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Did Apple feel threatened by the prospect of music streaming service Spotify coming to the US? Spotify Director Sean Parker believes it did—and perhaps still does. Parker said at this week's All Things D conference that "[t]here was some indication" that Apple might have tried to stop Spotify from expanding from Europe into iTunes' home territory in the US, citing discussions with people in the music industry.
The comments about Apple's alleged actions were brief—according to Reuters, Parker was responding to a question from Walt Mossberg about whether Apple had attempted to block Spotify's US entry. Parker was on stage with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek when the question was asked. "The query prompted a moment of silence and awkward glances between the duo, before Parker volunteered to answer," wrote Reuters.
"There is definitely a sense in which Apple was threatened by what we were doing," Parker said.
Apple did not comment on Parker's assertions, but the thought that Apple wouldn't want Spotify to eat into iTunes' dominant position is hardly surprising. (Remember when Apple allegedly tried to pressure music labels into snubbing Amazon's MP3 service?) iTunes has been the top music retailer in the US since 2008, but Spotify has proven to be wildly popular among European and US users. Since making its US launch in July of 2011, Spotify has continued to grow in popularity among music aficionados—and especially among iOS users.


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The challenge to any software development effort is that quality management is a tricky balancing act that must factor in time, cost, and risks. Get it wrong, and you could face issues ranging from unsustainable costs, missed windows of opportunity, and unhappy customers, to a massive recall or the complete failure of a system at a critical moment. Get it right, and you can achieve a positive operational return on investment from efficiencies gained in development activities. With effective quality management, you can also create opportunities to deliver critical (but difficult-to-qualify) benefits, such as improved marketshare, higher customer satisfaction, and increased brand equity.
What's the problem with quality?
Complexity is now a given in many products and systems. Software, microelectronics, sensors, and mechanical technologies are often combined to create products that can measure conditions, respond to changes, and interact with other products, people, and IT systems in new ways.
Consider the potential overall effect of quality issues: In many industries, the entire success of an organization can hinge on consistently solving complex challenges. Yet success and brand image cultivated over many years can evaporate quickly when something goes wrong. Examples are plentiful: an aerospace company faced a $1 billion loss when a rocket self-destructed because of a bug in a guidance system. In the healthcare industry, software problems and poor quality control in cancer treatment systems designed to deliver precise radiation treatments have led to tragic consequences for a number of patients. In these types of cases, what may seem to be a small defect is actually critical to the mission.
One of the biggest challenges related to quality management is how to invest intelligently to minimize risk, given economic constraints. Figuring out how to relate quality to outcome and what constitutes the right level of quality for individual products, however, is not always clear.
The safest way to address quality problems early in the lifecycle is to use proven approaches and process frameworks, such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), agile development, or other general or domain-specific approaches. Focusing on best practices that can deliver a positive return provides a way to separate practices that will deliver tangible business results.
During any software delivery process, "When do we release?" is a key question with no simple answer. You must consider project-specific variables, such as the cost of delays, the opportunity value of early delivery, marketplace quality expectations, and the costs associated with defects. Ultimately, the delivery strategy will be based on the actual or perceived importance of each variable.
Schedule-driven delivery effectively implies "deliver on time, regardless of other factors" and is often used in consumer products to hit marketplace windows or in contractually governed environments, where delay penalties may apply. Quality issues are often magnified, given that software contractors frequently get paid on a time and materials basis regardless of the quality of software they deliver. In many cases, you may even end up paying extra for them to fix their own defects, so the potential costs of defects can add up quickly.
According to the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, "Data indicate that 60-80% of the cost of software development is in rework."
Quality-driven delivery can also be costly but for different reasons. The release timing for this approach is governed by achieving the right quality — but how do you define that? Zero defects is practically impossible to achieve, given that there is no way to determine how many defects still exist in a piece of code or the probability of detecting those defects in use. A target based on defects fixed might be more realistic — but it's still impossible to know the number of remaining defects in the product.
To cost-effectively balance quality-risk versus time-to-market considerations, a risk-driven approach may be ideal. A risk-driven strategy is a refinement of a quality-driven approach that optimizes risk exposure against development cost and time.
The optimal time to release is when the total risk exposure is minimal, typically around the time where the risk associated with competitive threats starts to outweigh the risk reduction associated with further quality improvements, as illustrated in Figure 1.
The best time to release can vary widely: Move too soon, and customers may be upset with quality issues. Wait too long, and your competition will beat you to the punch and dominate the space. In the end, the optimal time to release lies where your overall risk is minimal. Consider the following examples.
- Mass-market products — In the consumer electronics marketplace, time to market is critical to product success. Here, the opportunity cost of delaying a release to improve quality can be high, thus pushing the optimum release point to an earlier date.
- Safety-critical applications — In applications such as flight control software, quality may be the most critical parameter, given the potential size of loss caused by a defect. In this case, the optimum release point would be a later date.
- Systems with high-availability requirements — Mobile communications in the telecommunications industry, for example, have extremely high availability requirements because of the commercial implications of system outages. As a result, the potential loss resulting from a defect makes quality critical, pushing the optimum release point to a later date.
In practice, the required time-to-market is always ahead of your optimal time to release, where your overall risk exposure is the lowest. The only way to hit your time-to-market window without increasing the risk is by accelerating your risk reduction over time.
Quality management versus testing
If a faster reduction in risk is the goal, how do you achieve it? The answer is not testing, which is focused solely on discovering defects. Rather, an approach that is focused on reducing risk throughout the lifecycle is need. This is what quality management is all about. And by choosing quality management best practices that deliver a quick return on investment, you can focus on reducing risks in your project knowing that your management is behind you and supporting you.
Traditionally, testing has been a late-stage activity in the development lifecycle, conducted between the construction of software and its eventual release. Quality management can be considered as its own lifecycle within the overall software development lifecycle, as shown in Figure 2. Its activities take place across the development process and are synchronized with the development process in key points.
The entire process is closely linked to change and configuration management because discovered defects can be considered as changes that must be managed along with other changes progressing through the change management process.
There are many strategies for reducing risk, so it is essential to distinguish between those that are good ideas and those that also deliver a positive returns. The following are six "best practice" strategies that are proven to deliver a return on investment.
1. Drive testing from requirements. Linking test definition to requirements can help ensure that what you ultimately test reflects requirements. This approach can help reduce risk by ensuring that tests demonstrate compliance with requirements. However, manually building such traceability is time-consuming. A dedicated quality management solution with support for capturing traceability could speed up the process by a factor of ten, typically leading to savings in the order of $150-300K for projects with approximately 5000 requirements and 10,000 test cases.
