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The 4-star Royal Atlantis Beach Hotel boasts close proximity to Kursunlu Waterfall & Nature Park, The Land of Legends Theme Park and Koprulu Canyon just 26.0 km away.
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Liberia has begun participating in the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), marking a major step forward in the development of the country's statistical system. Comprehensive information on its statistical production and dissemination practices now appears on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB)1.
Mr. T. Edward Liberty, Director-General of the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-information Services stated, "The Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-information Services (LISGIS) is pleased to announce its subscription to the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) of the International Monetary Fund. LISGIS further pledges its commitment to conduct statistical activities in accordance with international guidelines for the production and dissemination of official statistics. LISGIS' full subscription to the GDDS is a milestone in the continuing improvements to the statistical standard of Liberia."
To date, 86 countries have participated in the GDDS and five have graduated to become subscribers to the IMF Special Data Dissemination Standard. At present, 81 GDDS participants disseminate metadata (that is, descriptions of statistical methods and practices) and plans for improvement for their statistics and related technical assistance needs on the DSBB. The plans for improvement provide the international community with a useful framework to develop and coordinate technical cooperation projects for GDDS countries.
Mr. Robert W. Edwards, Director of the IMF Statistics Department, recently said: "Liberia's participation in the General Data Dissemination System is a major accomplishment and will allow the country to take full advantage of this framework for developing its economic, financial, and socio-demographic data."
The GDDS, established by the IMF in 1997, provides a framework to assist IMF member countries to develop their statistical systems with the objective of producing comprehensive and accurate statistics for policymaking and analysis. It addresses the quality and the dissemination of data.
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An ideal companion to Adam the Doodles Man, Rover the Doodles Dog is ideal for perfecting your animal figure drawing skills.
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Perfect Melody is not the name of a band, and it is not meant to be a boastful musical description of this CD. 'Perfect Melody' is a song, and Perfect Melody is the name of this unique worship CD. Add a dot-com and it's also a website. But more accurately, Perfect Melody is Lee Steffen. Steffen is nearly a one-man machine, masterminding most of what makes up Perfect Melody. He wrote seven of the album's 12 tracks, co-wrote two others, and plays guitar and piano throughout. He also served as the art director and graphic designer for the project's excellent packaging, as well as designed the record's cut-above-the-rest site that offers free downloads of songsheets and overheads. With a little help from his friends, including indie favorite Matt Wertz, Matt Mangano (John Mayer) and producer Steve Wilson (The Juliana Theory, The Class of 98), Lee Steffen's 'Perfect Melody' is an indie record that doesn't sound like an indie record, nor does it sound like the run-of-the-mill worship CD. Rather, the project directs our attention to the Artist that made the artist. Freshly transplanted from Nashville, Tenn., Lee is now based in Seattle, Wash. Where he is continuing to create new inspiring music and is planning an epic trip around the globe. Learn more at travelingguys.com.
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Maple Toast and Eggs Recipe
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- In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove to paper towels to drain. In a small saucepan, heat syrup and butter until butter is melted; set aside.
- Trim crust from bread; flatten slices with a rolling pin. Brush one side generously with syrup mixture; press each slice into a greased muffin cup with syrup side down. Divide bacon among muffin cups.
- Carefully break one egg into each cup. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover with foil. Bake at 400° for 18-20 minutes or until egg whites are completely set and yolks begin to thicken but are not hard. Serve immediately, Yield: 12 cups.
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"This looks like a nice ' all in one ' breakfast, but I don't think maple syrup would go with a savoury dish., so I'm going to spread some coconut oil on the bread instead. As I don't eat meat I think I'll put some onions, mushrooms and spinach in, like a sort of mini quiche. It's a good idea for brunch with HP sauce."
"I made this recipe for my husband and I this morning and we liked it. I used rye bread and a standard size muffin pan. It took about 30 minutes for my eggs to set, not the recommended 18-20 minutes. Earlier in the week, I helped with this recipe at a TOH Cooking School Show. The ovens, which were borrowed from a local store, were extremely slow/low cooking in this dish and the other dishes that were demonstrated. This recipe took 40 minutes to cook the eggs until set - which made me a little nervous while on stage. I guess that shows that all ovens cook differently. The Show Chef, Char Morse, demonstrated to the audience that the eggs for this dish could be SCRAMBLED also, which is a good option."
"My family really like this recipe. I found that it works best in the Texas size muffin pan. Also, they are not nearly as good if you have them as left overs the next day. Try to make only what you plan on eating."
"I made 2 of these today (wanted to test the recipe before going gung-ho). Backed them about 15 minutes and used Oatnut bread, did not use maple syrup because I don't like syrup with my eggs. This was a definite do again recipe! I will make some with syrup and some with out for variety for our next family breakfast."
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(Atlanta Journal Constitution) If there's an industry that's more in flux than health care, it's hard to know what it is. As president and CEO of Visiting Nurse Health System, Mark Oshnock is trying to navigate in an environment clouded by the unknown details of health care reform.
Oshnock, a former industry consultant trained as an accountant, took over the Atlanta-based system in 2004, when revenue from providing home health care and hospice care was $26 million. This year, it's expected to hit $62 million, with more growth ahead as baby boomers age, swelling demand.
Oshnock, 56, talks about his strategy for dealing with an unpredictable market, an innovative program of doctor home visits and promising job prospects "for the next 30 years."
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A: Health care is so government directed. We have this decision maker out there, totally devoid of market forces. It's frustrating. The government is looking at revamping how they're going to pay for home health care in 2014. We have no idea where it's going.
All we know is that Medicare believes home health care is an answer to the cost dilemma. But so far, home health has been getting cut. We can take care of a patient at home right after a hospital stay for about $500 a week, where a hospital will charge about $25,000 a week. I'd ramp up home health care like it's nobody's business, but it's not happening.
