayed when selecting All for location in the Rescue and Recovery workspace Full Restore.
To view CD/DVD backups, you must select CD/DVD from the location drop-down box.
CMVC Defect #: 375175
The name and date of a Rescue and Recovery backup saved to CD/DVD is displayed incorrectly on computers running Windows XP. The backup name will display correctly the next time that you restart your computer.
Restart your computer.
CMVC Defect #: 375178
Administrator base backups are not listed in the Rescue and Recovery workspace simplified interface.
You must use the advanced user interface to restore from an administrator base backup.
CMVC Defect #: 379146
A user can rescue individual files from a password-protected backup without providing a password using the advanced user interface.
CMVC Defect #: 380947
"R2R.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" error message is encountered when performing a Rescue and Recovery backup. This message will display every time a Rescue and Recovery backup operation is performed due to an incompatibility issue with a recent Microsoft update.
Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB936181 "Security update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0" discusses the causes of this issue.
Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB941833 discusses the solution to this issue, which is available on the Microsoft Web site.
None necessary. The backup operation will complete successfully.
CMVC Defect #: 387460
When performing a Rescue and Recovery restore from a USB or second hard drive to a completely blank internal hard drive, the system responds with either a blinking cursor or an "Operating system not found" error.
Running the hard disk drive in AHCI mode will cause the recovery to fail on certain hard drive and system configurations.
If this occurs, do the following:
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Dec. 17 is not only the date of Genora Dancel's wedding, it is also the anniversary of the start of the same-sex marriage fight in Hawaii.
"Today marks the 23rd anniversary of when I went down to the Department of Health to get a marriage license," said Dancel.
The clerk denied Dancel and the others a license, which then sparked a legal battle for equality.
"This young lady started the whole thing. Sixteen states now recognize same-sex marriage. Other countries recognize same-sex marriage, and it all started in this courtroom," said Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals Judge Dan Foley.
"When I come into this Supreme Court courtroom I remember how it was back then, as if it was yesterday. Today, I reflect on that. It was a long, hard battle, but we had the best judges possible -- that's why we're here today," said Dancel.
One of those judges, former Supreme Court Justice Steven Levinson was more than just a witness to the history, he ruled in favor of the same-sex couples. On Tuesday, he also witnessed this same-sex wedding.
"I understand how precious and special the institution of marriage isand I really cherish it," said Levinson.
The former attorney who successfully fought for the couples is now a judge. Judge Foley, like many others, waited years for same-sex marriage equality in Hawaii.
"As a sitting judge there was nothing I could say or do, until it became law. Now, it is the law, so this is just another regular marriage," said Foley.
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"It won't be long before marriage is a marriage, is a marriage, but for now we can continue to celebrate Hawaii has come full circle," stated Levinson.
So much has changed in Hawaii in the past two decades since Dancel first went to get her marriage license, but there was one thing that has remained the same..
"Last week, I went down to the Dept. of Health to get my marriage license, and it was the same clerk, who 23 years ago refused to give me my license. This time we hugged," said Dancel.
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Re: Explain this to Tony's Fans?
The man will be 42 in May. He's not married, even though he has stated that he wants a family. I've seen no evidence of a girl friend on pit road this year. He has to relieve the stress in his life somehow, and he's chosen dirt racing.
As far as personnel changes. I know that Tony & Zippy has issues before he left Gibbs. That was 5 years ago. Zippy had to deal with Joey - the non-starter that was billed differently. 5 years is a long time in racing. I'm not throwing Steve Addington under the bus, but after last year's early 3 wins, then nothing, you have to wonder. Tony hasn't forgotten how to drive, maybe he's just not getting the equipment that he needs. All I'm saying is that a discussion should be considered. If there isn't any improvement by the Coke 600 on Memorial Day weekend, then maybe the discussion should take place.
I trust Tony to make the correct decision. He hasn't gotten where he is by making bad decisions. He will do what is best for SHR, the team and himself.


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Obama administration officials reveal that United States military had conducted secret mission in Syria to rescue American journalist James Foley and other hostages being held by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants; American commandos fought their way to where they believed ISIS was hiding hostages, but found that the captives had been moved. MORE
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Militants of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria pressed United States for multimillion-dollar ransom before killing American journalist James Foley in retaliation for US airstrikes in Iraq; are threatening to execute more Americans in their custody if their demands are not met; Obama administration, sensitive to growing criticism that it had not done enough, reveals that US Special Operations team tried and failed to rescue Foley during secret mission. MORE
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Somali pirates release 11 sailors from Asia and Iran after holding them hostage for three and a half years; all 11 men are transported safely to Kenya. MORE
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Release of Sgt Bowe Bergdahl, as part of prisoner swap with Taliban, is stirring anger and frustration for family members of other American hostages who were not part of deal. MORE
Apr. 8, 2014
Senate votes unanimously to bar Hamid Aboutalebi, Iran's newly named ambassador to the United Nations, from entering the United States, charging that he was involved in the hostage-taking at the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979. MORE
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Nassau County district attorney's office says that police officer Nikolas Budimlic, who accidentally shot and killed college student Andrea Rebello while confronting armed hostage taker, will not face criminal charges; says it found no legal grounds to charge Budimlic. MORE
Mar. 31, 2014
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Nov. 1, 2013
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Oct. 30, 2013
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Oct. 19, 2013
Nine Shiite pilgrims from Lebanon kidnapped in Syria in May 2012 are freed as part of a negotiated hostage release that could lead to the release of two Turkish pilots held in Lebanon. MORE
Sep. 22, 2013
Masked gunmen storm into Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing at least 39 people and wounding more than 150 in one of the most chilling terrorist attacks in East Africa since Al Qaeda blew up two American embassies in 1998; attackers, who are believed to be linked to the Shabab militant group, are in a standoff with Kenyan security forces and are reportedly holding an unknown number of hostages. MORE