2. Reduce planning overhead with collaborative quality management. Quality management is a lifecycle activity that affects everyone involved in a project. As such, managing the testing plan is a collaborative activity involving all stakeholders. A central repository where stakeholders can share and access updates and a "single version of the truth" can significantly cut the time spent on collaborative tasks. For a team of 100 testers, this could lead to savings of around $750,000 over 12 months. It also means that a team of 92 testers could do the work of 100, leaving the other 8 to accelerate the schedule.
3. Prioritize testing according to risk. Although you cannot completely remove risk from a development program, you can manage and measure it by taking proportionate mitigation actions. This approach prioritizes the execution of the test cases, where those addressing high risk requirements are held above those with a lower risk. This approach leads to significant reduction in the total number of test case executions, corresponding to large savings.
4. Integrate testing and quality management to improve accuracy and repeatability. Integrating both manual and automated testing within the quality management environment can deliver efficiency and quality benefits, including improved management of tests; likelihood of executing the correct set of tests; and collaboration resulting from better information on testing status and results
5. Automate reporting to improve efficiency, consistency and decision making. Reporting is a key element of the quality management process because it facilitates informed decision making based on information captured across the process. By automating the process, you can produce subsequent reports with minimal effort; therefore you are more likely to produce reports more often, helping to detect potential problems sooner. Automation also helps improve the accuracy and consistency of reporting — factors that can positively influence project management, productivity, and quality.
6. Improve efficiency by applying smart defect management to eliminate duplicates. As project complexity increases, the number of detected defects increases, as does the occurrence of duplicate reporting of defects. Identifying such duplicates is a time-consuming activity that adds no value to the project. Tooling that automates the detection of duplicate defects as testers log them can therefore help reduce overhead costs and shorten delivery timelines.
The overall effect of risk reduction strategies
Each of the best practices discussed here can produce significant results. But collectively, they also contribute to earlier defect detection. And as the cost of fixing defects is lower the earlier it is fixed, applying these best practices leads to significant savings due to earlier defect resolution.
As an example, let's assume a team that is at a CMMI level 2, and a project with 1000 defects detected by unit and integration testing. Applying the best practices discussed above can lead to the early detection of over 900 additional defects.
To realize these benefits, organizations would do well to invest in software that provides a collaborative, customizable, web-based test and quality management hub for the quality management lifecycle. Whether they are down the hall or across the globe, quality professionals and other decision makers can use quality management software to collaborate on test planning and management, risk-based testing, and defect management, including duplicate defect detection.
The momentum of technology, coupled with customer demands, is pushing organizations to deliver ever-smarter products. Given the added complexity in development processes, finding ways to continually optimize time, cost, and quality is critical to successful innovation. A risk-driven development approach can help you balance quality risk with time-to-market imperatives, and it also can do so while delivering a significant financial returns. The cost benefits are achieved through addressing defects earlier in the development process when they are less expensive to fix, as well as through productivity and efficiency gains in development processes.
What's more, such an approach can also support long-term benefits that cannot be easily quantified but are key to success, including customer satisfaction, reduced in-service costs, and a strong reputation and brand.


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CLEARANCE - How to Play the Torre Attack - Second, Thoroughly Revised EditionProduct Code: CB0075CD
Publisher: Chess Digest
Author: Eric Schiller
Year of Publication: 1995
Pages: 210
Notation Type: Algebraic(AN)
Book DescriptionWhite plays 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 followed by Bg5. The Torre Attack is a very flexible opening employed by white which involves quick development and fight for control of the e4 square. A standard setup would involve placing the queen's knight on d2, light-squared bishop to d3, king's rook to e1 after a quick castling, and pawn to e3 or e4. However, there is a flexibility that allows for many different setups, depending on the strategic path that the white player wishes to employ and black's setup. This flexible, dynamic system has been employed by virtually every top GM at some point in their career, even at the World Championship match level. Schiller shows why this opening system should be part of every player's repertoire.
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SimuQuest provides system integration and consultation services to support the full model-based embedded software and control system development process. This includes all aspects of product development and integration -- from system architecture and modeling to operating system integration to device-driver development and production implementation. Typical projects include:
SimuQuest has the tools and experience to facilitate rapid development of engine control strategies in simulation and HIL test environments. SimuQuest also supports the full embedded software life cycle, or specific phases of development, with model-based development tools. With proven technology and partnerships with key tool vendors, SimuQuest enhances the model-based algorithm and software paradigm.
SimuQuest's customers include automotive OEMs and vehicle module and software suppliers specializing in engine, vehicle, and body algorithms. Simulink and Stateflow are the core tools used by SimuQuest for graphical software modeling and plant modeling to create a virtual development environment. Simulink Coder, Fixed-Point Designer, and Embedded Coder are used to generate production code for customers. MATLAB optimization routines are used for automated model tuning and calibration and the Control System Toolbox is used for advanced control system consulting.
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Release Number: 331PR12
Equipped with an advanced powertrain system, the new Cat® 966K XE wheel loader impressively delivers up to a 25 percent fuel efficiency improvement with optimum performance. The new model meets the needs for both efficiency and sustainability while simplifying the operator's interface and operating technique.
Efficiency and Performance
The 966K XE has been engineered to deliver superior efficiency by utilizing an integrated Cat continuously variable transmission system. A hydraulic pump and motor (variator unit), allows for a smooth and continuous gear ratio change between engine speed and machine speed. The variator provides this ratio flexibility while greatly reducing the heat load generated by the drive train when the machine is digging, pushing and climbing under heavy load. The continuously variable gear ratio of the variator also enables the engine to run at a more efficient operating range independent of machine ground speed.
Power is transmitted through the variator unit (versatile gear ratio) as well as a parallel mechanical gear path (highest efficiency). Power through the variator and mechanical paths are combined through a series of planetary gear sets in order maximize the transmission efficiency over a wide range of operating conditions.
The 966K XE is powered by a Cat C9.3 ACERT™ diesel engine, delivering a peak net horsepower rating of 220 kW (290 hp). Meeting the European Union Stage IIIB emissions standards, the C9.3 ACERT™ engine incorporates a high-pressure common rail injection system for a clean, efficient burn. The proven Cat Clean Emissions Module, which incorporates a Diesel Oxidation Catalyst, a Diesel Particulate Filter and the Cat Regeneration System, functions automatically without interrupting the machine's working cycle.
Developed especially for production loading for both 966K and 966K XE, Performance Series Buckets are standard and deliver faster fill times and better material retention to reduce cycle time and improve productivity.