What you do in an unknown environment like this is not invest very aggressively. We're not going to spend $1 million to launch a new program when we're not sure if it's going to be paid for. Until we know the path the feds are taking, we have to be tentative.
Q: You've been experimenting with doctor home visits. How's that working?
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If we are able to reduce patient costs over a year, from what comparable patients cost, Medicare will share the savings with us. It's a beautiful thing. I wished we started earlier. We would probably be at 2,000 patients now. But I'm not that smart. Certain things just hit you over time.
The big change recently has been the importance of home health care to our hospitals, because they are getting financially penalized if patients come bouncing back to the hospital unnecessarily. So all of a sudden, we're an important piece of the equation.
My best advice for young people is to go into nursing or physical therapy. There's a guaranteed job for the entire length of your career. We're paying experienced registered nurses about $60,000 and experienced physical therapists about $85,000.
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Client satisfaction in my old life as a consultant was about my business clients. In my life here, it's about our patients and our referral sources – doctors and hospitals.
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Wednesday has arrived marking National Vanilla Milkshake Day and people everywhere are celebrating.
The event arrives on the first official day of summer and what appears to be a heat wave that is sweeping the nation. The cold creamy drink is sure to be the perfect solution to the hot summer day.
Made with vanilla ice cream, pure vanilla extract, and milk, the vanilla milkshake has remained a staple in many restaurants for decades, including at fast food restaurants such as McDonald's.
The beverage is believed to have been created by a Walgreen's employee in Chicago in 1922 when he added two scoops of ice cream to a drink called malted milk.
The recipe quickly became very popular, and with so few ingredients, many chefs urge those making vanilla milkshakes to use high quality ice cream. Well made ice cream results in a thicker shake that is less watered down or icy.
For a healthier version of the vanilla milkshake, add fruit such as banana or berries with low-fat milk and ice cream.
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The first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere officially begins at 7:09 p.m. EST, marking the summer solstice where the sun reaches the farthest point north of the equator.
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Magnesium sulfate (or magnesium sulphate) is a chemical compound containing magnesium, sulfur and oxygen, with the formula MgSO4. It is often encountered as the heptahydrate epsomite (MgSO4·7H2O), commonly called Epsom salt, from the town of Epsom in Surrey, England, where the salt was distilled from the springs that arise where the porous chalk of the North Downs meets non-porous London clay.
Anhydrous magnesium sulfate or magnesium sulfate anhydrous is used as a drying agent. Since the anhydrous form is hygroscopic. Epsom salt has been traditionally used as a component of bath salts. Traditionally, it is also used to prepare foot baths, intended to soothe sore feet. However, magnesium sulfate can also be absorbed into the skin, reducing inflammation. It is also sometimes found in bottled mineral water, and accordingly is sometimes listed in the contents thereof.
Oral magnesium sulfate is commonly used as a saline laxative. Epsom salt is also available in a gel form for topical application in treating aches and pains.
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Destination weddings are becoming more and more popular whether you opt for domestic or international wedding locales. With that fact in mind, the trend for boarding pass wedding invitations styled in various forms of boarding tickets. It's a great way to put a fun twist on your theme for a destination wedding. Let's find out more about these great wedding invitations, shall we?
These types of weddings are usually considered a 'destination wedding' if the venue is 80 kilometres or so away from your residences or where the invited guests will be required to stay overnight to attend your beautiful wedding. In such cases, destination weddings can be classified as beach, vineyard, mountain or even a tropical island getaway wedding. Depending on the venue of your choice and the theme that you have picked out for your big day, you can find yourself with boarding pass wedding invitations that are beautiful, fun and memorable.
There are various styles of boarding pass wedding invitations out there, the most popular one being the airplane ticket style and variety. Most commonly styled on paper that holds measurements of 196mm x 60mm, you can style your wedding day invitation in a way that matches your wedding theme with designs that takes after the ever-trending boarding pass design. The elements of the design and layout is essentially a horizontal card invite that is separated vertically into three areas one being the purpose of the invite (as in to denote whether it's a wedding invitation, a save the date card, or even a caption to go with your theme), the wedding invitation wording, and not forgetting the reply card section which can actually be removed/ripped/cut off so that your invitees can confirm their attendance for your big day.
Figuring out what you would like mentioned or included in the boarding pass wedding invitations is up to you. Some brides and grooms prefer to just use one side of their invite card to carry all their information with the other either side either having a design relating to your wedding theme and overall invitation style or even leaving it plain, whilst some want to add more information such as wishing well verse, maybe even include a photograph of the happy couple to be wed, or anything that you wish to include. It's always lovely when you neatly put things together in a package, and like so you can have a boarding pass wedding invite cover for your invitations too. They can be bi-folded or even pocket styled depending on your liking.
One way to add design elements that are unique to your wedding could be with photographic items, illustrations and silhouette designs, monograms and motifs and even watercolour and pencil drawings that are beautifully done up. Find the right look for your wedding with delightful boarding pass wedding invitations that are trendy, stylish and fun, and make your big day a hit!


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Louis M. Aledort, MD, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dr. Aledort was recognized for his distinguished career in the field of blood disorders, his academic research and his community and service efforts.
Louis M. Aledort, MD, The Mary Weinfeld Professor of Clinical Research in Hemophilia at Mount Sinai School of Medicine , has received of the prestigious Albert Einstein College of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his distinguished career in the field of blood disorders and his major contributions to the health and welfare of underserved communities. He received the award Wednesday, June 1, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Commencement.
"As a physician and a public health leader, Dr. Aledort has demonstrated the qualities that we hold dear: caring and humanity, a sense of concern for the individual and, in particular, a deep and rewarding commitment to serve society,"said Stephen E. Goldstone, MD, President of Albert Einstein College of Medicine Alumni Association and Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "It's a privilege to publicly acknowledge the deep respect and admiration he has earned from this community."
