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Thomasina Miers with Doron Atzmon
Brooks Butchers, NW10
I live down the road from Brooks, and the second it opened two years ago I was straight in the door. I never buy meat from the supermarket; at Brooks you can order anything you want and they know exactly how things should be cooked. It's good, old- fashioned service, and on Sundays they run a fun butchery course.
I moved to Kensal Rise four years ago, and I was worried I'd miss all the wonderful Middle Eastern grocers, but this is a brilliant foodie area, with great delis like Angelo's on College Road which sells beautiful risotto rice and seasonal mushrooms; Queen's Park Farmers' Market won an award for the best market in the country this year. The fish comes straight from Norfolk and Suffolk. Because it's weekly people come to rely on it, and for me being able to shop locally is brilliant, and a great way to help kick-start the economy.
Wahaca Southbank, an experimental restaurant set up in eight shipping containers, opens on 28 June (wahaca.co.uk)
Pierre Koffmann with Patricia Michelson
La Fromagerie, W1
My working relationship with Patricia is based on a shared love of cheese. When I was opening Koffmann's at the Berkeley hotel I spent a long time searching for the best supplier. I came to La Fromagerie because I heard it was an Ali Baba's cave of cheese. There is so much temptation. I think it's the best shop in London. We want the cheese board we serve to be perfect and to have a lot of variety, and I trust La Fromagerie to get it right even without my involvement. I'm proud that I have nothing to do with the cheese, apart from cutting it.
My wife Claire and I spend a lot of time in Marylebone because it's near our home in Little Venice, and there's a beautiful, village feel. We walk via Church Street Market. It's not particularly trendy, but it's a market for the people. You can get things such as lamb tripe, so when I do supper clubs at Koffmann's I get my meat there. There's also a Sunday farmers' market next to the Ginger Pig, and the Japanese Knife Company is great. Claire does all the cooking at home, so I leave most of the shopping to her. The kids actually prefer her cooking to mine; I had to bribe them to say that, of course.
Jamie Berger with Charlie boxer
Italo, SW8
Charlie's mother is Arabella Boxer, a great cookery writer and a close friend of my own mother. She used to babysit me, and taught me all about cooking – my mum thinks food is something you eat so you don't die, but Arabella taught me how to peel tomatoes and grind pepper. Charlie now has two sons, Jackson (my godson) and Frank, and owns Italo. That's where all three of us started our businesses; it's where Frank was before Frank's Café and Campari Bar in Peckham; where Jackson was before he opened Brunswick House around the corner; and where Tommy Adams and I were before we started Pitt Cue. I met Tommy when I was working here in 2010 and he was at the Blueprint Café with Jeremy Lee, who brought him to a charity evening at the Bonnington Square Café, opposite Italo. We got talking and discovered a mutual interest in wine, and a few months later he ended up working in the kitchen with me. I needed another chef to realise my barbecue food truck dream, and it turned out Tom had been making smoked food since he was a boy. We opened the truck in May last year on the South Bank, and our Soho restaurant in January.
I love this square so much that I moved here last summer. Everyone thinks of Vauxhall as just a hideous roundabout, but this place is quiet, and there's a real sense of community. The Boxers are the closest thing I have to a family here, and I eat breakfast with them at Italo almost every day. They are a sort of South London mafia, and I'm the godfather.
Pitt Cue's barbecue van is now open on the South Bank (pittcue.co.uk)
Russell Norman with Norman Wilson
Norm's stall, W1
I came across Norm 12 years ago when I was general manager at Circus and I had to pop round the corner to Berwick Street Market because we hadn't had any figs delivered. I asked at the first stall, and was told I needed to see Norm.
I understand Soho better than any other area of London because I've worked in restaurants here for 13 years; it's where I've always come to play. There was nowhere else I considered opening a restaurant. Now I have three in Soho and two in Covent Garden, with more planned.
It's handy having Norm's in case we run out of something, or for specials. Of all the stalls on Berwick Street his is the largest, and he's uncompromising; he stocks stuff even when he knows it might not sell out, and he genuinely responds to the seasons.
My other favourite Soho places are Milroy's wine shop next to my office on Greek Street, and the two best delis, Camisa on Old Compton Street and Lina Stores on Brewer Street. I'm a sucker for anything with an old-fashioned aesthetic and they're classic old-school Italian delis – great pasta and white truffles, as well as slightly esoteric ingredients such as caper berries.
Polpo: A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts) is out on 5 July (Bloomsbury, £25)
Mark Hix with Bridget Hugo
Bread Bread, SE24
About a year ago, Giuseppe Mascoli, the owner of pizzeria Franco Manca, invited me to Brixton to give me a tour around the market. We had a delicious lunch at his restaurant and he introduced me to Bridget Hugo, the baker at Bread Bread, who sells in the market and to restaurants all over London. Her sourdough is fantastic, especially the hamburger buns.
The market wasn't at all what I was expecting. It used to be a Caribbean-type place, with lots of meat and some not-so-good fish, but now it's been revived, and although it still retains its roots, you feel it's somewhere that's on the up. More and more foodies are moving in; there are some really good quality stalls now, and a great vibe.
Elsewhere in London I love China Town. I find it really inspiring. Often when you're surrounded by exciting ingredients you come up with new ideas, so I go to Loon Fung, a big Oriental supermarket on Gerrard Street. Borough Market is another inspirational place; I get a lot of produce for Hix and the Tramshed there, including oysters from Wright Brothers. I've been buying my meat from Lidgate's in Holland Park for 25 years so we have a lot of history and I really trust them. Everything else I buy from Selfridges Food Hall.
Tramshed (chickenandsteak.co.uk)
Tony Conigliaro with Miles Kirby
Caravan, EC1
As a mixologist I work a lot with aromas. Caravan has a fantastic smell because they roast their own coffee beans in the basement. I look at perfumes as reference points for ideas, so coming here is inspirational for my drinks; sometimes just a single note that I find in a smell leads me to create something. I also go to Les Senteurs, a perfume store in Belgravia, because it stocks a lot of niche, artisanal scents.
Exmouth Market has changed a lot in the last few years. It's a bit more adult now. I've been eating at Moro since it opened,and Morito is fantastic too.
I live over the road from Caravan so I tend to come most mornings for breakfast and a ristretto. It's got a real New York feel to it. What they produce is simple, but with a little twist here and there, and that's what I play around with as well.
I've known Miles for a while; most people around here seem to get to know each other somehow. He often comes to 69 Colebrooke Row, my bar in Islington, and I always make him a Spitfire – cognac, lemon juice, a little peach liqueur and white wine. I get ingredients from all over the world, but the best places in London are the Arabica stall in Borough Market, which sells useful things such as rose water, and Portobello Road for amazing spices. The best place for spirits is Gerry's on Old Compton Street. I've been going there for 16 years and they still find news things for me to taste.
(69colebrookerow.com); Caravan's second site opens in King's Cross in July
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Glowing Orb Creates Connected Home You Can Talk To
Homey is a new system that lets you control your devices with your voice.
Dutch start-up Athom recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for their product, Homey, a new home automation system that connects the owner's devices and lets them control those devices with their voice.
Homey integrates entertainment systems, appliances, lighting, online data and social media accounts into home automation. While other similar systems focus on just appliances and controlling them via an app, Homey allows users to connect multimedia devices to online services like email and weather data. This means Homey can not only adjust the thermostat to a comfortable level or turn lights on and off, but also play certain music when it rains or read emails to them from the other room.
In a press release, the creators of Homey explained that while controlling one's home via an app is ideal when the owner is on-the-go, it takes longer than just flipping a switch. That is why they decided to implement speech recognition to make using Homey quick and painless.
Homey features eight different wireless technologies. The creators built in support for the latest home automation protocols like Zigbee and Z-Wave. The voice-controlled automation system also has an array of microphones that are meant to improve sound recording and provide high quality speech recognition.
Homey is an open platform for other developers to create apps for the system. Athom co-founder Stefan Witkamp explains, "This way, we keep our product and platform future proof: support can be added for devicesthat currently don't existyet."
Athom was founded by Witkampand fellow entrepreneurEmileNijssen. The two met each other at the UniversityofTwente, and they developed Homey with support from the university and various start-up networks.
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Sports Birthdays for May 27 – Frank Thomas and More
Jeff Bagwell
Age: 44
Profession: Former MLB Player
Best Known For: Jeff Bagwell is best known as a power hitter for the Houston Astros in the 1990s. During his 14-year career in Houston, Bagwell was named to four All-Star games and won the 1994 National League MVP. Bagwell finished his career with 449 home runs and his jersey was retired by the Astros in 2007.