Operational Benefits
With the 966K XE, transmission operation is automated and transparent to the operator. The machine is well balanced and easy to operate at extremely low engine speeds, providing optimal productivity and burning less fuel. While maintaining the ability to operate effectively in moderate applications, this machine delivers improved performance on grade and in aggressive applications. The operator has the ability to control maximum ground speed through the use of virtual gears to provide flexibility in various machine applications.
The engine can be controlled to operate more efficiently over a wide range of conditions. During deceleration, machine momentum can be recovered as free energy to power implements or the cooling fan, while significantly lower working engine speeds result in reduced soot build-up for longer regeneration intervals, cutting fuel use further.
The 966K XE has just two pedals with reduced operating interface/mode complexity. In addition, the operator is free to concentrate on bucket fill and digging capabilities without the need for manual shifting. The operator can confidently utilize the machine while the integral power system control prevents engine over-speeding and makes it nearly impossible to stall the engine while digging.
When engaging the stockpile or quarry face the machine automatically reduces speed under full power, without the need for manual downshifting. Smooth and efficient directional changes reduce tire wear, without the need for operator input. In addition, releasing the pedals on a grade does not result in rollback, providing greater control for the operator.
As with the 966K, the 966K XE benefits from a comfortable and productive operator station and the left and right-hand sliding windows can be opened and closed while seated. A standard rear-view camera with large color monitor enhances visibility to the back of the machine.
A new low-effort electro-hydraulic joystick steering system is standard. Joystick steering permits operators to work in the most ergonomically neutral position with both arms resting comfortably on wide, well-padded, adjustable armrests. A high-backed seat with lumbar support further enhances ergonomics. The Cat joystick steering system has an exclusive force-feedback feature that automatically increases joystick effort as ground speed increases. This improves steering control and comfort, especially at higher speeds. The joystick moves side to side; its angle mirrors the machine's articulation angle.
The engine runs at the most efficient speeds to reduce fuel consumption, which could lead to extended engine life. Furthermore, integrated retarding and modulated torque control could also result in increased tire and brake life.
The 966K XE will be available in North America in the first quarter of 2013.
For more information on the Cat 966 XE, contact your Cat dealer.
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Sixaxis Compatibility Checker
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This is the companion application to Sixaxis Controller and allows you to check whether your device is compatible with the following controllers before purchasing the full application on Google Play:
PlayStation 3:
Sixaxis Controller
DualShock 3 Wireless Controller
PlayStation Move Navigation Controller
PlayStation 4:
DualShock 4 Wireless Controller (If pairing on a PC, you must use SixaxisPairTool 0.3.0+)
- ROOT access is required!!!
- Internet permission is required only for gathering basic device compatibility info to improve future support.
- Due to the way pairing is done with the controllers, you need to manually pair your controller with the PC utility 'SixaxisPairTool' (available on the website) and a mini-USB cable. Android 3.1+ users can also pair directly on their devices via USB.
- It is highly recommended that you use an ORIGINAL controller. Many after market controllers will not work. If you get a 'Client connected: 1' message, but the lights on your controller continue to flash, it is almost certainly not an original Sony controller.
- The fake controllers that are most likely to work (though not guaranteed) are those made by Gasia. If you bought a fake that works but isn't made by Gasia, I'd love to hear from you so I can compile a list of known working controllers.
- Be sure to read the instructions in the help menu carefully.
This product is not affiliated with, nor authorized, endorsed or licensed in any way by Sony Corporation, its affiliates or subsidiaries. All trademarks are property of their respective holders.
For assistance, full instructions and FAQ, visit our website at http://www.dancingpixelstudios.com
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Failure and Success: True Service
…not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ. –Colossians 3:22-24
Any serious-minded Christian may at some time find himself wondering whether the service he is giving to God is the best it could be. He may even have times of doubting, and fear that his toil is fruitless and his life empty….
The church has marked out certain work and approved it as service acceptable to God, and for the most part the church has been right. But it should be kept in mind that it is not the kind or quantity of work that makes it true service-it is the quality.
Before the judgment seat of Christ, very little will be heard of numbers or size; moral quality is about all that will matter then….
It would be a shock to most of us to learn just what God thinks of our breathless activity, and a greater shock to many to find out the true quality of our service as God sees it. For not all religious activity is accepted of God, not even when it appears to produce results and get things done. The Lord seeth not as man seeth….
In Christian service motive is everything, for it is motive that gives to every moral act its final quality. The Next Chapter After the Last, 69-70.
"Lord, I need that reminder: 'Before the judgment seat of Christ, very little will be heard of numbers or size; moral quality is about all that will matter then.' I'll serve today with that in mind. Amen."
Reprinted from Tozer on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer, copyright © 2001 by Zur Ltd. Used by permission of WingSpread Publishers, a division of Zur Ltd.
Tozer on Christian Leadership is protected by copyright and may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way.
Tozer on Christian Leadership was compiled by Ron Eggert.


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CentOS developer Karanbir Singh has announced the availability of CentOS 6.0 for download.
CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a Linux-based operating system that is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unlike RHEL, it is a community project but, like RHEL, its target users are the enterprise users. One of the best feature of CentOS is its 100% binary compatibility with RHEL. CentOS is completely free and is very popular on servers.
CentOS 6.0 is based on RHEL 6.0 which was released in November last year. The amount of time it took for CentOS 6.0 to be released is a bit surprising as the earlier releases usually follows the RHEL releases closely.
CentOS 6.0 is not an exact clone of RHEL 6.0; it contains some packages that have been modified and some that have been removed. You can see the complete list of these packages in the release note.
Red Hat had already released RHEL 6.0. So, Karanbir Singh said that they will port all the security updates from RHEL 6.1 to CentOS 6.0 users until CentOS 6.1 is released.
Since upstream has a 6.1 version already released, we will be using a Continous Release repository for 6.0 to bring all 6.1 and post 6.1 security updates to all 6.0 users, till such time as CentOS-6.1 is released itself. There will be more details about this posted within the next 48 hours.
Download CentOS 6.0
CentOS 6.0 is available for i386 and x86_64 architectures ( or in more simple terms 32 bit and 64 bit).
You can download it from the list of mirrors from this page.
Before installing, please make sure that you have at least 392 MB of RAM as the installer will not run if it is lower. If you need a the GUI based installer, you need to have at least 652 MB of RAM.


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Spiced donuts made with apple cider and apple butter, then filled with sweet-salty caramel.