A pioneer in the study and treatment of coagulation disorders, Dr. Aledort continues to be the one of the world's leading authorities on hemophilia. He has long been at the forefront of developing comprehensive care for hemophilia, including creating The Mount Sinai Regional Comprehensive Hemophilia Treatment Center, which has been designated as a World Health Organization Global Cooperating Training Center in Coagulation Diseases.
"I'm extremely proud to be recognized by my peers with this prestigious award. It's Einstein's highest honor,"said Dr. Aledort. "I have been involved in this field for over 50 years, through my academic research and community and service efforts. I look forward to continuing my work for years to come."
A strong voice for patient care, Dr. Aledort led the way in obtaining congressional appropriations for regional treatment centers and helped to make third-party carriers in New York City aware of the need to provide treatment that maintains patients' function. Dr. Aledort has worked with national and international groups to make clotting materials available to patients and helped to develop an international educational program for patients and their physicians. His international work has included collaborating with organizations and colleagues in Turkey, Argentina, China, India and Brazil, where a hemophilia center in São Paulo has been named in his honor.
Dr. Aledort has been a leader in the design and implementation of several groundbreaking collaborative study groups, including the U.S. Hemophilia Study Group, the Transfusion Safety Study, and the Orthopedic Outcome Study. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles in prominent journals, including Haemophilia, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, and the American Journal of Hematology.
In addition to his own research and the mentorship of his peers, Dr. Aledort is involved in several professional organizations, including the American Society of Hematology, the International Society of Hematology, and the American College of Physicians, for whom he is a Master. He is the editor of numerous medical journals, has held nearly 50 major positions at governmental, non-profit, and educational organizations, and served on several academic advisory committees.
Dr. Aledort earned his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University as a member of its first graduating class, in 1959. He continued his studies as a resident at the University of Virginia and at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, where he also had a Hematology Fellowship. From Rochester, Dr. Aledort joined Mount Sinai, where he has remained for 45 years. About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation's top 20 hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.
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Imagine yourself in a room with two CD players. One plays the horn-driven bop of a late-model Jazz Messengers and the other features the guitar-stoked progressive rock of King Crimson. Except that the CD players keep cutting in and out and over each other, so that sometimes you only hear progressive guitar rock, other times just funky hard bop, and sometimes horns bopping hard and funky on top of progressive rock guitar.
Got that? That's Blue in the Face.
Nick Blasky on bass and vocals; Brad Myers on guitar; Eli Hludzik on drums; and Michael "Mad Dog" Mavridoglou, who also splits time in Jazz Mandolin Project, on keyboards and trumpet form a true jazz-rock quartet that, with special thanks to guitarist Myers and trumpeter "Mad Dog," jazz and rock fans would be wise to explore.
"Gapers" and "Bowie Knife" (where Steve Kortyka guests on alto and tenor sax) end up more than the sum of their jazz-rock parts as Hludzik dips his sticks into the pool of liquid Crescent City funk (especially on snare), Myers shakes out feelin'-loose rock grooves, and Mavridoglou's trumpet busts out bebop and blues. Trumpet leads the ensemble through the melody sections of the ten-minute "Free Ride and a Hotplate" like a Jazz Messengers tune (think Terence Blanchard), alternating with guitar interludes until one erupts into a free-for-all that sets the table for more Mavridoglou.
Myers' flash guitar illuminates the electric spectrum of prog-rock explorers Bill Nelson and Robert Fripp, his angular, oddly rhythmic lines showcased in the scalding hot "Jimmy Jenga" (fusion wrapped tighter than shrink-wrapped crystal) and as the only soloist in "Red Rocket."
"Watch the Lights" provides a great description of this jazz-rock instrumental as, on top of churning bass and hard metal drums, measured half-notes switch on colorful, fat light bulbs in single file. "Mad Dog" drops in a Spanish trumpet interlude, a Latin tinge reinforced in the subsequent "Boris the Bedsnake," serpentine jazz-rock fusion with seething Latin passages led by trumpet. Myers burns this one up, too, with a solo that skirts Latin, jazz, and rock styles.
(Note: the name of Ray Charles' music shop in the original Blues Brothers movie was Ray's Music Exchange.)
Track Listing: Intro/On With the Show; Blue; Gapers; Free Ride and a Hotplate; Watch the Lights; Boris the Bedsnake; Synchrocosmic; Exidor; Jimmy Jenga; Red Rocket; Bowie Knife
Personnel: Nick Blasky: 5-string fretted bass, 6-string fretless bass, vocals; Eli Hludzik: drums, percussion; Michael "Mad Dog" Mavridoglou: trumpet, keyboards, vocals; Brad Myers: guitar; Steve Kortyka: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Title: Blue in the Face | Year Released: 2005 | Record Label: Ray-Mayd
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Subject: more Odd Christian names
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:54:49 -0700
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shall I conrinue with the list? I was so fascinated with what I found I
though I'd continue, but I may be boring others. just let me know-no
brickbats, please, I'm dingy enough already!
I've tried to keep the foreign names and recogniseable given names which are
uncommon out of the list (i.e. Brutus) some slip through. if there are two
names in the list, they are first and middle.
Renata, Hero (for a Dutch man, so maybe it's not strange for them), Rino
(for an Italian, perhaps it's common there?), Abial, Appimelatti (I'd like
to hear from anyone who knows these names, surname Diehl) Jeconias, Melita,
Aurelio, Alida (getting common where I live) Ali, Valentine, Mose (not
Moses), Lockhart, Bates, Radford, Bethenne (variant on Beth Anne?), Milton,
Theodosia, Melmon, Reini, Therlow, Elmeda, Jackson, Mahala, Edison,
Marshall, Bethany Grace, DeVal, Emmanuel, Spurgeon Eual, Ausby, Mehitable,
Alderson, Salem Constable, Tindall, Alma Euela, Arley, Harrison, Manning,
Philemon, Fena, Rameth, Harvell Howey
a girl with Roi (French Royal) for her middle name
a man with Ghiron for a middle name
a man with Meryon (maternal surname) for a middle name
a man with Xris for a middle name
there are so many people with maternal surnames for middle names I haven't
listed most of them.
more famous names;
John Henry, Mary Magdalene, Herman Gerhard (I think?)
that's enough for now-got through the Ha....'s this time!