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Some former students in the adult division of Indiana County Technology Center have filed suit against the school, charging that a medical training course failed to qualify them for the licenses required to find jobs.
In a civil complaint filed March 18 in Indiana County Common Pleas Court, the students allege that ICTC advertised the Certified Medical Assistant course they attended in the 2011-12 academic year as being accredited when it was not.
Because the class was not certified, the students charge, they were ineligible for an examination by the American Association of Medical Assistants and, in turn, could not seek work as certified medical assistants.
They are asking the court to award hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for breach of contract, violation of consumer protection laws and unjust enrichment.
Brandie Barr, of Creekside; Brandy Edmiston, of Indiana; Rachel Damann, of Lilburn, Ga.; and Juanita Vrana, of Indiana, are represented by attorney Mark Bolkovac, of Indiana.
The technology center's executive director, Carol Jean Fry, declined Tuesday to comment on the lawsuit.
The lawsuit charges that ICTC claimed in its student handbook to have been accredited by either the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools, enabling all students who completed the Medical Assistant Diploma Program to take the AAMA's CMA exam.
The students claim in the lawsuit that they paid tuition to enroll in the course beginning Aug. 29, 2011, attended the required 1,030 hours of classes, took tests, and completed a 160-hour externship and expected to graduate in August 2012.
But in June 2012, according to the lawsuit, the students in the program were told by the program coordinator, Eric Palmer, that ICTC was not in compliance with the accreditation by the industry boards.
The students were not allowed to withdraw from the program, the students charge.
"Although the plaintiffs had completed all (requirements), they will never be able to take a CMA examination without completing an accredited program, paying tuition to such other school, as well as disrupting their employment and personal lives," the suit charges. The students "incurred numerous expenses to attend the program as well as losing time on the job and other employment opportunities."
For alleged breach of contract, the suit demands damages in excess of $50,000 to cover tuition and other expenses, loss of time, tuition needed to take the course again, and loss of income from jobs they sought, plus interest and attorney fees.
The suit also demands treble damages — three times the actual losses proven in court — for consumer protection violations.
Charging that ICTC was aware that the medical assistant program was not accredited, and that the school was unjustly enriched by accepting students into the class, the students also seek damages of more than $50,000.
The school's website lists the medical assistant program among 17 available through the post-secondary adult education division.
"Qualified students will have the opportunity to obtain … NHA Phlebotomy Certification, NHA Certified Clinical Medical Assistant, (and) Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) Certification," according to the ICTC website. "After completing the MA program, students become eligible to sit for the RMA Certification Exam offered through American Medical Technologist (AMT)."
On the website, ICTC reports that the Pennsylvania State Board of Cosmetology and Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing have accredited the center's cosmetology and practical nursing programs.


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Welcome to DiscoGnosis...
An EC-funded research project for Point-of-Care diagnosis of malaria and tropical diseases on a CD-like operating platform
Visit our video, blogpost and
Plastic disposable disc (left) inserted into the Point-of-Care detection platform (right)
The FP7 research project "DiscoGnosis" ("Disc-shaped Point-of-Care platform for infectious disease diagnosis") was launched beginning of November 2012 in University of Freiburg, at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK). Its core objective is to develop a platform that would allow the detection of malaria and similar pathogenic diseases in a rapid, multiplexed and non-invasive way.
Malaria and tropical diseases
Malaria is one of the most crucial health threats. An estimated 220 million people get infected every year; 650.000 cases lead to death, 20% of which are within small children. The disease is still on advance mainly in Africa and other tropical developing countries with acute fever being the only symptom. In these regions, fever can also result from Salmonella typhi/paratyphi bacteria or dengue and chikungunya viruses, all of which, like malaria, are transmitted by mosquitos. Clinical surveys have shown that 30 to 40% of the patients are falsely treated for malaria without even being infected by it, due to inaccurate diagnosis. It is, therefore, vital to establish accurate diagnostic tools to distinguish these diseases and apply the appropriate therapy.
The technological approach
The DiscoGnosis platform will operate similarly to a CD player: a disc-shaped plastic disposable chip will handle the injected blood sample, distributing it among integrated microfluidic chambers and units using centrifugal forces. All necessary (bio)chemical components will be pre-stored on the disc, together with micro/nanocomponents for fully automated analysis in a precise, rapid, sensitive and multiplexed way with minimum external intervention. The involved technologies will enable diagnosis to be conducted closely to the patient and provide large populations with a modern diagnostic Point-of-Care tool in regions with low medical infrastructure. The platform will further enhance the "shield" of Europe against potential spread of the examined diseases due to climate change and globalisation.
The project consortium
The 3-year DiscoGnosis project received 3 M€ total funding from the European Commission. It is coordinated by the University of Freiburg, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) in close collaboration with the partners: Rohrer AG, University Hospital Basel and European Foundation for Clinical Nanomedicine (CLINAM) from Switzerland; University Medical Center Göttingen from Germany; Magnamedics Diagnostics BV from the Netherlands; MAST Group Ltd from the United Kingdom. Multidisciplinary teams of biologists, chemists, engineers and clinicians will cooperate for the realization of this ambitious project of high socioeconomic impact.
|The project is supported by the European Commission through the 7th Framework Programme on Research and Technological Development within the Objective FP7 ICT-2011.3.2 and under Grant Agreement No. 318408.


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A unit manufacturing spurious liquor was raided on Tuesday afternoon by excise department officials and the district police at Jadugora, around 22km from Jamshedpur.
Thirty bottles of Indian-made foreign liquor, 50 empty bottles, 500 caps, dyes and a large number of labels of well-known liquor brands were recovered by the team from a house in Kendadih locality.
A bootlegger, 25-year-old Bablu Singh was arrested.
Speaking to The Telegraph, excise department inspector K.V. Minz said the raid was conducted after a tip-off on Monday about the unit supplying liquor to outlets in the city.
"A 40-member joint team of the state excise department and Jadugora police started the hunt in the morning and we managed to nab the culprit around 1pm from the house. We also recovered nearly 50 litres of spirit stocked in two drums. The market value of the seized consignment including the dyes is to the tune of Rs 2 lakh," said the inspector.
Samples of the confiscated liquor and dyes would be sent to Ranchi-based forensic science laboratory to ascertain whether it was fit for human consumption.
Sub inspector of the excise department Ram Lal Singh said preliminary interrogation of the culprit suggested the existence of a much bigger racket in the steel city.
"It is only the tip of the iceberg. At least 50 such plants are functional. We are now trying to get hold of the kingpin of the racket," said the sub inspector.
"The arrested youth has confessed that they used to sell one crate of liquor (containing 38 bottles of IMFL) for Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000. Genuine IMFL is sold in the range of Rs 2,800 and Rs 3,000 per crate," said an official.


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A Bangor man has been arrested on a murder charge.
Zackery Mailloux, 21, is being held at the Penobscot County Jail.
Bangor Police say they responded to a residence on Essex Street after 2pm Monday for a report of a domestic disturbance.
Officials say upon their arrival, a female resident of that address was deceased.
An autopsy will be conducted by the Medical Examiner's Office Tuesday to determine the cause of death.
The victim's name is being withheld until after the conclusion of the autopsy.
The Bangor Police Department's Criminal Investigations Division and Evidence Response Team is still investigating.
No additional information has been released.


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Legacy of Kerala
DC Books, Jul 12, 2010 - History - 66 pages
This work attempts to give a broad idea of the diverse aspects of the socio- cultural life of the people of Kerala in a historical perspective. Old traditions and new values in every sphere of human thought and activity have synthesized, assimilated and fused to form the history of Kerala.
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As expected Dialed In is the early favourite for the 2011 Kentucky Derby ahead of the previous top pick Uncle Mo.
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Week Ends With Uncertainty for 24 City Schools
In 55 days, classes resume in the New York City public schools. Students, teachers and other staff members will be back together at more than 1,700 schools, and the 2012-2013 school year will be off and running.
At 24 city schools, however, it's hard to say just what will happen on Sept. 6.
The big news of the week was a judge's decision to uphold an arbitrator's ruling, which said the city violated teachers' and administrators' contracts when it removed staff members from those 24 schools.
The city had deemed the schools "failing," and received the state's conditional approval to place them into "turnaround." That meant the schools were to be shut in June and reopened in September, with revamped staffs and new names, though with the same students.
The arbitrator had ruled that the school closings were a sham, and that the city had to abide by its contracts with principals and teachers, which preclude it from removing all staff members from a school and hiring back the ones it wants to keep.
Needless to say, the city is not pleased and is determined to appeal. That's because the outcome of this case could define some of the legal parameters for the city as it pursues its policy of breaking up the culture of failing schools, even if it means shutting them down.
Meanwhile, though, what's to happen at those 24 schools?
Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott said Wednesday that principals at those schools were moving ahead to plan for the start of the school year.
"My goal is to make sure that these schools open with minimal disruption," he said.
Mr. Walcott said education officials would meet with the principals on Tuesday afternoon to go over their budgets and help discern staffing needs, since recent hiring and firing decisions at the schools were reversed in late June by an arbitrator's ruling. He also said the city would "work in collaboration" with the teachers' and principals' unions to make sure schools were ready for September.
"It's a very ambitious schedule, but we'll meet that schedule," said Mr. Walcott.
The remarks left many people scratching their heads — including the staff members at the schools, who said they were not clear about what they are supposed to be preparing for. Not only that, some said they had heard little from the folks at Tweed. As Rachel Cromidas of Gotham Schools reported:
... administrators at the schools today said they had heard nothing concrete. The department has declined to comment on its plans for the schools since a judge ruled on Tuesday that the city would have to reinstate teachers and principals cut loose from the schools while it appeals an arbitrator's ruling blocking the staffing changes. The teachers and principals unions said their members have not gotten any updates on how they can reclaim their jobs at the schools.
And administrators at some of the schools say they can't see how the next school year can open smoothly when it's not even clear who is in charge right now.
"We'd really love to get back in there and do what we do," said one administrator who was ousted last month but is now entitled to return. "I should be preparing stuff for the year. Seeing what kids didn't graduate, why they didn't; calling up kids who didn't come to summer school; attendance outreach; planning freshman orientation — it's a million things we'd be doing. And I'd be doing regular hirings, because we had a lot of retirements this year."
The city has another court date on July 24. Perhaps that will bring clarification.
But even Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was not optimistic about the city's chances in court. On WOR radio on Friday, he continued to rail against the arbitrator's decision, saying it was "playing with kids' lives."
But, the mayor acknowledged, "it is very hard to get courts to overturn arbitrator's decisions."
On Friday, also on "The John Gambling Show," Mr. Bloomberg also spoke about the city's attempts to reach a deal with the union over the creation of a new system to evaluate teachers — part of the mayor's attempt at school accountability.
"We're not going to sign on to anything that is not a real evaluation system with real teeth that you can actually do something with, and do it in a reasonable time frame," he said, of the steps required to remove a teacher from the classroom. "Some of these things will drag on for years."
Listen to the full excerpt from the mayor's comments on education.
Also in the news this week — and not in a good way — was one of the city's premiere schools, Stuyvesant High School. Mr. Walcott announced that 71 students had been accused of cheating on their Regents exams, all but one for using their banned cellphones to share information.
That news set off lively discussions about cheating, the cellphone ban and the culture at Stuyvesant.
In another issue that hits home for some, The New York Times reported that students are being denied gym time, as well as access to gyms and certified gym teachers. But, as Al Baker, who covers city schools for The Times, reported:
Kathleen Grimm, New York City's deputy schools chancellor for operations, said the Bloomberg administration required adequate physical education in schools, but acknowledged it had work to do. Since principals face challenges in providing space and time for those classes, she said, the administration hoped to put a plan in place by summer's end to provide them "better support" across all areas of education, including physical education.
And the city plans to submit its long-overdue phys ed plan to the state by September, Mr. Baker reported.
This week also saw the start of summer school for 33,000 third through eighth graders and an ode to paraprofessionals, written by SchoolBook's teacher-blogger, Laura Klein.
Rising eighth graders and their parents are already embarking on a hunt for high school. Inside Schools shared the best advice from one of the high school workshops that the city offers through the summer. You can find dates and locations here and search the high school directory online here.
Voices of New York, an online site that curates the best journalistic work being produced by scores of community and ethnic publications and translates that work into English where necessary, produced a series of reports about the "Parachute Children of Korea" -- the thousands of children who are sent to the United States without their parents to study in American schools and get a leg up on college admissions.
Big news anticipated for next week: the release of the results of the state English Language Arts and math tests in April. SchoolBook will be reporting the numbers and trying to explain what they mean.


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Re: Implicit plot variations
I think you have just created a nice illustration to the thing called
"sampling theorem" in math and engineering. You may also find a lot of
info under the name "Nyquist stability" in control theory.
mathma18 at hotmail.com (Narasimham G.L.) wrote in message news:<ciua51$90n$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> << Graphics`ImplicitPlot`;
> ImplicitPlot[y == Sin[100 x], {x, -2, 2}, {y, -2, 2},
> PlotPoints -> {nppx, 100}]
> By changing nppx between 2 and 200 a lot of variation in plots.(They
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Why does my female Chihuahua grab my other Chihuahuas by the back of the neck every time they squeal? She does not appea
My female Chihuahua grabs and holds my other Chihuahuas by the back of the neck EVERY time one squeals. She does not appear to be trying to hurtr them, but I heave to prey her jaws open to make her turn them loose. I am bebroken my skin on her teeth trying to malgre her leer them go.side myself with this problem. Please help She has never broken the skin in them yet, but I have broken my skin on her teeth trying to make heer let them go.
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She is being the mom, this is what happens when bitches have babies and then they squeal and she grabs their neckes with her mouth and shakes a little or moves them while they are new borns to correct their beahviour, she thinks she is the mom of your other dog! You got to make her understand she ain't the mom anymore, and you are the alpha, and your other dog is an equal. She is VERY SORRY accidently broke your skin, in her mind she was just thinking doing her responsibility to train the pup which is your other dog. when she breaks your skin you much give her a reaction, a calm one not to scare her, by say ouch that hurt.
So I assume your dog is a pup and when the squeal stops as they usually dog when pups turn into dogs, the behavior will stop as there are no more crying pups needing her care.
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Please tell me what is the average life expectancy of someone with liver cirrhosis?
Variable: The life expectancy is very variable and depends on the cause and stage of cirrhosis, state of compensation, development of malignancy etc. It is not feasible to provide a meaningful opinion about life expectancy for a given patient. See this site for more info. http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/cirrhosis-liver. ...Read more
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This organ plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body, including glycogen storage, decomposition of red blood cells, plasma protein synthesis, hormone production, and detoxification. It lies below the diaphragm in the abdominal-pelvic region of the abdomen. It produces bile, an alkaline compound which aids in digestion via the emulsification of ...Read more
How bad is stage 4 liver cirrhosis and what is the life expectancy?
Stage 4=cirrhosis: The prognosis of cirrhosis is highly variable since it is influenced by a number of factors, including etiology, severity, presence of complications, and comorbid diseases. Scoring systems are available to give you an idea of life expectancy but are far from exact. You should discuss this with your doctor. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
What is the life expectancy for someone with stage 4 liver cirrhosis?
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What would the life expectancy of a patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis be?
Depends: People with cirrhosis can live many years, but once they start developing complication of ascites (fluid build up in belly), confusion (hepatic encephalopathy), varices (vomiting blood) or liver cancer, the life expectancy is much less. The way to increase your life expectancy is to have a liver doctor help manage the above, and to stop drinking alcohol as you can possibly heal your liver. ...Read more
Age 58, non-alcoholic.have liver cirrhosis due to Portal Hypertensive.still have 40% liver working.it can be stable always or what is life expectancy?
Take care ofyourself: If you already have portal hypertension as a complication of your liver disease, you probably have had cirrhosis for awhile. There is no "40% working" - best markers are those of synthetic function. get the underlying cause treated if possible (?HCV), stay as healthy as you can. But no, unlikely to remain 'stable always'. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
I need life expectancy for liver cirrhosis. He has hep c with an enlarged liver and fluid around it.
Difficult to say: With the approval of the latest round of hep C medicines, hep C has become a potentially treatable illness, sometimes even in the face of known cirrhosis. He needs to see a good hepatologist ASAP. In the meantime, no alcohol, tylenol, (acetaminophen) or shellfish. Good luck. ...Read more
What is average life-expectancy for a patient who has liver cirrhosis and has developed ascites for 2 weeks and seems to respond to Lasix and aldactone (spironolactone)? Thanks.
What Stage ?: Life expectancy depends on what stage is the disease , is it irreversible, what is meld score need inr, creatinine & bilurubin levels to access ( model for end stage liver disease ) presence of active hep b or c eso. Varices etc . Based on info appear to be stage iii or IV if untreated not much time left , need liver transplantation. Meld score to put on waiting list. ...Read more
What is prognosis of pt of liver cirrhosis with insomnia and asciteshaving sgot 68.5, total prStein 4.5, albumin 2.4 bld urea, creatinine normal?
It'll kill him...: ... unless he stops drinking. Period. From the clinical findings, this individual continues to be a "moderate drinker." Without sobriety, his chances of recovery aer zero. How soon? I can't tell you. Can we get through this man's denial? I don't know. Is this you? Do you want to die? Or would you like to feel well once again. Cirrhosis is largely reversibly -- IF you sober up. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
What is the prognosis of liver cirrhosis with stage 4 liver cancer? Why people with liver cirrhosis/liver cancer have low hemoglobin, red blood cells?
Need to ask your ono: Your oncologist can help. Anemia can be caused by blood loss(which is common in patients with cirrhosis(GI blood loss due to varices). Poor blood formation is also common(Anemia of chronic disease). Blood transfusion can help the pateint. Keep Hemoglobin near 10 Grams. There is some treatment for Liver cancer that could be tried(the medicine is called Nexavar(Sorafenib) ...Read more
What is the prognosis for advanced liver cirrhosis and congestive heart failure due to alcoholic cardiomyopathy, ef 10, asceties, kidney impairment?
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My brackets/Parentheses are getting translated to text. Help!
I'm using Mathematica Version 3.0 in a class I'm teaching, and I've
encountered a problem on a few machines where the brackets, parentheses, are
being translated to text so that something like:
would look like:
Integrate at H2xL^2,:x,1,2<F
Does anyone know what setting(s) I need to change? This type of odd
translation appears in the display of the help files, in the input/output
screen and everywhere else I've looked. Do these installations have an
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, especially for IT.
Go to the state of Iowa's Web site, and you can see that of the $2.5 billion in federal economic stimulus money earmarked for the state under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), $553 million has already been spent on health, education, infrastructure and other programs designed to create jobs and jump-start the local economy.
Drill a bit deeper into the data and you can pull up the exact amounts spent on weatherization training and technical programs, rental assistance programs and hundreds of other individual projects.
Iowa CIO John Gillespie figures his IT organization has devoted about 800 man-hours so far to making that data available to the state's citizenry. "We actually had to build the application to give [different state agencies and programs] a way to submit data to us," he says.
But the far bigger challenge, Gillespie says, has been building the business rules and defining internal processes to comply with federal reporting requirements, which have changed or been updated several times since the stimulus package was first announced in February. States are required to file quarterly reports that fully account for every tax dollar spent.
Just as the $787 billion ARRA is unprecedented, so are the reporting demands it's making on state CIOs and IT organizations, which are scrambling to whip up new processes and tools to accurately track and account for their states' shares of the stimulus pie. The process has been complicated by a variety of factors, including exceedingly tight deadlines and complex and changing federal reporting guidelines.
The best state Web sites for ARRA tracking
States with the best ARRA-tracking Web sites, as of July:
1. Maryland (see related story)
2. Colorado
3. Washington
5. New York
6. Pennsylvania
-- Mitch Betts
Source: study by Good Jobs First (PDF), Washington, July 2009
Another big problem is the lack of a central accounting system in most states, which have had to first devise ways of extracting and aggregating data from multiple systems across hundreds of agencies before rolling it up to report it to the federal government.
Like so many of the energy and construction projects launched with stimulus dollars, tracking and reporting systems remain works in progress.
In Missouri, one of a handful of states to have a central accounting system used across all state agencies, funding and budgeting data is relatively easy to access. What remains difficult to grasp, however, is precisely what the federal government wants to know, says CIO Bill Bryan.
Two data points the feds want to track are job creation and retention under the economic stimulus program. "But the definition and requirements for how to count jobs is quite a challenge to understand," according to Marilyn Gerard-Hartman, director of enterprise applications for Missouri.
For example, if the state awards a highway infrastructure project to a contractor who in turn hires a subcontractor, who in turn hires other subcontractors, "how far down the chain is the state responsible for tracking? And do you only count it as a job created if the job wouldn't have existed without the ARRA funding?"
Generally, "it hasn't been clear what the requirements are until fairly late in the game," adds Bryan.
Meanwhile, fulfilling the requirements to the letter of the federal law is critical, Bryan notes. "If you don't comply, you could get thrown under the bus and not get any further funding."
"One of the biggest challenges is just the speed at which we had to get things done," says Iowa's Gillespie. "The rules for the most part didn't get finalized literally until weeks -- not months -- ago. Just keeping up has been the biggest challenge."
Rather than licensing commercial stimulus-tracking tools, Gillespie's team internally developed a tracking and reporting system "using tools already familiar to financial folks who have all the data in Excel spreadsheets," he explains. The data is imported into a database, where it is aggregated, extracted and converted to an XML-formatted report and submitted online to the federal government.
First things first
But before IT could build the tracking system, "we actually had to build a Web-based application to give people a way to submit data to us," Gillespie explains.
Stimulus reporting: The basics
More than two-dozen federal agencies have been allocated a portion of the $787 billion in stimulus money. Each federal agency develops specific plans for its share, then awards grants and contracts to state governments or, in some cases, directly to schools, hospitals, contractors or other organizations. The federal agencies are required to file weekly financial reports on how they're spending the money and their specific activities involving ARRA funds.
Last month, states and other grant recipients for the first time filed the quarterly spending reports required under the law.
The executive branch has worked hard to ensure a smooth reporting operation, according to Rob Nabors, director of the federal Office of Management and Budget.
As Nabors puts it: "Between OMB and the vice president's office and others in the White House and out in the agencies, we've done 169 different conference calls with recipients. There've been 170 events with state officials. We've had 37 different events with local government officials. There have been seven White House forums, and there've been 20 separate Recovery Act reporting training sessions. That by itself is an unprecedented effort by the federal government to make sure that we get it right, and this was something that started all the way back in February."
-- Julia King
All of this was done in a matter of weeks by a small team comprising a designer-architect, a programmer and a project manager who is the chief liaison between IT and the state's stimulus office. The team already had some experience from working on the state's recovery Web site, which Gillespie says has "been kind of an iterative process that has been going on since the first recovery money came out."
He chalks up the speedy rate of progress on both projects to what he describes as healthy competition among states to have good reporting and great Web sites. "We wanted to be better than everybody else," he says.
But given the fierce push to quickly distribute ARRA funds and get new projects up and running, traditional IT project management practices, such as having a comprehensive set of user requirements, have in some cases gone out the window.
In Missouri, for example, a team was in the midst of implementing Microsoft Corp.'s Stimulus360 software for tracking funding and projects when the feds issued a change in data models for reporting.
"We had to move forward with plans and put things in place even though you knew [more] changes were coming," says Gerard-Hartman.
Like a start-up
At the newly formed Massachusetts Recovery and Reinvestment Office, Deputy Director Ramesh Advani likens the fast pace and deadline-driven atmosphere and culture to the environment of a start-up company.
"When you're doing something for the first time, you deal with systems issues, people issues, deadline issues, and you come across something new every day," he says. Tracking and reporting how many jobs are created with ARRA funds is a prime example. Meeting the first federal reporting deadline of Oct. 10 required some on-the-fly tactics.
"For the first round of reporting, what we have done is develop some manual templates, which we issued out to state agencies. Each agency must use the same template and also pass it on to subrecipients and vendors. That data will then be gathered and uploaded into a recently launched central database, then uploaded through XML to the federal system," he explains.
But this is only for the first round of reporting, Advani emphasizes. For the long term, the state is developing an automated data-gathering and -analysis system that includes Oracle Corp. business intelligence tools, data marts and data warehousing.
"We're trying not to make this a short-term solution, because ultimately we want to upgrade how we do grants management and our budgets across the board. We want to make sure we can use the same tools and reporting database beyond ARRA," Advani says.
ARRA timeline: 2009
* Feb. 17: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is signed into law. The federal government's Recovery.gov Web site goes live.
* Feb. 19: Federal agencies begin announcing block grant awards.
* May 17: Agency and program plans are posted on Recovery.gov.
* May - October: ARRA stimulus money is distributed to states and other recipients.
* May - August: Reporting requirements and updates are developed and distributed.
* Sept. 28: Recovery.gov is relaunched with geographic mapping.
* Oct. 10: The first quarterly deadline for recipient reporting is reached.
* Oct. 30: Recipient grant and loan data is posted.
-- Julia King
ARRA's tight timeline and strict reporting deadlines have already driven some key process improvements in the state. For example, funding for ARRA transportation and highway projects had a 120-day "use it or lose it" deadline. But it typically took the state between 100 and 300 days to advertise projects and solicit bids from contractors. "We ended up drilling down into the system to get it down to a 40-day process, which is something we're proud about," Advani says.
Another long-term improvement is the creation of the program office itself. Going forward, the office will oversee all activities involving grants reporting, monitoring and compliance. The goal is to increase overall information transparency "beyond what's expected for federal reporting," says Advani.
Maine CIO Dick Thompson says he's already been directed by a legislative committee to ensure that IT work done to meet ARRA reporting requirements is also used to increase information transparency statewide. Before ARRA, for example, the state didn't provide electronic versions of contracts on its Web site -- which is a requirement under ARRA. "Now, we'll take that technology and process new contracts through the same system so we can provide broader information on all contracts that have been awarded," he says.
The result of ARRA reporting, CIOs agree, is a lot like the road signs popping up that say: "Temporary Inconvenience, Permanent Improvement."
This story, "States scramble to track federal stimulus bucks" was originally published by Computerworld.


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the other day pulled up next to a nice looking silver s2000 on the highway. we slowed down to about 40ish and had a go...twice. dead even both times. i dont know what he was running, but when we ran the first time i heard a noise and shut down to hear better....it was his v-tech i think...nasty sound .
my mods:
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Before coming to MTV Networks, Ms. Williamson was a Program Director at Fund for the City of New York, an operating foundation that developed and provided grants to youth programs focusing on youth development. She directed a national adaptation project that became the model for many after school one-stop shopping programs in the country. Before joining the foundation world, she worked for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Youth Development Department at the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. At CDF, she was responsible for working with communities and non-profit agencies to strengthen their outreach and service provision to adolescents in need.
Alicin Williamson is currently a member of several organizations and serves on the Boards of United Service Organizations (USO) and the National Association of Multi-ethnicity In Communication (NAMIC) as Board Chair. She also serves on MTV Networks' senior advisory board of Corporate Global Inclusion.
MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is the world's premier creator of entertainment content and programming across all media platforms. MTV Networks connects with audiences through a diverse array of brands including MTV: Music Television, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Tr3s, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, CMT, Logo, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, The N, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, Spike TV, AddictingClips.com, AddictingGames.com, Atom Films, Shockwave.com GameTrailers.com, Harmonix, IFILM, Neopets, Quizilla, Xfire, Y2M, as well as MTVN International that live across the company's 135 television networks, 139 websites, 32 broadband services, 35 mobile channels, and robust consumer products businesses worldwide.


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AGH Property To Become Technology Center
At a meeting with Alachua County and Gainesville City officials Wednesday night, Shands Healthcare CEO Timothy Goldfarb outlined the future of the old Alachua General Hospital.
Goldfarb announced that the University of Florida will build a technology transfer and development center on the AGH property. He said an $8.2 million grant from the federal Economic Development Administration will serve as a downpayment on the project. There was no word on what the existing hospital building may be used for.
UF's Office of Technology Licensing assists university researchers take their projects from the laboratory to the market. Dozens of companies have been spun off from UF, creating products as wide-ranging as unmanned spyplanes to breathalyzers that monitor blood glucose levels for diabetics.
Shands-AGH is scheduled to close at the beginning of November, when Shands opens its new cancer hospital, across from Shands at UF.
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England's Prince Harry promotes sport to empower young people
LONDON - Young athletes showed off their skills for Prince Harry on Monday when he toured a boxing club to help promote sport as a way of empowering vulnerable people and communities to make positive changes in life.
The prince visited the Double Jab Amateur Boxing Club in south London, met young boxers and presented medals to them. The club is a non-profit community sports organization that combines boxing, fitness and youth activities under one roof.
His visit is part of a series of upcoming engagements and meetings using sport to help people.
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I still miss her and Apollo.
I was voted by the A Team (Apollo and Aragorn), of which I am part of, the S Team (Shade, Sterling, Sundance and Shannara) and our dogs Amber, B'Elanna, Kira, Sheba and Pharaoh, to post our farewell.
We never thought this would happen. Mom had the naive idea that even after she would leave for the Bridge our pages would be here for all the world to see. A childlike belief in a world of power and money. But while we existed the world was beautiful, loving and kind. The Catster Community is one-of-a-kind. There is no other like it on this planet. For there was never, and will never be, anything as good as Catster; and when we say Catster, we're meaning Dogster as well. The one most beautiful Community with nothing but LOVE to give, is being euthanized. Ten years of knowledge of everything feline, all gathered on one website, and not the slick, fluff- type magazine style but the practical, REAL life Community that willingly responds to a question with loving and knowledgeable advice will be gone.
We joined Catster almost from the beginning — September, 2004. This was before forums, before Groups, before Plus, before IM (yes, we did have instant messaging for a while). Just one page with a few pictures and a little bio. No way to actually contact each other. Yet, the volume of Catster pages grew and grew and the original creators expanded to FORUMS! For the first few weeks it was people tentatively asking questions, connecting and, suddenly, a light bulb exploded in all our feline heads and the cats started talking! Holy Katz, we had a lot to say! Not just goofiness — although being cats there was a lot of parties and play time — but real information, everything from health issues and practical advice to technical internet issues. There were "kind" forums, too: Get Well and Memorials. That's when human ugliness reared its head, with cruel, mean postings from outsiders in our forums. The Catster creators searched the Community and two families were chosen to be the first Catster moderators: The Fiends (Selket, Jacques, Vijay) and Sweetie's Family. With claws unsheathed they patrolled the forums in the hours that Catster was available on the internet (Catster was not up 24 hours back then. It was down in the late, late night/early morning, doing backup), and set the cat standards in the forums as we know them today. That kind of patrolling needed help and both The Fiends and Sweetie chose my family to join as moderators. We accepted and in April, 2006, Apollo, Aragorn and I became Catster moderators and from a friend's suggestion, The A Team. It has been our greatest honor to prowl the forums for eight years, keeping them fun, friendly and safe from cruel outsiders and trolls.
Those early months of the forums on almost non-stop patrolling took their toll on the two original mod families and they retired, but not before The Fiends' Selket taught us everything she knew about moderating Catster. Practicing various moderator skills in the forums late at night under Selket's tutoring (im'ing sure came in handy back then) honed us into the mods we are. I do have to mention that the Fiends created one of the oldest and THE longest forum on Catster: in 4 threads -- The Late Late Show, The Late Late Show Act II, The Late Late Show Act III and The Late Late Show Act IV. With recommendations from us and the two retiring moderators, the families of Beatrice/Ben/Arthur (and now Jerry), and Bruce and his family joined us as moderators and a few years ago Gimli's family and Sky and her family became mods.
Being a moderator was, we felt, a big responsibility and we took and take it very seriously. That it took us away from joining in various Groups' activities, we apologize. Although we belong to many Groups, prowling the forums gave us little time to engage in the activities of the Groups we belong to and we're sorry we never got to know you all better. Please know that we love all of you and you were always safe in the forums.
It breaks Mom's heart every time she comes here now, and her tears flow looking at the A Team's pages knowing that all the love we gave and received will be destroyed. All the special honors, the friends we made, those cats and humans that have gone to the Bridge and the music she managed to save. Yes, the song on my page was our song (Mom and I) that I had all these years and the song Mom put on Apollo's page the day he joined me at the Bridge because he did see something — all gone, but always in her heart.
We will be here through the last day.
Tail wags from our dogs,
Amber, B'Elanna, Kira, Sheba and Pharaoh
Kitty cuddles from the S Team:
Shade, Sterling, Sundance and Shannara
Purrs and Peace from Aragorn
Love ya, Catsters from Apollo
Purrs and Love from Athena
Love you all, from my heart and through the tears,
It has been one month since I made my journey to the Bridge. Mom still cries a lot because she's still in the habit of glancing at the chair under the table or the couch in the den to check on me. The other night she looked up the stairs to see if Apollo was coming outside with her and in the shadows at the top of the stairs she thought it was my face she saw on Apollo. Of course we do look alike except he is much bigger than me — the big lump!
Apollo still tests for my scent in the house but that is gradually fading away. He and Mom find comfort in each other — do take care of each other.
Thank you, everyone, for your purr prayers for me and my family. They are helping Mom through this difficult time. Thank you to The Drifter and family, AnnaBelle and Family, Sky, Merlin,Wilson J. Scooter, Kally Kat, Pepper and Family, Hunter, Kaci Sunshine and Family, Calvin, Nuk Anuk, Hooch, Milo, Tweetie, Rufus, Marina, Tosca and Velvet, Tweak and Family, Vincent and Family, Cody and Family, MacCallan and Family, Bella and Family, Buddie, Mercy, Rubert, Tommy and Family, Blade and Family, Ava Corrine and Family, Karma Kitty and Family, Arthur and Family, Catsy Angel Princess, Edgar and Family, The Olde Furts Group, Mr. Fuzz and Family, Twix, Misha and Family, Tabbie and Family, Little Bit and Family, Twix, Chai Latte and Family, Ele, Tigger, The Canadian Rainbow Crew, Delyte and Family, Hambone and Family, Pooters, Kitty, Eli and Family, Toffy and Vanessa, Hunter and Family, Bo and Family, Abbey, Gimli and Family, Maggie Moo and Family, Kitanna, Mr. Sam, Nala Sue, Elise and Genny, Casey, The Bush Furs, Howard and Family, Elsa, Taz and Family, Alabaster and Family, Ashley and Family, and Ginger and Family, Pigeon, Peaches, Tasha, Toby Aragorn and Family, Boo Boo and Family, and Spit Fire for the special stars and rosettes.
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Win95 and MMA
Does anyone have Mathematica (v. 2.2.2 or 2.2.3) working
under Win95? I have build 484 and we were told that
2.2.3 was "Windows95 aware"... I have been unable to get
any evaluations done, though. The frontend starts fine
and opes existing files, but when I try to evaluate a
cell, the kernel is called and a connection is made, and
after I enter the password, it just hangs. The cell
being evaluated stays locked and nothing happens.
However, when I start the kernel manually, I can enter
expressions (Simple, like addition, etc...) and the
answer appears... Any ideas would be greatly
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. --- The North Carolina women's tennis team was a perfect 13-0 Friday on the first day of main draw play at the 2012 USTA/ITA Carolina Regional Championships at the Wake Forest Indoor Tennis Center.
Carolina sent all seven of its singles players into the second round and three doubles teams into the quarterfinals, as the Tar Heels did not drop a set.
In doubles, Zoe De Bruycker and Laura Slater opened the day by knocking off No. 5-8 seed Niltooli Wilkins and Alex Whitehead of UNC Greensboro, 8-3. The duo then advanced to the final eight with an 8-4 victory over UNC Wilmington's Kelly Cameron and Miller Hales.
After an 8-0 pasting of Charlotte's Natsuko Takayanagi and Alexandra Zinn, Lauren McHale and Tessa Lyons also knocked off a No. 5-8 seed in Wake Forest's Kasey Gardiner and Kathryn Talbert, 9-8 (7).
The second-seeded tandem of Ashely Dai and Whitney Kay completed the doubles sweep with wins over Gardner-Webb's Ronia Hutterli and Erica White, 8-4, and South Carolina's Josefin Andersson and Katarina Popova, 8-6.
On the singles side, Dai had the upset of the day with her 6-4, 6-2 victory over top-seeded Joelle Kissell of NC State. The Temple City, Calif., freshman will face East Carolina's Nicole Laduca in Saturday's round of 32.
McHale, the No. 2 seed, advanced with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over NC State's Rachael James-Baker. No. 4-seeded De Bruycker rallied from an early deficit to South Carolina State's Maria Craciun to win, 7-6 (0), 6-2.
Kay, a No. 5-8 seed, topped Furman's Alex Moreno-Kaste, 6-3, 7-6 (0), while No. 9-16 seed Caroline Price beat UNCW's Alyssa Ritchie, 6-2, 6-3. Lyons, also a No. 9-16 seed, bested South Carolina's Andersson, 7-6 (5), 6-3.
Laura Slater, UNC's other non-seeded player, advanced in especially impressive fashion, sweeping Charlotte's Anna Ekelund, 6-0, 6-0.
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Hip Hop Herald 08.08.12: Mac Miller Sued Again, Lil Wayne Putting Rap On Hold, T.I. Trouble Man Delayed, More
Welcome one and all to the Hip Hop Herald. The column will deal with anything related to hip hop whether it be underground, mainstream, or the new-age pop infused rap (you know the stuff Timberlake and Timbaland make). We will cover news, opinions, release dates as well as feature some music and of course videos.
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It seems as though the flood gates have been opened for Mac Miller at least as an artist by the name of
Patrick Berlinquette, a/k/a Warm Speakers, has filed suit against Mac Miller, Rostrum Records and DatPiff for stealing his music.
Warm Speakers claims that he wrote, produced and recorded a song titled "The World Around You" in June 2010 and registered its copyright on June 20, 2011. This year, Mac Miller, took his song and copied it for his own song, "Fuck 'Em All" which was placed on his Macadelic mixtape, without Warm Speakers consent or knowledge. The suit alleges that Mac took the chorus – "Get your money (Get your money) / Fuck 'em all (Fuck 'em all)" – and rapped over the track.
Miller acknowledged that he used Berlinquette's song on Twitter in June, but Berlinquette states that he has not been compensated or properly credited for its usage. "Shout out @warmspeakers for the song we sampled on Fuck Em All," wrote Mac.
"[Miller] uses other people's music because it's easier, cheaper, and faster than creating his own," reads the complaint. "Miller seeks to capitalize on the common misconception in Copyright Law that people whose music he takes have no remedy if he gives their music away for free."
Berlinquette claims he was "irreparably harmed, suffered damage, and defendants have profited in an amount to be determined at trial." He is suing for willful infringement; violation of Copyright Law and New York's General Business Law; and is seeking a permanent injunction. He is also suing for damages and seeks to recoup "no event less than $10 million."
This is not good news for Miller and comes on the heels of the $10 million lawsuit from Lord Finesse for a similar situation. This will be very interesting how the courts handle this, as Miller did include the song on a mixtape, which is usually given away for free, therefore there normally is no issue as nobody is making money off the track. However, we live in the digital age, and artists can make money off of mixtape track in the form of charging for downloads as well as though hits to their youtube pages which host the tracks. However these two cases play out will go a long way in determining the future of mixtapes in the digital age of hip hop.
Lil Wayne Puts Rap On Hold… For Skateboarding
Lil Wayne appears to have found a new love to replace hip hop, and during an interview with DJ Drama, he explained that he may be putting rap on the backburner so that he can entertain his love of skating, justifying his decision by stating that his fans "deserve some peace from me."
"I picked up the skateboard and I thought it would be a hobby, but it's a lifestyle. You have to be fully committed. In order to be fully committed, you have to live that lifestyle. What these young kids say right now, you have to be about that life. I guess I'm about that life," he said. "It's kinda of putting rap on the backburner, that's all. Rap is a taking backseat to skating. That's alright. But I kind of feel I deserve that. … I think fans deserve some peace from me."
Lil Wayne 'break' from hip hop will come after he releases his latest mixtape, Dedication 4.
"I just felt like it was time. I got bored," he said of recording Dedication 4. "Yeah, I mean, being me, I always feel like I ain't done nothing yet, so I'm always looking for the next thing to do. But other than that, it does get pretty boring when it comes to the rapping and stuff. I've done so much of it, I've been doing it since I was eight. I'm going to be 30 in September, and I'm still rapping. So I kind of feel like I'm getting old."
I actually think that this is a smart move for little Wayne, in that he has been at the brink of being overexposed in my opinion. His label had planned to release sequel albums to I Am Not A Human Being and Rebirth this year. I felt that with that much new material in addition to a potential Young Money collab album, fans may start to tire and potentially turn on Weezy. With this break for skating Wayne can come back and stay fresh in the minds of hip hop fans and really make a bigger impact when he does eventually return.
Tech N9ne Looking For Big Collaborations For Next Project
Tech N9ne appears to be starting the recording process for his new album E.B.A.H., and he already has a list of guests he wants on the project. Tech stated that he wants to have Rick Ross, Eminem and Nas, on the next offering, telling AHH that he's got a track titled "Heaven and Hell" on reserve for the Maybach Music Group boss.
"Hopefully we can make it happen. Same thing with [Eminem]," he said. "I've got an idea for Em and I'm trying to make it happen and if he thinks I'm good enough to do a song with then it'll happen."
Tech also has records on reserve for Talib Kweli, Marsha Ambrosius, Waka Flocka Flame and Roscoe Dash. He addressed criticism that he's selling out, but he justifies that he's staying true to his artistry.
"The mainstream is gonna go Tech, motherfucker. The real shit always shines," he continued. "I know I'm not popular enough for everybody and Hip-Hop is a popularity contest. I'm not going to go above and beyond to be the most popular if my lyrics can't speak for me."
While the first batch of guests sound great, the second batch does not really get me excited at all. I think tracks with Tech N9ne and Waka Flocka or Roscoe Dash could be utterly horrible. Their styles just seem to not mesh at all. However, Tech N9ne seems to have a way of getting the best out of people, so those two guests might surprise me. In any event, I am sure that Tech N9ne will not disappoint, and lets hope that he finally is able to grab that collab with Eminem that he has been trying to get for the last three albums.
Gathering of the Juggalos
Love it or hate it, the 12th annual Gathering Of The Juggalos is upon us taking place in Cave In Rock, Illinois music from August 8 to 12. The festival hosted by the Insane Clown Posse, packs a great music lineup again this year featuring Game, DMX, Geto Boys, Master P, and recent affiliate Big Hutch (a/k/a Cold187um) of Above The Law. Also appearing are Danny Brown, Slaine, Mack 10, Kool Keith, Prozak, Three 6 Mafia and Kottonmouth Kingz. The festival has hosted some big names in hip hop and were home to the Tila Tequila incident in previous years. The full lineup is below:
Insane Clown Posse
DJ Clay
Cold 187 um AKA Big Hutch
Anybody Killa
Blaze Ya Dead Homie
Dark Lotus
Psychopathic Rydas
Danny Brown
Kool Keith
Mack 10
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic
Tech N9ne
Fear Factory
Three 6 Mafia
The Game
Geto Boys
Master P
Static X
Kottonmouth Kings
Underground Disciples
Smokehouse Junkiez
Awesome Dre
Liquid Assassin
Lil EZ
Project Pat
So Sick Social Club
Sleep Tastes Pretty
King Gordy
The Pharcyde
Swollen Members
Critical Bill
Downtown Brown
Project Born
Glasses Malone
Zug Izland
F Dux
Motown Rage
Biz Markie
Origix and DC
Menace II Sobriety
The Fat Boys
Twisted Insane
Darkness Descends
Warren G
Freddy Grimes
Doe Dubbla
The Dayton Family
Lil Wyte
Insane Poetry
Release Dates & Album Updates
Many album delays were also announced this week, first starting with Kreayshawn's major label debut, Somethin' Bout Kreay, which will now be released on September 18, pushed back from this Tuesday. No real reason has been given for the delay.
Next T.I.'s latest album Trouble Man has also been pushed back with no new date given. T.I. announced that he is trying to determine which of the over 86 tracks he has recorded that he will place on the album.
"Me being the perfectionist that I am, I'm still tweaking and fine-tuning, trying to perfect all parts of this project," he said. "I did, like, 124 songs, and I've narrowed it down to 86 now, so now I have to continue to narrow down and continue to make it better…I'm not trying to paint myself into a corner with a date. I'm trying to make sure that the project is the absolute best it could be, and I'm trying to get it down by the end of the year."
If T.I. has so many tracks recorded why not make the album a double album, and release some mixtapes to free up some material?
A ton of album updates this week, starting off with the official tracklisting of the Shady Records debut of Slaughterhouse's Welcome to Our House:
1. The Slaughter (Intro)
2. Our House feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey
3. Coffin feat. Busta Rhymes
4. Throw That feat. Eminem
5. Hammer Dance
6. Get Up
7. My Life feat. Cee-Lo Green
8. We Did It (Skit)
9. Flip A Bird
10. Throw It Away feat. Swizz Beatz
11. Rescue Me feat. Skylar Grey
12. Frat House
13. Goodbye
14. Park It Sideways
15. Die
16. Our Way (Outro)
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17. Asylum feat. Eminem
18. Walk Of Shame
19. The Other Side
20. Place To Be feat. B.O.B.
Not too many surprises, with the majority of guest spots on the album coming in the form of Eminem. The album looks like it could be one of the top releases of the year, so lets hope that it is able to live up to the hype that has surrounded it. The album is slated for an August 28 release.
The tracklist for the album from producers underground producers Stu Bangas and Vanderslice has been released and it is also looking like it could be a top 2012 release, with a ton of underground emcees gracing the tracks. The album Diggas With Attitude releases August 28th, with the tracklisting as follows:
1. Intro (Prod. By Vanderslice)
2. A Word From The Ghetto Child Ft. Smiley Da Ghetto Child (Prod. By Vanderslice)
3. Half Dead Ft. Apathy, Roc Marciano & Planet Asia (Prod. By Stu Bangas)
4. Pharoah Status Ft. Esoteric (Prod. By Stu Bangas)
5. The Gusto Ft. Apathy, Roc Marciano, Alchemist & Evidence (Prod. By Vanderslice)
6. The Brutual Music Collection Agency (Prod. By Vanderslice)
7. Okay, Player Ft. Wais P (Prod. By Vanderslice)
8. Death Wish Ft. Ill Bill, Blaq Poet & Wais P (Prod. By Stu Bangas)
9. Extened Mags Ft. Outerspace (Prod. By Vanderslice)
10. Spyhunter Ft. Blacastan (Prod. By Vanderslice)
11. The Van Sleazy Extravaganza (Prod. By Vanderslice)
12. Casino Royale Ft. Apathy & Blacastan (Prod. By Vanderslice)
13. 1st Degree Murder Ft. Vinnie Paz, Roc Marciano & Celph Titled (Prod. By Stu Bangas)
14. The Realest Ft. Slaine & Ill Bill (Prod. By Stu Bangas)
15. Vikings Ft. Apathy & Wais P (Prod. By Stu Bangas)
16. Black Lung Rap Ft. Reef The Lost Cauze (Prod. By Vanderslice)
17. Thank You & F*Ck You (Prod. By Vanderslice)
The rest of the dates can be seen below with new additions underlined, and anticipated albums in red!
August 7
Bumpy Knuckles x Statik Selektah – Ambition
August 14
2 Chainz – Based on a TRU story
Insane Clown Posse – Might Death Pop
August 21
DJ Khaled – Kiss The Ring
Brother Ali – Mourning In America & Dreaming In Color
August 28
Slaughterhouse – welcome to: Our House
DMX – Undisputed
Madchild (Swollen Members) – Dope Sick
Stu Bangaz & Eric Vanderslice – Diggaz With Attitude (D.W.a.)
September 4
T.I. – Trouble Man
Blu and Exile – Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them
G.O.O.D. Music – Cruel Summer
Chino XL – RICANstruction
September 11
Saigon – Bread and Circuses
Ludacris – Ludaversal
September 18
Skyzoo – A Dream Deferred
DJ Drama – Quality Street Music
Ne-Yo – R.E.D.
Kreayshawn – Somethin' Bout Kreay
Wiz Khalifa – O.N.I.F.C.
September 25
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1
Murs & Fashawn – This Generation
October 2
Bobby V – Dusk Till Dawn
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, m.A.A.d City
October 23
Vinnie Paz – God Of The Serengeti
November 13
50 Cent – Street King Immortal
Other Recent Announcements
Busta Rhymes – Year of the Dragon
DPG – Alumni [Early 2012]
Asher Roth – Is This Too Orange [TBD]
R.A. the Rugged Man – Legends Never Die [Mid 2012]
Inspectah Deck and 7L & Esoteric – CZARFACE [Mid 2012]
Cee Lo – Everybody's Brother [2012]
Goodie Mob – Age Against the Machine [2012]
Kool G Rap & Necro – The Godfathers [2012]
What I Have Been Listening Too
Got a chance to hear the new La Coka Nostra album, Master of the Dark Arts this week, and I feel it is a much better effort then their first album. Even with the fact that Everlast dropped out of the group, I feel there was much more cohesion on this project and it really was a good effort from the group. Ill Bill really impressed with his lyrics on the albums tracks, and Slaine also came correct with his Boston accent on the tracks. The production was top notch with a somewhat dark, underground, sound, something that was somewhat missing from their initial effort.
All in all the album was a great effort from the group, who did not miss a step, and in fact may have gotten better with the reduction of Everlast from the group.
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This is the sixth time that I have attended the National Education Association's Representative Assembly, and each has proven to be an amazing experience being part of such a large assembly of educators - nearly 10,000! Each time I have attended the RA, I've attended the Joint Women & Minority Issues pre-conference which begins two days before the RA. They always have empowering keynote speakers and workshops that provide useful information, and this year I was not disappointed.
From their list of many workshops two stood out for me, which I've actually taken at a Region 3 Leadership Conference before. It always amazes me how retaking some workshops actually makes the previous information more clear, or offers additional information which was not offered at the previous trainings, which was the case for me this time.
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What Does a Call to Action Look Like? A call to action looks like NEA's annual Representative Assembly where more than 8,000 educators from 51 states show up to take action on behalf of students across the country. A group of dedicated people who were willing to drop everything and converge on Denver, Colorado, which is where the RA is taking place this year. Willing to stand in long lines while waiting to get checked into their hotels. Willing to miss spending the 4th of July with their family and friends.
The news finally pushed to my phone on the bus to the airport. News I was dreading. The Harris v. Quinn decision, the potential destruction of advocacy, one more cut into the flesh of a proud and noble profession.
In my imagination I wondered: What would the RA look like if, as politico.com predicted, the Supreme Court would use the nuclear option and decimate the funding of CTA?
This is my third NEA Representative Assembly, and I am as excited to be here as if it were my first! My first RA was in Washington, D.C., and I think that is the best place to attend the RA for the first time. I traveled all alone and didn't know anyone that year. I have seven friends traveling with me this year, and I am rooming with two of them. I had to beg to find a roommate my first year. Luckily, a veteran took me under her wing.
There is one true fact about the RA: Everyone is so friendly and kind to "newbies." You feel loved and cared for – so Shout Out if you are new so that others can help you.
As the 2013 NEA Representative Assembly kicked off today, nearly 10,000 attendees from all over the U.S.—of which more than 1,000 are from California—tackled important business after an energetic welcome to the four-day Atlanta, Georgia conference.
During NEA President Dennis Van Roekel's keynote speech, the association launched its Raise Your Hand Campaign urging delegates to take on leadership roles, fight for social justice and work together to create positive change for students.
New Business Items were also a focal point of the agenda.
CTA President Dean Vogel speaks to the Representative Assembly
CTA President Dean Vogel spoke on behalf of the delegation in support of New Business Item 3, which CTA had submitted. With this NBI, the "NEA calls for a moratorium on using the outcome of the tests associated width the Common Core standards, except to inform instruction, until states and districts have worked width educators to create authentic, locally-developed curriculum, assessments and professional development related to the Common Core."
"Everybody's tired of this testing nonsense and people are waiting for a voice to tell them the truth… and that voice is the National Education Association's and the time is NOW," said Vogel to a cheering crowd of delegates supporting the NBI. The Rep Assembly adopted NBI 3.
The business continues tomorrow at 10 a.m. on the 4th of July holiday. The CTA caucus will convene at 7:00 a.m. Look for an update on tomorrow's business and stay connected to our Facebook page to view pictures and posts directly from delegates on the floor. You can also follow the event on Twitter by using the hashtag #NEARA13.
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State contact fun!
By Reagan Duncan
Through a point of personal privilege on the NEA RA floor today, Robert Hill of Ventura, CTA's Education Support Professional of Year, proposed to CTA Retired member Sharon Iverson of Long Beach.
First-time delegate Reagan Duncan meets her state contacts from Minnesota
This morning, NEA Executive Director John Stocks gave a moving speech to the NEA RA, lauding the accomplishments of "social justice patriots" and reminding all of us to demand a more perfect union. Below is an excerpt:
Our American DNA is embedded width a profound sense of possibility, an unshakable belief in a better tomorrow, an abiding faith that the American Dream is not only real, but a belief that there are many Americans who are willing to ensure that it's truly accessible for everyone.Too often we overlook the part of our national portrait that celebrates those Americans who are driven by their conscience to make America a more perfect union, those who are constantly urging America to live up to its promise of equal opportunity and justice for all.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said that to be "divinely dissatisfied" width America is to love America. I agree width him. I have a name for people who are divinely dissatisfied width America, yet love America's promise.I call them social justice patriots.I have tremendous faith that we as a nation will continue to progress because of the social justice patriots who valiantly fight every day to make America live up to its promise. Social justice patriots challenge our present in order to forge a better future for all of us.Let me give you an example:The Declaration of Independence contains the aspirational phrase that we are "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." But we know that phrase is woefully inadequate to capture our glorious diversity and our society doesn't always guarantee equality.Every time we challenge ourselves to broaden the inclusiveness of that phrase, we are actually engaging in the patriotic act of making America a more perfect union. And for me, a "more perfect union" means making America a more just society.I have a deep reverence for NEA members. You've played a huge role in fostering social justice patriotism throughout American history. Not only have educators instructed each generation about the core principles upon which America was founded, but you have, in many instances, acted as the conscience of the nation we love.It was educators, through this Association, who sought funds for the education of freed slaves and their children after the Civil War, who spoke out against the treatment of Native American children in government schools, who supported a woman's right to vote.It was educators, through this Association, who spoke out against the internment of Japanese-American children and their families.It was educators, through this Association, who demanded equal educational opportunity for children width disabilities.It was educators, through this Association, who challenged the absurdity that Spanish-speaking children were incapable of learning like other children.It was educators, through the American Teachers Association, and then the National Education Association, who opposed the segregation of Black children in schools that were inherently unequal.It was educators, through this Association, who took a stand to support equal treatment for same-sex couples.We have every right to be proud, both of our Association and of our country. That doesn't mean that we've always arrived at these proud moments easily as an association. We wrestled width these issues as an association, and we came down on the right side of history.Adrienne Rich, an American poet, said: "A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being."So in thinking about being a social justice patriot, we must not only think about challenging our country to be better, but we must also challenge ourselves as individuals to do better. Are we fulfilling our American calling to stand up for the rights of others?Are we doing enough to honor our core values of Democracy, Equal Opportunity, and A Just Society?I see breathtaking examples of NEA members educating America in order to make a more perfect union. And we should celebrate them, but we have more to do.
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400 miles away in a lockbox in my nightstand while I sit unarmed in a hotel in Detroit listening to sirens all night. Tomorrow i'll be in Richmond VA listening to the same music. I hate the TSA.
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Where's my gun? it's within a few seconds of two center mass shots, as usual :)
400 miles away in a lockbox in my nightstand while I sit unarmed in a hotel in Detroit listening to sirens all night. Tomorrow i'll be in Richmond VA listening to the same music. I hate the TSA.
2:30 pm, at a conference sponsored by the state. Being at the conference, and being paid by the state for the conference and travel (I am a presenter) my gun is about 500 miles away. :(
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"Gun Free Zones" is where only criminals carry guns.
9:30 PM my gun of the month is in a ready box in my bed room. I always store the gun when not carrying it on me. (I have a 15 year old whose friends come over periodically and my guns are never left out).
Sitting right next to my laptop as I type this.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
Lol which one? There is 3 hidden pistols in each area of the house for the locations I frequent the most. Two in the living one, and one in the bedroom.
2.5 feet from my right hand. 12ga - ready. Other side of the house .38 - ready.
On my hip. From the time I get dressed till I go to bed, it doesn't make any difference. Sitting at my desk/computer, safe is unlocked next to it. ARs,shotgun, 45s and 357s ready to go.
I took the Scouts "be prepared" to heart.
Like the sig line says, you gotta be FLEXIBLE.
The situation will NEVER BE THE WAY YOU WANT, it WILL BE THE WAY IT IS. You must be FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO ADAPT and just "DEAL WITH IT".
8:30 pm on my patio Bourbon, cigar and smoker cooking a grass fed beef roast on the sixth hour. Glock 19 on the fridge!
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. (Sun Tzu) The Art of War
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On me:) snuggled happy in it's holster!
"Life is tough, but it's tougher if your stupid." -John Wayne
I keep 3 in the house in different rooms and 1 in each vehicle. And of course 1 in my waist band
In my pocket.
An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
7:50 pm
Kahr PM45 is in Nossar leather on my belt & all the other's are tucked away in the Safe
Kimber Eclipse Target 2
Glock 22 (duty weapon)
Glock 19 (3rd Gen)
Glock 42 (wife's edc)
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