Apple cider, apple butter, and warm spices bring cozy autumnal flavors to these donuts. Fill them with salty-sweet caramel for a fun play on caramel apples. Special equipment: You will need a 2-1/2-inch round cutter to stamp out the dough rounds.... Read More
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Mayor's Office
With the City's first big snowstorm of the year possible, Mayor Beutler reminds residents that their cooperation is needed to remove vehicles from the streets to allow for snow removal efforts. Three types of parking bans may be issued:
To assist downtown residents during snow removal district parking bans, City Parking Services will offer free overnight parking at Center Park Garage, 1100 "N" St. The service is being offered in an effort to reduce citations and towed vehicles in the downtown area during parking bans. The service will be offered from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. when the City is under a snow removal district parking ban. Customers will be charged for any time beyond the nine hours at the posted garage rate. Vehicles that remain in the facility past 10 a.m will be charged for the entire time the vehicle was in the facility.
The City Parks and Recreation Department also clears lots and facilities throughout the community for residents to use during parking bans. A list follows this release. Residents also may contact the nearest library or church to find out if any additional temporary parking facilities are available during snow operations.
Vehicles parked illegally during parking bans are subject to fines, towing and storage costs at the owners' expense. Vehicles parked in a way that does not allow emergency vehicles to pass may be ticketed for obstructing a public street.
Information on snow operations is available on the City website, lincoln.ne.gov and through local news media and government access cable channels 5 and 10. Residents can sign up on the City website to be notified of snow operations through RSS feeds. They also can sign up to be notified through Twitter at twitter.com/lincolnsnow. A Twitter account is not necessary to receive SMS alerts - text follow lincolnsnow to 40404 (standard text messaging rates apply).
The City began the winter with about $3.83 million available for snow operations. Since September 1, 2011, the City has spent about $1 million of the snow operations budget on a combination of preparation activities, materials and snow operations during several small storms.
Last winter, the City tested a "belly plow," which is attached under a snow removal truck. While the regular plow on the front end of the truck pushes the snow, the belly plow acts as a grader to remove packed snow. The cost to add belly plows to trucks is a fraction of the cost of a grader.
This winter, the City has replaced four older trucks with new trucks, and two of those are equipped with the standard front plows and with belly plows. The other two are equipped with front plows, belly plows and "wing plows." Wing plows allow equipment to plow two lanes of traffic with one pass.
The City reminds residents that it is illegal to push or blow snow into or on any street, alley or sidewalk. When clearing sidewalks, residents should also clear wheelchair ramps, curb cuts and access to fire hydrants.
To find out about parking bans and snow removal operations, the public can call the City Snow Center at 402-441-7644. The public should report street condition emergencies immediately by calling 402-441-7701. To report non-emergency situations and potholes, the public can call 402-441-7646.
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Le Horse Palace
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Directed by: Nadine Gomez
Running time: 68 minutes
Parental guidance: for all.
Opens Friday, March 15 in English and French with French subtitles at: Excentris cinema.
MONTREAL - You know those horse-drawn carriages in Old Montreal? Ever wonder where they go at night? Nadine Gomez finds the answer, and comes up with a few other pressing questions in her documentary Le Horse Palace.
Such as: How do we, as a city, connect to our past? What's the difference/distance between a stable and a condo? And how much do we value our heritage?
Gomez was cycling along the Lachine Canal one night, a few years back, when she came upon a stunning sight.
"I crossed paths with a man walking a horse," she said. "He was leading it by the reins. It was like something from another era, especially being on the canal — it was a trip back in time."
When she got home that evening, she did some research and discovered that there was a stable in Griffintown called the Horse Palace.
Gomez has a BA in journalism, and a master's in communications from UQÀM; for the latter, she studied comparisons between journalism and architecture. While she had always wanted to venture into cinema, she had never dared consider it seriously. But at the moment of that discovery, something changed.
"I had a flash," she said. "I thought, 'This is crazy — I have to talk about this.' The next morning, I got on my bike, went down to the Horse Palace and decided to make a film."
Slow-paced yet evocative, Gomez's documentary draws us into the world of Montreal's longest-running stable, built in 1862. It doesn't look like much — a hay-covered courtyard, a few ramshackle stalls and a cramped barn area in the heart of the fast-changing Griffintown neighbourhood.
Condos are springing up on all sides of the Horse Palace. Holding the fort is owner Leo Leonard, a kindly, soft-spoken old man with the memory of an elephant. On screen, he recalls the days when horses were one of the main ways people got around, transported materials and toured the city, back when Griffintown was still a working-class Irish neighbourhood.
"He had a restrained charisma," Gomez said of her subject. "In his look and way of saying things, he emanated something likable. He had so many stories. We couldn't include them all, due to the structure of the film, but he was very open with his time and his trust."
Life is transforming irrevocably at the Horse Palace. The film shows Leonard and his wife, Huguette, dealing with old age, the stable slowly crumbling, and the surrounding neighbourhood in the midst of full-on gentrification.
"I went yesterday," Gomez said. "It has changed so much. There are condos built all around. The stable is walled in — what's left of it. The sheds are on the ground, waiting to be restored. The city bought the property where the horses are kept, so that has stopped the construction. But everything is fragmented; it's not clear where things are headed."
Leonard died in July, a week after Gomez finished editing her film. But though he never got to see it, we get to see him, on screen. Hopefully, his stable will stick around for a while longer. His — and our — legacy depends on it.
"We are our city," Gomez said. "How we create our collective memory is very important. … Society has to remember what it is made of, in order to move forward."
Le Horse Palace also screens in English and French, with English subtitles, Wednesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. at Centre culturel Georges Vanier, 2450 Workman St., 514-931-2248; and March 23 at 7 p.m. at PHI Centre, 407 St. Pierre St., 514-225-0525.
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According to a listing description of this newly constructed mansion in Sagaponack, New York, "who needs Downton Abbey when there is this 8,409 square-foot residence," reports Curbed. That might be a stretch, but the price reflects that of a castle--the 3.65-acre estate is set at $23 million. That gets you nine bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a tennis court, swimming pool, pool house, and the satisfaction of telling Robert Crawley that his digs aren't that impressive after all.
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A mud room connects the kitchen, three-car garage, front and back entrances, laundry, powder room and back staircase. Sunlight spills into the sprawling second floor master suite, which includes a roof deck.
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I've hinted for a little while that I was going to start a series of posts talking about the various benefits of using an EHR. I think this is an important subject worth discussing in greater detail. I hope that this series of posts will also help us move past meaningful use of an EHR for the government EHR money and explore all the other reasons why healthcare should fully adopt an EHR.
Back when I first started blogging about EMR software (It was 2005, before the term EHR came to be), I made this list of EMR and EHR benefits over paper charts. I'll be using that list as the starting point for this series of EHR Benefit posts. I love the first paragraph on that page (which I likely haven't touched since 2005):
This list is just a starting point to list off all the possible benefits of having an EMR or EHR. Probably a poor one, but a start nonetheless. My plan is for this list to grow over time as I think of new benefits or as people suggest things I've most certainly missed. Also, I think that most people often focus too much on the financial benefits of an EMR and so hopefully this list will include financial and other benefits beyond the financial implications.