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Online: For data by metropolitan area, go to brookings.edu.
San Diego County, with its mild coastal climate, border-town locale and biotech-heavy economy, would seem to have little in common with the likes of Chicago, New York and Miami. Not so, say demographers, who have concluded that the cities are remarkably similar when it comes to their racially and ethnically diverse populations, high academic achievement and slow growth rates.
Shedding the geographic distinctions long used to define the nation, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program researchers have divvied up the country's 100 largest metro areas into seven demographic groups and placed San Diego among the "diverse giants."
The classifications are meant to highlight metro areas' similarities and differences, while providing a window into who lives there, how they are faring economically and how prepared they are for the future.
In a report released Sunday that catalogs the key demographic trends of the past decade, Brookings found that San Diego and the other "diverse giants" solidified their status as America's melting pots while outdistancing the nation in their proportion of college graduates.
Although San Diego's strong technology sector boosted its standing as an educational overachiever, its heavy immigrant population lags far behind in college degrees. That educational divide has spawned a wide disparity in incomes, so much so that San Diego ranks eighth in the country in wage inequality, Brookings found. It is a warning sign that could bode ill for the region's future, the report's authors say.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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New route above Khumbu
May 7th, 2014 by Gripped Magazine | Posted in International, Routes
Labuche East is a 6,145-metre Nepalese peak close to the Khumbu Glacier. It was first climbed in 1984 by Laurence Nielson and Sherpa Ang Gyalzen
The Odessa Alpine Club climbed a new route on Lobuche East in eight days. The climb took three nights on the wall in heavy snowfall. Two Arrows Flight is a 700-metre 5.10, A3.
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Canoeists up the creek as anglers challenge right to navigate rivers
There is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as messing about in boats, as Rat advised Mole in The Wind in the Willows.
Yet this ancient pastime could be curtailed on thousands of miles of rivers after a legal challenge by anglers, who hope to establish conclusively that the law does not give canoeists a general right of navigation.
The Angling Trust has sent a legal letter before action to the British Canoe Union, Canoe Wales and Canoe England demanding that they stop publishing information suggesting that such a right exists on non-tidal waterways in England and Wales.
The trust is threatening, via Fish Legal, its legal arm, to take the canoeing governing bodies to court to seek "declaratory relief" unless they remove statements…


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|Application number
|Publication date
|Mar 18, 1986
|Filing date
|Jan 17, 1983
|Priority date
|Jan 17, 1983
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Theodore L. Warren, Kenneth R. Whelan, Arnold G. Reinhold
|Original Assignee
|Automatix Incorporated
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (68), Classifications (8), Legal Events (14)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to systems for analyzing images and, more particularly, is directed toward in-process inspection computer vision systems.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Computer analysis of visual images has been the subject of an enormous amount of research in the past twenty-five years. Many attempts have been made to couple computers with television cameras and develop a machine that could see. This technology has had limited success in applications such as interpreting aerial photographs, guiding "smart" bombs, counting red blood cells and chromosomes. A vision system for presenting parts or workpieces from a bulk storage location to a staging location is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,804,270.
In recent years, systems for processing of visual images or machine vision systems have been designed for in-process inspection of various objects. Machine vision systems have been used in cases where it is desired to determine either the shape or appearance of an object. Such systems have been met with varying degrees of success for several reasons. First, they are designed for specific purposes and are not suited for general use. Also, such specifically designed systems are costly to produce. Secondly, prior art machine vision systems are unable to handle the large amount of data represented by a television image. A need exists for an improved machine vision system.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a general purpose system for sensing, processing and analyzing images.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a general purpose machine vision system for in-process inspection of workpieces of various configurations. The vision system is characterized by a camera assembly, a vision processor with a shared memory and a computer controller. The camera assembly includes a plurality of cameras which are selectively energized for sensing and processing an image of a workpiece. The camera assembly generates video signals which are fed to the vision processor for preprocessing and storage in the shared memory. The computer controller, which has access to the shared memory through a common bus, controls the vision processor. The computer controller receives signals from peripheral devices and generates command signals for controlling the vision processor and the processing and analyzing of the video signals. The computer controller also generates data signals for presenting the processed video signals on a display and for controlling external devices in response to the sensed images.
Other objects of the present invention will in part be obvious and will in part appear hereinafter.
The invention accordingly comprises the apparatuses and processes, together with their parts, steps, elements and interrelationships, that are exemplified in the following disclosure, the scope of which will be indicated in the appended claims.
A fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the present invention will become apparent upon consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a block and schematic diagram of a vision sensing and processing system embodying the present invention;
FIGS. 2a and 2b are a block and schematic diagram of the video processor of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 3 is a block and schematic diagram of the computer controller of FIG. 1.
Referring now to the drawings, particularly FIG. 1, there is shown a system 10 embodying the present invention for sensing, processing and analyzing images. In the illustrated embodiment, vision system 10 is a general purpose machine vision system for in-process inspection of workpieces having various configurations. Generally, vision system 10 includes a camera assembly 12 for sensing images of workpieces and generating analog video signals, a video multiplexer 14 for selectively switching the analog video signals representing the sensed images, an analog to digital converter 16 for digitizing the analog video signals, a slave video processor 18 for preprocessing and storage of the digitized video signals and a master computer controller 20 for controlling the video processor and processing the video signals.