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Jejomar Binay, vice president of the Philippines, says that Muslim rebel leader Nur Misuari has accepted a cease-fire to allow talks on ending a five-day hostage crisis in which his followers have held more than 100 people. MORE
Jun. 26, 2013
Chip Starnes, founder and president of Specialty Medical Supplies, is being held hostage by employees at his medical supply plant near Beijing; dispute began when partial factory closure and worker layoffs raised rumor that Starnes was intending to close entire plant and flee without paying workers; standoff highlights dearth of legal protections in China for foreign investors and workers. MORE
May. 27, 2013
At least seven Philippine marines and seven Abu Sayyaf militants in Manila are killed in clash in a government offensive aimed at rescuing six foreign and Filipino hostages. MORE
May. 20, 2013
Experts say Nassau County police officer's decision to enter home in Uniondale, NY, and open fire, killing gunman Dalton Smith and Andrea Rebello, Hofstra student being held hostage, may have eliminated opportunity to negotiate with armed robber; police have refused to discuss whether the unidentified veteran officer, who fired eight shots at Smith, with the last hitting Rebello in the head, followed police protocol. MORE
May. 18, 2013
Andrea Rebello, 21-year-old Hofstra student, is shot and killed after armed man breaks into her Uniondale, NY, home and then engages in gun battle with police; suspect, who has not yet been identified, is also killed; it is not immediately clear who fired the fatal shots. MORE
May. 14, 2013
Taliban, even as their campaign of violence continues, attempts to improve their image by releasing four of eight Turkish citizens captured in Logar Province and promising to release other four soon; group's spokesman also praises polio vaccinations, urging Taliban commanders to support efforts of international organizations working to eradicate the disease. MORE
May. 13, 2013
Thirty-seven hour standoff in Trenton, NJ, ends after police officers shoot and kill Gerald Tyrone Murphy, who is believed to have killed his girlfriend and her son and held other children hostage for weeks. MORE
May. 12, 2013
Standoff between armed man and dozens of police officers at house in Trenton, NJ, continues into second day amid reports man has killed at least one person inside the home and is holding children hostage. MORE
May. 9, 2013
Hostages freed in 1981 from 444 days of captivity in Iran are seeing renewed focus on their 17-year bid for substantial compensation. MORE
Apr. 23, 2013
Taliban takes 11 foreigners hostage, including eight Turkish engineers, after helicopter ferrying crew is forced to make emergency landing in eastern Afghanistan because of a storm; abductions offer stark reminder of insurgents' continuing hold on significant parts of Afghanistan's countryside. MORE
Apr. 20, 2013
French and Cameroonian officials say French family held hostage for two months by Islamist militants in West Africa has been released; Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for kidnapping and demanded release of prisoners in exchange for hostages' lives. MORE
Apr. 11, 2013
Man who police say was in deep financial trouble calls firefighters to his house in Atlanta suburb Suwanee and then holds them hostage for almost four hours until he is shot to death as police storm house. MORE
Mar. 20, 2013
Al Qaeda's North African arm says that it has beheaded French hostage Philippe Verdon in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali. MORE
Mar. 14, 2013
Kurdish militants release eight Turkish hostages, latest sign that peace talks between two sides are gaining momentum; hostages were abducted in 2011 and 2012 by Kurdistan Workers' Party. MORE
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Mar. 3, 2013
Chad's military says that its soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, although claim has not been confirmed; Belmokhtar was mastermind of January seizure of Algerian gas plant that left at least 37 foreign hostages dead. MORE
Feb. 27, 2013
French military says it will not negotiate with gunmen claiming to be from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, who have taken French family of seven hostage in retaliation for French military intervention in Mali. MORE
Feb. 26, 2013
YouTube video shows French family kidnapped on Cameroon-Nigeria border surrounded by masked gunmen who claim to be from Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. MORE
Feb. 17, 2013
Op-Ed article by Nasser Weddady, civil rights outreach director for the American Islamic Congress, notes that the same European nations that helped fight the Taliban in Afghanistan have financed terrorists in Africa by paying ransoms for hostages. MORE
Feb. 8, 2013
Dale County, Ala, coroner says Jimmy Lee Dykes, who held 5-year-old boy hostage in Midland City for nearly week before dying in shootout with FBI, received multiple gunshot wounds. MORE
Feb. 6, 2013
Town of Midland City, Ala, celebrates the safe return of 5-year-old boy Ethan, who endured a prolonged kidnapping at the hands of Jimmy Lee Dykes; close-knit community provided pot luck dinners and prayer meetings as law enforcement faced down the kidnapper. MORE
Feb. 5, 2013
Six-day Alabama standoff between Jimmy Lee Dykes, angry and violent survivalist who held 5-year-old boy hostage in underground bunker, and legion of local, state and federal law enforcement officials ends with death of kidnapper and freeing of boy; Dykes killed school bus driver when he abducted boy in Midland City. MORE
Feb. 3, 2013
Goal of heavily armed militants who seized desert gas plant in Algeria was to turn site into giant bomb, but none of assailants knew how to do it; detailed accounts from captives are offering more complete view of four-day standoff and hostage drama. MORE
Feb. 3, 2013
Midland City, Ala, police say Jimmy Lee Dykes has held a 5-year-old boy hostage for more than four days, after he kidnapped the boy from a school bus and killed the driver. MORE
Feb. 2, 2013
Hostage standoff in Midland City, Ala, continues for fourth day, as law enforcement officials seek to free boy kidnapped and held in underground bunker by Jimmy Lee Dykes. MORE
Feb. 1, 2013
Standoff in Midland City, Ala, continues between police and Jimmy Lee Dykes, who shot and killed school bus driver and kidnapped 5-year-old boy who he is holding hostage in underground bunker in his backyard; situation is testing residents of small town. MORE
Jan. 31, 2013
Alabama man fatally shoots school bus driver in Midland City, then takes 6-year-old rider hostage; is holding boy in bunker on his property; police identify suspect as Jimmy Lee Dykes, describing him as 'a survivalist type.' MORE
Jan. 24, 2013
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Jan. 23, 2013
Islamic extremist attack on gas complex in Algeria could lead some energy companies to change how they protect compounds in region; attack has already led oil companies there to evacuate hundreds of workers temporarily and eventually could lead some firms to pull out of especially volatile countries, but analysts say fundamental reshaping of industry is unlikely. MORE
Jan. 23, 2013
Romanian gas worker Liviu Floria recounts escape from plant in Algeria that was overrun by militants; tells of harrowing trek, along with seven others, across desert to safety from attack that left at least 37 of Floria's colleagues, including two Romanians, dead; five workers remain missing. MORE
Jan. 23, 2013
Senior Algerian official reports several Egyptian members of militant squad who attacked Algerian natural gas complex also took part in deadly attack on United States Mission in Libya in September; link between two of most brazen extremist attacks in recent memory, if confirmed, would reinforce trans-border character of jihadist groups now striking across Sahara. MORE
Jan. 22, 2013
Prime Min Abdelmalek Sellal of Algeria offers unapologetic defense of country's tough actions to end Sahara hostage crisis, saying militants who carried out kidnappings intended to kill all their captives and that army attack saved many from death; assertion comes, however, as death toll of foreign hostages rises sharply, to 37, with American officials saying they had offered sophisticated surveillance help that could have minimized casualties. MORE
Jan. 21, 2013
Algerian officials say that security forces combing scene of bloody four-day hostage siege have discovered many more corpses at gas-production complex deep in the Sahara; also note that some of the hostage takers, who are followers of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, warlord linked to Al Qaeda based in Mali, have been captured alive. MORE
Jan. 21, 2013
News analysis; hostage crisis in Algeria highlights broad challenges United States and its allies face in confronting terrorist cells in northern Africa; Western nations are struggling to adapt their regional strategy to handle multinational bands that are often able to move with relative freedom across porous borders. MORE
Jan. 20, 2013
Four-day hostage crisis in Sahara reaches bloody conclusion as Algerian Army carries out final assault on gas field seized by Islamist militants, killing most remaining kidnappers and raising hostage death toll to at least 23; although government has declared end to siege, authorities believe that handful of jihadists are likely hiding in sprawling complex and say that troops are hunting for them. MORE
Jan. 20, 2013
Defense Sec Leon E Panetta's final trip to Europe, which initially seemed to have valedictory feel, is interrupted by hostage crisis in Algeria; although Panetta emphasizes in speech in Great Britain that terrorists will not find refuge in places like Algeria, job of pursuing terrorists will likely be left to his successor. MORE
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Another candidate for lieutenant governor in Ohio appears to have personal tax problems. This time, it's the woman expected to join a tea party ticket in the Republican primary against Gov. John Kasich.
Brenda Mack, 56, of Canfield, who was named in a news release late Wednesday as the running mate for tea party leader Ted Stevenot, is linked to nearly $60,000 in unpaid state and federal taxes and penalties, according to government records in Mahoning and Cuyahoga counties. Mack also filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in 2008, listing about $104,000 in debts to 62 creditors.
Last month, Democratic state Sen. Eric H. Kearney quit gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald's ticket after just three weeks because of the backlash from revelations that nearly $1 million in unpaid state and federal taxes and penalties were tied to him, his wife and their small Cincinnati publishing company.
Much of Mack's tax problems and her bankruptcy appear to be linked to a small Youngstown-area cleaning company she owned for about 10 years, but they are coming to light before the tea party ticket is even formally launched. Stevenot and Mack have a news conference scheduled for Tuesday in which they are expected to confirm their May 6 primary challenge against Kasich.
Reached by phone yesterday afternoon, Mack told The Dispatch: "I am not going to say anything about anything until Tuesday. ...
"It's going to be a long journey," Mack said of her impending candidacy. She is a past president of the Ohio Black Republicans Association.
Records show that Mack owned "We Clean It" Krystal Klean — a small janitorial company — from 1997 to 2007, when it closed. The federal tax liens against her are registered to the same address listed for "We Clean It." Most of the debts listed in her bankruptcy filing appear to be business-related, including $5,975 in unpaid wages to seven employees in the company's last year of operation.
In the bankruptcy filing, Mack listed Social Security disability payments in 2008. She listed few possessions, and the total value of her assets was about $1,200.
According to filings with Secretary of State Jon Husted's office, Mack started a limited-liability janitorial company in 2008 called Global Building and Maintenance. She answered the phone yesterday at a number listed for that company.
Stevenot, 48, of Cincinnati, who co-owns an insurance company, did not return messages seeking comment. Tom Zawistowski, another state tea party leader, said Stevenot will not speak to the media until his announcement on Tuesday in Columbus.
"When he opens his mouth Tuesday, it's going to define him," Zawistowski said. "They're both working really, really hard on what they're going to say Tuesday."
Should Stevenot and Mack qualify for the May 6 primary, defeating a well-funded incumbent who controls the state Republican Party would be a tall task.
"Is it in the realm of possibility? Yes. Is it in the realm of probability? Probably not," Zawistowski said. "Ted is going to get outspent 100-to-1, but the reality is they can't come close to our ground game."
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Comparison of Ticagrelor Versus Clopidogrel on Residual Thrombus Burden During PCI: an OCT Study
This study has been terminated.
(The study was terminated mutually by the sponsor and PI due to extremely low enrollment over the past year.)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
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First received: April 1, 2013
Last updated: June 27, 2014
Last verified: June 2014
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Subjects with acute coronary syndromes scheduled for cardiac catheterization will be enrolled in this study. Subjects that are to be treated clinically with coronary artery stenting will be randomized to receive a loading dose of clopidogrel versus ticagrelor after diagnostic angiography but prior to stenting. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) will be performed after stenting and the presence of blood clots inside the new stent will be measured and compared between the groups.
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Coronary Artery Disease
Drug: Ticagrelor
Drug: Clopidogrel
Device: Optical Coherence Tomography
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
|Official Title:
|Comparison of Ticagrelor Versus Clopidogrel on Residual Thrombus Burden During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: an Optical Coherence Tomography Study
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MedlinePlus related topics: Blood Clots
Drug Information available for: Clopidogrel bisulfate TicagrelorU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Massachusetts General Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Total thrombus burden as measured by the volume of in-stent thrombus quantified by planimetry. [ Time Frame: Thrombus burden will be measured at the end of the coronary artery stenting procedure. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The total thrombus burden measured on OCT images will be assessed. The volume of in-stent thrombus will be quantified by planimetry.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- PRI (platelet reactivity index) as measured by the PLT-VASP assay. [ Time Frame: PRI will be measured at the time of OCT image acquistion (which will occur at the end of the coronary artery stenting procedure). ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The extent of platelet inhibition will be measured by PLT-VASP and VerifyNow P2Y12 assays.
- P2Y12 Reaction Units as measured by the VerifyNow P2Y12 assay. [ Time Frame: P2Y12 will be measured at the time of OCT image acquistion (which will occur at the end of the coronary artery stenting procedure). ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The extent of platelet inhibition will be measured by PLT-VASP and VerifyNow P2Y12 assays.
Other Outcome Measures:
- PCI- related myocardial infarction (MI) [ Time Frame: PCI-related MI will be assessed within 24 hours after the end of the coronary artery stenting procedure. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]PCI related myocardial infarction is defined by the third Universal defintion of myocardial infarction.
|Study Start Date:
|May 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Ticagrelor
Subjects receive 180 mg of ticagrelor immediately prior to coronary artery stenting and have optical coherence tomography imaging after the stenting procedure.
Drug: Ticagrelor
Subjects are randomized to receive a loading dose of ticagrelor or clopidogrel, and all subjects have Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging performed at the end of their stenting procedures.Device: Optical Coherence Tomography
Active Comparator: Clopidogrel
Subjects receive 600 mg of clopidogrel immediately prior to coronary artery stenting and have optical coherence tomography imaging after the stenting procedure.
Drug: Clopidogrel
Subjects are randomized to receive a loading dose of ticagrelor or clopidogrel, and all subjects have Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging performed at the end of their stenting procedures.Device: Optical Coherence Tomography
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 79 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Patient Characteristics:
Males and non-pregnant females > 18 and < 79 years of age presenting with acute coronary syndrome defined as having two of the following criteria:
- Signs and symptoms consistent with accelerated angina or prolonged angina (lasting greater than 20 minutes) either at rest or with minimal exertion
- ECG changes indicative of new ischemia
- Levels of cardiac biomarkers (troponin-T) above the upper limit of the normal range.
- Patients scheduled to undergo coronary angiography with possible percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
Lesion Characteristics on Diagnostic Coronary Angiography
- De novo lesions in native coronary arteries found by diagnostic coronary angiography
- Angiographic stenosis <100%
- Reference vessel diameter 2.5 mm - 4.0 mm by visual estimation
Exclusion Criteria:
General Exclusion Criteria
- Subjects who are unable or unwilling to sign the informed consent form
- Subjects being treated with anti-platelet medications other than aspirin prior to diagnostic catheterization including glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors.
- Subjects with serious co-morbid conditions that in judgment of the investigator preclude inclusion in this study
- Subjects with NYHA class III or IV heart failure or known left ventricular ejection fraction < 30%
- Subjects with an ST elevation myocardial infarction
- Subjects with hemodynamic or electrical instability (including shock)
- Subjects diagnosed with severe, non-catheter-related coronary artery spasm
- Subjects who are or may be pregnant
- Subjects with known allergies to contrast media
- Subjects with renal failure as defined by eGFR < 60.
- History of TIA or stroke < 6 months
- History of hemorrhagic stroke
- Hepatic insufficiency defined as liver cirrhosis, AST/ALT/Alkaline Phosphatase greater than 3 times the upper limit of normal or hyperbilirubinemia.
Lesion Specific Exclusion Criteria These exclusion criteria apply to the target lesion to be imaged by OCT.
- Lesion located in the left main coronary artery
- Lesions that are heavily calcified
- Lesions where OCT cannot be performed due to technical difficulties
- Other lesions that the investigator deems inappropriate for the procedure such as sites with excessive tortuosity or low flow by TIMI grade.
- Lesion in saphenous vein or arterial conduit
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01826175
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01826175
|United States, Massachusetts
|Massachusetts General Hospital
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
Sponsors and Collaborators
Massachusetts General Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD
|Massachusetts General Hospital
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on December 09, 2016
|Responsible Party:
|Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01826175 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 1, 2013
|Last Updated:
|June 27, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by Massachusetts General Hospital:
Optical Coherence Tomography
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Coronary Disease
Acute Coronary Syndrome
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Purinergic P2Y Receptor Antagonists
Purinergic P2 Receptor Antagonists
Purinergic Antagonists
Purinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
Fibrinolytic Agents
Fibrin Modulating Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
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Ultimate scones
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- Freeze only after baking
Nutrition: per scone (without the trimmings)
- kcal262
- fat9g
- saturates6g
- carbs42g
- sugars5g
- fibre1g
- protein5g
- salt0.9g
- 225g self-raising flour, preferably organic
- ¼ tsp salt
- 50g slightly salted butter, chilled, cut in small pieces
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 25g golden caster sugar
- 125ml buttermilk
- 4 tbsp full-fat milk
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- a little extra flour for dusting
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- strawberry jam and clotted cream, to serve
Once available in Britain for just a brief period during the summer, strawberries are now a year…
Preheat the oven to 220C/gas 7/fan 200C and lightly butter a baking sheet (unless you're using a non-stick sheet). Tip the flour into a mixing bowl with the salt. Shoot in the butter, then rub together with your fingers to make a reasonably fine crumbed mixture, lifting to aerate the mixture as you go. Try not to overrub, as the mixture will be lighter if it's a little bit flaky. Now stir in the sugar.
Measure the buttermilk, then mix in the milk to slacken it. Make a bit of a well in the middle of the flour mixture with a round-bladed knife, then pour in most of this buttermilk mixture, holding a little bit back in case it's not needed. Using the knife, gently work the mixture together until it forms a soft, almost sticky, dough. Work in any loose dry bits of mixture with the rest of the buttermilk. Don't overwork at this point or you will toughen the dough.
Lift the ball of soft dough out of the bowl and put it on to a very lightly floured surface. Knead the mixture just 3-4 times to get rid of the cracks.
Pat the dough gently with your hands to a thickness of no less than 2cm and no more than 2.5cm. Dip a 5.5cm round fluted cutter into a bowl of flour – this helps to stop the dough sticking to it, then cut out the scones by pushing down quickly and firmly on the cutter with the palm of your hand – don't twist it.You will hear the dough give a big sigh as the cutter goes in. Gather the trimmings lightly then pat and cut out a couple more scones.
Place on the baking sheet and sift over a light dusting of flour or glaze if you wish. Bake for 10-12 minutes until risen and golden. Cool on a wire rack, uncovered if you prefer crisp tops, or covered loosely with a cloth for soft ones.
Serve with strawberry jam and a generous mound of clotted cream (Cornish people put jam first, then cream, Devonians the other way round). Eat them as fresh as you can.
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Great recipe! I have tried 3 times already and they are always perfect. Only small thing is I have put 1/4 tsp of bicarbonate soda before put in buttermilk, add some frozen fruits lastly and cover the top with some eggs. The scones look nice, being lighr and very soft, sweet enough and go well with butter and jam. Thanks for a good protocol.
I doubled the recipe and used a small cutter to make lots of small scones, brushed them with with milk and they came out lovely and golden. Served them with some thick double cream polish raspberry moose that my husband brought back from Poland, just lovely. Will definitely make again and possibly add some dried fruit next time.


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What does a text-message news service in rural India have to do with how your library will meet the challenges of a radically changing information landscape? Two words: innovation and cooperation.
No matter where you go in the world, startling technological transformations are happening almost instantly. Innovators with no idea of "what's impossible" from a traditional standpoint are doing extraordinary things with communications and information technology. Entrepreneurs in the private sector, government employees, people at nonprofits or in schools, universities and libraries... they're all using the globally available tools of the 21st century to solve local, regional and global problems.
The Web has turned the refrain "Think global, act local" on its head. It is now possible to think and act at the global level and the local level simultaneously and transparently.
As the Web scales, our world scales
The first wave of the digital revolution was about altering workflows to improve efficiency using computers at the level of the corporation or government. The second wave personalized this shift, giving everyone the ability to use computers in their daily lives, studies and jobs. The third wave was the Internet and World Wide Web, which connected computer networks and people using a standard protocol. The fourth wave was social networks and hand-held devices and tablets—the digital media and technology that consumers use to interact digitally with each other and organizations. The world is now just beginning to understand what it means when all of those tools are connected to each other across the entire globe.
In short, the Web scales. And it allows our organizations to dynamically increase or focus capacity.
In the OCLC discussion document, Libraries at Webscale, the authors make the point that both the world, and the Web, now provide—and encourage—new opportunities and applications that scale up from individual efforts to include groups and even global participation. As the authors wrote:
"Barriers have been lifted on how we can communicate, conduct commerce, conduct research, share data, create communities and deliver products. Leaders can now apply the dimensions of geography and scope to almost every decision they make. Their organizations can tap into tools and resources, and serve communities and markets that are global, national, regional, local—and even personal.
In short, the Web scales. And it allows our organizations to dynamically increase or focus capacity. Organizations now have access to infrastructure and platforms that enable them to reach broad, geographically diverse communities and at the same time scope their services to focus on meeting the specific needs of a single person."
When working on addressing either global or local challenges, it is now necessary to include scalability in our thinking as we research, plan and implement programs. This means considering how individuals can impact large, regional or even global efforts—scaling solutions up from personal interactions—and how global resources can be applied hyperlocally—scaling down from worldwide platforms.
Scaling down
In her book Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky, Sarah Lacy, an award-winning reporter who has covered high-growth entrepreneurship for more than 15 years, talks about her extraordinary journey through the developing world and her encounters with entrepreneurs who use global technology to effect incredible local changes. In her words, "The emerging world isn't a fad. It contains half of the world's population and more than half of them are under the age of 25. They will be the force that shapes our world."
She continues: "Unlike America, where there is a shrinking middle class, in the emerging world there are growing middle classes. When people think about the emerging world, they tend to focus on big countries like China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia—because the numbers are so staggering and it's such a no-brainer that something big will be built there."
About Sarah
Sarah Lacy sees entrepreneurs in the developing world overcome incredible circumstances to create new opportunities in their communities.
"But the best innovation," she points out, "doesn't always come from huge companies. Think about Israel: A tiny country whose entire population is half the size of one of Asia's megacities. And yet, Israel had more Nasdaq-traded companies in the late 1990s than anywhere other than Silicon Valley. In Western Europe, Sweden has had one of the better track records of innovation in Western Europe. Chile and Colombia have recently been aggressive with 'smart policy' to attract entrepreneurs and investors as well. This is not a prize that small, nimble countries are ceding to the big markets. They want jobs, too, and they know local, high-growth entrepreneurship is the best way to get them."
In short, the Web scales. And it allows our organizations to dynamically increase or focus capacity.
Innovative delivery: the story of SMSOne
Sarah tells the story of her favorite example of global-to-local entrepreneurship: SMSOne. This company provides a village-level, local newsletter using SMS technology on low-cost cell phones. A local reporter texts out daily news stories, announcements and ads to hundreds or thousands of readers. And while this sounds like a (relatively) low-tech way to deliver information, the implications of this simple technology have been literally life-changing for members of the communities SMSOne serves:
- In villages where government water pipes are turned on for one hour a week at irregular times, SMSOne reporters alert villagers to show up to get their week's worth of water.
- Birth and death announcements and marriage invitations go out over SMSOne, connecting the community.
- When the DMV or healthcare workers come to villages to provide services, everyone can find out and stay in from the fields when they are coming. This often saves them from missing one or more days of work to go into a city to get these services.
Sarah also shared even more personal stories. For example, a robbery that the community might have previously turned a blind eye to was foiled when several men in the village—inspired by the newfound sense of community SMSOne provided—risked their lives to go stop the robbery. They were written up as heroes. And in a slum just outside of Pune, India, where SMSOne had united a neighborhood, an older woman tried to commit suicide because she felt so alone, and so hopeless about her economic situation. The local SMSOne editor, Anil, found her after she'd poisoned herself, rushed her to the hospital and posted a story about what happened. A neighborhood full of people who barely knew the woman personally all came together and donated whatever they had to pay her bills, ultimately convincing her that she wasn't alone and that her life was worth living.
The 140-character story bursts published by SMSOne, a mobile news company in India, brought communities togethr to save the lives of a depressed woman and a little girl born with a hole in her heart.
Scaling up: the global flipside of personal computing
Just as technology now allows individuals to harness the power of the Web, so too can the Web leverage the combined power of many individuals. And Luis von Ahn can tell you something about that. An associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, he has been combining people and computers on a global scale for 10 years to tackle large-scale problems that can't be solved by individuals alone. He calls it Human Computation—a brand new area he is defining and developing that studies how best to harness the combined power of humans and computers.
Massive, online collaborations are helping to digitize books, create metadata and teach foreign languages using hundreds of millions of people on the Web. You may be familiar with his efforts: CAPTCHA , a Web security application; ESP, a game to describe images on the Web; and Duolingo, an online effort to translate the Web. They are excellent examples of using the scale of the Web to connect individuals in ways that accomplish global goals.
About Luis
Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Luis von Ahn wants to channel via the Web the collective brainpower of millions of people to work on tasks that are useful for humanity.
"At the height of its construction, 44,733 people worked on the Panama Canal," he explains. "The Great Pyramid of Giza required 50,000 workers and the Apollo Project 400,000. Humanity's largest achievements have been accomplished with less than a few hundred thousand workers because it has been impossible to assemble—let alone pay—more people to work together until now. With the Internet, it's possible to coordinate the efforts of millions of humans.
"If 400,000 people put a man on the moon, what can we do with 100 million? What would be the Internet equivalent of a moon shot? We just can't think big enough."
Luis Von Ahn, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Carngie Mellon University
Luis is the creator of the CAPTCHA program (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), the world's most ubiquitous computer security application. A CAPTCHA program prevents automated spamming by making a human decipher and enter distorted characters presented in squiggly lines—something a computer cannot easily do—at the bottom of a Web registration form. With more than 200 million uses every day, it is a highly successful Internet standard.
In Luis' mind, however, this successful security protocol represented something else: 10 seconds of time to enter the text, multiplied by 200 million uses a day. Which amounts to more than 150,000 hours of work. He wondered: how can he make that effort useful? To any individual, a 10-second piece of work may seem insignificant. But 150,000 hours a day? That's some serious brainpower. The answer was reCAPTCHA , a new and improved way of recognizing humans... and digitizing text.
With reCAPTCHA , users decipher two words from distorted characters, one of which comes from a book digitization project where the computer could not distinguish the word. The unrecognized word is paired with one that the computer knows. If you type the correct word for the one that the system knows, it has some confidence that you typed the other word correctly. And if you repeat this process with 10 other people, and they all agree on what the new word is, one more word is digitized accurately.
Luis says that reCAPTCHA is digitizing about 100 million words a day, which is the equivalent of 2.5 million books a year, without the users even knowing it.
"My favorite number is 750 million," says Luis. "That is the number of people who have helped transcribe at least one word out of a book through reCAPTCHA, which is a little over 10 percent of the world's population; 750 million people have helped us digitize human knowledge."
Luis' calculus of scaling many individual efforts into a useful global service is the flipside to Sarah's chronicle of local, high-growth entrepreneurship. The innovative projects Sarah discovered take globally available technology and apply it to unique community situations, while Luis scaled the individual efforts of millions of people into a massive, global online collaboration. Both use the scale of the Web to reach beyond traditional means and do new things cleverly and quickly.
New ways of thinking
What does the increasing scalability of resources and services mean for libraries? As Karen Smith-Yoshimura points out in our OCLC Research story for this issue, many individuals can work together to provide social metadata for a library collection, vastly improving its collective value. She provides several examples of how library projects allow individual efforts to "scale up," including that of the National Library of Australia's Historic Australian Newspapers 1803 to 1954 project, where more than 9,000 digital enthusiasts have edited 50 million lines of scanned text in 40 million articles over the past four years. While the digitization of newspapers gets part of the way to filling the need of the project, small and distorted text makes many articles less useful. Just as in the case of reCAPTCHA , the project harnesses the work of many people who make corrections to one word, phrase or sentence at a time. And, similarly to the ESP game, users can also tag photos to help provide more context and historic information.
"Libraries have a massive user base and both broad and specific subject areas that have wide appeal," says Rose Holley, Digital Library Specialist, National Library of Australia. "Libraries could get hundreds of thousands of volunteers. Anyone with an Internet connection is a potential volunteer. A shift in thinking is required by libraries to fully embrace the potential of crowd sourcing. Crowd sourcing has not been attempted on any significant scale by libraries to date, but could prove to be the most useful tool a library can have in the future."
On the other end of the continuum, there are examples of large-scale cooperative library projects such as WorldCat, HathiTrust and Europeana, which allow local libraries to leverage global databases in order to meet the specific, personal needs of students, researchers and citizens. And while we have been more accustomed to worldwide data collection efforts, it is only now becoming apparent that activities as well as information can be scaled using Web-based tools.
Robin Murray, OCLC Vice President for Global Product Management, puts it this way. "More and more people have moved their information-seeking behavior to the Web. In parallel, more people have started contributing to this global information network. This means that a growing audience of people are becoming accustomed to both getting things done on the Web, and developing services for others to get things done on the Web."
"Technology platforms," he continues, "such as Amazon's cloud services, Apple's iOs for mobile apps and OCLC's new OCLC WorldShare Platform, provide a way to leverage local talent in a global environment. Any developer, from any organization, of any size, now has access to tools and data that were available only to large corporations just a few years ago."
"These platforms," he concludes, "are the key to the scalability of today's most important services.
"When the same technology can connect millions of people to a central set of resources while also empowering individual, local innovation... that's a powerful recipe for change."
Where will your ideas come from?
What is clear from studying the work of Sarah Lacy and Luis von Ahn is that innovation and cooperation are the keys to success for any entity that hopes to survive in our new, rapidly changing information ecosystem. The capacity of Webscale platforms to enable easy scalability is an important part of that equation.
As libraries move forward in this environment, it is instructive to look at the two ends of the scalability spectrum embodied by reCAPTCHA and SMSOne. How can millions of users, connected by shared technology across the world, work together to solve large-scale problems? And how can global platforms and cooperative data sets be focused down to provide striking, life-changing solutions for individuals and their communities?
Webscale services allow organizations to scale up for global and regional uses... and down to local even personalized solutions.
"Because of when these people [entrepreneurs] were born, where they were born doesn't matter."
Sara Lacy, Author
Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky
In an information environment where people and organizations can now act both globally and locally at the same time, understanding how Web-based platforms can efficiently scale local, group and global efforts may be what distinguishes truly successful innovations.
About the Author
Andy Havens
Andy Havens is OCLC's Manager of Branding and Creative Services. He is Managing Editor of OCLC's NextSpace magazine, leads the OCLC Cooperative Blog team and is "head tweeter" for the @OCLC Twitter account. He frequently works on the writing, editing, design and production of OCLC Membership Reports, white papers and symposium materials.
Tom Storey
Tom is an Editor at OCLC and works on NextSpace, OCLC's membership magazine, as well as OCLC Abstracts, a weekly e-news update, and the OCLC Annual Report.
A game? Build Web intelligence while you play
Also developed by Luis is the ESP game, a two-player, online game where people label images on the Web with descriptive keywords. Luis wanted to channel the billions of hours that Web users spend on games into something more useful: image description. Having proper labels associated with each image on the Web could allow for more accurate image retrieval, improve the accessibility of sites and help users block inappropriate images.
Here's how ESP works. A player is paired with a total stranger elsewhere in the world and given a random image. The goal is for you and your partner to type the exact same word, given that the only thing you have in common is that you both can see the same image. The faster you make that happen, the more points you are rewarded. It turns out that the word the players agree on is usually a very good label for the image—since it comes from two independent sources—and provides searchable, descriptive text.
The game went viral and became very popular. In one four-month period, 13,000 players produced 1.3 million labels for some 300,000 images. Over time, the game attracted 200,000 regular players, and Google licensed it and used it as the Google Image Labeler to improve the accuracy of the Google Image Search.
"Although the main application of the ESP game is to label images, the main contribution stems from the way in which we attack the labeling problem," Luis says. "Rather than developing a complicated algorithm, we have shown that it's conceivable that a large-scale problem can be solved with a method that uses people playing on the Web. We've turned tedious work into something people want to do."


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January Events in Tempe, Arizona
January 04, 2013
The mild January weather lends itself to a vast array of activities in the "Valley of the Sun." Tempe Mission Palms is in the heart of the action and just minutes from many of these Tempe events:
Winter Music in the Garden
Desert Botanical Gardens
January 6 through February 24, 2013 - Sundays, 1-3 P.M.
Turn Sunday afternoons into a family outing of note at the Winter Music in the Garden Series. Enjoy the beautiful setting of the Desert Botanical Garden and experience remarkable performances by some of the most talented musicians in the Phoenix area.
Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan
ASU Gammage
January 8 – 13, 2013
Timeless magical moments with the fights, flights, and acrobatics of Peter Pan will mesmerize adults and children alike. Cathy Rigby stars in this two time Emmy Award winning and two time Tony Award nominated production at ASU Gammage.
P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Marathon & ½ Marathon – Tenth Anniversary
Mill Avenue District
January 20, 2013
The event tours through three Arizona cities and is accompanied by finish line parties, concerts and more. With 70 live bands, cheer squads and idyllic weather, the PF Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon is an event not to be missed.
The Color Run 5K
Tempe Town Lake
January 26, 2013
The Color Run™ event is a unique experience focused less on speed and more on crazy color fun with friends and family. Color runners come from all different ages, shapes, sizes, and speeds in this very unique "race."
2013 Waste Management Phoenix Open
TPC Scottsdale
January 28 – February 3, 2013
Dubbed "The Greatest Show on Grass" the Waste Management Phoenix Open is the place to see and be seen in Scottsdale. Enjoy cheering on some of the highest ranked players and crowd favorites, such as Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler who are competing for the $6.2 million dollar purse.


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A stereotypical Subaru – sacrifices interior appeal and ride comfort in favour of reliability and all-round ruggedness. …
Toyota's third-generation RAV4 gained an excellent diesel engine and is fun to drive, but it doesn't feel as sophisticated as rivals.
This is the third-generation Toyota RAV4. It retains the compact, relatively sporty character of its two predecessors, but unlike those models, this one wasn't available with three doors.
On the plus side, it's much more practical than previous versions, with plenty of space for adults in the back, and a large, well-shaped boot. The only problem is that this is accessed through a side-hinged tailgate that makes it impossible to load or unload luggage when another car is parked closely behind.
The RAV4 was available with two engines: a 2.0-litre petrol and the more popular 2.2-litre D-4D diesel. This initially came with 134bhp, but after 2009 was upgraded to 147bhp and had lower emissions. A 177bhp version was also offered.
Like its predecessors, the third-generation RAV4 is quite fun to drive for an SUV. However, the ride is quite harsh over poorly surfaced roads, and the RAV4 is noisier than rivals such as the Honda CR-V and Nissan X-Trail.
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A stereotypical Subaru – sacrifices interior appeal and ride comfort in favour of reliability and all-round ruggedness. …
This second-generation Nissan X-Trail looks similar to the original, but it's a lot more sophisticated and has a much roomier boot. …
The Nissan Qashqai was a game-changer for the entire car industry, but while the +2 version is more practical, it's no substitute for an MPV. …
While the Nissan Qashqai isn't notably larger than regular family hatchbacks, it has a lot more presence and a 4x4-like driving position. …


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Hi everyone! My name is Kristi and i think my lil girl may have a milk protein allergy, or reflux, or something to do with me having too much milk. Im just not sure where to go from here. The problem is i also have an overactive letdown, a ton of milk and the symptoms of that, reflux and mp allergy all are very similar...im so confused and lost. I just want my baby to feel better.
She is nine weeks, and these are the symptoms I am noticing...let me know what you think.
1.Very fussy. She eats, shell be happy for maybe 15 min before she starts fussing again. Usually we can distract her for a while, but unless she is napping the only way she calms down is to put her back at my breast. She pretty much wants to sit on my breast for hours and hours. Its making getting anything done, very hard.
2.She eats constantly, sometimes every half hour. (which is probably from my oversupply?) and acts starving, even if she just ate like 20 minutes ago.
3.She has terrible gas. Where she cries and grunts and the smell could take out a small village lol
4.She only has a bowel movement every few days, and when she does the smell is HORRID, and it is very mucus like.Not the normal, seedy looking poop. I havent noticed any blood but to tell you the truth it smells so bad i just try to clean her up asap.
5.Sometimes, she will be sleeping and just let out this terrible scream like someone just pinched her. Its so sad. She really seems like she is pain.
6.She gets the hiccups a lot. And they really bother her. The only way to calm her is to breastfeed her during them.
With me, Im having trouble with clogged ducts and mastitis. Ive had it 3 times so far. If i miss one single feeding i have problems. She started sleepign longer at night and i woke up this morning with a very hard lumpy breast. Im scared its going to turn into another infection, but this is the breast that already produces more than the other so i dont want to feed too much off that one side. Im having so many problems and Im really getting down about breastfeeding. I didnt realize this was going to be so hard.
ok, whew...i know this is long....and thank you if you have made it this far! I just really want to help my baby feel better. I want my happy go lucky baby back


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Donna J. Beers passed away peacefully at her home in Windham, VT on Tuesday, July 29th following a courageous battle with cancer.
Donna was born on June 18th, 1950, in Townsend, VT. She grew up in Windham, VT, went to Leland and Gray High School in Townsend, Vt and on Nov. 25th, 1967 she married Donald Beers of Londonderry, VT.
She worked at a few different places during her career most recently at the Weston Village Country Store in Weston, VT.
Donna loved golfing and won Club Championship at Lake Fairways golf course in N. Fort Myers, FL, in 2008 and was also a runner up in 2009. She also loved gardening and puzzles.
She is survived by her husband and her two children, Lee A. Beers of Walpole, NH, and Sandy Beers Ferreira of Londonderry, VT. She also had four grandchildren (Caleb and Camille Beers and Nicholas and Christopher Ferreira). She was also survived by three brothers and a sister.
She was predeceased by her father, Donald Coburn, of Windham, VT in 1998.
Her family would like to give thanks to Donnas many friends at Lake Fairways for visits, emails, cards, phone calls and support during her 16-month battle with cancer. Her family would also like to express gratitude to the VA Hospital and Hospice for all their help.
A memorial for Donna will be held at the Second Congregational Church in Londonderry, VT at 1 p.m Saturday, August 9, 2014, .
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AT-A-GLANCE helps productivity prevail during the 2013-14 school year
The back-to-school season is underway, and the preparations taken for getting back to the classroom are plentiful. To help with this transition, the planning and organizing experts from AT-A-GLANCE® have compiled tips for families and students of all ages.
"All the talk about back-to-school typically revolves around shopping for supplies and new clothes—and the costs associated with them," says Lissa Cupp, vice president, e-Commerce and Consumer Marketing, ACCO Brands. "However, the true cost of this annual endeavor is time and how it's lost due to lack of proper planning and organization."
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I was very happy to read this afternoon that Zack Greinke had won the AL Cy Young Award, which means, at least for one year, that the baseball writers voted for the best pitcher in the league, rather than the one with the most wins and/or the one on a winning team. They should be commended for making the right choice. Well, not all of them. Not Steve Kornacki of Booth Newspapers in Michigan.
Rather than voting for Greinke or Felix Hernandez (which would have been the wrong choice, but a defensible one), this clown voted for Justin Verlander and, in doing so, added himself to the list of embarassing "homer" voters that have marred the major award voting over the years.
Here are Greinke's (25 first place votes) numbers: 16-8, 229.1 IP, 2.16 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 242 K, 6 CG, and a .230 BAA. Kansas City did not make the postseason.
Here are Hernandez's (2 first place votes) numbers: 19-5, 238.2 IP, 2.49 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 217 K, 2 CG, and a .227 BAA. Seattle did not make the postseason.
Here are Verlander's (Kornacki's first place vote) numbers: 19-9, 240 IP, 3.45 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 269 K, 3 CG, and a .243 BAA. Detroit did not make the postseason.
If this were Highlights for Children, we'd ask, "Which of these doesn't belong?"
By the way, Greinke's ERA was the lowest in the AL since 2000, when Pedro Martinez posted a 1.74 mind-bender. But that doesn't impress Kornacki. You know what does? Three more wins and 27 more strikeouts. Oh, and playing for his hometown Tigers.
I guess Kornacki thought that Verlander's additional strikeouts and wins were a dealbreaker, despite the fact that he allowed 1.29 more earned runs per nine innings than Greinke.
Kornacki should be ashamed of himself and he should never be allowed to vote for another major MLB award again. Also, he should apologize to Greinke.
Kornacki has posted a feeble defense of his first place vote for Verlander. Here's the key quote:
"Verlander received my first-place vote because nobody was tougher on the mound with the season on the line for his team."
It's really strange. I checked Verlander's player page on Baseball-Reference and I didn't see a stat category for toughness. It must be one of those newfangled sabermetric things.
Also, over Verlander's final five starts (Sept. 14 – Oct. 4), when the Tigers were battling the Twins for the division crown, Verlander, despite going 3-1 over these starts, posted a 4.62 ERA and .280 BAA, which suggests that he was actually much worse when the team's season was "on the line." If Kornacki had spent five minutes looking at what actually happened, he would have realized how untenable his position was.
Kornacki also cites the fact that Verlander had more strikeouts this year than any AL pitcher since Pedro Martinez in 2000. He doesn't mention ERA, though. I guess striking guys out is more valuable than preventing runs.


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The next issue of RLW is on sale Friday 6th August.
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Written by MétalNoir on 14.10.2009 at 21:27
Didn't expect it to be worth my money anyway... But please DON'T be rude to COB's version of Aces High. It's probably one of the best metal-to-metal cover ever.
Written by Ellrohir on 15.10.2009 at 13:48
btw. there exist people who never heard about this notorious cover of Britney Spears? cant believe it...
Written by Guest on 14.10.2009 at 17:28
What!!!!???? Britney Spears cover :banger2:;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D I must hear that !!!!
Written by yourmomiskvlt on 15.10.2009 at 22:20
But when has posers selling garbage to idiots been anything new in the world of metal?
Written by rpsgc on 14.10.2009 at 17:52
It's really not that bad actually
Written by Hermann Langke on 18.10.2009 at 15:44
Why no ratings?
Written by Baz Anderson on 18.10.2009 at 21:45
Written by Hermann Langke on 18.10.2009 at 15:44
Why no ratings?
I tend not to give ratings to cover albums, EPs, re-releases, etc.
They don't really need one. At least that way people actually read the actual review as well.
Written by ImNotMetal on 08.12.2009 at 14:53
I heard that they covered europe's final countdown and iron maiden's the trooper. But i can't find at whole discography.