The list definitely did grow, but I guess I never got around to updating the intro paragraph. Although, I am pleased to see that even back in 2005 I was as interested in the non-financial benefits of EHR. Certainly the financial benefits of EHR are incredibly important, but far too many people don't take into account the other non-financial benefits in their analysis of EHR benefits. It's just too hard for many to try and compare or put a value on the non-financial benefits of EHR. We'll try to point these benefits out just the same.
Now for the first EHR benefit on the list:
Legibility of Notes
I'm really glad to start with an EHR benefit that everyone can understand with little explanation. Poor medical handwriting has been a running challenge in healthcare for as long as we've been documenting patient visits. I did a quick search on Google for "write like a doctor" and it had about 321 million results. That's quite pervasive.
I can't think of anyone that would argue that healthcare doesn't have a challenge reading physician's handwriting. No doubt there are plenty of exceptions to this, but even those with beautiful handwriting still have to read other doctors' handwriting from their own office or from other doctors' notes that get sent to their office. It's great to have the notes, but if you can't read them then what's the point.
While certainly illegible handwriting is a major problem in the office, it also extends outside the office as well. Think of all the times pharmacists have had to call a doctor to clarify the prescription a patient brought in. Even worse than that is the number of times the pharmacist misread a script because a doctor's handwriting is illegible. This becomes a non-issue in an electronic world where the prescription is either printed or ePrescribed.
Of course, none of this is new territory. Every doctor understands these benefits better than I've explained here. However, far too often when we think about implementing an EHR, we forget about these simple and easy to understand benefits. How much time is saved in your clinic by being able to read the handwriting in the chart? How much time is saved in healthcare when referrals come in an easy to read, legible format? How much time and how many lives are saved by pharmacists getting the proper prescription to the patient? All of these are hard measures to quantify, but they are real, tangible benefits of an EHR.
I won't mislead you into thinking the shift from paper charts to EHR solves all the legibility problems. Many template driven EHR software that creates a mass of mostly irrelevant data can be just as hard to decipher as the hieroglyphic handwriting of some doctors. However, I've seen a tidal wave of push back against these documentation approaches and I think we're getting better. I think the shift to quality of care reimbursement versus procedure based reimbursement will help this to go away as well.
There are other things a clinic leaves behind with paper charts. I've heard many tell me how many times they looked at the handwriting to recognize who had documented something in a paper chart. Certainly that same info is available in an EHR, but you do lose the instant recognition of who charted what in the chart.
Despite not being able to put a nice dollar value on the Legibility of Notes, it's certainly an EHR benefit that can't be forgotten. It's very easy to adopt an EHR and take this for granted.


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V.P. Biden featured guest at Harkin Steak Fry
Vice President Joe Biden will be in Indianola Sunday for the 36th annual Harkin Steak Fry.
Featured guests include Biden and San Antonio Mary Julian Castro.
"This year's featured guests are the true embodiment of the American Dream. They both achieved it through hard work and perseverance and they both understand why we must make the economy work for the middle class," said Senator Harkin. "Ruth and I look forward to hosting both of these dynamic guests and hearing their thoughts on the political landscape at this year's event."
First held on a farm in Madison County, the Harkin Steak Fry has become a signature political event in Iowa. Past special guests have included Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Senator Al Franken and all of the major Democratic presidential candidates in 2003 and 2007.
Please join us at the Warren County Fairgrounds, in Indianola, Iowa on Sunday, September 15, 2013.
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Charleston Area Medical Center's Cardiac Rehabilitation program is a comprehensive physician-supervised program designed to assist people in recovering from the effects of heart disease. It involves the work of a team made up of nurses, exercise physiologists, a dietitian, psychologist and several support staff. Through group and individual education, counseling and exercise people learn how to live life to the fullest and minimize the risk of future heart problems.
You can benefit from cardiac rehabilitation if you:
A registered dietitian prescribes personalized dietary plans and follow up counseling for each participant. A psychologist provides group education and is available for individual or family counseling on coping with lifestyle changes. Nurses and exercise physiologists provide personalized exercise regimens and ensure a safe exercise environment for all participants. Daily education classes are provided between exercise classes.
The adult lifestyle modification program concentrates on reconditioning and improving physical work capacity through a variety of prescribed exercises closely supervised by registered nurses and exercise physiologists.
Participants attend exercise class three times per week for up to 12 weeks. Each participant's exercise program and behavioral goals are individually prescribed and contracted. Each week, exercise prescriptions are updated and behavioral goals are assessed. Periodic progress reports are shared with the participant and his or her physician. Participants attend education classes each day that are offered between exercise classes. The class topics are chosen to help participants make heart healthy lifestyle changes.
The adult fitness program assists in the maintenance of physical conditioning and behavioral changes in a supportive group environment. Exercise physiologists provide close supervision, with the participant taking an active self-care role. The exercise prescription and behavioral goals are updated regularly. Reports are shared with the participants and their physicians.
Exercise equipment available includes treadmills, stationary bicycles, air-dyne bicycles, Nu-Step recumbent steppers, rowing machines, Stairmasters, cross-country skiing machines and resistance training.
Education and progressive walking during the acute hospital phase is offered at CAMC Memorial Hospital. The program begins as soon as the patient is stable following heart surgery, balloon catheter procedure (angioplasty) or a heart attack. Patients work through a series of motion and flexibility exercises and are educated about their disease and how their habits need to be modified. Family and spouse participation is encouraged. A multi-disciplinary team approach is used to optimize services to meet the individual patient's needs. The goals of the inpatient program are to:
Exercise tolerance testing (stress testing) is strongly recommended prior to beginning an outpatient program. Non-nuclear exercise tolerance testing services are provided by cardiac rehab exercise physiologists on either an outpatient or inpatient basis. The American College of Sports Medicine's recommendations and protocols are followed.
Transtelephonic EKG monitoring is provided for either diagnostic, evaluative or exercise services. Patients with dizziness, fainting episodes or heart palpitations can benefit from using the device to record their heart rhythm when symptoms occur. Patients with permanently implanted devices can use the monitor to evaluate how well their device is working. Transmissions are received by exercise physiologists who then send them on to the appropriate physicians.
Head up tilt table testing is done to assist your doctor in determining the cause of episodes of dizziness, loss of consciousness or near loss of consciousness. The test is done by a registered nurse with continuous EKG monitoring and frequent blood pressure monitoring.