Camera assembly 12 includes a plurality of cameras 22 and associated flash units 24 which are directed toward workpieces whose images are to be sensed. A command signal from video processor 18 energizes selected cameras 22 and associated flash units 24. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the signals generated by cameras 22 are analog video signals. In an alternative embodiment, the signals generated by cameras 22 are digital video signals. The analog video signals generated by cameras are applied to video multiplexer 14 which includes a plurality of switches 26 and 28. Switches 28, for example electronic switches, are controlled by a display camera number signal from a camera select switch 30. Switches 28 determine which analog video signals from a selected camera 22 are applied to a display 32. Switches 26, for example electronic switches, are controlled by a process camera number signal generated from computer controller 20. Switches 26 determine which camera 22 analog video signals are applied to video processor 18. Raw video signals which pass through switches 26 are applied to video processor 18. The raw video signals are level adjusted in vision processor 18 to compensate for system errors and returned to analog to digital converter 16. The level adjusted raw video signal is digitized to a six bit or eight bit binary signal in analog to digital converter 16 and returned to video processor 18 for preprocessing and storage.
As hereinafter described in connection with FIG. 2, video processor 18, for example a micro-programmable video signal processor, includes a shared memory 34, for example a dynamic random access memory, for storing one or more picture images and central processing units 36 and 38 for processing video data. As shown in FIG. 3, computer controller 20 includes a processor 42, a display controller 44 and various input/output devices 46, which communicate with a keyboard 48, cartridge tapes 50, optical isolators 52 and communication links 54. Video processor 18 communicates with computer controller 20 through a bus 40, for example a microprocessor bus such as that identified by Motorola, Inc. as VERSAbus. Computer controller 20 inputs to shared memory 34 in video processor 18 by writing into the memory via bus 40.
In the illustrated embodiment, video data is preprocessed in video processor 18 and final processing is completed in computer controller 20. The digitized video signals are subjected to various software processing including comparison with previously stored information, computerized interpretation of the digitized video to develop and extract features which are used for further processing. The results of the processing of the digitized video signals can include a determination as to whether a particular workpiece is within specifications, its position on a work table or writing on a label. The details of vision processor 18 and control computer 20 are shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively.
Vision processor 18 provides control computer 20 with certain vision capabilities including picture data storage, processing and display. Video processor 18 includes a four into one multiplexer 56 having two input ports 58, each port being able to support one multiplexer 14, each multiplexer 14 being capable of receiving input video signals from sixteen cameras 22. Accordingly, vision system 10 has the capability of supporting thirty-two cameras 22. Multiplexer 56, which is controlled by a multiplexer controller 60, also receives a one volt reference and a zero volt reference. The one volt reference and the zero volt reference are used to calibrate vision system 10. The raw video signals at the output of multiplexer 56 are applied to a summing amplifier 62 which takes the raw video signal and adds to it an offset analog voltage from an offset register 64, for example a digital to analog converter. The signal at the output of summing amplifier 62 is a level adjusted raw video signal which is applied to analog to digital converter 16. A gain register 66 is also applied to analog to digital converter 16, this reference signal being an analog signal which is under software control.
The digitized video signals in the form of six or eight bit words at the output of analog to digital converter 16 are fed to video processor 18. The digitized video signals are sequentially stored, one at a time, in holding registers 68a-68d. That is, each holding register 68 stores one byte of video information. The four bytes or thirty-two bits of video information in holding registers 68a-68d are stored in shared memory 34. In order to present the video signals on display 32, the stored video signals in shared memory 34 are applied to pixel out holding buffers 70A-70D, four bytes of pixel information being read out each time. The four bytes of pixel information are time multiplexed into a single byte and applied to a digital to analog converter 72 via an attribute generator 74. The digitized video signals applied to digital to analog converter 72 are converted to analog video signals and applied to computer controller 20.
The addresses for storing and displaying video information in shared memory 34 are generated from a CRT controller 76 which includes a starting address register (not shown) that are loaded to point to a selected starting address in the shared memory. CRT controller 76 generates sequential memory addresses to store the video signals in shared memory 34 starting at program locations defined by the starting address register. In a similar manner, sequential addresses for the video signals to be displayed on display 32 are also generated by CRT controller 76 and applied to shared memory 34 through address selector 78 and address multiplexer 80. In addition, CRT control 76 generates address signals for refreshing shared memory 34.
Computer controller 20 and central processing units 82, 84 have access to shared memory 34 via bus 41. Request signals from either computer controller 20, central processing unit 82 or central processing unit 84 are applied to an arbiter 86 which grants the request on a predetermined priority unless requests are waiting, and then by round robin. If the request is granted, arbiter 86 generates a grant signal which is applied to bus 41. The grant signal sets address selector 78 so that the address data is fed through a bus address buffer 87, a bus address driver 88 and address multiplexer 80 for application to shared memory 34. If the operation is to be a read operation, the data from shared memory 34 is applied to bus 41 through a data/function selector 90. If a write operation is requested data is applied through a data buffer 92 to shared memory 34. Central processing units 82 and 84 address shared memory 34 in a similar manner.
Vision processor 18 also includes a video processing circuit 91 for special processing of pixel information which is stored in shared memory 34. Video processing circuit 91 includes a dual pixel comparator 93, a read-only memory 95, a threshold register 97 and a control register 99. Two bytes of pixel information each pixel containing eight bits, stored in shared memory 34 are fed to dual pixel comparator 93. A threshold level from threshold register 97 is applied to dual pixel comparator 93, the signal at the output of the comparator representing pixel data which deviate from the threshold level. Control register 99 receives command signals applied to bus 40 and generates control signals which govern the operation of read-only memory 95. That is, control register 99 generates control signals which are operative to select which of several functions that read-only memory 95 is to perform, for example, pixel data exceeding the threshold level, pixel data below the threshold level, run length decoding and so forth.