ECP therapy is a clinically proven, non-invasive treatment option available to patients with angina or congestive heart failure (CHF). It is primarily used in patients that have been unresponsive to other therapies, in order to relieve discomfort and improve quality of life. It is a simple and comfortable procedure. The patient relaxes on a comfortably padded mattress while a trained therapist wraps the muscular areas of the patient's calves, thighs and buttocks with pneumatic cuffs, similar to blood pressure cuffs. Hoses connect the cuffs to an air pressure/vacuum pump enclosed within the base. The cuffs then inflate and deflate in synchronization with the individual's heart rhythm. A typical course of treatment requires 35 one-hour sessions administered once daily, five days a week, for seven weeks. ECP therapy has demonstrated success in over 80 percent of patients treated, with significant improvement in relief of angina, increased endurance and reduced dependence on medication.
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Robin Gibb loses battle with cancer
ROBIN Gibb, co-founder of the Bee Gees, has died after a long battle with cancer at age 62.
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(Lenexa, Kan., Oct. 23, 2013) - A pesticide producer in Kansas and pesticide registrant in Illinois have agreed to pay civil penalties totaling $96,640 to settle allegations related to their roles in the distribution of misbranded pesticides in violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
In October 2011, the Missouri Department of Agriculture conducted an inspection of the American Chemical Systems II, Inc. facility located in Springfield, Mo. In January 2012, the Kansas Department of Agriculture conducted an inspection of the American Chemical Systems II, Inc. facility located in Wichita, Kan. The agencies conducted the inspections to determine the FIFRA compliance status of American Chemical Systems II, Inc., a supplemental distributor of Mason Chemical Company.
The results of the inspections show that American Chemical Systems was holding for sale or distribution a quantity of the misbranded pesticide "Maquat-705M," under the product name "ACS Dual Q," in its Springfield, Mo., and Wichita, Kan., facilities. The pesticides were misbranded because the product labels included a statement regarding use in meat and poultry processing plants, but did not include any instructions for use in food processing locations. Mason Chemical Company was the registrant of the pesticide, and under federal regulations was liable for the violations as well. American Chemical Systems also produced other pesticides unrelated to Mason Chemical Company, and at the time of the inspections held three additional unregistered and misbranded pesticides for sale or distribution.
Mason Chemical Company's civil penalty is $85,640 and American Chemical Systems civil penalty is $11,000. EPA calculates penalties on a variety of factors, including risk to the environment, size of the business, and ability to pay.
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CES Bought a Creative Vado or Flip Ultra recently? We hope you kept the receipt because Sony is about to enter the YouTube camcorder market like a bull entering a china shop.
Just released in the US is the $199 (£132/€148) CM1 Webbie HD mini camcorder complete with 2.5in LCD screen, H.264 video recording at 1440 x 1080, 1280 x 720 or 640 x 480 - all at 30f/s - a five-megapixel stills camera, and a 5x optical and 20x digital zoom. The device weighs a featherlight 210g and measures up at 105 x 61 x 43mm.
Sony's Webbie HD PM1: watch out, Flip
Coming in March will be the $169 PM1 - also called the Webbie HD, and, yes, we think it's a rather silly name too - which shares the CM1's basic technical specification but lacks the optical zoom, making do with only a 4x digital zoom and a 1.8in LCD screen. In the plus column, the PM1's screen can be swivelled up or down through a 270° arc.
The PM1 weighs 120g and measures up at 103 x 55 x 24mm, putting it in direct competition with the pocket videocams from the likes of Creative and Flip.
Neither device comes with anything in the way of internal storage, but you do get a Memory Stick slot good for 16GB.
The CM1's for folk who prefer something more like a regular camcorder
After a brief fondle with each device at Sony's CES stand, all we can really say is that while neither device is a blindingly simple to use as either the Flip or the Vado, they both feel far more like proper video cameras than toys, which is effectively what the Vado and Flip are, their decidedly untoy-like price points not withstanding.
The CM1 is powered by a rechargeable battery, while the PM1 uses a regular AA. Each device comes loaded with basic image manipulation and upload software so sending content to YouTube and the like should be as simple as falling off something very slippery.
Both devices will be available in silver, orange and... er... "eggplant" - that's purplish blue to those of us who speak English.
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Submissions take center stage in this week's double feature of HDNet Fights Video Vault.
Both clips in our fight-of-the-week feature come from the recent
HDNet-televised "King of the Cage: No Mercy" event in Connecticut.
One pits longtime KOTC veteran Donald Sanchez (20-10) against undefeated
featherweight Pat McGreal (5-0) while fast-rising Myles Jury (8-0)
takes on fellow undefeated welterweight prospect Sam Oropeza (4-0).
Each week HDNet and MMAjunkie.com release a new and exclusive fight
from the ever-growing HDNet Fights video library. Stunning knockouts,
slick submissions, shocking finishes and legendary brawls are the norm
for this weekly feature.
And Sanchez vs. McGreal and Jury vs. Oropeza are no exceptions.
So what makes these two fights so similar? Why are they featured attractions this week?
Check out the embedded clip for the answer.
Each week MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) and HDNet Fights (www.hdnetfights.com) team up for "HDNet Fights Video Vault," which offers a new and unique video from the organization's ever-growing fight library. The weekly feature is a continuation of a long-standing partnership between MMAjunkie.com and HDNet. For more information on HDNet, which broadcasts more MMA events than any other TV outlet, visit www.hd.net.


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Around 700 members of Team USA will travel to this summer's Olympic Games in London. For the first time, crates full of paper medical records won't be going with them.
The U.S. Olympic Committee is digitizing health records this month for the athletes who will be competing in London, as well as for about 3,000 other athletes who have been seen by USOC doctors in recent years. Some say this step is a sign that electronic medical records have made it to the big time.
According to Bill Moreau, managing director of sports medicine, the USOC decided to transition from paper once it saw that electronic records had the agility to deal with the unique needs of Olympic athletes.
"Our patient population is probably -- next to the military -- the most mobile population of any group in the world," Moreau said. "Our athletes are on different continents in the same week." An Olympian might be practicing in the U.S. one day and competing in Europe or South America the next.
And even when they are at home, tracking athletes' health as they train is no easy task. "They're seen at different clinics that are geographically dispersed across the United States, from Lake Placid in upstate New York, to Colorado Springs, to Chula Vista, which is in San Diego," Moreau added.
Transporting the reams of information has become a particular burden for the USOC. Previously, the committee had to gather and ship its records to each Olympic host city and didn't have access to athletes' health information for days at a time.
The paper-records approach also created challenges for care coordination. The average Olympian has eight different clinicians involved in care, according to Moreau, and about half of the athletes aren't in constant contact with the USOC and its healthcare providers.
Meanwhile, some athletes, including swimmers, still are in the midst of qualifying events. Once those are completed, and team members are selected, the USOC will have to quickly gather health information from both athletes it expected to travel to London, and others who were surprises. An electronic system should make that process faster.
According to Jim Corrigan, vice president and general manager of GE Healthcare IT -- which created the committee's system – members of Team USA will have their paper records digitally scanned or added manually to the collection. GE's program, called Centricity Practice Solution, is already used by more than 40,000 providers in the U.S., but it will be customized to better meet the challenges presented by athletes.
The new system will give USOC medical providers a better overall sense of athletes' readiness for competition, Moreau said. Records will include more thorough monitoring of blood hemoglobin, which is important for performance, as well as immunizations, for athletes' frequent travel. The USOC will also have specialized forms for injury reports at the Games, and the system will ask for more details than it would ask the average patient.
"There are many variables we want to track to make sure Team USA is ready to go," Moreau said.
Electronic records will enable USOC doctors to be much more efficient in emergencies, he added. For example, if women soccer players are injured during the games they'll play in Scotland, physicians can quickly transmit an X-ray and other information to specialists back in London, or elsewhere. According to Corrigan, providers will also have access to the health records via iPad or other mobile technology.
"For physicians -- whether they take care of athletes or our friends or family -- having the right info at the right time can be critical," Corrigan said.
This article, which first appeared June 13, 2012, was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It was produced in collaboration with The Washington Post. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.


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Margaret M. Fraser 1926-2014
ALGONA A graveside service for Margaret M. Fraser was held Wednesday, Feb. 5, at Riverview Cemetery, Algona, with the Rev. Joseph Seifert of Trinity Lutheran Church officiating.
Margaret May Fraser was born May 14, 1926, in Greene County, IA, daughter of George E. and Norma Ruth (Godden) Wildin. She grew up in Kossuth County attending country school and Algona High School.
Margaret was married to Ronald William Fraser on Oct. 20, 1946, in Fairmont, MN. She raised her family on a farm near Cylinder and returned to Algona where she worked at Good Samaritan Nursing Home until her retirement in the early '80s. She enjoyed reading, gardening, cats, and puzzles. She also enjoyed garage sales, playing board and card games, and she especially loved being with her family.
Margaret M. Fraser died Saturday, Feb. 1, 2013 at Kossuth Regional Health Center, Algona, at the age of 87.
She is survived by eight children, Rose (Rod) Culbertson of Creston, Ginny (Ray) Friedrich of Algona, Edward Fraser of Algona, Russ Fraser and his friend Mindy Henning of Forest City, Rita (Gary) Whetzal of Virginia Beach, VA, Joanne Fraser of Algona, Steve Fraser of Albert Lea, MN and Don Fraser of Kiester, MN; 19 grandchildren; and 30 great-grand- children. She is also survived by three brothers, Jim (Noreen) Wildin of Austin, TX, David (Marsha) Wildin of Algona, and Roger Wildin of Algona; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her daughter Kathy Fraser; and two great-grandchildren, Luke and Marissa.
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Each year at the Bloomington Gold Corvette show attendees have the opportunity to increase their Corvette knowledge in a variety of areas in the GoldSchool. This year they've revamped the program slightly and will hold all of the classes on Friday June 28th. Click past the break for a complete rundown of the classes available this year.
The sessions at the Bloomington Gold GoldSchool this year are broken down into 2 sections: Seminars at $75 each and hands-on Workshops at $150 each. Classes are taught by the biggest names in the Corvette hobby including Lance Miller, Kevin Mackay, Terry Michaelis, and David Burroughs among numerous others.
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We're keen to curate the best WordPress-flavored screencasts, videos and WordCamp presentations here at WordPress.tv.
Over time we hope to start adding all kinds of video content from members of the WordPress.com and WordPress.org communities. If you've thought about putting screencasts together yourself but aren't sure where to start, check out some of the links below:
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Beth Kanter's excellent Introduction to Screencasting offers you everything from examples of different types of screencasts, to pointers for resources on the how, why and what of screencasting. If you read one article, this should be it.
Better yet, check out Beth's excellent Screencasting Primer wiki which is a very comprehensive guide to all things screencasting
For up-to-the-minute news on all things screencasting, be sure to check out Scrast.net
John Udell – the daddy of screencasting – gives a great breakdown of the screencasting genre in his article – "what is screencasting". He also provides some very cool ideas as to variations on the typical step-by-step app capture format
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Mac users might want to check out this screencasting app faceoff from TUAW
For a comprehensive comparison of screencasting applications, be sure to check Robin Good's breakdown at Master New Media – one of many articles you'll find there about screencasting.
If you're looking for a comprehensive list of screencasting applications, Wikipedia has one for you to check out.
If you prefer to learn about screencasting via screencasts, you could do a lot worse than checking out ShowMeDo, which features useful screencasts on making screencasts on the mac, linux and windows platforms
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The new National Stadium will have to rock you
The old National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo closed down at the end of May with a big sendoff: two days of star-packed concerts in front of a capacity crowd. As everyone knows, the venue is being torn down to make way for an even bigger structure for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, an endeavor that continues to court controversy due to its projected size and cost, not to mention what it will likely do to the neighborhood around it.
Originally, the estimate for the new stadium was ¥300 billion, but mysteriously this figure was decreased to ¥169 billion just prior to the final bid. According to Professor Tomoyuki Suzuki, who was in charge of preparing Tokyo's unsuccessful bid for the 2016 Games, construction costs for public facilities always end up rising over time, but neither the 2020 Tokyo bid organization nor the Japan Olympic Committee has ever explained that bit of conventional wisdom to the public. He told Tokyo Shimbun last April that the estimate was simply based on a number "that was most likely to be accepted."
There is also the question of what to do with the stadium after the Olympics. The JOC is predicting that it will show a surplus of ¥400 million a year, but as Suzuki points out, this projection is based on the premise that the stadium will host 12 major pop concerts a year, and that, he believes, is impossible, unless the stadium foregoes sporting events, which is what it's being built for in the first place.
The main problem with using stadiums for concerts, especially stadiums that hold field events like soccer, is that the playing surfaces are used for seating, which has a tendency to destroy the grass. Suzuki cites Ajinomoto Stadium in Western Tokyo, which is the home field of the FC Tokyo soccer team. In 2008, the stadium operators rented the facility to a promoter who held a rock concert attended by almost 80,000 people. Despite FC Tokyo's protests, the concert went ahead, and afterwards the stadium had to spend "tens of millions of yen" to change the grass on the entire field in time for an FC Tokyo match.


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Philip Mazzei (1730-1816), an influential early American statesman, was born in Poggio a Caiano, near Florence, Italy. He was known for his unusual interests and unique occupations. He studied classical Latin and Italian literatures as well as agronomy (the science of soil management and crop production). He was a licensed physician, an author, a teacher, an importer of olive oil, wine, and cheese, and a renowned world traveler—legend has it that a Turkish sultan's smitten daughter once made an offer to purchase the young Mazzei.
In 1756 he moved to London, where he met founding father Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), who persuaded Mazzei to move to the United States. With his wife, daughter, and a team of 12 Tuscan farmers, Mazzei settled in Virginia in 1773 and started an experimental wine and grape vineyard. After this short-lived career, Mazzei became involved with the American Revolution. He was influential in helping his neighbor Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and it has been said that Mazzei coined the phrase "all men are created equal." In 1792 Mazzei retired to Italy, where he spent the rest of his life gardening and recruiting Italian sculptors for the United States Capitol.
Bounded by Mace Avenue and Williamsbridge Road, and adjacent to P.S. 89 and Williamsbridge Middle School, this site was assigned to Parks by the Board of Estimate on August 17, 1948. The playground, paid for by the New York City Housing Authority, was the 538th playground in the park system when it opened on November 24, 1950. At the time, the playground featured four handball courts, a comfort station, a flagpole, a wading pool, and a large, paved surface that could be used as either a basketball court or a softball diamond.
The playground was originally known as Pelham Parkway Houses Playground, after the nearby housing project named for the Bronx and Pelham Parkway. Two-and-one-half miles long and as wide as a city block, the parkway was constructed as a result of 1884's New Parks Act, which purchased the land that would later become Van Cortlandt, Bronx, Crotona, Claremont, St. Mary's, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Crotona, and Bronx and Pelham Parkways. Today, the parkway serves as a conduit between two of the Bronx's largest parks, connecting with Bronx Park at Boston Road on the west and with Pelham Bay Park on the east.
Mace Avenue is named after Levi Hamilton Mace (1825-1896), an early 19th century Bronxite. Mace owned a refrigeration factory at East 150th Street and the Harlem River, and served as president of District 2's Department of Education for 26 years. Williamsbridge Road was once a Native American footpath. Later, a local farmer named John Williams would leave his name to the road, as well as to a nearby bridge spanning the Bronx River, and a park (Williamsbridge Oval).
The last two decades have brought several notable changes to the playground. In 1980, a Local Law renamed the Pelham Parkway Houses Playground in Mazzei's honor, and on May 1, 1981, a 48-inch diameter steel and granite flagstaff dedicated to Mazzei was donated by the Columbus Esca Alliance, Inc. In 2000, a renovation paid for with funds allocated by the City Council gave the playground new swings and play equipment, a seven-foot-tall steel picket fence, new pavement, safety surfacing, security lighting, new benches and picnic tables, and a wide array of lush greenery. London plane trees and honey locusts were added to the playground. Numerous shrubs, including bayberry and witch hazel were also planted, along with reed grass and lily turf.


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Sunday Night Football analysts Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison were asked the same question. Would you pick Tom Brady or Peyton Manning to quarterback your team?
"I think that's going to be pretty easy to answer for both of us," Dungy said during a conference call this week.
Dungy was correct and believe it or not, neither picked Brady.
"If I had one game to win," Dungy said, "with any of the quarterbacks I've been around in my NFL career, I'd want to have Peyton Manning."
Considering Dungy coached Manning for eight years and won a Super Bowl with him, it should come as no surprise that he chose Manning, but Harrison played on two of Brady's three Super Bowl championship teams with New England. Then again, he's never been afraid to criticize the Pats since he became an analyst.
"I think Peyton has been so unfairly judged," Harrison explained, "because he didn't really have that great defense over the years like Tom. Tom had a lot of veteran players, a lot of really good defenses where if he didn't play particularly well, he knew that he had a defense with a lot of veteran players that could save him, whereas Peyton really didn't have that advantage. If Peyton was on our team, I think we could have easily won three Super Bowls, no doubt about it."
On Sunday night, Manning and the 9-1 Broncos will visit Brady and the 7-3 Patriots at Gillette Stadium on NBC.
Brady is 9-4, including 2-1 in the postseason, against Manning, but Manning owns far better stats than Brady this season, including throwing for 34 touchdowns with six interceptions compared to Brady's 14 TDs and seven picks. Some of Brady's drop-off this season can be attributed to growing accustomed to a new receiving corps, but Harrison points elsewhere.
"When they look at the film," Harrison said of the Broncos, "and they see the Patriots' offensive line they should be smiling because that offensive line, they're not very good right now. A lot of injuries, some new guys playing, just not very good. You can see it in Tom."
Harrison said he and Dungy have talked throughout the first half of the season about how "unstable and unsettled" Brady looked behind his offensive line.
"I think it has a huge part in the fact that Tom, he's struggled," Harrison said. "This is probably the worst I've seen him play and the last couple of weeks have been better, but probably the worst I've seen him play in the 10 years I've known Tom."
Nevertheless, Harrison still doesn't believe any other quarterbacks compare to Manning and Brady.
"It would be hard to me," Harrison said, "to see another rivalry like this, two guys so special, great teammates on and off the field and great ambassadors for the NFL."
Harrison rates Manning and Brady similar in their quick releases and the ability to find the open receiver, but he labeled Manning as "maybe a little more of a brainiac than Brady."
Sunday night should be one of the most watched NFL games of the season.
Harrison went so far as to predict that it would be the most watched NFL game ever on NBC, apparently forgetting that NBC has televised quite a few Super Bowls.
Harrison was known for his physical play, some would say cheap shots, as a safety, but he thought Pats cornerback Aqib Talib lost his cool when he grabbed the leg of Carolina receiver Steve Smith and wouldn't let go last Monday.
"I knew it was over for him," Harrison said. "First thing when that happened, I looked at my brother and said this is the wrong guy. Steve Smith, he lives for this. When you elevate Steve Smith's game by trying to out-physical him — I played against him in the Super Bowl — you can't. You can't intimidate him He's one of the toughest guys to ever put on a football uniform at any position.
"He's a veteran player. He knows how to get in your head. He's going to irk you and he's going to edge you on all game long. And I just thought he (Talib) lost his composure and ultimately it hurt the team."
Wes Welker, who leads the Broncos in receptions after years of being Brady's favorite receiver, will face his first team for the first time if he's cleared after suffering a concussion last week.
"As much as we focus on his production on the field," Harrison said, "I think the thing that really makes him great and really has elevated his career is his willingness to learn the system and learn his quarterback."
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