Central processing unit 82 has an address driver 94 and a data driver 96. As shown in FIG. 2, central processing unit 82 also includes a random access memory (RAM) 98, an erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) 100, central processing unit (CPU) 36, an asynchronous communications interface adaptor (ACIA) 102, a programmable timer module (PTM) 104 and a global decoder 106. Central processing unit 84 has an address driver 108 and a data driver 110. Computer processing unit 84 also includes a RAM 112, an EPROM 114, CPU 38, an ACIA 116, a PTM 118 and a global decoder 120. In the illustrated embodiment, random access memories 98 and 112 are static RAMS which constitute high speed local program memories. Static RAMS 98 and 112 allow central processors 82 and 84, respectively, to operate without any wait states at 16 MHZ. Video processor 18 also includes a timing and synchronization generator 122, a status and command register 124 and peripheral interface adapters 126, 128. As previously indicated, video processor 18 is controlled by computer controller 20, the details of which are shown in FIG. 3.
Computer controller 20 includes processor 42, for example, a sixteen-bit microprocessing unit with internal thirty-two bit address and data registers. Addresses and command signals generated by processor 42 are decoded in an address map/decoder/timer 130. When address map 130 receives a bus address, it generates a request signal which is applied to a bus register 132, for example a programmable array logic (PAL). Bus register 132 generates a request signal which is applied to bus 40. The request signal is fed to a bus arbiter 134, for example a programmable array logic (PAL), which, in response to a request signal, generates a grant signal based upon previously established priority. If the request is granted, bus arbiter 134 generates a grant signal which is fed to bus requestor 132 via bus 40. Bus requestor 132 generates an enable signal to enable a buffer 136 and a local bus 138 is activated. Local bus 138 drives bus 40 which is connected to video processor 18. When video processor 18 detects its address on bus 40, it allocates access to shared memory 34.
In addition to having access to shared memory 34, processor 42 includes a dynamic random access memory 140 (DRAM) with byte parity. Single bit DRAM errors (byte wide) are detectable by a parity detection unit 142. Parity detection unit 142 generates a odd parity flag bit with each byte written into memory 140 and checks for odd parity with each byte read via a memory bus 143. When an error is detected, a memory error signal is generated for local access and a bus erro signal is generated for bus 40. Either type of error signal will be latched and interpreted as a maskable interrupt when detected by computer controller 20. Operation of parity detection unit 142 can also be verified through use of one of the special function registers 144. When special function register 144 is set, the wrong parity bit is written into shared memory 34 during memory writes. Then, when the effected bytes are subsequently read from memory 34, a parity error should be detected. Computer controller 20 also includes a memory arbiter 145 and a flag interrupt generator 146 which enables multiple processors on bus 40 to signal one another, a maskable interrupt being generated from an interrupt generator 146 to processor 42 when set. Computer controller 20 has a non-volatile random access memory (NOVRAM) 150 which provides 256�4 bits of non-volatile storage for recording special information, such as board serial number, revision number, service history etc.
Computer controller 20 has three counter-timer input output (CIO) devices 152 which provide six versatile parallel ports and nine programmable timers. Any port can be programmed to function as control-type port with the direction of each bit individually programmable. Each port includes pattern recognition logic which allows interrupt generation when a specific pattern is detected by either level or edge sensing. The second byte from each CIO device 152 also provides direct access to two of the internal timers. The CIO timers 152 are 360 bit counters, two of which can be linked together. Computer controller 20 also has eight versatile serial communication channels 46. A MAY DAY timer 154 is a retriggerable one shot that opens when processor 42 is not periodically updated by the software. The updating is accomplished by writing a "zero" followed by a "one" to the special function register 144. Computer controller 20 also includes a real time clock 156 which includes a complete time-of-day clock with programmable alarm, a calendar with leap year compensation and a daylight savings time options, a programmable periodic interrupt, and fifty bytes of general purpose RAM. The time, calendar and alarm are presented in binary or BCD.
In the illustrated embodiment, CRT controller 44 is capable of displaying one hundred twenty-eight ASCII characters with lower case descenders and sixty-four graphics characters. In addition, the characters are displayable with any combination of the following attributes: reverse video, character blank, character blink, underline, strike-thru or manual. They are selected through a character RAM 158 by substituting the attribute field for the character. Character command signals on local bus 138 are applied through a buffer 160 to a buffered local bus 162. The command signals are then fed through a buffer 164 to a character generator 166. Character signals generated by character generator 166 are applied to a shift register 168 and an amplifier 170 for application to display 32. A SASI adaptor 172 provides computer controller 20 with an I/O port to a SASI bus (not shown), a widely supported intelligent interface to mass storage devices.
Bus requester 134 allows computer controller 20 to become a bus master. When a bus access is initiated, requester 134 enters the bus request cycle and acquires bus 40 when the bus grant signal at the requesters level is active. It then waits until the current bus cycle has completed before enabling computer controller 20 to drive bus 40. This allows arbitration to take place while bus 40 is active. Requester 132 releases bus 40 when it is requested by another master at any priority level. The request is automatically initiated when processor 42 accesses an address which is mapped onto bus 138 from address map 130 when processor 42 acknowledges a bus interrupt or when timer 130 is active. Timer 130 allows computer controller 20 to anticipate a bus cycle, and therefore perform the arbitration overhead before the bus cycle automatically starts. This allows two bus masters to interleave memory to memory transfers with little or no sacrifice in performance. Arbiter 134 resolves conflicts when more than one bus master request bus 40.
In summary, vision system 10 is an in-process inspection and process control system in which cameras 22 sense images of workpieces. Analog video signals which represent the sensed images are fed through video multiplexer 14 to video processor 18 and display 32. The analog video signal is level adjusted in video processor 18 and applied to video to analog converter 16 where it is digitized and returned to the video processor for preprocessing and storage. Computer controller 20, a master device, controls the operation of video processor 18, a slave device, through common bus 40, the computer controller and video processor having access to shared memory 34. Computer controller 20 generates command signals responsive to the sensed images for controlling peripheral devices.
Since certain changes may be made in the foregoing disclosure without departing from the scope of the invention herein involved, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description and depicted in the accompanying drawings be construed in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense.
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For the past five years, rather than cards, I've given family, friends and colleagues an annual CD of Christmas music. I sometimes wish I'd never started, for now my December evenings are sadly lacking in mulled wine and drinks parties. Instead, I sit lonely at my computer, burning CDs, trimming inlay cards, and stuffing both into clear plastic sleeves. Over those five years I've listened to several hundred Christmas songs, and I think I've learned a thing or two.
The great unlikely bedfellows of Christmas music are English folk and American funk. The older I get, the more I relish the bleak sternness of traditional English music, with its reminders that winter is a time of death and shortage, not just presents. Modern interpreters such as the Watersons – thanks to their 1965 album Frost and Fire, and the 2006 Waterson: Carthy album Holy Heathens and the Green Man – always appear near the top of my playlists. As for funk, the black consciousness movement of the late 60s and early 70s didn't pause for the holidays: there are scores of amazing funk and soul tracks that bewail the poverty of presents in the projects. As James Brown implored: Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto – although when he gets there he may discover there Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects.
For me, the art of the Christmas compilation lies in mixing familiar songs with unfamiliar performances: look beyond Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift for You when you decide to include Sleigh Bells. And don't just Google "Christmas MP3" for tracks, because having Christmas in its title does not make something a Christmas song. Listen to Tom Waits's Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis if you don't believe me.
Prepare yourself for the sound of sleigh bells. It can feel as if every other Christmas song opens with their ghastly jingle, regardless of genre, and some of them never let it fade, from Isaac Clarke's wah-wahed take on Santa Claus Is Coming to Town to Joe Pesci (yes, that Joe Pesci) and his awfully peculiar If It Doesn't Snow on Christmas.
One final tip: start mellow. If you start with Noddy Holder bellowing "It's CHRISSSSSSTMASSSSSSS!", you've really got nowhere to go.
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Kai Ryssdal: Forget those ads that say "Got Milk." It's almost to the point where they should say, "Got Money?"
Economists are guessing milk prices will be up 80 percent this summer. It's already as expensive as what we're paying for a gallon of gas. And much as rising oil prices are felt in other parts of the economy, so too will be the higher cost of milk.
Marketplace's Jill Barshay now on why it's suddenly getting so expensive.
Jill Barshay: Every year for the last 15 years, Americans drank less milk.
Bill Herndon is a dairy economist at Mississippi State University. He says we're drinking more milk now — a lot more.
Bill Herndon: The market is really in a new era.
Herndon says Americans drank 1.4 percent more milk during the first three months this year, compared to the same period last year. In China, India and Latin America, people are enjoying more dairy delicacies, like ice cream and butter.
Fast-food restaurants all over the world are serving milk with their kiddie meals. And food companies are using much more dried whey. It's a by-product of cheese making, used in all sorts of beverages.
Herndon: These high energy drinks, you know like Red Bull, that's what goes in those energy drinks.
Herndon says all this demand is driving the price of milk way up. American farmers are getting 50 percent more for their milk than a year ago.
American shoppers are feeling the pinch as well. The average supermarket price for a gallon of whole milk was $3.38 in May. That's up 18 cents since December. Some dairy experts say milk could go as high as $4.50 a gallon.
Chris Galen works for the National Milk Producers Federation. He says the high prices may not last for long.
Chris Galen: Soon the high prices will stimulate more milk production. Farmers are very ingenious when it's financially profitable to do so, trying to get more milk out of their cows.
Economists say the milk market is frothy right now, but the bubble could burst next year.
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District of Columbia police said a man's body has been found floating in the Anacostia River.
Officer Araz Alali, a police spokesman, said someone reported the body floating in the river just after 1 a.m. Saturday.
Alali said there were no obvious signs of trauma to the body, which was picked up by the medical examiner's office.
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DJ Greg Street ft. Lupe Fiasco, Wale & Kardinal Offishall - Dope Boys (Remix) [Stream]
On June 9, 1992, the legendary duo of Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth dropped the hip-hop classic, Mecca and the Soul Brother. On September 30, 2008, Atlanta disc jockey Greg Street, a.k.a. the Voice of the People, will... Read More
Interscope Set To Drop "Greg Street Certified Worldwide" in August [Feature ]
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On their first two albums, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz and Wooden Leather, Nappy Roots recorded music as a major-label sextet. On the group's forthcoming third studio album, The Humdinger, however, the Kentucky... Read More
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What to Expect from Treatment
Learning When to Get Help
- A Normal Life!
- A full night sleep without waking up from coughing
- A clear chest in the morning
- To go school or to work
- To play in sports and exercise
- No side effects from medicines
- No emergency room visits or hospital stays
With treatment, asthma can be controlled, although it cannot be cured. Many people with asthma use medicines prescribed by their doctor to prevent or relieve symptoms, and they can learn how to manage flare-ups. Most people with asthma can gain control of illness and live an active life.
Goals of Treatment
- Prevent long-term symptoms such as coughing or shortness of breath in the early morning, at night or after exercise.
- Maintain of your near normal lung tests
- Maintain of your normal activity level
- Prevent of flare-ups of asthma
- No need for emergency room and hospital visits
- Provide the best treatment with the little medications as possible and little or no side effects
- Satisfy you and your families needs with your asthma care
Effective Treatment Programs
- Measures of lung function called pulmonary function tests
- Environmental control/clean-up
- Medications
- Routine asthma visits to your doctor
Learning When to Get Help
People who have asthma should have a plan of how to get medical help quickly in case of a severe attack. Having a friend or partner who can help them get to an emergency room or clinic is a good start.
Common Early Warning Signs
- Feeling of being tired
- Coughing
- Throat tightness or chin tightness
- Runny or stuffy nose
- Moodiness
- Sneezing
- Breathing changes
- Headache
- Trouble sleeping
- Poor tolerance for exercise
- Downward trends in peak flow breathing test
- Dark circles under eyes
What Should I Do During an Attack?
- Stay calm
- Stop current activity and rest quietly
- Use medications as directed
- Remove triggers
- Get help if symptoms do not get better
- Drink water or juice to help mucus stay moist and loose
- Encourage coughing—This is to help cough up mucus to assist in opening up the airways
Call Your Doctor
Call your doctor if:
- Your nostrils flare(become larger while breathing in)
- Your breathing is faster than normal
- You are restless
- You cannot take fluid or medication by mouth
- Medications are not working
Seek Emergency Care
Seek emergency care if you have one or more of these severe symptoms:
- Difficulty thinking or talking
- Shortness of breath
- Hunched shoulders (posturing)
- Use of your neck area, between or below the ribs moving inward to help breathing, called retractions
- Gray or blue tint to skin, beginning around your mouth (cyanosis)
- If you complain of chest pain and become sweaty
- If you continue to wheeze and breath hard, even though you have used your medicines


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TRAVIS S.wrote a review of Union Charger Binding on February 11, 2013
Great bindings
What else can you want? They're light, stiff, look great and comfortable. The picture don't do justice to the color of the base plates though. They're more of a metallic copper color than orange. I have friends that run diodes and i like theses more, especially since there's a front lean adjustment. Plust they're much cheaper and better looking.


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On October 1st, 1982 EPCOT theme park at Walt Disney World opened for the very first time. The park was originally called Epcot Center but as we all know now it is simply just Epcot. The name Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of tomorrow and the purpose of the park is to celebrate the human element. So to celebrate the 30th birthday of Epcot here are some of my favorite shots that I have gotten while being in the park.
Happy 30th Birthday Epcot
So have a great birthday Epcot and for everyone that is enjoying the Food and Wine Festival right now have a great time!


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Notes: Platoon situation a hot topic
Third base and left field have different starters for Game 2
By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
Left fielder Kevin Mench and third baseman Tony Graffanino -- both right-handed hitters -- got the start Tuesday against Dodgers left-hander Randy Wolf. Against right-hander Derek Lowe the day before, Geoff Jenkins and Craig Counsell -- both left-handed hitters -- were in the lineup.
The situation in left field has been a hot topic since the start of Spring Training, when both Jenkins and Mench said they were not interested in sharing playing time. Seven weeks later little has changed, and manager Ned Yost still doesn't get the hubbub.
"It's not that big a deal," Yost said. "I don't know why everybody wants to make it a big deal. ... Our guys understand it. They know what's going on."
Yost's plan calls for Bill Hall to make the majority of starts in center field and Corey Hart in right. Jenkins and Mench will share duties in left field, and Mench also could spell Hart from time to time. Gabe Gross and Tony Gwynn will play mostly off the bench.
"Gross and Tony Gwynn will get their at-bats when they can," Yost said. "The majority of time is going to revolve around those four guys. It's my job to make sure they all get their at-bats and they're all competitive and they're all playing."
But as recently as last week, Mench told MLB.com, "I still don't know what is going on here." Jenkins was more measured, saying, "You just have to go and do your job when you are asked to."
Mench toned down his comments the following day in a newspaper report.
Yost has insisted that left field and third base will not be straight, right-left platoons. He bristled at reporters' questions about who will play and when.
"You guys want me to nail everything down," he said. "Why don't I just write it all down in stone? I don't even need to be here. What do I need to be here for if everything is righty-lefty?
"That's not the way it works. You match up every day, and decide which is going to give us the best opportunity to win today, and you go with it."
Feeling all right: Brewers shortstop J.J. Hardy admitted he was a bit knock-kneed in his first at-bat on Opening Day, but at least the problem wasn't his ankle.
Hardy officially returned from ankle surgery in a big way on Monday, going 3-for-4 and making a slick defensive play in the Brewers' 7-1 win over the Dodgers. Afterward, his spirits were high and his ankle felt fine.
"The whole Spring Training was for that, getting used to what my ankle was going to feel like," Hardy said. "It feels 100 percent. I don't even think about it out there, which is good."
That was good news to the Brewers, who decided to move Hall, Hardy's able replacement from last May 17 through the end of the season, to center field. The team wanted both players in the lineup, and figured with the 24-year-old Hardy at short and 23-year-old prospect Ryan Braun nearly ready to take over at third base, the best place for Hall was the outfield.
Step 1 was convincing Hall to embrace the change. Step 2 was getting a healthy Hardy back on the field. So far, so good.
"J.J.'s always been a great defender," Hall said. "We've all known that. He's had a little injury problem, but hopefully that's in the past and he can be the impact player everyone thinks he can be."
No deal: Yost chuckled when he was told the Dodgers changed their signs prior to the series, worried that Elmer Dessens would pass on their secrets to his new teammates. The Brewers acquired Dessens from the Dodgers in a March 26 trade for outfielder Brady Clark, and Milwaukee didn't finalize its signs until March 29.
"I'm glad they changed them, because the first thing I did was ask Elmer about the signs and he couldn't remember them," Yost said with a smile.
On deck: Brewers newcomer Jeff Suppan, who signed a franchise-record free agent contract during the offseason, will make his debut Wednesday night against the Dodgers and right-hander Jason Schmidt. The Brewers will be debuting their "Walk-off Wednesdays" promotion.
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Nearly 4,000 people have signed a petition to outlaw the harvesting of giant Pacific octopus off Alki, after two divers released pictures last week of another diving pair emerging from a popular dive spot with a live, giant Pacific octopus and throwing it in the back of their truck. Noting that Alki's Seacrest Park is "regularly home to 1-2 Giant Pacific Octopus (GPOs)," the petition points out that people are only restricted to harvesting one octopus a day, "meaning a single ambitious diver could effectively decimate the entire Alki GPO population in a matter of days."
We request that the Washington Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and/or the City of Seattle (1) establish a GPO harvest-free zone encompassing the marine environment surrounding Alki Seacrest Park, and (2) begin evaluating the long term consequences of limiting GPO harvesting in Washington State.
And here's a closeup look at the giant pacific octopi that call Cove 2 home: