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Whether sun gave up spotlet?I can't download the *CLDC_Overlay.zip which contains KVM.prc & KVMutil.prc and kjava package from the Java website.But I downloaded a MIDP4Palm,Does the MIDP.prc replace the KVM.prc&KVMUtil.prc?
Whether Sun no longer supports the Spotlet(kjava)?
Thanks!
Re: Sun gave up spotlet?
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Yes, MIDP.prc replaces KVM.prc and KVMUtil.prc.
So use MIDP4Palm and start coding. Also, watch for the upcoming PDAP which will provide more functionality for PDA developmnt such as more commuications support (serial & beaming) and higher level (think AWT) GUI support.
Dave
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May 13, 2004
Multi-Million Dollar Gifts to Aid Scholars and Mother and Infant Mortality Prevention
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has received two multi-million dollar commitments. One is to support students studying at the School, and the second is to support research activities to prevent blindness, and mother and infant mortality in the developing world. Both gifts were announced on April 23 during the School’s rededication ceremony.
The scholar aid comes from an anonymous donor who committed $22 million over the next 10 years. The gift will support the studies of master’s and doctoral students. At the request of the donor, students who receive the funds will be known as Sommer Scholars in honor of Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS, dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, who is a long-time advocate for student financial support.
The School will also receive a multi-million dollar gift from Drs. Zell and Emily Kravinsky. Zell Kravinsky is a scholar and real estate investment fund manager in Philadelphia. His wife, Emily, is a psychiatrist. The Kravinskys’ gift will be used to support activities at the School to prevent blindness and maternal mortality and to reduce infant mortality in the developing world by one-third. The Kravinskys support the work of Dean Sommer and his colleagues, which has conclusively proven over two decades that correcting vitamin A deficiencies reduces child deaths in poorer countries by approximately that amount.
“The fact that millions die around the world for want of a treatment costing thousands of dollars a year is tragic; that millions die for want of $0.2 of vitamins is lunacy,” said Zell Kravinsky. “Our country spends less on the economically feasible exportation of public health than on the economically ruinous importation of gourmet pet food, and until we invert that ratio, we will never be a great society. I believe the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is growing us towards greatness and I’m grateful for the chance to grow along with it.”
“I would like to thank the Kravinsky family. Their vision and generosity will enable the School of Public Health to continue its important work of improving the lives of mothers and children around the world,” said Dr. Sommer. “I would also like to thank our anonymous donor. The Sommer Scholarship fund will enable a new generation of scientists to pursue new ways for protecting health and saving lives. Personally, it is a great honor to have a scholarship program named after me, particularly one that will benefit so many students and through them, the health of millions.”
Both gifts will count toward the goals of the Johns Hopkins Knowledge for the World campaign. Commitments to the campaign through March 31 totaled $1.344 billion, which is 67 percent of the campaign’s $2 billion goal. To date, $307.39 or Kenna Brigham at 410-955-6878 or [email protected].
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Joanne CavanaughSpecial to The Gazette
Warnings of genocide in Rwanda. The mystery of Russian
conscripts likely buried in Chechnya. The story behind the Branch
Davidian conflagration in Texas. And a Salvadoran girl's daily
struggle with California's anti-immigrant laws.
Ten films will evaluate these and other issues this month in
a Human Rights Watch Global Showcase International Film Festival
at the School of Hygiene and
Public Health. The documentaries,
while focusing on the overall issue of human rights, portray such
abuses through personal tales.
"The films put a very personal spin on issue-oriented
stories," says Andrea L. Holley, a master's candidate in
international health and
co-chair of the school's Health and
Human Rights Group, which is organizing the festival. "The films
provide new information."
One controversial film that gives such insight is Waco: The
Rules of Engagement, which has been nominated for an Academy
Award for best documentary. The film analyzes the 1993 FBI
standoff with the Branch Davidian sect outside Waco, Texas, and
the fiery deaths of the complex's 76 occupants.
That documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film
Festival, led last year's eighth annual Human Rights Watch film
festival at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater in New York.
Hopkins is picking up 10 of those 23 films for this first-time
festival; subjects include events in Brazil, Guatemala, Cuba and
Palestine. Some showings will include speakers, who will discuss
efforts to end rights violations.
"We want to show that people are trying to do things," says
Holley, who led the effort to bring the festival to Hopkins.
"There is hope."
The films' sober messages are provocative. In the Waco film,
producers Dan Gifford and Amy Sommer Gifford underscore deep
doubts about some of the FBI's official version of the story. Dan
Gifford (who has a tenuous tie to Hopkins and Peabody Institute,
having taken classes here in the 1960s) is a former television
news reporter for CNN, ABC News and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
"It is a very political film and a very political subject,"
said Gifford from his home in Los Angeles. "It's about a typical
government coverup, the ability to obfuscate things, [as well as]
the failure of the press in our country.
"The cold, hard reality is that this is a subject that
doesn't interest people. It rocks their beliefs," he continued.
"Part of the problem for us was determining what the facts really
were."
Among other things, the film incorporates home-video footage
of the siege, which to some viewers reveals the Branch Davidians
as a group of terrified families, not the extremist martyrs
portrayed by the FBI and the press. The $1 million film was
funded by the Giffords' company, SomFord Entertainment, and
directed by William Gazecki.
The original version, which was shown at Sundance, was
trimmed back by Dan Gifford from 165 minutes to a more marketable
136 minutes; cuts were also made with balance in mind. "It was
more strident, more manipulative [before]; it was a political
diatribe, although in a quiet way."
Other award-winning documentaries to be featured in the
festival, which runs from March 23 through March 28, address
international cases of abuses by governments, military
dictatorships and patriarchal societies, as well as debates over
conflicts between black and Jewish Americans.
The Health and Human Rights Group is presenting the series
of rarely seen films to raise consciousness about human rights
abuses in the United States and abroad. Health professionals, who
are often assigned to politically volatile or poverty-stricken
nations, often witness abuses, Holley says.
"They deal with acute violations and insidious daily
violations. Some local doctors in the countries may turn a blind
eye, signing off on paperwork saying a prisoner has not been
tortured," she says. "But there is also the ethics of
information: Do the patients understand drug treatments and the
full effects of the medicine they may be taking?"
People's lack of control in their lives is the subject of
several of the films, including The Betrayed, a story of 3,500
untrained Russian conscripts who in 1994 were ordered to take the
Chechen town of Grozny and disappeared, as well as the
frustrations of family trying to find out what happened.
"We don't ever really get the full story, even in the film,
yet the footage is unbelievable," Holley says. "There's a Russian
commander calling back and forth to Grozny; even he doesn't know
what's going on. That's contrasted with families and mothers who
are trying to find out."
Another film, Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold, reveals the
roots of the 1994 ethnic war in Rwanda and how the slaughter of
500,000 Rwandan men, women and children might have been
prevented.
And Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary shows how
California's Proposition 187 denies public education and health
care to illegal aliens. The story focuses in part on Mayra, a
confident, ambitious 9-year-old from El Salvador who must
navigate her life through the legal barriers.
Human Rights Watch is an advocacy group that investigates
charges of violations--including inhumane treatment in prisons
and discrimination against women or disenfranchised groups--and
publicizes its findings. Members challenge governments and other
forces to end abusive practices and respect international human
rights laws, and press U.S. officials and others to act.
Synopses of the films can be found on the Web at.
Monday, March 23
Noon. The Betrayed.
Tuesday, March 24
Noon. Stories of Honour and Shame.
Wednesday, March 25
Noon. It Ain't Love.
7 p.m. Ricardo, Miriam and Fidel.
Thursday, March 26
Noon. Devils Don't Dream.
7 p.m. 15 Children and The Betrayed.
Friday, March 27
Noon. Fear & Learning at Hoover High.
7 p.m. Waco: The Rules of Engagement.
Saturday, March 28
Noon to approximately 7 p.m. (back-to-back showings). Blacks
and Jews, Waco: Rules of Engagement and Chronicle of a Genocide
Foretold.
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OVER THE LAST DECADE, companies have abandoned legacy systems in favor of a new class of comprehensive packaged application software designed to integrate the core corporate activities of an organization. Variously called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, enterprise-wide systems, or enterprise systems, ERP systems are the software tools used to manage all the enterprise's data, and to provide information to those who need it when they need it. These systems help organizations deal with their supply chain: receiving, inventory management, customer order management, production planning and managing, shipping, accounting, human resource management, and all other activities that take place in a modern business [4, 13]. The benefits of a properly selected and implemented ERP system can be significant. On average, inventory costs can be reduced by 25 to 30 percent; raw material costs can be reduced by about 15 percent. Lead-time for customers, production time, and production costs can be reduced as well [5, 6, 11]. However, the cost of implementing these software packages can be quite high. Software, incremental hardware, training, and implementation support may cost $200,000 for a smaller company with approximately $10 million annual sales, $600,000 to $800,000 for midsized companies with approximately $40 million to $70 million annual sales, and up to several million dollars for larger companies. It has been suggested that approximately $300 billion has been invested in ERP worldwide in the last decade, and the enterprise applications market is projected to reach $79 billion by 2004 [3]. Despite these high expectations and huge investments, ERP implementations often fail. The New York Times printed an article, "Software That Can Make a Grown Company Cry" [5], describing problems with ERP implementations. Allied Waste Industries purchased an ERP software package from SAP America, a major ERP software vendor, but discontinued its use after finding it too complicated, too expensive, and a poor value in terms of added functionality [2]. By doing so the firm lost over $40 million. Hershey Foods Corporation installed an ERP application early in 1999. By mid-September of that year, the candy-making giant was having trouble pushing orders through the new system, resulting in shipment delays and incomplete orders during the busy Halloween season. One reason for these failures is that the implemented ERP systems did not fit organizational needs. In spite of the fact that some ERP vendors argue that their software can suit most organizations [2], not all information systems (IS) are equal, nor are all ERP packages used equally. Several studies [8, 9, 10] suggest that the benefit an organization derives from using information technology (IT) is dependent on the characteristics of the organization. Therefore, not all companies will gain the same benefit from using the same ERP applications, and different ERP software packages will better suit different organizations. In addition, other issues (such as, implementation, linkage to customers) affect the success of ERP. The three papers in this special section present contemporary and rapidly evolving research focusing on ERP systems. The value for academic researchers lies with the findings presented and with the opportunity to use these papers as avenues for future research. Practitioners will be able to use the findings of these studies to better plan and use ERP systems, especially as they encounter three problem areas: the change that ERP brings to an organization, the use of ERP as a platform for other applications, and measuring the effect of ERP on firm performance. A key implication of ERP is that it involves sweeping changes to a company's organization, business practices, and core competencies. Few companies begin the project with the required organizational dynamics and business practices in place. The method of introducing the systems into companies might well make the crucial difference between successful organizational transformation and an abandoned project. Many of the issues involved in implementation are not so much technical as they are people-related and culture-related. The first paper, "Learning to Implement Enterprise Systems: An Exploratory Study of the Dialectics of Change," by Daniel Robey, Jeanne W. Ross, and Marie-Claude Boudreau, attempts to help organizations understand ERP system implementation. The authors adopt a process theory perspective with a focus on the dialectics of organizational learning that generates change in a comparative case study of 13 industrial firms. Demands associated with change require substantial organizational learning. It was observed that firms have identified various mechanisms for overcoming configuration and assimilation knowledge barriers associated with the implementation. The paper concludes by identifying the implications of their research for the theory and practice of systems implementation. An important role of ERP is to serve as a platform for other applications, such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM). The vision for ERP extends beyond the organization, providing support for enhancements cutting across whole industries. Despite the size of the CRM market, which is said to have grown 70 percent in 1999, and is expected to become worth over $12 billion by 2004 [12], limited information exists on the progress of diffusion of the CRM innovation. The second article, "Implementation Team Responsiveness and User Evaluation of Customer Relationship Management: A Quasi-Experimental Design Study of Social Exchange Theory," by David Gefen and Catherine M. Ridings, deals with user-level issues, which, according to industry reports, account for a large proportion of the estimated 65 percent of CRM implementation failures. This study examines the social exchange aspects of CRM implementation by using a quasi-experimental design. Gefen and Ridings describe some of the complexity of CRM implementation and the relationship between users and the implementation team. The findings suggest that the nature of the social exchange during implementation of a CRM influences user assessments about the CRM and ultimately user willingness to adopt it. Moreover, the effect of actual and perceived responsiveness on user willingness to adopt the new system is mediated through user beliefs about the correctness of the configuration. Measuring the benefits from an enterprise system is a difficult task, particularly when the benefits of these systems are strategic in nature. Understanding the value of an ERP system entails examining the amount of duplicated effort that the ERP system eliminates and the increased efficiency that results from having an ERP solution in place. Savings can be derived from a reduction in staff numbers and productivity improvement. ERP helps companies control their purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, finance, and human resource activities by centralizing information collected from dispersed geographical sites. A year after implementing ERP, Par Industries in Moline, Illinois, reduced lead-time, increased on-time delivery performance, decreased work-in-progress inventory, and the life of a shop floor order went from weeks to hours [1]. Despite successes like this, many organizations are not certain that they will realize positive returns. Even worse, many fail to see immediate benefits from moving to ERP or experience adverse effects, such as missed sales and profit targets [7]. The final article, "Investment in Enterprise Resource Planning: Business Impact and Productivity Measures," by Lorin M. Hitt, D.J. Wu, and Xiaoge Zhou, is an empirical study dealing with the research question, What theoretical understanding do we really have about the relationship between adopting ERP systems and firm performance? The authors were able to collect and analyze a set of responses from firms that have purchased licenses for the SAP R/3 system from which they confirm some important conjectures about the business value of ERP implementations. Besides explaining the business impact of ERP implementation on a wide variety of performance measures, the authors empirically test for the productivity and business performance effects of ERP on firms that adopted ERP versus those that did not, and on firms before, during, and after implementation to assess performance over time. They determined that ERP adopters are consistently higher than non-adopters in performance across a wide variety of measures. Most of the gains occur during the implementation period, although they find some evidence of a decline in business performance and productivity shortly after completion of the implementation. Likewise, adopters had higher market valuations both during and after adoption. In closing, we offer special thanks to a number of people who supported our work on this Special Section. First, the Editor-in-Chief, Vladimir Zwass, was open to the idea of this special section and supportive from the beginning of the process. Next, we are grateful to Robert J. Kauffman from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, who helped us as an Associate Editor with the review process and provided valuable guidance. We also want to thank all the reviewers who provided instructive comments to the authors. Finally, our graduate assistants, Michele Harrison and Karen MacDonald, deserve thanks for dealing with a multitude of administrative tasks. REFERENCES 1. Appleton, E.L. How to survive ERP. Datamation, 43, 3 (1997), 50-53. Available at. 2. Bailey, J. Trash haulers are taking fancy software to the dump. Wall Street Journal, June 9, 1999, B4. 3. Carlino, J.; Nelson, S.; and Smith, N. AMR research predicts enterprise applications market will reach $78 billion by 2004. AMR Research, Boston, 2000. 4. Davenport, T.H. Putting the enterprise into the enterprise system. Harvard Business Review, 16, 4 (1998), 121-131. 5. Deutsch, C.H. Software that can make a grown company cry. New York Times, November 8, 1998, 13. 6. Main, J. Computers of the world, unite! Fortune, 122, 1 (September 24, 1990), 117-122. 7. Martin, M.H. An electronic firm will save big money by replacing six people with one and lose all this paperwork, using enterprise resource planning software. But not every company has been so lucky. Fortune, 137, 2 (1998), 149-151. 8. Johansen, J.; Karmarker, U.; Nanda, D.; and Seidmann, A. Business experience with computer integrated manufacturing. In M.A. Langton, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. New York: Gordon and Breach, January 1995, pp. 970-979. 9. Ragowsky, A.; Ahituv, N.; and Neumann, S. Identifying the value and the importance of an information system application. Information & Management, 31, 2 (November 1996), 89-102. 10. Ragowsky, A.; Stern, M.; and Adams, D. Relating benefits from using IS to an organization's operating characteristics: Interpreting results from two countries. Journal of Management Information Systems, 16, 4 (Spring 2000), 175-194. 11. Schlack, M. IS has a new job in manufacturing. Datamation, 38, 2 (1992), 38-40. 12. Wardley, M., and Shiang, D. Customer relationship management market forecast and analysis, 2000-2004. International Data Corporation (IDC), Framingham, MA, June 2000. 13. Watson, E.E., and Schneider, H. Using ERP systems in education. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 1, 9 February 1999.
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Cable Knit Patterns, typically used in sweaters, where flat knit columns otherwise known as cables are overlapped vertically.
Cashmere A soft, strong and silky, lightweight wool spun from the Kashmir goat. Cashmere.
Circumference The measurement around the shaft of a boot taken at the widest part.
Corduroy Cotton blend.
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Crinoline A lightweight, plain weave, stiffened fabric with a low yarn count. Used to create volume beneath evening or wedding dresses.
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Cushioning Padding on the sole of a shoe for added comfort and stabilization.
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ViscoseA cellulosic man-made fibers, viscose is soft and supple but can wrinkle easily.
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Can't say we noticed the cars...
You're probably not even reading this.
Go on, take a few minutes to flick through the gallery.
Done? No?
Ok. We'll hang on.
Ready?
Sound.
So we brough the camera down to take a few snaps of the supercars taking part in Cannonball Ireland 2012. But we ended up getting distracted by Emma Quinlan, The Little Fox, and her puppies.
"But JOE!" I hear you cry from your office cubicle. "What the hell is Cannonball 2012?"
Well my friend, let me break it down for you.
It's 3 days, 150 supercars, 400 competitors, 1000km of asphalt (probably a bit more when you consider the swerving around potholes), "Evening Entertainment" (read: Booze), and of course, Models.
The route takes the competitors from Dublin to Belfast, across to Galway, finishing with a spin down to Kilkenny.
How do you get involved? Simple. Be rich. Or have a rich friend. Either way, you're going to need a supercar.
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June 2004 // Volume 42 // Number 3 // Commentary // 3COM1
Weblogs as a Disruptive Technology for Extension
Abstract.
Introduction
Weblogs are everywhere. Technorati <> watches over 1.2 million weblogs every day. Blogcount <> estimates 2.4 to 2.9 million currently active weblogs. Weblogs influence journalism, technology transfer, knowledge filtering, research, and business-to-customer communication. In the fashion of disruptive technologies, weblogs underperform by traditional measures, but they also create brand-new possibilities and eventually change the measures entirely.
What Is a Weblog?
Among people who care about definitions, there's often spirited discussion about the exact definition of "weblogs." Weblogs come in all shapes and sizes--personal, business, single-topic, eclectic. Generally, however, a weblog is a personal publishing system with chronological entries containing collections of links. Weblogs tell stories, share knowledge, provide reviews, analyze news, and link to others whose interests they share. Microsoft employees, university professors, research librarians, unemployed technologists, and high school students all produce interesting, entertaining weblogs that people access and learn from daily.
A weblog is pretty simple technologically. All weblog software does essentially the same thing: it allows you to make "posts" which it then arranges in chronological order. These posts can be accessed by date, by individual post, and by category (usually). The posts generally consist of a title, a post body, a permalink, and sometimes an image. The content of a post can be source quotes, links, and author commentary.
Despite their seeming simplicity, weblogs do several things extraordinarily well, and it's these characteristics that make them disruptive.
What Is a Disruptive Technology?
New technologies are generally either sustaining or disruptive. Sustaining technologies are those technologies or ideas that sustain an organization's focus, goals, and customers. Successful organizations, like Extension, are good at recognizing and exploiting sustaining technologies, even when those technologies require radical change. Sustaining technologies maintain value systems, improve existing products, and offer clear benefits to existing customers.
Disruptive technologies are innovations that often don't improve existing product performance. Current customers neither know nor care about the initial benefits of the disruptive technology; those benefits don't fit their current needs. Disruptive technologies often turn out to be things an organization dismisses initially as not worth the time, not "good enough," or not what the customer wants.
Weblogs, which might easily be dismissed according to the criteria above (not worth our time, not good enough, not what our customers tell us they want), have the potential to change Extension radically and in some instances may already be doing so. There's no barrier to starting a weblog. I can go to Blogger <>, enter my name, pick a password, and presto! I have a blog (weblog). Other applications (Typepad <>, Radio Userland <>, and Movable Type <>) allow me to set up an organized, functioning weblog in a couple of hours with little financial investment. If someone in Extension wants to start a weblog, they can, and they will, and it's very possible they already have.
Why Are Weblogs So Popular?
While weblogs often can't provide application forms or detailed program information, they can promote interaction, filter vast quantities of information, and create relationships. Weblogs, more than any other network application, are about interaction and networking at an individual level.
The Cluetrain Manifesto (Locke, Levine, Searls, & Weinberger, 2001) characterizes the Web as a conversation. And that conversation is disruptive to our traditional ideas about communication. We can process information, run it through committees, discuss it, edit it, and format it, but once we put it on the web, we give it over to everyone else. On the web, people talk about information they find, sift it through their own experience and expertise, and pass new information, built from the original and their additions, on to friends, who reinterpret it, pass it on again, and so on. . .
People blog because they have something to say, because they want to bring attention to certain resources, or, as Cory Doctorow (Doctorow, 2002) says, because a weblog is like an "outboard brain," a place to highlight things that are important and worth remembering. Though often professional, weblogs are not heavily edited, peer-reviewed, or couched in official language. They are immediate, emotional, and interactive.
Blogging has several implications for Extension.
1. Weblogs Promote Conversation
The "killer apps" on the Internet are all about conversation and connection--e-mail, instant messaging, chat, newsgroups, etc. eBay <> is wildly successful, not simply because it lets people buy and sell stuff, but because it lets them talk about buying and selling stuff and lets them communicate about who's good at buying and selling stuff and who isn't. People don't just want a company to tell them their hours and the customer service number. They want to know who the company is, what kind of people work there, and how real people answer direct questions. They want to make contact, to tell someone what they think and to hear from them directly.
Weblogs promote conversation through:
- Blogrolls --links to other weblogs
- "Post and response" conversations --one post generates another post on another weblog, which in turn generates a response on the original weblog
- Backchannel communication--continuing the conversation via email
Extension has long understood the importance of conversation, networking, and interaction. Extension has traditionally had a local presence in each county or region and has emphasized direct contact with local residents and businesses. However, with shifting demographics, changing organizational structures, busy lives, and Internet information "gluts," it's difficult for traditional relationship building to satisfy the needs of many people.
Weblog conversations don't happen in real time. They occur over several days and can even start anew when someone finds an old post. Weblogs promote interaction without the time and space constraints of meetings or office visits. In addition, they are public and allow people to know something about the blogger before initiating or joining a conversation and in that sense are more approachable than sending email to a stranger to ask a question.
2. Weblogs Promote Individual Voice
One of the consequences of an Internet that provides "content everywhere" is that we don't know whose content to trust. Whose information should we use? Who's telling us something that's accurate today rather than 3 years ago? In Extension we like to think of ourselves as trustworthy, as the place people go when they're looking for good, practical, unbiased information. But we also know that many people don't know who we are. With the whole of the Internet to choose from, why come to Extension for information? How will people know us?
One way is through weblogs. Each of us has our own particular criteria for judging how much we trust an individual person, but some of the common factors for establishing trust include: credentials, references; usefulness of the information they filter; recommendations from others; strong, clear writing; and personal glimpses of the person behind the information. This last factor is increasingly critical (Coates, 2002).
Traditional Extension clients are accustomed to individual voice. They trust their own County Extension Education Director more than they trust the campus specialist. While a county director understands and speaks for Extension as a whole, each county director is also an individual with his or her own unique experiences and knowledge, and most county directors use all of that when working with their clients, building trust and strong networks.
Traditional clients aren't necessarily looking to extend those conversations to the Web; they already have a medium (face to face) that's ideally suited for conversation. But there are other people we don't reach through local offices who want more than just a publication. Just like the people who meet us face-to-face, they want people they trust, helping them find information they need.
Weblogs can provide some of those traditional benefits for people who do much of their knowledge building online. Weblogs provide information not just about what a person knows, but about what they value, what interests them, and what experience they have.
3. Weblogs Reduce Data "Smog"
Extension has traditionally been heavily invested in a linear connectivity, "content is king" scenario (Reed, 1999). Publications and state fair booths and even farm visits are built around the idea of giving information to people who need it. This is a valuable and necessary service, but the Web has moved well beyond the restrictions of linear connectivity and content availability as a bottleneck to progress.
There is content everywhere. Excellent, filtered material is available in a timely manner from a variety of responsible sources. So much information is available that we have new concerns--data "smog," unreliable information and myriad distractions that interfere with and frustrate people when searching for the answers they need. Group-forming networks, which allow people to establish their own interconnections, not simply receive information, can address these concerns by allowing users to promote jointly constructed value, build relationships, establish trust, and find focused information specifically useful to the individual.
Weblogs reduce data smog through:
- Knowledge filtering--pointers to news and Web pages that interest the individual blogger
- Analysis and commentary--context for linked items
- Links to others --experts link to those they trust, providing sources to build other knowledge networks
By providing knowledgeable, timely pointers to information, individual Extension staff can easily become the "go-to" place on a particular topic.
Weblogs can generate XML or RDF pages that can be read by news aggregation programs and presented as a list of updates to users. In this way, updates come to the user instead of the user constantly checking a growing list of "favorites." Services like Syndic8 <> and Blogstreet <> provide lists of weblog RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds.
Finally, the populist nature of weblogs, coupled with Trackback (providing connecting links to related weblog posts) and comments, provide places for others to participate in our conversations. Experts don't just provide knowledge; they rely as well on input and feedback from others.
Conclusion
Professional weblogs must be professional. But they must also be individual. And it's this combination that is both truly disruptive and a reflection of things that Extension has always done well. One of Extension's strengths has always resided in its local presence and in building trusted relationships. We don't speak with one voice in our program meetings, in our newspaper columns, or in our radio shows. We need not speak with one voice on the Internet, either.
The Web is about conversation, and the conversation is going on now. The conversation is only momentarily interested in static Web pages and online forms. People want to ask us questions, tell us who they are, find out who we are in turn, and learn new things. We can choose to participate in the conversation or not, but if we don't participate as individuals, the conversation will go on without us.
Getting Started
The best way to learn about what weblogs can do is to read existing weblogs and then go out and start your own. Here are some resources for getting started.
Weblogs to Visit
Tech, Knowledge and Community (Deb's Blog) <>
TechNews <>
Extension Daily at Alabama Cooperative Extension <>
The Shifted Librarian <>
elearningpost <>
Weblogg-ed <>
mamamusings <>
Seb's Open Research <>
Information on Getting Started
Weblogs as Trusted Sources and Knowledge Filters <
weblogs2002_part_one.html>
The Art of Blogging--Part 2 <>
How to Start a Weblog (For Professional Journalists) <
howToStartAWeblogforProfessionalJournalists>
References
Christensen, C. (2003). The innovator's dilemma: The innovative book that will change the way you do business (paperback ed.): Harper Business Essentials.
Coates, D. (2002). Weblogs as trusted sources and knowledge filters.
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Locke, C., Levine, C., Searls, D., & Weinberger, D. (2001). The cluetrain manifesto: The end of business as usual (Paperback ed.): Perseus Book Group.
Reed, D. P. (1999). That sneaky exponential--Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the power of community building. Context Magazine, 3 (Spring, 1999).
The article mentions a lot of great aspects of blogs. I thought I would add some of my own thoughts here in the discussion forum.
One very important aspect to blogs is their raw usability. Blogs are fairly easy to set up, and brain-dead simple to add content to. Most of the time, adding a blog entry is simply a matter of calling up a bookmarked web page, typing in what you want to say, and hitting a submit button. This low barrier to entry makes internet publishing not only accessible to people who might not otherwise engage in it, but it also makes it easier for even the most seasoned propeller-head to get content out there. And it requires very little time - unless you're writing articles in your blog, you can maintain a blog with a very small time investment.
Another consideration is that blogs have the quality of encouraging daily, narrative-style content. If a continuity of communication is desired, blogs are a good way to achieve that. All you need are a handful of employees who are daily bloggers and an RSS aggregator to have a web presence for your organization that literally has new, compelling content every couple of hours.
Blogs are nicely decentralized and agile. On September 11th, I was working at a dot-com startup in Charlottesville, Virginia. We had heard the news stories about the attacks, but of course all the news web sites like CNN.com were overloaded with traffic. We didn't have a television, and our radio reception wasn't that great. We were hip to the blogging movement at the time, though, so we were able to get information on what was happening by reading blogs of eyewitnesses in New York and D.C. who were pushing out minute-by-minute updates to their blogs. In this case, individual voices became just as valuable (and far more personal) than the big-name, centralized news sources, and got information out there faster and through more channels than the organizations that have to go through an editorial review pass and put the content in a single place.
It should also be noted that blogging doesn't have to be used in a conversational context - the ease of use makes it suitable for simply capturing data. For instance, the chronological, narrative-based nature of blogs makes it an attractive tool for reporting. Here at New Mexico State, we're investigating using a form of blogging to capture our reporting data, with the idea that this style of input would be an easy way for all of our agents to painlessly enter their narratives electronically, and to capture the qualitative information that is so difficult to extract from numerical data. As a side bonus, it would provide a natural way for agents to see and discuss what each other are doing, and it would double as a way to track promotion and tenure achievements.
Anyway, thought I would share some of my thoughts on blogging in response to this article.
And, the more definitive source--The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen, which in particular talks about why disruptive technologies so often take even excellent organizations by surprise.
CC Chamberlin's points above are all excellent ones--blogs have ease of use in their favor. They really are personal publishing systems that get you on the web for little cost and with a decent 'look and feel.' They combine both freshness and persistance (in the form of archives) which is a powerful combination.
I'm really interested in New Mexico State's idea of weblogs for narrative reporting. That would definitely be a potential fit for weblogs. Cool.
Basically what we're looking at is a blog-like interface, which allows the user to attach some extra information to the blog entries which can be used for doing more quantitative aggregation. For instance, the blog interface for adding an entry includes the following:
* The raw blog entry text (for the narrative)
* Selectable categories
* Checkbox indicating whether this is a personal event or not (say, for P&T)
* Checkbox indicating whether this is a cross-state event
* Race and gender impact numbers
So, entering a narrative is just like making a blog entry, but it prompts the user to tag the narrative with some other information for later retrieval or aggregation. The hierarchical category listing (currently taken from the CSREES list, which has entries such as 1.1.603: Market Economics) allows the user to select one or more categories so that specialists can later call up the activity in their field of expertise. The checkboxes act as filters in searching. The race and gender impact numbers are simply there for aggregation purposes for reporting.
The main innovation here, though, is the idea that reporting doesn't happen at regular intervals, but rather on important events. When you report at regular intervals, you run into problems. In months where a lot of things happened, you have to cram a lot of information into the form, so the narrative for each event gets less detailed. In months where there's not much to report, you have problems, too - either you're just continuing what you were doing before, so you end up typing the same thing you did last month, or there simply wasn't as much going on, in which case you end up trying to pad your reports so it doesn't look like you were sitting on your thumbs. Events can cross those reporting deadlines, so you end up writing about half of an event for one month's report, and the other half for the next month's report, which makes the information difficult to retrieve and review later. And finally, if the event happened at the beginning of the reporting period, your memory of it may be fuzzy by the time you sit down at the end of the reporting period to write about it, and people have to wait until the end of the reporting period to hear about it.
If you instead shift reporting to an event-based model, you circumvent all these problems. Events get described as they happen, so they're fresh in the agents' memories, and can be viewed immediately. The context shifts from getting the form filled out to getting the event described, which in turn provides better information and minimizes the time necessary to engage in reporting.
So that's the idea behing a blog-based reporting system. As mentioned above, we haven't actually put this into practice yet, and I'm sure there are some gotchas lurking in the design somewhere. We haven't even committed to doing reporting this way, as we're investigating the pro's and con's of this idea. But regardless of what we end up with, the social value of blogging has prompted us to think about and revisit the traditional reporting paradigm in ways which will certainly yield improvements.
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Malaysia Warning: How To Spot Gays
,’ and 'like to bring big handbags, similar to those used by women, when hanging out.' The list of ‘warning’ signs for lesbians are less superficial. Potential lesbians apparently ‘distance themselves from other women… besides their female companions’, ‘like to hang out, have meals and sleep in the company of women’ and ‘have no affection for men’.Homosexuality is illegal in Malaysia. Two years ago the official state film agency ruled that gay characters can only be portrayed if they "repent or die" before the movie ends.
Labels: asshattery, LGBT rights, Malaysia, religion
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Not quite, but close to it for many taxpayers.
As part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA) of 2012, a benefit you may appreciate has been slipped in, a ‘permanent’ fix to the estate tax issue. First, here ‘permanent’ simply means a provision that has no sunset date, no automatic falling off the tax forms. That said, let’s look at the estate tax, before and after, and why you should be concerned about this even if you are not a ‘one percenter.’
In 1998, the year our daughter was born, we bought life insurance. Since we both worked, and had similar incomes, we each bought a million dollar policy. This may sound like a lot of money, but we had a house with a mortgage, and college tuition 18 years hence, both of which would whittle this windfall down pretty fast. But. As I learned in 1999, estate tax would kick in for an estate over $650,000. So even if we had no other assets, our insurance of $2M would see $700K taxed as high as 50% if my wife and I should perish together. It gets worse from there. If I passed first, I could leave an unlimited inheritance to my wife, but then if she would die soon after, $1.35 (everything over $650K) is subject to estate tax. Off to see an estate attorney. Time to set up trusts. With a bit of financial smoke and mirrors, the insurance is purchased from small gifts given to my daughter through the trust. In other words, the insurance itself is not part of our estate. Back then, I’d have casual conversations on death and dying (I know, real ‘life of the party’ discussions) and I realized most people had no idea that if you own the insurance policy, it’s part of your estate when you die. So even a couple with a $500K policy each could be heading for an estate tax issue. Maybe not when the first person passes, but when the surviving spouse also passes and still owned all the assets from when they were both alive.
Enough history. ATRA (Bonus points – what does this acronym stand for?) provides some excellent estate tax details:
If you are blessed with wealth over $10.5M, the $14K annual gift may not seem like much, but keep in mind it’s per giver/recipient combination. So, you and your spouse can give $56K per year to your child and spouse. You can also gift each of the grandchildren $28K. With a large enough family, the total can easily exceed $250K if you are looking to be that generous.
On a final note, you can see how, in 1998, with no clear understanding that the estate tax would take such a generous turn, it seemed the right thing to do a bit of extra planning. Today, we’d save the expense of a trust, and only have a will in place.
written by Joe
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Sometimes
Sometimes,
Even though I am not a baseball fan, I know who George Steinbrenner was, as he was someone a bit larger than life. As you might have guessed from the title, this post is not an homage to Mr. Steinbrenner, but a discussion of the current estate tax rules.
There was a time (seems like yesterday) when the estate tax exclusion was one million dollars, but that was back in 2002 and 2003, and the number was even lower in years prior. But along with the rising exemption came one strange anomaly in the code, a year with an unlimited exemption, no tax on the estate of anyone fortunate enough to die this year. This doesn’t mean his heirs get away with no taxes ever due. Along with the estate tax, the rule allowing a stepped up basis went away as well.
I know, this is a bit technical, so let me take a step back. To keep the numbers simple, if one died in 2002, and left, say $4,000,000 to his non-spouse heirs, the first $1M is tax free, and then the remaining $3M is subject to an increasing scale up to a 50% rate. So the heir would collect about $2.7M and their basis would be the value at the time of the decedent’s passing (or 6 months later whichever is higher). Under these rules, the decedent’s cost makes no difference. The $4M could have been stock purchased for $10,000 (Don’t we all wish?) or cash from having sold something else and just paid the taxes.
With the 2010 rules, however, the estate gets only a $1.3M step up. So in our example, it makes a big difference whether that $4M is cash or if it’s stock that cost the decedent $10,000. Old rules allowed an unlimited spousal inheritance, new rules give Mrs. Steinbrenner an additional $3M step up. If the number I read are accurate, the Yankees were bought for $10M and the estate is worth $1.1B.
If the family sells their stake, capital gain taxes are due at the prevailing rates, this year, 15%, but expected to rise in 2011. Eventually, Uncle Sam will see some of his money.
So far, I’ve made no judgment, just offered some facts. I don’t know if there’s any structure that will be agreeable to all. There are those who feel the money has already been taxed along the way and the estate tax is a form of “double taxation.” Other feel that there’s too much money concentrated among too few people and somehow the estate tax will help to “level the field.” Objectively speaking, if that’s possible, I think the current rules help avoid the former concern as only gains not already taxed will be taxed eventually and only when the assets are sold. The risk that the “family farm” will have to be sold to pay taxes when gramps dies is gone.
Personally, I can live with whatever structure there is, my only objection is these erratic changes over the years. You see, each set of rules requires its own planning. A fixed exemption of say, $1M, would point toward setting up insurance trusts to cover the tax on the overage. Note, this isn’t tax avoidance, it simply means if I know my estate will have a tax bill of $500K, I can choose to pay for some life insurance to pay that bill, and leave the full amount to my heirs. It’s the changing rules that cause more confusion and anxiety than anything. I’d bet not one in ten people you meet today can tell you what the rules are for those leaving a large inheritance this year. No, not one.
Even now, there’s talk of our congressfolk ‘fixing’ this year’s rules, and making it retroactive to January. We’ll see. We’ll also see what they do regarding the 2011 return to a $1M exemption.
Any thoughts on the Estate Tax? Fair? Not Fair? Let me know what you think or if you have any questions. By the way, my friends at the IRS have a nice little article titled The Estate Tax: Ninety Years and Counting which you can download.
Joe
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Explorer Estate Export Brand
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WinWorld Australia
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- Brand Identity Logo Design
- Wine Label Design
- Neck Tag
- Variety Extensions
- Gift Cylinder
- Carton Graphics
- Photography
- Website Design and Construction
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A premium brand package to remember and honour some of the greatest Australian explorers from all the way back to 1605.
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The period prior to the government’s near-ban on asbestos in 1977 could well be known as the Age of Asbestos.
Asbestos was used everywhere in the construction, renovation, and build-out industries, due to its fire and heat resistant properties and as an insulator. The superb insulating properties of asbestos led to its use in wall materials of all types, including:
- Flatboard
- Permaboard
- Millboard
- Rollboard
Asbestos was also common in:
- many types of plaster
- floor and ceiling tiles
- roofing felt
- shingles
- primer and paint
In addition, most adhesives, including drywall tape, were impregnated with asbestos.
As a result, asbestos exposure was common among drywallers, plasterers, and painters. And today thousands of painters with mesothelioma, plasterers with mesothelioma, and drywallers with mesothelioma are the result.
Asbestos exposure among drywallers, plasterers and painters has led to untold suffering. Painters with mesothelioma, plasterers with mesothelioma, and drywallers with mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure are the victims of negligence, and if you are one of the people who have developed mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos or other hazardous materials, you deserve compensation for your injury.
Johnson Law Group can help you get that compensation. Call our offices today for a free consultation to review your case, and find out whether you are entitled to financial compensation for your injuries.
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A Joint Commission accreditation period is three years. We divide your fees across this three year period using an annual fee. There is also a survey fee in the first year, as that is when we incur the most costs to send surveyor(s) to visit you. So you’ll pay about 60% of your total accreditation costs in the first year and about 20% each the next two years. All costs are included in those fees, so there are no extra charges for surveyor travel, etc. As an example, a small organization would pay about $1,689 in annual fees every year, plus a survey fee of around $2,835 in the year we do the on-site survey.
Your actual cost will depend on several factors such as the number of locations you have and the volume of individuals you serve. You can get an estimate by calling (630) 792-5115; or you can calculate it yourself by using our pricing worksheet available on this web page.
We understand that the road to accreditation often has its challenges, but we also offer a wide variety of resources to assist you. These include a Behavioral Health Accreditation Team for the early steps, such as helping you find a mentor organization to talk to; a dedicated Account Executive for your organization, who will help you through the application and pre-survey process; and a Standards Help Desk, just to help clarify and answer questions about the accreditation requirements. You’ll find their contact information under “Quick Links,” or see the Resource Directory in our “Guide to Joint Commission Behavioral Health Accreditation,” also available on this web page.
The first step for most organizations is to contact us to get free trial access to our accreditation requirements, and to use the sorting feature(s) to determine which of the requirements in the manual you’ll need to be in compliance with by the time of survey. This will let you conduct an analysis to see how close you are to compliance with the requirements and give you an idea of how much preparation time you’ll need. You may also wish to review our “Guide to Joint Commission Behavioral Health Accreditation,” available on this web page, which explains the accreditation process in depth.
The key issue is when you feel you will be ready for your survey. A new organization will need to be surveyed within 12 months of submitting their application and deposit. But we will do our best to schedule your survey on or after the month you indicate on the application as your “ready date”. We also allow you to tell us specific dates when you don’t want us to come. Most organizations request to be surveyed 3-9 months after they have submitted their application, to give themselves time to prepare. But we can also be responsive to short turn-around times for those who wish to be surveyed quickly.
If there are major changes at your organization, such as a merger, acquisition, or other major change in services/programs provided, location(s), capacity, or corporate structure, you’ll need to contact us within 30 days. We do not automatically transfer accreditation to new owners. Usually, we will extend your accreditation until we can determine if the change is major enough to warrant a special extension survey. Failure to notify us of major changes to your organization can result in a loss of accreditation.
The Joint Commission does not require a “track record” for Behavioral Health Care organizations. We do expect that you will be in compliance with all the accreditation requirements by the time of your survey, but we will not review previous compliance.
If you or anyone else wishes to register a complaint about an accredited organization, complete our online “Quality Incident Report Form”, or call 800-994-6610.
They are available for purchase on our sister-site,. A complimentary copy will also be sent to your organization upon receipt of your application and a deposit towards your accreditation fees, and we also offer a free trial of our online accreditation manual to anyone who is interested in reviewing the requirements prior to sending in their application. If you are considering behavioral health accreditation and would like a free trial of our online accreditation manual, please call us at (630) 792-5771.
Visit, where you can search our database for a complete listing of all Joint Commission accredited organizations, and review their latest quality reports.
According to the CDC, once you get vaccinated, your body makes protective antibodies in about two weeks. However, children younger than 9 years old who are being vaccinated for the first time need a second dose 4 or more weeks later in order to be protected.
CDC has stated that the ability of the seasonal flu vaccine to protect a person depends on at least two things: 1) the age and health of the person getting the vaccine, and 2) the similarity or ''match'' between the virus strains in the vaccine and those being spread in the community. Keep in mind that vaccine effectiveness is not 100%, and some people can still get the flu. For instance, some older people and people with certain chronic illnesses might develop less immunity than healthy young adults after vaccination. However, even for these high-risk individuals, the seasonal flu vaccine still can provide protection against getting severe complications from seasonal flu.
The Joint Commission requires in standard IC.02.04.01 that the hospital ''annually evaluates vaccination rates and the reasons given for declining the influenza vaccination''. How the hospital chooses to collect that information, whether through signed declinations, staff surveys, focus groups or other means is up to the individual hospital.
However the organization chooses to collect that information, the organization should evaluate their compliance with HIPAA, state law and organizational policy. That said, there is a difference between asking for personal information and compelling people to answer personal information. Making sure that individuals are given information about why you are gathering this information, what it will be used for and giving them an option not to provide personal information is undoubtedly a good practice.
No. The Joint Commission does not require declinations from individuals refusing influenza vaccination. For Critical Access Hospitals, Hospitals, and Long Term Care facilities, the Joint Commission does require that organizations collect and evaluate reasons health care workers do not get vaccinated in order to improve the organization’s health care worker influenza program. It does benefit ALL health care settings to understand why their health care workers do not get vaccinated in order to protect their patients, residents, or individuals served. However, the CDC’s Interim Guidance on Infection Control Measures for 2009 H1N1 Influenza in Healthcare Settings, Including Protection of Healthcare Personnel posted on October 14, 2009, states
To improve adherence, vaccination should be offered to healthcare personnel free of charge and during working hours. Vaccination campaigns with incentives such as lotteries with prizes should be considered. Healthcare facilities should require personnel who refuse vaccination to complete a declination form. (Accessed 10/16/09)
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will also be releasing further guidance within the next several weeks. View the OSHA statement from October 14, 2009. (Accessed 10/16/09).
If they have laboratory confirmation of H1N1 influenza, CDC recommends there is no need for vaccination. Again, the important point is laboratory confirmed H1N1.
Critical Access Hospitals, Hospitals, and Long Term Care facilities have a standard specific to Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination Programs (See standard IC.02.04.01). Other health care settings, such as Ambulatory Care, Home Health Care, Laboratory, and Behavioral Health Care (for example, day care and residential) settings do not have specific standards; however, as part of their infection prevention and control activities these organizations need to assess their risks and take actions to protect their patients and health care workers (See standards IC.01.03.01 and IC.02.01.01).
In 2006, The Joint Commission announced a new infection control standard requiring accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals, and long term care facilities to offer influenza vaccinations to health care workers, including licensed independent practitioners and volunteers. The Joint Commission developed the standard in response to recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) making the reduction of influenza transmission from health care professionals to patients a top priority in the United States.
The Joint Commission standard IC.02.04.01 requires Critical Access Hospitals, Hospitals, and Long Term Care facilities to do the following:
Health care staffing services are eligible for Joint Commission certification if they:.
Certification is awarded for two years. The review will be based on:
The certification process will consist primarily of two key elements – compliance with set standards and performance measurement.
A standard is a statement that defines the performance expectations, structures, or processes that must be substantially in place in an organization or service to enhance quality of care. For more information see Standard FAQs.
Performance measurement in health care represents what is done and how well it is done. Performance measurement utilizes performance measures, which are quantitative tools (known as measures or indicators) that are reported as a rate, ratio or percentage. A performance measure provides an indication of an organization’s or service’s performance in relation to a specified process or outcome. 30:
An on-site review, which allows the Joint Commission to evaluate factors relevant to the certification process
Organizations wishing to become certified should contact the Joint Commission at 630.792.5291 to request access to the electronic.
Accountability measures are quality measures that meet four criteria that produce the greatest positive impact on patient outcomes when hospitals demonstrate improvement on them.
The criteria for classifying accountability measures include:
These criteria are based on The Joint Commission’s experience implementing and evaluating the outcomes of quality measures for more than a decade. The criteria provide a more rational approach to the process of collecting and reporting quality data.
The Joint Commission wants to help hospitals improve performance on accountability measures in an effort to promote excellence in the delivery of care and maximize health outcomes, and in anticipation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services incentive payments that become effective in 2013. The Joint Commission will eliminate measures that do not work well, include performance on accountability measures in accreditation standards and include only accountability measures in the ORYX program.:
The Joint Commission will actively engage the field to determine how performance on the accountability measures will be assessed. Performance assessment on accountability measures will not begin before January 1, 2012.
Based upon The Joint Commission’s experience with standardized hospital quality measures, the conceptual framework for the categorization of the current measures was limited. It focused on process measures because they account for the majority of the measures currently in use. Since outcome measures have additional scientific challenges surrounding the need for case mix adjustment, additional criteria for evaluation need to be established.
Evaluation of the measures currently used for public reporting purposes is complete. The Joint Commission is now evaluating the remaining sets of hospital core measures that meet ORYX performance measure reporting requirements (e.g., perinatal care and hospital based inpatient psychiatric services).
Measures that do not meet the accountability measures criteria can still prove to be a valuable source of information to hospitals. These measures are also currently used by other initiatives as standardized performance measures for assessing and reporting on hospital performance.
The Joint Commission currently is considering a variety of innovative approaches to integrating hospital performance on the accountability measures into its survey and accreditation activities. To promote improved performance on accountability measures, and help hospitals prepare for the increasing reliance on attaining high performance on quality measures. The Joint Commission will be engaging accredited hospitals through focus groups and online surveys over the next few months.
As of March 2010, accountability measures have already been integrated into the information reported on Quality Check.™ Starting with the third quarter 2009 core measure data, only accountability measures are being used to calculate the overall performance rate for each measure set. However, the categorization of the measures into accountability and non-accountability measures will not affect individual measure information reported on Quality Check. Accountability measures also will be integrated into the Priority Focus Process and The Joint Commission’s Strategic Surveillance System (S3) Performance Risk Assessment beginning with the July release of the S3 Performance Risk Assessment. In these tools, accountability measures will be weighted differently (i.e., higher) than non-accountability measures. When a hospital’s performance on an accountability measure is determined to be unsatisfactory, one (1) point will continue to be assigned to each of the related Priority Focus Areas (PFAs) and Clinical/Service Groups (CSGs). When performance on a non-accountability measure is determined to be unsatisfactory, 0.33 point will be assigned to each of the related PFAs and CSGs.
In the future, The Joint Commission will only adopt accountability measures for use in its ORYX initiative.
The Joint Commission has classified 22 of its 28 hospital core measures as accountability measures. These measures are aligned with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services measures and include the children’s asthma care measures which are reported on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare Web site. For a list of both the accountability and non-accountability measures see the June 23, 2010 special issue of Joint Commission Online.
Additional information on accountability measures can be found in the June 23, 2010 special issue of Joint Commission Online and the June 23, 2010 on-line issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, “Accountability Measures: Using Measurement to Promote Quality Improvement.” Additional information will be posted on The Joint Commission’s Web site and in the August 2010 issue of Joint Commission Perspectives.
All 28 measures were vetted against the four evaluation criteria. To learn more about the criteria and which of the six measures did not meet the criteria for accountability measures, see the June 23, 2010 online issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, “Accountability Measures: Using Measurement to Promote Quality Improvement,” of which Mark R. Chassin, M.D., M.P.P., M.P.H., president, The Joint Commission, is the lead author.
It is important to recognize that the purpose of the Sentinel Event Policy is to promote improvement
in patient safety, not to regulate practice. The parameters defining these sentinel events were
intentionally selected to identify only the most extreme cases—those that should never occur. On
those rare occasions when these limits are reached, it is clear that a root cause analysis is appropriate
to identify the systems factors that allowed such a significant variation to occur. This is in contrast to
practice guidelines and regulations that set limits on the acceptable range of practice variation.
It applies to both.
Most fluoroscopic x-ray equipment can provide an estimate of the total (cumulative) dose that would
have resulted to a point on the skin if the x-ray beam was stationary during the complete procedure.
Such an estimate is derived from the fluoroscopic technique factors and the total fluoroscopic
exposure time, including any image recording, or from built-in dosimetry systems found on some
newer equipment. However, these systems, known as dose-area-product meters (DAP meters) or
some similar term, do not directly provide skin dose information without further knowledge of the
sizes of the x-ray beam during the entire procedure. The relationship between cumulative skin dose
and peak skin dose is highly variable, as has been demonstrated in a number of publications.
However, for purposes of estimating peak dose, one could establish a “trigger” for reporting peak
skin dose based on a fraction, say 75%, of the cumulative skin dose. Further recommendations for
monitoring, recording and patient follow-up for high dose imaging procedures are available from the
FDA at.
As it relates to fluoroscopy, the specification of “1500 rads to a single field” refers to a location on
the skin through which the fluoroscopic beam is directed. The issue here is the magnitude of the dose
to that portion of the skin that receives the maximum or peak skin dose. This may be the situation
that results from using several different x-ray beam projections or fields-of-view whose beam areas
on the patient’s skin overlap in a specific location to produce a region of highest radiation dose. In
fluoroscopically-guided interventional procedures, many different projections or x-ray beam
directions are often used, with many overlapping fields-of-view or imaged areas.
No; monitoring “life-time dose” is neither practical nor necessary with respect to fluoroscopic
procedures. While tissue damage from radiation is dependent on the total (cumulative) dose
delivered over time, we recognize that skin sensitivity is, to a degree, repairable and that monitoring
cumulative dose over a period of six months to a year would be reasonable.
The intent here is the same as requiring a root cause analysis for a wrong site surgery. The fact of a
wrong site delivery of radiotherapy carries implications of system problems that should be
understood and, as appropriate, redesigned. With regard to “minor variations,” it is recognized that
as with any process, there will be some degree of common cause variation, which is within the range
of acceptability for that procedure. Any variation from the intended field of treatment that is within
the range considered by the medical physics community as acceptable would not be considered by
the Joint Commission to be a reviewable sentinel event. A variation greater than that, i.e., a special
cause variation, should be managed as a sentinel event. Additional detail on this topic is available
from the NRC for radiopharmaceuticals and the FDA for radiation-generating equipment.
It refers to the total planned dose.
This new “reviewable sentinel event” does not mandate any measurement activities that are not
expected as part of the usual standard of practice for fluoroscopy and radiotherapy. One of the main
reasons for adding this event to the Joint Commission’s list of reviewable sentinel events was to
raise awareness of the severity of the associated outcomes—often overlooked or unrecognized
because of the delay in their appearance. That said, routine monitoring of the parameters identified
in this new sentinel event definition would be an appropriate patient safety precaution. edit
In some cases, a broken needle or screw fragment is recognized at the time of surgery and
a clinical judgment is made to leave the fragment in the patient. That decision is based on
an assessment of the relative risks of leaving it in versus removing it. It would therefore
not be considered an unintentionally retained foreign object.
A retained sponge after a vaginal delivery is a reviewable sentinel event. The new
language in the definition of reviewable sentinel events is, “Unintended retention of a
foreign object in a patient after surgery or other procedure.” Note that it says “other
procedure” not “other invasive procedure.” Vaginal delivery in the hospital is not an
“invasive” procedure, but it is a procedure. More to the point, a retained sponge in this
circumstance is indicative of the same underlying systemic problems that could cause
other “retained foreign body” situations.
“After surgery” is any time after completion of the skin closure; even if the patient is still
in the OR under anesthesia.
The decision to define “after surgery” as the completion of skin closure was based on the
premise that a failure to identify and correct an unintended retention of a foreign object
prior to that point in the procedure represents a significant system failure, which requires
analysis and redesign. It also places the patient at additional risk by virtue of extending
the surgical procedure and time under anesthesia.
No. S3 is provided at no additional cost and serves as a value-added benefit for our accredited customers.
The goal is to eventually spread this concept of S3 to all of The Joint Commission’s accreditation programs
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There are several benefits to S3..
S3 uses data The Joint Commission currently has, which includes past survey findings, ORYX® core measure data, data from the Office of Quality Monitoring (complaints and non-self reported sentinel events), data from an organization’s electronic application, and HCAHPS data.
S3 is a suite of information tools. The first available tool within the S3 application is the Performance Risk Assessment (PRA) tool. This tool assesses potential internal system opportunities and undertake opportunities for improvement, set priorities for attention.
We will electronically invoice your organization’s fees. Annual fees will be sent to your extranet in January of each year. The on site survey/review billing will be posted to your extranet approximately 1-5 days following event completion.
Regardless of survey or review findings, payment is due upon receipt of your invoice.
Please contact our Collections Coordinator at (630) 792-5192 for further details.
All organizations will be electronically billed an annual fee. As a returning customer, you will be able to locate estimated fees on your extranet. New customers may call the Pricing Unit at (630) 792-5115 or send an e-mail message to: [email protected] to request a fee estimate.
No deposit is required for current customers. New customers must remit a $1,700 non-refundable, non-transferable deposit for all Accreditation and HCSS Certification Programs. New customers seeking DSC certification that are already currently accredited by The Joint Commission are not required to submit a deposit.
The deposit is not deducted from the invoice amount you received. All open deposits are reflected on the lower part of your invoice. A deposit (credit) balance will be applied to your invoice within 72 hours of billing and will be reflected on your subscription billing site. Please call us at 630-792-5662, if you have questions regarding your deposit.
No. As an initial customer, only a deposit is required. A new customer’s annual fee is based on the calendar quarter when the application is submitted. Accreditation and Certification on-site fees are generally invoiced 1-5 days following event completion.
Yes. You may pay your deposit online by navigating to the “What’s Due” tab on the extranet, then select “Pay my Deposit”. All billing may be paid directly from your extranet’s subscription billing site. The Joint Commission accepts Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover and electronic check payments. Please call us at (630) 792-5662 if you need assistance or wish to make payment over the telephone.
Checks for deposits, annual and on site fees should be made payable to: The Joint Commission. Invoice and customer numbers are listed in the upper right portion of our invoice documents. Please write your invoice number on your remittance stub or on the memo line of your check. Mail your payments to:
The Joint Commission
P. O. Box 92775
Chicago, IL 60675-2775
The Joint Commission
P. O. Box 92775
Chicago, IL 60675-2775
In general, accreditation annual fees are based on the programs/services/volumes and sites where you provide service. Certification annual fees are based on the number of diseases and types of certification. On-site fees are generally based on the number of surveyors or reviewers and total days spent at your site(s). We publish the upcoming year's pricing schedule on the extranet in December, each year.
Annual fees are non-refundable and non-transferable. On-site fees are billed for surveys or reviews performed. In addition, an organization will be assessed a 1-day per surveyor fee for each accreditation program if the organization refuses a survey or review when the team arrives on-site.
Payment for annual fees is due upon receipt of your invoice. Failure to make payment will result in a denial of accreditation or certification. Delinquent accounts may be forwarded to our collection agency and the accreditation denial status will appear on Quality Check.
Your CEO and Billing Contact will be provided with a login and password to your organization's extranet. Copies of invoices prior to 2006 will not be available on your extranet site. In addition, if you selected paper invoices for mailing, your invoices will also not display on the extranet.
The Joint Commission’s Top Performers on Key Quality Measures program recognizes accredited hospitals that attain excellence in accountability measure performance. Recognition in the program is based on an aggregation of accountability measure data reported to The Joint Commission during the previous calendar year. This year’s recognition program is based on data that were reported for 2011. The data report on evidence-based clinical processes that are shown to be the best treatments for certain conditions, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s asthma care, inpatient psychiatric services, venous thromboembolism (VTE), and stroke.
As follows:
Inclusion on the list is based on an aggregation of accountability measure data reported to The Joint Commission during the previous calendar year. For example, this year’s program is based on data that were reported for 2011.
Top Performers target for every accountability measure for which it reports data to The Joint Commission, excluding any measures with less than 30 eligible cases or patients. For more information, see the section below on eligibility criteria.
Top Performers are notified of their recognition approximately one week before the publication of The Joint Commission’s annual report.
Top Performers receive a certificate of recognition and are recognized on The Joint Commission’s Quality Check website, and in the “Improving America’s Hospitals” annual report.
The following is the specific eligibility criteria for Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting data during 2011 on one or more core measure sets with accountability measures. There are two levels of evaluation criteria: the first for recognition designation; and the second for individual core measure set designation.
Eligibility criteria for recognition designation (both criteria must be met)
Criteria 1: Reported accountability measure composite rate is greater than or equal to 95 percent.
Divide the sum of all the reported accountability measure numerators by the sum of all the reported accountability measure denominators. This calculation must meet or exceed 95 percent.
Criteria 2: Reported accountability measure rates for each individual measure are greater than or equal to 95 percent.
For each individual reported accountability measure, divide the numerator by the denominator. Each of these calculations must meet or exceed 95 percent.
Eligibility criteria for individual core measure set designation (both criteria must be met for each core measure set to be independently considered)
Criteria 1: Reported composite rate for all accountability measures within a particular core measure set is greater than or equal to 95 percent.
Using only the accountability measures within a particular measure set, divide the sum of all the reported numerators by the sum of all the reported denominators. This calculation must meet or exceed 95 percent.
Criteria 2: Reported accountability measure rates for each individual measure within the core measure set are greater than or equal to 95 percent.
For each individual reported accountability measure within a particular core measure set, divide the numerator by the denominator. Each of these calculations must meet or exceed 95 percent.
No, hospitals are not required to send in an application. Eligibility is determined using data that hospitals already transmit to The Joint Commission through the ORYX® program. Critical access hospitals that elect to report accountability measure data to The Joint Commission are also eligible. Recognition as a Top Performer is based on the total number of accountability measures reported by each hospital, regardless of whether the hospital transmits data on one measure set or several measure sets. Also, each year’s recipients are identified using the previous year’s ORYX data. The recipients honored in 2012 were selected based on data they submitted for 2011.
This year (which is 2012, but is for data submitted in calendar year 2011), 620 hospitals are being honored as Top Performers on Key Quality Measures. Of that number, 26 percent are rural hospitals, 45 percent are non-profit hospitals, and 49 percent have between 100 and 300 beds. Major teaching hospitals account for 5 percent of the recipients, and 5 percent are critical access hospitals.
The program launched in September 2011. Recognition of Top Performers occurs in the fall of each year and coincides with the publication of The Joint Commission’s “Improving America’s Hospitals” annual report.
There may be one or more reasons for this. Although you may have 95 percent in a particular measure set, you may have failed to achieve 95 percent on the composite; or, you may have failed to achieve 95 percent on each and every reported accountability measure in the measure set.
You may have failed to collect data for four calendar quarters for the measures within that particular measure set; or, you may have had fewer than 30 total cases for the measures associated with that particular set.
Excellent care is something all patients expect and deserve and all hospitals work to achieve. It is not an easy goal to reach; it takes the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of the entire hospital staff. To help hospitals achieve this goal, The Joint Commission has undertaken a multifaceted accountability measures initiative that seeks to enhance patient care by helping hospitals improve their performance on key measures and identify target areas for improvement. The Joint Commission launched this initiative – the Top Performers on Key Quality Measures program – to honor those hospitals that consistently demonstrate excellent performance on evidence-based process of care measures. This program is intended to encourage hospitals to consistently improve their performance on accountability measures by publicly recognizing those that ultimately achieve excellence in this arena.
The Joint Commission has taken many steps to help hospitals improve their performance on accountability measures, including integrating accountability measures into the accreditation standards (effective January 1, 2012), redesigning the ORYX performance measure reports, and making changes to the S3 program and the Priority Focus Process. Also, in April 2011, The Joint Commission launched its Core Measure Solution Exchange™, a web-based platform where accredited organizations can share practices and proven tools related to improving performance on core measures. The Exchange is an interactive forum designed to facilitate peer-to-peer communication. For organizations that have worked to improve their core measure performance, it is an opportunity to share their success and be recognized for their accomplishments. For organizations looking to improve, it is an opportunity to see what their peers have tried and what has actually worked. The Exchange is available via your organization’s Joint Commission Connect extranet under Quality Improvement Tools. If you need access to your organization’s Connect extranet, talk to your accreditation account executive or your organization’s accreditation liaison.
There is typically a six month delay from the time the hospital collects and submits the data to the performance measurement system and it is then received by The Joint Commission.
This year, freestanding psychiatric hospitals or hospitals with inpatient psychiatric units are being recognized as Top Performers for the first time. Reporting on the inpatient psychiatric services measure set was not required until January 2011, so 2011 was the first year that these data became available for the Top Performer program designation.
Rehabilitation hospitals are not eligible for Top Performer designation at this time. Currently, rehabilitation hospitals do not submit data on core measures, which include measures designated as accountability measures. Rather, they submit data on what are known as non-core measures. However, effective January 1, 2013, The Joint Commission will suspend ORYX performance measure reporting requirements for accredited inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs). It is The Joint Commission’s intent to support and build upon the emerging national measurement priorities and the move to the use of standardized federally mandated performance measures for IRFs (when those measures are identified and implemented).
For the multiple antipsychotic medications measure (HBIPS-4), improvement is indicated by a decrease in the rate. In calculating the accountability composite, it is important that all of the individual measures indicate improvement in the same direction. For this measure, where a decrease in the rate is desired, the number of denominator cases minus the number of numerator cases will be used in the accountability composite. This converts the rate so that it can be used in the composite with the majority of accountability measures where an increase in the rate is desired.
Seasonal measures, such as immunizations, are included if two calendar quarters of data exist for the calendar year under consideration. For example, for the influenza vaccination measure (PN-7), the denominator includes patients discharged during October, November, December, January, February, or March. The quarters that would have to exist within the calendar year would be both the first quarter (January, February, and March) and the fourth quarter (October, November, and December).
First, we encourage you to contact your performance measurement system. You may also send an e-mail to [email protected] or call (630) 792-5085.
The Top Performers program uses evidence-based performance measures that have undergone rigorous development and testing to ensure data integrity. These measures cover eight conditions: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s asthma, inpatient psychiatric services, venous thromboembolism (VTE), and stroke. Other recognition programs or hospital comparisons may use other measures, metrics, or data, or rely on a hospital’s reputation as a determination of achievement.
In 2010, The Joint Commission began categorizing its process performance measures into accountability and non-accountability measures. The approach places more emphasis on an organization’s performance on accountability measures – quality measures that meet four criteria designed to identify measures that produce the greatest positive impact on patient outcomes when hospitals demonstrate improvement: research, proximity, accuracy and adverse effects. Non-accountability measures are suitable for secondary uses, such as exploration or learning within individual health care organizations, and are good advice in terms of appropriate patient care. Going forward, The Joint Commission is only adopting accountability measures for its ORYX program. For more information, see Facts about accountability measures.
The heart attack care core measure set started out at a relatively higher rate than other measure sets. This may be best described as a ceiling effect, with improvement more challenging for some organizations because of the already high rate.
Although the physical restraint (HBIPS-2) and seclusion (HBIPS-3) measures in the inpatient psychiatric services measure set are accountability measures, they have been excluded from the Top Performer calculation since they are both ratio measures (i.e., calculations only include process measures reported as proportions). Ratio measures do not reflect the number of people (as for proportion measures), but rather the number of psychiatric inpatient days. The number of inpatient days in the denominator is usually a large number, so including it in the composite would unduly weight the composite toward ratio measures.
Additionally, the multiple antipsychotic medication measure (HBIPS-4) is a measure where a decrease in the rate is the desirable direction of improvement; therefore, this measure is included in the Top Performer calculation by using the denominator of the measure minus the numerator (rather than using the numerator).
Since 20 new measures were added to the Top Performers program this year, many of the hospitals that were Top Performers last year missed the performance threshold on one or more of these new measures. Of the 162 hospitals that were Top Performers last year but not this year, 87 were part of the 583 hospitals that missed Top Performer status by one measure.
We involved our customers, unaccredited providers, payers, and hospital referral sources in the overall redesign process. Customers provided feedback on standards through online surveys and participated in pilot on-site surveys. Additionally, focused calls were conducted with select customers to gain in-depth perspective on proposed program enhancements.
This year, there are 290 for profit hospitals, 279 not-for-profit hospitals, and 51 government hospitals recognized as Top Performers. Since the inception of the Top Performers program in 2011, more for-profit hospitals than not-for-profit hospitals have been recognized as Top Performers.
Three accountability measure sets were added in the calculation for this year’s Top Performers program – inpatient psychiatric services, stroke and venous throboembolism (VTE).
The Joint Commission recognizes that the industry has changed. Long term care organizations are providing more complex care to patients and residents and are being asked to demonstrate competency in these specialized areas.
One of the key program enhancements includes the ability to pursue additional certification of specialty services in addition to accreditation.
Other program enhancements include:
Achieving accreditation with specialty certification can help your organization in many ways including:
We require that your organization has served at least 5 patients or residents (regardless of how long your facility has been in operation) and has at least two active patients or residents at the time of your survey. For certification, we require the 5 patients served and 2 active patients all have had a 3 day or more hospitalization, and been admitted to a Nursing and Rehabilitation Center within 30 days of discharge from the hospital. Call us for additional questions about the eligibility of your specific services or patients at 630.792.5052.
A program or service that provides goal-directed, time-limited, medically complex care or rehabilitative services to patients recently hospitalized. The goal of rehabilitation and advanced care is to help transition the patient from an acute care setting to a lower level of care setting or a return to their home. Examples of rehabilitation and advanced care include post-operative care, orthopedic or cardiac rehabilitation, respiratory care, and wound care.
Your dedicated Account Executive will work with you to discuss your options based upon your upcoming resurvey date. They can also talk to you about the benefits of the new products and how we will help make the overall transition easy for you.
For customers currently accredited under the LT2, Medicare-Medicaid based option, you will move from a one day survey to a two or three day on-site survey, depending on if you choose to pursue certification (and based upon the ADC of your facility).
For providers accredited under the traditional model who choose to pursue certification, your survey length will increase by one day.
We encourage you to contact your Account Executive to discuss your specific needs.
Please talk to your Account Executive to discuss your specific needs and learn the options for pursuing certification for your organization.
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Joint Commission standards currently require measuring the performance of processes that support care and using that data to make improvements. These standards require long term care organizations to collect data on performance improvements identified by leaders, the use of restraints, behavior management and treatment, quality control activities, significant medication errors, significant adverse drug reactions, and resident perception of the safety and quality of care treatment and services.
In addition, nursing facilities should consider collecting data on staff opinions and needs, staff perceptions of risk to individuals, staff suggestions for improving resident safety, and staff willingness to report adverse events. The certification standards require the organization to collect data relevant to the unanticipated outcomes in care, patient readmission to the hospital, emergency department or other post acute setting and data relevant to information reviewed with patients and family following the patients discharge from the organization. This information will be reviewed as part of the evaluation of the facilities performance improvement processes during the onsite survey.
Accreditation fees include an on-site survey fee and annual fee, both based upon your “average daily census” and services provided.
The average accreditation annual fee for an organization serving approximately 100 patients or residents each day is $2300. The average on-site survey fee for a nursing home of the same volume is $3315 (this is due in the year of the on-site survey).
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Machen on Doctrine
I posted the following quote on Justin Taylor's blog last month, but I wanted to share it here and use it to start my own little "Machen" category on my site. I've been reading a biography of Machen by D.G. Hart entitled Defending the Faith
. It was from Hart that I learned that Machen played tennis. This only endeared him to me all the more. Finally, a theologian to whom I can relate!
I'm also reading and greatly benefiting from Machen's classic book Christianity & Liberalism
If you've not yet read it, I hope the following quote whets your appetite. I love the way he defines doctrine here:.To get acquainted with Machen, John Piper's biographical sermon from 1993 is the perfect place to start. I enjoyed reading it, and also listened to it on my iPod. And this site compiles a large selection of articles and information on Machen as well.
Update: Justin Taylor just emailed me and informed me that Machen was 5'8. He liked tennis and he was short! He's officially my patron saint.
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Hey Josh.
Just happened on your blog tonight. I'd love to talk to you about Machen as a card-carrying liberal Christian.
I haven't read him in a couple of years (and I admit that I only read Christianity and Liberalism), but I found him really interested in doctrine, which, frankly, doesn't seem all that "biblical."
I'll post some of my issues with Machen in a few days on my site, but I'd love to see you try to convince a liberal predisposed to seeing Machen as a historical relic that I should be reading him more.
God bless you and sustain your ministry.
Peace.
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David,
I'd really enjoy having that conversation. I look forward to reading your post. And thanks so much for dropping by the site.
God bless!
Posted by Joshua Harris | September 3, 2007 8:42 AM
Josh,
I've read Hart's biography of Machen recently and I enjoyed it. I really admire Machen's integrity when in difficult circumstances.
I read that you also like Francis Schaeffer. I just read The Great Evangelical Disaster. You might like it.
Tony
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Lack of marketing strategy and execution integration seems to be a common challenge to many companies face when there are “silos” within the marketing channels. Inevitably, your customers will end up seeing different creative, different offers, and different price points.
Your integration efforts would probably needs to start at your “List” level. For best integration, you’ll want to make sure all channels are working of a shared List/customer database. Depending on who your customer is, you would then build an integrated segmentation strategy (who gets what channel as well as what offer/incentive, etc.). You will also want to make sure to pay attention to touch points and marketing calendar — you don’t want customers getting a flood of communication from different channels, so keep things on the same marketing calendar and decide how much is appropriate for each segment/channel.
To determine the best strategy, you could run some tests — select a control group and then do some split or A/B testing (DM vs Email, or DM & Email, etc.).
Most experts agree that the evidence supports sending mail first and following with email a week after a timed in-home mail date. You can find some case studies with more information on this at the DMA (Direct Marketing Assocation) website:.
I would certainly advice on a cohesive messaging and offer value. We tend to do DM first (strong branding effect, as its in-hand and tangible) followed by a reminder email that reinforces the offer (one week later). I have also seen it to be effective to send “reminder” emails on regular intervals during the promotion period (this will depend on how long your promotion is to last).
Finally, all channels are usually tied to a custom-built micro site that pulls the promo together. Usually, the micro site should be created to match your corporate or product brand. I also like to use tracking links and unique URLs on DM vs Email to be able to measure which creative caused the customer to take action or respond, as well as to test various email creative.
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HARPERS FERRY - Avid hikers, volunteers and visitors from across the country gathered in Harpers Ferry this weekend for a two-day celebration of the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Appalachian Trail.
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), the National Park Service, the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail Park Office and the Friends of the Appalachian Trail in Harpers Ferry-Bolivar hosted the weekend celebration that featured guest speakers, guided hikes, workshops, activities, displays, food, music and a parade.
"The Appalachian Trail is the longest hiking-only foot path in the world. It runs from Maine to Georgia. It crosses through 14 states and it's over 2,180 miles long. We're really celebrating the joint efforts of all the volunteers and all the agency partners that really work together to make this a possibility," said Javier Folgar, ATC marketing and communications manager. at the close of a two-day celebration of the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Appalachian Trail.
A variety of trail-related programs were held throughout Harpers Ferry Saturday and Sunday during the festivities, including guest speaker presentations from historic trail personalities. This history of Appalachian Trail dates as far back as 1921. Benton MacKaye-a former forester, government analyst and newspaper editor - proposed a series of work, study and farming camps along the ridges of the Appalachian Mountains with a trail connecting them. On Aug. 14, 1937, the trail was finally competed thanks in large part to the work of trail supporter and Washington lawyer, Myron H. Avery.
The celebration this weekend in Harpers Ferry drew a number of visitors to the area, each with a unique connection to the trail. North Carolina native Jordan Dotson traveled to Harpers Ferry from Savannah, Ga., where she is currently a university student, to volunteer for the 75th anniversary of the trail.
"I became interested in the Appalachian Trail, read a couple of books and I've been keeping up with one of the thru-hikers who is on it right now. I saw this on Facebook and I needed a vacation, so I thought what better way to learn about the AT and help out," Dotson said.
Ned Kuhns, a thru-hiker who completed the entire trail in 2003, traveled from Virginia Beach to be part of the anniversary celebration and to show his support for the ATC, of which he is a life member. Kuhns is among the thousands of volunteers who help maintain the trail throughout the country.
"I just love the people that I interface with and meet and all the hikers we meet on the trail. It's a great way to give back to the country and to people," Kuhns said.
Jeff Haas, a member of the Delaware Nature Society, spent the weekend teaching visitors and children about the variety of animal wildlife that can be found on the trail. A section hiker, Haas hiked the entirety of the trail over the course of about five years and now teaches others to appreciate the natural wonders and wildlife that can be found upon the trail.
"This is a great opportunity to support an awesome accomplishment - 75 years - and just to support an amazing trail," Haas said. "It's been neat to see the buzz in the town and see people get excited about a trail that is a journey. It's an amazing journey for so many people."
Melissa Davis, a section hiker from King of Prussia, Pa., was among the many hikers who took a break from the trail to enjoy the weekend festivities. She said she fell in love with Harpers Ferry several years ago when, at 14, she hiked the trail with a group of girls and ended up in the town.
"I've been coming every year for about six years recently. I didn't hesitate for a moment to come out by myself because I knew I'd have instant friends here. We all have the trail in common," Davis said.
Lou Ann Blake and her husband, Maurice Peret, who are both blind hikers, traveled to Harpers Ferry from Baltimore to represent the National Federation of the Blind of Maryland and to share their story about their love for the Appalachian Trail. Married for a little over a year, Blake and Peret celebrated their honeymoon on the trail, as well as the first anniversary of their marriage.
"We are trying to get more blind people out to the great outdoors and we're also trying to show sighted people that blind people are capable of doing everything they are capable of doing. We just have to do it a little differently sometimes," Blake said. "A lot of people think blind people can't cross the street independently, let alone hike the Appalachian Trail."
Rev. Donna Christine Park, founder and president of Walk a Mile in My Shoes -On the Path to Peace, traveled to Harpers Ferry on behalf of her nonprofit organization and to honor Mildred L. Norman, a peace activist known as "Peace Pilgrim" who became the first woman to walk the entire length of the trail in 1952. Park's nonprofit organization is a global outreach ministry designed to advocate and facilitate individual empowerment through the simple act of sharing a single pair of shoes.
"In our four-year history we have shared shoes with over 13,950 people, but along that path two years ago I was introduced to Peace Pilgrim," Park said. "I am here to honor her and, of course, I learned so much about the Appalachian Trail. This has been such an absolute blessing."
The shoes that Park collected this weekend will be donated to Jefferson County Community Ministries.
The weekend anniversary celebration came to an end late Sunday afternoon as volunteers and hikers gathered to share a toast during a closing ceremony.
"We're absolutely thrilled that the Appalachian Trail goes right through the heart of the park, and we're glad to be proud partners with them in helping to preserve it for future generations," Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Superintendent Rebecca Harriett
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Save the date!
Join us on 10-13 September 2013 at the BMS Main Meeting 2013 and explore the latest research on fungi and environmental change.
The conference will cover four main topics:
- Phenology, ecology and eco-system processes
- Animal disease
- Mutualistic relationships
- Plant pathogens
Sessions will feature a mixture of invited and offered papers. Speakers who have agreed to attend include Björn Lindhahl (Sweden), Kathleen Treseder (USA), Arturo Casadevell (USA), Javier Dieguez-Uribeondo (), Mat Fisher (UK), Frank Richards (France), Betsy Arnold (USA), Chris Ellis (UK), John Dighton (USA), Clive Brassier (UK), Everett Hansen (USA), Takao Kasuga (USA), Jan Stenlid (Sweden), and Joan Webber (UK).
The conference will be held at Cardiff University Conference Centre at University Hall, about two miles from the centre of Cardiff. As well as the usual paper-giving sessions there will also be an afternoon before the meeting gets fully underway devoted to post-graduates and field mycologists, though everyone is cordially invited to attend.
For more information on this conference please visit the conference homepage.
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As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17
This is for a new Men’s Ministry initiative.
Six things that make an IronMan. Check these out.
Being an IronMan means…
…you follow God & lead others.
…you love your wife & kids.
…you aren’t lazy…you work & get it done!
…you are confident, courageous and willing to risk.
…your eyes, mind & heart are pure.
…you put others & their needs first.
The men of Journey Church will start holding each other accountable for these things!
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Decellularization and Recellularization of Whole Livers
Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Shriners Hospitals for Children
Perfusion decellularization is a novel technique to produce whole liver scaffolds that retains the organ's extracellular matrix composition and microarchitecture. Herein, the method of preparing whole organ scaffolds using perfusion decellularization and subsequent repopulation with hepatocytes is described. Functional and transplantable liver grafts can be generated using this technique..
3-Dimensional Resin Casting and Imaging of Mouse Portal Vein or Intrahepatic Bile Duct System..
Murine Bioluminescent Hepatic Tumour Model.
Use of a Hanging-weight System for Liver Ischemia in Mice.
In vivo Liver Endocytosis Followed by Purification of Liver Cells by Liver Perfusion
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Seven Steps to Stellate Cells
Here we describe the isolation of CD133 expressing liver stem cells and cancer stem cells from whole murine liver, a process that requires tissue digestion, cell enrichment, and flow cytometry isolation. We include methods for advanced single cell isolation and clonal expansion...
Isolation and Primary Culture of Rat Hepatic Cells
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 2American University in Washington, D.C., 3Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Primary hepatocytes provide a valuable tool to evaluate biochemical, molecular, and metabolic functions in a physiologically relevant experimental system. We describe a reliable protocol for rat in situ liver perfusion, which consistently generates viable hepatocytes up to 1.0 × 108 cells per preparation with cell viability between 88 ~ 96%.
Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Rats.
Isolation of Rat Portal Fibroblasts by In situ Liver Perfusion.
Manufacturing Devices and Instruments for Easier Rat Liver Transplantation..
Robust Generation of Hepatocyte-like Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cell Populations
Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
This article will focus on the generation of human hepatic endoderm from human embryonic stem cell populations...
Expression Analysis of Mammalian Linker-histone Subtypes
School of Biology and the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
We describe a set of assays to analyze expression levels of H1 linker histones. mRNA of individual H1 genes are quantitatively measured by random primer based reverse transcription followed by real-time PCR, whereas protein quantification of H1 histones is achieved by HPLC analysis.
Ex Vivo Culture of Patient Tissue & Examination of Gene Delivery
1Cork Cancer Research Centre, Mercy University Hospital and Leslie C. Quick Jnr. Laboratory, University College Cork, 2Department of Computer Science, University College Cork
This article describes the culture of patient tissue slices for gene delivery studies and subsequent analysis of gene expression using IVIS bioluminescence imaging.
Orthotopic Mouse Model of Colorectal Cancer..
Preparation and Using Phantom Lesions to Practice Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies
1Department of Pathology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2BioInnovation LLC
Practicing of fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNAB) by trainees is relatively challenging, due to the lack of an easily available, appropriate lesion. Preparation of an AV phantom lesion for practicing the FNAB procedure and mastering proficiency is relatively easy.
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Colon Ascendens Stent Peritonitis (CASP) - a Standardized Model for Polymicrobial Abdominal Sepsis
Department of Surgery, University of Greifswald
The Colon Ascendens Stent Peritonitis (CASP) is a highly standardized model for polymicrobial abdominal sepsis in rodents. This article describes the surgical procedure of CASP. The CASP model and its variants allow the systematic investigation of various problems concerning the subject of sepsis.
Two Methods of Heterokaryon Formation to Discover HCV Restriction Factors.
Using the GELFREE 8100 Fractionation System for Molecular Weight-Based Fractionation with Liquid Phase Recovery
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Mouse Islet of Langerhans Isolation using a Combination of Purified Collagenase and Neutral Protease
A detailed description of mouse islet isolation is described using the technique of in situ pancreatic ductal cannulation and perfusion of a combination of purified collagenase and neutral protease.
Diagnosis of Ecto- and Endoparasites in Laboratory Rats and Mice.
Multi-parameter Measurement of the Permeability Transition Pore Opening in Isolated Mouse Heart Mitochondria
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In vivo Imaging of Transgenic Leishmania Parasites in a Live Host.
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The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed-indexed video journal. Our mission is to increase the productivity of scientific research.
1Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, 2School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast
Gostimskaya, I., Galkin, A. Preparation of Highly Coupled Rat Heart Mitochondria. J. Vis. Exp. (43), e2202, doi:10.3791/2202 (2010).
The function of mitochondria in generation of cellular ATP in the process of oxidative phosphorylation is widely recognised. During the past decades there have been significant advances in our understanding of the functions of mitochondria other than the generation of energy. These include their role in apoptosis, acting as signalling organelles, mammalian development and ageing as well as their contribution to the coordination between cell metabolism and cell proliferation. Our understanding of biological processes modulated by mitochondria is based on robust methods for isolation and handling of intact mitochondria from tissues of the laboratory animals. Mitochondria from rat heart is one of the most common preparations for past and current studies of cellular metabolism including studies on knock-out animals.
Here we describe a detailed rapid method for isolation of intact mitochondria with a high degree of coupling. Such preparation of rat heart mitochondria is an excellent object for functional and structural research on cellular bioenergetics, transport of biomolecules, proteomic studies and analysis of mitochondrial DNA, proteins and lipids.
Introduction
Mitochondria from rat heart is one of the most common preparations for past and current studies of cellular metabolism. They can be obtained quickly and reliably in great quantity from wild type or knock-out animals. The general procedure consists of tissue digestion by trypsin, fractionation and differential centrifugation.
There are several conditions that have to be kept during Isolation of mitochondria from various tissues, including the heart (Fig. 1).
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The general scheme of the procedure is shown on Fig. 1. Hearts should be cooled and washed in Washing buffer, ventricular tissue excised, minced and homogenised during photolytic treatment with trypsin. The suspension is centrifuged at low speed and the obtained supernatant is centrifuged again at higher speed to collect mitochondria. Depending on the planned experiments the resuspending buffer can be replaced by any other isotonic solution.
Animals were terminated in accordance with the U.K. "Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act." by cervical dislocation followed by decapitation. It is necessary to extract the heart immediately after decapitation of the animal, so that there is no delay between animal termination and heart extraction. If parallel isolation of liver mitochondria is expected the rats should be fasted overnight prior to the experiment.
Figure 1. Scheme demonstrating the step by step procedure of isolation of rat heart mitochondria. Top part, Stages 1-9: tissue disruption, trypsin treatment and homogenisation; bottom part, stages 10-15: differential centrifugation.
Detailed rapid protocol for isolation of intact mitochondria with a high degree of coupling is described. Obtained preparation can be used for functional or structural research on cellular bioenergetics, proteomic studies or analysis of mitochondrial DNA and lipid content. Biophysical studies of active transport of ions and metabolic intermediates can also be performed. It is possible to further process the mitochondrial preparation in order to isolate submitochondrial particles, outer membrane or purify separate components of oxidative phosphorylation. The described method is a modification of the standard protocol of isolation by Jacobus and Saks1. The expected yield of the prepared mitochondria is approximately 10-15 mg of mitochondrial protein per heart and the respiratory control ratio on malate/glutamate of such preparation varies between 8 to 12 with State IV respiration of around 0.12 μmol O2xmin-1xmg protein-1 at 23°C in the medium comprising 0.25 M sucrose, 10 mM KCl, 0.2 mM EDTA, 5 mM potassium phosphate (pH 8.0) with 150 μM ADP for initiation State III respiration (for the exact experimental conditions and additions, see ref. 2).
Special attention should be given to several technical details before the starting of the isolation procedure. It is crucial to use clean polycarbonate or polypropylene centrifuge tubes, therefore tubes should be thoroughly washed with a clean brush and hot water, however the detergent treatment should be kept at the minimum. Also, it is better to collect all necessary glassware and instruments in the cold room a day before the isolation.
During the isolation when transferring buffers from flasks to beakers, а special attention should be given to prevent drops of ice water into the solutions. When handling tissues it should be stressed that heart extraction should be carried out as soon as possible since even short-time delay between decapitation of the animal and cooling the tissue would result in partially uncoupled mitochondria. Rapid cooling and thorough washing of removed hearts is essential to obtain standard preparation, free from haemoglobin and erythrocyte NADase.
Trypsin is used for connective proteins degradation to increase susceptibility of the tissue to shearing force during homogenisation. Prolonged exposure of the tissue to protease should be avoided since it results in mitochondria of inferior quality.
After high speed centrifugations the walls of the centrifuge tubes should be wiped with tissue paper to remove any deposits of fat material accumulated on the walls.
For the final resuspension it is better to use a low volume of the final buffer in order to minimise loss of mitochondrial functions during storage (150 to 200 μl of the buffer per heart). For studies of the transport of divalent cations no chelating agents must be present in the final preparation thus mitochondria should be washed for several times with EGTA-free medium and used within first hours after isolation.
No conflicts of interest declared.
We thank Prof. A. Vinogradov and Dr Vera Grivennikova for introduction of the authors to the field of mitochondrial biology and many useful insights and advice in this procedure. The authors are grateful to Mrs Amanda McKintock from the Queens University media office for the help with the video preparation.
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destruction game with tower-defense elements tossed in. As the Knights, you defend your castle from waves of attacking Vikings; players can defend with ranged weapons such as ballistas, or choose to put their boots on the ground and get right into the conflict as a hero.
There will also be a host of other modes to play outside of the campaign's 12 different environments, including online multiplayer and co-op, plus a castle editor – you can set up your own look and weapon loadouts for your castle, and test weapons within the editor to see how they'd bring it down.
Zen Studios hasn't announced a price for CastleStorm yet, but with only around a month left until launch, we're sure the developer will lob a price point over toward us soon.
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Harry Partridge is pretty excited for Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimFeb 8th 2011 4:37AM (Joystiq)
sure dood!
Readers pick best webcomic: Kinder SurpriseFeb 5th 2011 8:04PM (Joystiq)
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 retail listing shows AkumaJan 13th 2011 7:42PM (Joystiq)
don't forget Ice man!
BBC: Kinect caused 'Red Ring of Death' on out-of-warranty Xbox 360Jan 5th 2011 4:20PM (Joystiq)
The Commodore 64 returns as a modern PCDec 22nd 2010 11:57PM (Joystiq)
i'll buy it, for real
PlayStation Move ad banned in UK for condoning 'violent behavior'Dec 22nd 2010 6:33PM (Joystiq)
BlazBlue Continuum Shift DLC discounted now on Xbox Live, Jan. 4 on PSNDec 21st 2010 6:15AM (Joystiq)
The Daily Grind: Are you playing Cataclysm?Dec 19th 2010 11:12AM (Massively)
what'd british columbia has to do with wow? XD
GT Academy competition to be featured in Speed Network reality showDec 19th 2010 10:51AM (Joystiq)
i think it's funny but maybe i'm still drunk XD
Demon's Souls server operation extended until late 2011Dec 18th 2010 9:48PM (Joystiq)
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jeans?
Technology reporter Stanley A. Miller II tracks news and trends, from the coolest new gadgets to the latest stuff on the Web it come with a little Steve Jobs wearing a black turtleneck and blue
jeans?
- It sure does!
- Now that's funny. I can appreciate a company that can make fun of itself.
To make it clear, I am not an Apple person. I am Android, but I could see
myself with an Apple laptop.
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Your daily first look at what's happening around Milwaukee
On Tap Today: Seeing double
Movies are more than mere shadows on the wall. But can you believe anything at all when two actors play the role of one? Both Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones play the same character in "Man in Black 3." Check your own double vision with our two-actors-for-one quiz.
Other films call to us, and in Weekend Cue we learn what kind of shadows they cast. "Monsieur Lazhar" tells about an Algerian immigrant who must fill the shoes of a teacher who committed suicide. Does the film deserve its Oscar nomination? Find out what Film Critic Duane Dudek thinks here.
And see if the saga of dancers entering the Young America ballet competion soars in a new documentary, "First Position."
But let us never forget to celebrate the holiday outside the theater. Dining Critic Carol Deptolla tells us if we should order up at Jake's Burger in Brookfield. Mmmmm, a cold ice cream shake. ... Mmmmm.
- : Memorial Day : Men in Black 3 : Monsieur Lazhar
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funny.
- He isn't signing here. Ted doesn't sign speed and skill position players on the "other side of 30" unless they're can't miss sure things, and even then, they would cost too much for Ted. Loved Jackson back in the day, but this is a few days (YEARS?) PAST his day. He doesn't have enough shake and bake left to make up for our offensive line.Hide replies
- Didn't TT sign Cedric Benson? Jackson for a 2 to 3 year contract would be a good signing.
- Benson signed for the veterans minimum practically. It's going to cost probably 5-7 million to get Jackson here. Will never happen.
- JDL, no way he gets $5 to $7M. You aptly pointed out his shortcomings. Given that and the hard cap, there isn't a team out there that will commit that kind of money. He'll be out there for a while and accept a budget deal at the end of the day. Could be GB.
- You may be right but I just don't see it. 5-7 million is middle tier. He might not be worth that to us, but I think somebody will give him that money. I just hope it isn't us. I'll take him for 2-3 million. I just don't think he'd ever settle for that but time will tell I guess.
- John....Benson's contract was so paltry, he actually OWES the team money.
Benson is finished...too much tread on his tires.
- Love the way he runs hard and plays hard, but it ain't gonna happen, too much tread on his tires. They are going with someone young at RB........Hide replies
- I think you mean not enough tread.
- Too much tread on the tires? HA HA HA HA HA HA.
- Hey Cheese, he may be thinking drag racing.
- I keep seeing that Jackson has "too much tread" on his tires. That's wrong. He either has too many miles on his legs, or too little tread on his tires, which wear down with use and time. That said, I hope he brings his treadless tires to GB.Hide replies
- It isn't good to have too much tread, either...hard to keep your balance.
- Haha, yeah I have seen the "too much tread" thing too, hilarious. Maybe we should take the analogy further. Steven Jackson has too much gas in the tank. That will slow you down with extra weight.
- Hopefully he doesn't fall for the banana in the tailpipe trick.
- The pres says to get more mileage out of him be sure to keep those tires inflated properly. :-)
- I only worry about the banana in the tailpipe trick when I'm tailing Axel Foley.
- How 'bout we forget about SJ and think about drafting Eddie Lacy from Alabama .. watched this kid tear up the SEC with hard running .. his style of running is what GB needs considering we don't run block very well.Hide replies
- He tore up the SEC because he had 3 first round picks on the O-LINE blocking for him...Jackson is a proven NFL stud
- And our O line is not Alabama's (when compared to college comp vs Pro comp). Jackson has had little or no passing game to help him, and he still gains yardage with 8 in the box. We don't do well against 6 in the box.
- Great observation mvitch. You're like the Dennis Rodman of the blog.
- I agree on drafting Lacey
- Given the fact Ted Thompson opted and signed Cedric Bensen tells me there is a chance but however once again it all comes down to MONEY and CAP Space. I don't think a solid deal will be reached and it all comes down to Jackson's asking price. Can Thompson deal him? Yes but WILL he is the question and so far I don't see it happening. Especially if the Packers have a SOLID interest in picking up Canty which I would honestly prefer when comparing to Jackson. We shall see nows the perfect time for journalists, Anylists, and bloggers to start the Rumor mill so to speak with only a week or so away from when the real action starts.
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- But he signed Benson for the veterans minimum practically. Basically picked him out of the discount bin. SJ is going to ask for at LEAST 5-7 times that. If you sign him for that you'll have to restructure other contracts or cut other veterans, you might not be able to sign Raji or Matthews depending, you'd be kissing off Finley for absolute sure AND you're STILL rolling the dice that Jackson has anything left in the tank. Remember he plays on turf too so his numbers won't be as good here on grass and in the elements. Too much risk. Not enough reward for me.
- Agreed John like I said probably a no go on Jackson based on our cap
- Stop including Raji in this discussion. Rodgers and Matthews are a true "cut above" and are the real CAP issues. Raji is not!!!!!!!!!
- However never say never Jackson can accept any thing just like Jensen was forced to do this season
- Corrected bensen not jensen
- Pack have 20-22M in cap space. Rookies will take 4-5M in cap space..
- Trade tramon for a draft pick that should save some $$$$. Let Hayward, shields, house battle for starting spots, they would all help with our run D much better.
- I'm hoping TT finally gets a little more agressive in free agency this year. It's a little frustrating because I feel like he is wasting the prime of Aaron Rodger's career and we're halfway through our window with him yet we always seem to forego free agency and go with the same old draft strategy. Don't get me wrong, his draft strategy has worked but I think the draft has gotten us to a plateau where we went on an improbable run in 10' when the team peaked at the right time vs. a lackluster playoff field. However, I can guarantee one thing, San Fran is not getting any worse next year and we won't catch that juggernaut without being active in free agency. TT needs to get after it this year or someday he's going to look back on one Super Bowl ring and realize he could have had more. We have the best QB in the NFL, no excuses.Hide replies
- Jeepers Collins36, that sounds like my statement a few days ago, that "superbowl windows don't stay open long" and guys were blasting me because we have young Rogers. Well he needs help and he can't block and he is not on the Defense. I agree TT needs to add a quality player or 2 on defense via FA, and Jackson would look great in GB for 2-3 seasons. He has a lot to still offer.
- GB CAN'T be active on a high level in FA. It's not possible, unless you want to run into cap issues and not be able to retain Clay/Rodgers/Raji..
- Please, all FA nuts please read this post by NC and educate yourselves.
- Please let's stop putting Raji in with Rodgers and Matthews. He is far more expendable and replaceable and should not be in the same conversation when it comes to CAP ROOM issues.
- Sorry, but when you're spending $25 million of your salary cap on three average players like Finley, Williams and Hawk, you aren't going to have enough money to pay good players like Jackson and improve the team..Hide replies
- Boy, it would be fun to spend AJ Hawk's salary on the free market, wouldn't it?
- Better watch what you say about AJ, his supporters have been out in full force lately............
- Tramon Williams is better than you think he is.
- Why does everyone think that Jackson is going to get this big contract? For one all the top teams have their runningback. Maybe the Lions go for him, but I think LeShore is their man. The Cowboys could use him, but they are in cap hell. The Saints don't have any money. Why would some of these bottom feeders want to sign him, and why would he want to play for them. At this juncture does money talk? We will see. I think we can get hi for 4-5 mil.. Call me stupid but he may sacrifice a couple mil. for the chance at a championship. I would definately sign him a 3 for 15 contract.Hide replies
- 2nd that ram rod. He's been through the grinder with losing teams for so long, he's made some money, maybe he wants a chance at winning. Jackson / Harris would be sunflower seeds and bubble gum (BTW that's a good thing)
- So would Monte and Harris....and it would not cost $4-5 biggies...and mess the cap.
- Do you know why other teams fans aren't talking about bringing in Ball during every comment they make? They're not homers. Take me for instance. I'm not a fan of any college team but love to watch college football. At this point I can name quite a few RB's I would take over him. It gets so annoying hearing about Ball every time a RB and GB is mentioned. We have all got the point that a lot of Packer fans want to bring in Ball. I'm sure TT even understands this but it won't change anything.
- Steven Jackson is on the downside! Past his prime! Use the draft pick and put Ball in the backfield! time to pony up for a real running back!Hide replies
- Take off your W glasses, unless Ball bulks up and doesn't lose any speed (which he has none to give), he's a long shot at best.
- Tou obviously didn't wear yours over the last 4 years...to call the guy who shattered records at tailback U a long shot at best is a "blind statement"....at best.
- If he was available in the 3rd I'd consider it. That being said I see RB's with more potential.).
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Microsoft’s long war against Linux, Android and all things related to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is something that can’t be ignored anymore.
Here is a look at the history of Microsoft's infamous FUD (Fear, uncertainty and doubt) campaigns against Linux and FOSS:
Microsoft's first FUD
Microsoft initially had no big competitors. Everything was peachy in the rapidly-growing Gatesland. From office desktops to giant servers, Windows was having a somewhat faddish influence on the computer-curios crowd. But soon, in the shadows of this giant monster's trail, a new rival was slowly taking shape. Linux, even though slowly, was getting the recognition it deserved, posing a direct threat to Microsoft's mega empire. Microsoft, as it does with every competitor it faces, was quick to deny Linux's existence. It was only when the tiny penguin started gaining prominence in the server market that Microsoft made its first attempt at thwarting Linux's growth.
In 1999, Mindcraft, a company specializing in testing and benchmarking systems, published a thorough report stating that “Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as a file server and 3.7 times faster as a Web Server”. One year prior, a similar whitepaper was published, attacking Novell Netware, claiming that “Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 25.5% faster than Novell Netware 5 as a File Server and has 2.7 times better price/performance”.
The reports were convincing enough for any consumer to opt for the 'better' product, which apparently was Microsoft NT Server. Although, the truth behind the report soon came out when it was revealed that Microsoft had paid Mindcraft to create the report. Well, to give Mindcraft some credit, the benchmarking was actually carried out on a Linux server. However, the Linux system used in the test was not setup in an optimal way. Mindcraft had used the best configuration for their NT models, yet they failed to setup a Linux system that was performing to its full capacity. Thus began, Microsoft's long and dirty campaign against Linux.
Linux, the incurable cancer
As Microsoft kept coming out with newer versions of its flagship Windows operating system, Linux, slowly but steadily, started growing bigger. At that time, when Windows NT and 2000 ruled the desktop world, Linux users were seen as hippies or communists by Microsoft's loyal minions. Steve Ballmer, even went as far as to say that “Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches”. What the badmouth Ballmer didn't realize then was that this virtually-unknown operating system would be used in cancer research some day.
Post-2000, Linux became a more palpable opponent to Microsoft's giant empire. Now, Linux was not only a server operating system but also a more usable desktop OS. Microsoft, as always, was never going to back down. They started using fear as a weapon in its fight against Free and Open Source Software. They claimed that Linux developers and users (yes you heard that right) violated almost 235 of its patents. Microsoft said that they only 'chose' not to sue Linux for this. Now, this claim by Microsoft may not come as a big surprise for any experienced Linux user, but for users who were planning on switching from Windows to Linux, this was a huge hurdle. Fears and doubts were instilled in the minds of many Tux-curious users and corporations, a fear that he or she might face a lawsuit for installing Linux on his or her computer.
Flip-flop and PR
This war took a strange, or rather shocking turn when Microsoft suddenly started supporting open source. They even began contributing code to Linux's kernel. What an altruistic move we must say. But this move was clearly a well-planned scheme by Microsoft's PR department to mend its broken image in the tech world. This is when Gatescorp started playing the game a little more carefully, by avoiding conspicuous maneuvers so that the company's brand image remained intact.
Microsoft and Netbooks
Well, that didn't by any means imply that Microsoft had given up its fight against the penguin. When Linux-based netbooks started taking the world by storm, Microsoft started its ugly game again by claiming that Linux had higher return rates than Windows. The fact was that many users actually chose Ubuntu over Windows XP when it came to netbooks. Well-engineered Linux-based netbooks offered almost everything Windows offered and more. Canonical even exposed Microsoft's netbook FUD in a post on their blog.
Windows 7 is the best
When Windows 7 came out, Microsoft started looking for new and innovative ways to continue its FUD campaign. By then, Linux was no longer a geek-only operating system. In fact, Ubuntu had become a popular name amongst developers and casual users alike. What Microsoft did here was not only evil but also something really stupid. In Microsoft's training material for Best Buy employees (called Microsoft ExpertZone), they included a module which taught how to convince customers that Linux was a bad choice when compared to Windows 7.
The talking points mentioned in the course went from ludicrous to absolutely moronic at times. According to Microsoft, few of the issues with Linux were that one couldn't play World of WarCraft or download and install Windows Live Essentials. The most ridiculous part of the module was the claim it made that “Windows is safer than Linux”. Of course, even an inexperienced Linux user would be quick to repudiate that 'claim', but no matter what the facts are, Microsoft keeps pushing its evil propaganda to consumers.
Droid and the ghost of Microsoft
Android is killing the iPhone. But in this battle of smartphones Microsoft is nowhere to be seen. Well, that's what many people believe. Here too, Microsoft is playing its evil game, however, this time, by staying behind the scenes. There has been a huge debate whether Android can be considered as Linux but for the sake of the argument let's consider it as a Linux-based OS. Now, Microsoft claims that Android OS, being a Linux-based one, is infringing many of their patents. They are demanding 15 USD in cash for every Android device Samsung makes. $15 looks like a small amount, but considering the huge number of sales the Google-made phones have achieved, it is enough to keep Microsoft happy for years. Samsung on the other hand is trying hard to negotiate a lower $10 fee in exchange for some kind of alliance with Microsoft. Appalling, absolutely appalling.
The Chrome attack
The latest threat to Microsoft's million-dollar empire is Google Chrome OS. Though Microsoft has never publicly acknowledged the browser-based Operating System as a threat to their company, but Google is a competitor they can't afford to be complacent with. I'm quite sure that if Chromebooks start performing well in the market, Microsoft will start some kind of FUD or patent war against Google. Any attack on Chrome OS will be more or less an attack on Linux as it is after all a Linux-based Operating System.
The Future
Linux is not the only threat to Microsoft's empire. Their old arch rival Apple has risen from the ashes to take them head on and it appears that Microsoft has run out of ways to tackle them. iPads and iPhones are selling like pancakes. Gatescorp, which once predicted that 'tablets are dead', are lamenting not being a part of this trend. Linux being open source and free was an easy target for Microsoft's FUD plot, but taking on Apple is not a child's play. Apple has a strong fan base and talking an Apple fanboy into buying something else is a huge task in itself.
Microsoft, under no circumstances, is going to stop its war on Linux. In one-way or the other it is determined to crush the FOSS world to pieces. While this may scare the next-door Linux enthusiast, one must always remember this quote – “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win” – Mahatma Gandhi
Important to remember these in light of their "birthday wish" video
You Forgot the Biggest FUD Campain Ever!
When is was found out that Microsoft Funded the SCO Unix Patent Infringement Law Suit against Linux, IBM, Red Hat and Novell.
Or how about the Wintel campain agianst the OLPC that cheated millions of children worldwide out of a quailty education. Don't forget that the OLPC created the netbook but was forced by M$ and Intel not to openly sell it.
Come on those two were bigger than any of the one's you listed.
It's scarring how these guys get what they want! I think is a matter of "FOOS users of the word, unite and grow". Long live GNU/Linux!!!
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I replaced the TEE into the tank earlier today. I had no water at all this morning and did a little troubleshooting. I removed the Switch, cleaned out the pipe and the other lines, replaced the Pressure gauge,re hooked everything back up, still no water pressure being generated?
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You mean the water shut off? or the Power shut off?
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“Candle in the Wind 1997” is a re-written and rerecorded version of Elton John’s own 1973 hit “Candle in the Wind” that was released as a tribute single to the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America, with certified sales it is “the best-selling single of all time.” The Guinness Book of World Records 2009 states that the song is “the biggest-selling single since UK and US singles charts began in the 1950s, having accumulated worldwide sales of 33 million copies,” and is the best-selling single worldwide of all time.
On release in September 1997, “Candle in the Wind 1997″ entered number one in the UK, John’s fourth UK number one single, and became the best-selling single in UK Chart history. In October it became John’s ninth U.S. number one single, where it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks, and is the best-selling single in Billboard history, and the only single ever certified Diamond in the U.S.
“Candle in the Wind 1997″ topped the German Singles Chart for seven weeks, the Australian ARIA Charts for six weeks, reached number one in Japan, Canada, France and music charts around the world.
The 1997 version won John the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 40th Grammy Awards ceremony in 1998. and poignantly ironic omission was the line, “Even when you died, the press still hounded you…” which was replaced with the lyric, “Even though we try, the truth brings us to tears…”
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The United States has asked a federal court in Camden, N.J., to bar Doris E. Baules, who operates D’Vazquez Tax Solutions, from preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government complaint, Baules continually and improperly claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on her clients’ returns to enable them to receive erroneous tax refunds. The suit alleges that the defendant improperly increases their EITC claims.
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Chicago Man Pleads Guilty to Bringing Minor to Illinois for Prostitution; Admits Forced Sex-trafficking of Four Victims
CHICAGO — A Chicago man is facing a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a maximum sentence of life in prison after pleading guilty today to transporting a minor from Wisconsin to Illinois for prostitution. The defendant, CARL BRANDON SMITH, also admitted that he engaged in forced sex-trafficking of the victim, as well as a second minor and two young adult women. Between 2010 and early 2012, Smith forced his victims to engage in commercial sex acts, used physical violence, and threatened to kill them if they ever left him. The guilty plea was announced by Gary S. Shapiro, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Thomas R. Trautmann, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Smith, also known as “Moo,” 25, of Chicago, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 5 by U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve. Smith has remained in federal custody since he was arrested last April last and charged with two counts of sex-trafficking of a minor and by force, two counts of sex-trafficking by force, and one count of transporting a minor across state lines to engage in prostitution.
According to a plea agreement, Smith met Victim B in December 2010 and began contacting her via phone, text, and social media, asking her to move to Chicago, intending that she be his “girlfriend” and also engage in prostitution. In February 2011, Smith drove from Chicago to Victim B’s residence in Wisconsin, and then drove her from Wisconsin to his apartment in Chicago, acknowledging that she was under 18 at the time.
Once in Chicago, Smith “dated” Victim B for approximately a week before Victim B began working as a prostitute under his employ. Between February and July 2011, Victim B engaged in commercial sex acts at Smith’s direction. Smith acted as Victim B’s pimp, advertised her for commercial sex on internet sites, and instructed her to have sex with customers in his apartment and in area motels. Victim B had sex with numerous men per week and gave a portion of the money she earned to Smith.
As part of the guilty plea, Smith stipulated that he acted as a pimp for Victim A, also a minor, and forced her to engage in prostitution during 2010. Smith inflicted physical violence on Victim A when she gave him “attitude” or when she indicated that she no longer wanted to work as a prostitute. On one occasion, Smith beat Victim A so severely that one eye swelled shut.
Similarly, Smith stipulated to using and threatening violence against both Victims C and D, both adults, while acting as their pimp and forcing them to engage in commercial sex acts in 2011 and early 2012.
The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office, the Naperville and Aurora police departments, and the Cook County Human Trafficking Task Force assisted in the investigation. The government is being represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Grohman and Felicia Manno Alesia.
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In Just 3 Months Allegedly Distributed at Least 3,000 30mg Oxycodone Tablets from Illegal Prescriptions
Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Dr. Joffre Erwin Robalino, age 43, of Columbia, Maryland, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone. The indictment was returned on June 1, 2011, and unsealed today at Dr. Robalino’s initial appearance. Dr. Robalino was arrested last night. At his initial appearance today Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm ordered that Robalino be released on home detention with electronic monitoring under the supervision of U.S. Pretrial Services.
The indictment was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Washington Field Division; Special Agent in Charge Robert Craig of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service - Mid-Atlantic Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Nicholas DiGiulio, Office of Investigations, Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services .
“The alleged criminal action of Dr. Robalino, a military doctor for the U.S. Army, is very disappointing,” stated Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ava A. Cooper-Davis. “Professionals, such as doctors or pharmacists, who knowingly abuse their power and the public trust to illegally dispense drugs are common drug dealers - no different than those selling illicit drugs on the street. Nobody is above the law. This type of illegal conduct will not be tolerated and will be investigated vigorously by our DEA Tactical Diversion Squads,” stated Cooper-Davis.
According to the indictment and affidavit filed in support of a search warrant for Robalino’s residence and vehicle, Robalino is a doctor and an active duty Army Captain employed at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. According to the affidavit, from March 9, 2011 to May 25, 2011, Robalino allegedly wrote 16 prescriptions for oxycodone/oxymorphone products in the names of his wife and mother. The prescriptions were allegedly filled at 11 different pharmacies and paid for by TriCare, a military health insurance plan. A total of 3,525 oxycodone tablets were dispensed. According to the affidavit, a typical oxycodone prescription is written for a 30 day supply of the dug. The prescriptions written by Dr. Robalino were filled just a few days apart at different pharmacies and far exceed the amount of pills two people could consume for legitimate purposes.
The affidavit further alleges that during that same period, Robalino wrote prescriptions in the names of other individuals who were not his patients, sometimes without that person’s knowledge, filled the prescriptions himself or had others pass the prescriptions, then sold the oxycodone to other individuals for their personal use or to distribute to others. The affidavit alleges that Robalino sold at least 3,000 30 mg oxycodone tablets for $10 - $12 per tablet with pills obtained from prescriptions through these individuals.
If convicted, Robalino faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised the DEA Tactical Diversion Squad, DCIS, and HHS-OIG for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorney Mushtaq Gunja, who is prosecuting the case.
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Centerville Woman Faces Fraud Charges For Using Her Daughter's Federal Benefits
ERIE, Pa. ‑ A resident of Centerville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of theft of government property, false statements and social security fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
The four‑count indictment named Susan Lynn Woodcock, 43, as the sole defendant.
According to the indictment presented to the court, from Sept. 2006 to June 2009, Woodcock, after applying to receive Supplemental Security Income ("SSI") Benefits on her daughter's behalf, knowingly and willfully converted those benefits to her own use. By doing so, Woodcock received payments, valuing approximately $21,576, to which she knew she was not entitled. Christine A. Sanner is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.
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This vision and passion is built upon God’s words to the Israelite people in exile in Babylon in the 6th century BC:
“Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare” (Jeremiah 29:7).
Washington, DC is a fascinating city. On the one hand, it is a city rich in culture and history, a city to which movers and shakers come from all over the world, a city that leads the country in terms of life expectancy, education and income.
And yet it is also a city with devastating poverty, a struggling public education system, and an HIV infection rate higher than many sub-Saharan African nations—it’s estimated that one in every twenty adults in DC has the infection.
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Rooney Mara Replacing Blake Lively in 'Side Effects'
Rooney Mara is taking over Blake Lively‘s role in the upcoming Steven Soderbergh thriller Side Effects.
Also starring in the film, about a woman who turns to prescription meds to cope with the anxiety of the upcoming release from prison of her husband, are Jude Law and Channing Tatum, Deadline reports.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Rooney Mara
Filming is set to begin in April, and the film will be released in 2013.
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great decision. that makes the movie worth watching. go Rooney!
Hahahahahahahaha….that is all.
Awesome!! Rooney can actaully act (and she’s good at it) unlike Blake.
I think Blake Lively woulda have been good too (she was good in The Town), but I like Rooney Mara more.
bwaaahahahahahahahaa that gotta hurt! You don’t need to sleep around with a-list to get a job! Just be a good actress POINT BLANK PERIOD
I wonder how can they do that if they already had cast Blake? I guess no contract was made yet…why announce it then? Oh well.
Rooney looks like Demi Moore 2.0.
Neither of these women get to where they are w/o sleeping around.
Serves her right. Her people keep running their mouth when her role wasn’t confirmed as they have in the past. I’m glad Rooney got it. She can actually act.
Thats like asking whats better a better movie citizen kane or the hottie and the nottie?
Mara is an Oscar nominated sensation – Blake is just an average but good looking actress
No brainer.
@tara: There was some company who was investing, but as soon as Blake was part of the project they pulled out. Obviously. She’s the worst actress ever. With Rooney the movie is bound to be great.
The role never belonged to Lively in the first instance, so Rooney is not getting her left overs.
They should have replaced Channing Tatum while they were at it. I like when real actors replace talentless eye candy.
I actually find Blake pretty,but in terms of acting eh. Even in pictures she never has any expressions. Just very bland
I was very impressed w/Rooney in The Girl W/Dragon Tattoo. I wanna see more of her. People kinda criticize her calling her cold,but to me she seems very shy and nervous in interviews. I find it cute.
idk,I see alot of potential in her. I’m excited
@Sayer: Right, that’s why Rooney received an Oscar nomination last week. Demi Moore has never been close to getting that kind of attention. I doubt she slept with Terrence Malick, a recluse, who also gave her a lead role in Lawless.
Everything about Blake is overrated. Her looks and her….”talent”. I’m glad Rooney got it. I’m tired of people sleeping and trashing their way to get roles.
Blake is not leading lady material.
for a part like that, it was a good choice. blake is beautiful, so is rooney. they are completely different types of women. for a funny light movie blake would have worked, for a darker or more serious movie rooney will probably work. no need to attack either one of them. they both have their places in cinema.
yeaah! in your face Lively
rooney like her or not for her dubious interviews, IMO, she is a real good actress as she proved in TGWTDT. More believable also because she is not typical HW beauty. Blake, ha, any b itchy looking blonde could play on gossip girl. leighton is better anyway.
Blake isnt good enough for this roll
Hate Lively, so this news makes me happy. Rooney Mara is a much more talented actress. Sorry Blake, stick to showing up at every single Hollywood event in a new dress, that’s what you do best.
Good luck to Rooney
But how odd the Blake haters are still here to spread their lies
So the liars allege slept with Sodebergh too? And which red carpert has she been in this year? The one Jason Wu event?
LOL her haters seek her out at events and see/namecheck her even when shes not there.
Asking which I prefer more is the Sophie’s choice of unlikeable actresses; like being asked to choose a viper or a tarantula as a cuddle buddy. Rooney is the consummate entitled actress and Blake is the consummate casting couch actress. I would prefer neither to be honest. If Blake got the role she would be fluttering around with Ryan Reynolds or whoever-the-hell for publicity and if the movie goes badly “Aloof” Rooney won’t hesitate to say she didn’t want the role because it was stupid and she TRIED and TRIED to sabotage the audition but goddamn it she got it anyway (as if she couldn’t turn down the role) and then chat nonsense about how she really is an edgy, cool Lisbeth incarnate (and fail miserably at convincing anyone) and finally make a weak argument that she isn’t spoiled (which again no one will believe, because she would have spent the entire media tour being condescending and critical of the opportunities she was afforded). At least Blake would be publicly gracious, however she actually feels privately because she only leaks personal information. Whatever. I won’t be seeing it, Soderbergh or not.
Rooney is so BEAUTIFUL !
@BloodbuzzOhio: I compared Mara to Moore in terms of LOOKS.
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Dakota Fanning: 'Very Good' Poetry Reader
Dakota Fanning shows off her stripes as she gets some more filming done on the set of her upcoming movie Very Good Girls on Monday (July 23) in New York City.
The next day, the 18-year-old actress was spotted reading a collection of Sylvia Plath poetry titled Ariel on set.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Dakota Fanning
Over the weekend, Dakota was joined by her co-star Clark Gregg on the set of the film. Clark plays Dakota‘s father in the coming-of-age flick, which is slated for release next year.
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I hate her so much
@Chiara: why?
Lovely girl…
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Emma Watson Hearts NY
Brown University student Emma Watson shows off her love for New York as she arrives at Heathrow Airport in London on Sunday afternoon (September 20).
The 19-year-old Harry Potter actress has been studying up a storm at the Ivy League college but made a little time to come home for a bit to visit with her family.
Emma recently teamed up with People Tree to create her own line of fashion friendly clothes. The collection will be aimed at bringing fair trade and organic fashion to the 16-24 age group and Emma is acting as creative advisor.
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beautiful as ever! hope everything is going well at uni.
loveeeee her! I like the shoes :)
LOVE HER
She’s adorable!
This must mean she’s going to attend some of the London Fashion Week shows :)
OMG OMG OMG OMG i swear i was wearing the exact same shoe and i got it from ZARA and when i opened just jared i didnt believe that me and emma wore the same shoe in the same day YAY :) :D
OMG i was in the mall i came and opened just jared and i was shocked that emma was wearing the same shoe as mine that i wore today and u the girl who liked the shoe u can find it at ZARA i hope its still there cuz i bought it like before 1 month yay iam so happy the is the second time :) the first time was mileys shirt :d this id my lucky day
she’s so pretty.
She is such a natural beauty. Does this mean she’ll be at the Burberry show! Of all shows, that’s the one to be at. Jealous!
she is just so perfect!
anyone know where her blazer is from?
the blazer is by american eagle. i was excited when i saw this because i own it!!! and the bag is by lacoste.
GORGEOUS!! I’m assuming she’s going back to the UK to do some more filming before classes start at Brown. She looks great even when she’s dressed down. I can’t wait to buy some things from People Tree…it really is a great company! :D
I’m going to have to change my name since there’s another “me.” ;)
Gah, so adorable, wow! I bet she’s visiting Dan Rad, :P
Gorgeous!
Love her!
I think she is in town for the Buberry show, not filming. I can’t wait for pics from that show? Is there an afterparty.
I love that girl¡¡¡¡¡
well i’m a harry potter fan…
and they rock
^^
good luck emma
She should date joe jonas!
my favourate teen age girl is Emma watson .if i am harry potter so i propose her .
good luck emma
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The Twilight Saga: Total Eclipse of the Heart -- IN PICS!
The Eclipse cast looks on while costar Bryce Dallas Howard says something about the film in this first look at Jimmy Kimmel Live's "The Twilight Saga: Total Eclipse… Read More Here
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Tickets are ?8 in advance and ?10 on the door.
It will be free entry and bar-goers will be treated to both live and DJ sets from some of the Just Music favourites as they sit back and salivate over the brand new global beats food menu. The line up for launch night includes LEO ABRAHAMS live plus DJ sets from JON HOPKINS and LAROCA.
Wednesday 26th April will also celebrate the 17th April release of Escapism, a new chill out compilation series. Compiled and mixed by A&R guru Ben Sowton (Galaxy Radio, Bargrooves), Escapism will exclusively feature Just Music artists and will be released on Seamless Recordings.
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The straw that broke the camel's back… maybe, possibly, hopefully
by Kaci Johanna • Thursday, April 30, 2009 • Etc. • 0 Comments
Pete called just a few minutes ago to tell me about an interesting encounter he had this afternoon while working outside, before he left for work. Apparently some “tweaker” (see definition two) drove by the house and told him that some of his tweaker buddies were talking about stealing the boat motor. It’s locked...Read more →
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By Karen Asp
You're on a quest for flat abs. Trouble is, you suffer from heartburn, and traditional crunches set your chest on fire. Are you doomed to a tubby tummy? Fortunately, no, says Jennifer Cassetty, a certified personal trainer and fitness consultant in New York. When training your core, keep these heartburn-friendly strategies in mind:
1. Avoid face-up positions. Strike crunches, reverse sit-ups, V-ups and any exercise where you're lying face up. These exercises can trigger heartburn because they increase pressure in your abdomen, which can push stomach acid back up into your esophagus. In addition, when you're flat on your back, your esophagus is on the same level as your stomach, which makes it easier for reflux to occur.
2. Keep your heart above your hips. By staying as upright as possible, you enlist the aid of gravity to help keep stomach acid down in your stomach, where it belongs. So instead of plank on the floor, get into a plank position with your forearms on a stability ball to keep your chest elevated.
3. Experiment with equipment. Stability balls, dumbbells and medicine balls offer alternative ways to tighten those abs. This type of exercise can be more heartburn-friendly than traditional situps. For example, try sitting on the floor and doing side-to-side twists with a medicine ball.
4. Know that your abs are getting a workout even when you least suspect it.You might not think you're doing much for your abs if you're not targeting them specifically. Yet you can get good core benefits from cardiovascular activities, like elliptical training, or lower body exercises -- including lunges and squats -- with free weights.
5. Don't be afraid to train every day.Because you use your abs every day, even when you're just walking, it's OK to train them daily, notes Cassetty. Her recommendation: three sets of 20 to 25 repetitions per day. One caveat: If you're working those abdominals to fatigue, train them on non-consecutive days no more than three times a week.
6. Don't forget about cardio and healthy eating."Core training might give you stronger abs, but it won't get rid of fat over those abdominals," says Cassetty. To shed that fat, you have to include cardio activity and a healthy diet in your regimen. Then train those abdominals, and you'll be that much closer to a tighter tummy..
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SATURDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Ever eye a bowl of potato salad or plate of chicken that's been sitting in the sun for hours and wonder if it's still OK to eat?
Warm weather means that bacteria in food can multiply faster and potentially pose a health threat, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.
The FDA offers the following safety advice to help prevent foodborne illnesses during barbecue and picnic season:
- Wash your hands well and often with soap and water for 20 seconds, especially after using the bathroom and before cooking or eating. If there are no water taps available, use a water jug, some soap and paper towels or moist disposable towelettes.
- Keep raw food separate from cooked food. Do not place cooked food on a plate that previously held raw meat, poultry, seafood or anything else and hasn't been cleaned in hot, soapy water.
- Marinate food in the refrigerator, not on the counter. Don't reuse marinade that contained raw meat.
- Cook food thoroughly in order to kill any harmful bacteria that may be present. Use a food thermometer to make sure food has reached the recommended minimum temperature, which is 160 degrees F for hamburger and 165 degrees F for chicken. If you use the microwave, stove or oven to partially cook food to reduce grilling time, do so immediately before you place the food on the barbeque.
- Try to refrigerate or freeze leftovers immediately. Never leave food out for more than an hour when the temperature is above 90 degrees F.
- Keep hot foods at or above 140 degrees F and keep cold foods at or below 40 degrees F.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Differences in eye movements suggest that men and women have different ways of looking at things, according to a new study.
Researchers had male and female volunteers view still images from films and pieces of art and found that although women made fewer eye movements than men, the women's eye movements were longer and to more varied locations.
The largest differences in eye movements were noted when the participants viewed images of people. With photos of heterosexual couples, both men and women preferred looking at the woman rather than the man, but this preference was stronger among women.
And although men were only interested in the faces of the couple, women's eyes were also drawn to the other parts of the couples' bodies, particularly that of the female, said the researchers at the University of Bristol, in England.
The findings were published Nov. 30 in the journal PLoS One.
"The study represents the most compelling evidence yet that, despite occupying the same world, the viewpoints of men and women can, at times, be very different," study leader Felix Mercer Moss, a doctoral student in the computer science department, said in a university news release.
Men and women look at different things because they interpret the world differently, the researchers suggested.
For example, the pictures preferred by the women in the study were the same ones that produced the most distinct "looking patterns." Similarly, the pictures with the most room for difference in interpretation (those with people) produced the greatest differences between where women and men looked, the study found.
When encouraged to look for "threat" in an image, men made direct eye contact with the pictured faces, while women shifted their gaze slightly downward to the nose and mouth of these faces.
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Northern Iowa swept Kansas State 3-0 (25-18, 25-13, 25-21) in the first round of the NCAA volleyball tournament Thursday in Lincoln, Neb.
Northern Iowa never trailed in the opening set after taking a 5-1 lead, and dominated the second set as well after grabbing a 6-2 lead. K-State took a 4-1 lead in the third set. Northern Iowa regained the lead 6-5, stretched it to 13-9 and forced K-State to call a timeout. The Wildcats managed to pull within 21-19 and 22-20, but UNI’s Megan Lehman had a kill and a block to make it 24-20. K-State fought off one match point, but Macy Ubben ended the match with her 11th kill.
Northern Iowa had a .321 attack percentage while K-State hit just .164. Three UNI players had 11 kills. Nobody from K-State had more than Kaitlynn Pelger’s seven. Caitlyn Donahoe had 25 assists and eight digs for the wildcats.
K-State (21-9) ends the season on a four-match losing streak.
Northern Iowa (25-9) will play Nebraska (24-6) or Maryland Eastern Shore on Friday, with the winner advancing to the round of 16.
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A house party attended by juveniles was underway in the 1300 block of South Ida on Sunday morning when three men in their 20s with their faces obscured entered the house and fired several rounds into the ceilings and walls.
The gunshots at around 3 a.m. on Sunday prompted a call to 911 saying there had been a drive-by shooting, according to Sgt. Bart Brunscheen, spokesman for the Wichita Police Department.
The men with the guns had already left by the time Wichita police officers arrived. But officers were told that a fight had broken out earlier between one man and six others. The six men left the party and three later returned. They demanded cash and cell phones. Once they received those, Brunscheen said, they fled the scene.
No one was injured by the gunfire.
A crime lab was called to the scene.
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Clearwire Corp. investor Crest Financial said the Federal Communications Commission should block Sprint Nextel Corp.’s takeover of the company, as well as a separate deal between Sprint and Softbank Corp.
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Crest Financial said the deals undermined the value of Clearwire’s airwaves.
The firm plans to file its complaint with the FCC before the Jan. 28 comment deadline on the two deals, said David Schumacher, general counsel for Houston-based Crest Financial. He spoke on a conference call with reporters Friday.
Overland Park-based Sprint, saying it undervalued Clearwire, which is majority-owned by Sprint. After the Softbank deal was announced in October, Sprint moved to acquire the rest of Clearwire for $2.97 a share last month. Clearwire’s board signed off on the transaction.
Mike DiGioia, a spokesman for Clearwire, declined to comment on Crest’s remarks. Scott Sloat, a spokesman for Sprint, and Justin Cole at the FCC in Washington could not be reached for comment..
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Zoological District Resident (Jackson/Clay County MO) pricing is only $5 Adults, $4.50 Seniors, $4.00 children 3-11. Regular Pricing $11.50 Adults; $10.50 Seniors; $8.50 Children ages 3-11. 2 and under are free.
Three Zoos in One became the theme of the 2020 Masterplan for the Kansas City Zoo.Six strategies helped guide the development of the plan:1. Animals first: Expand the Zoo's collection in powerful strategic ways.2. Redirect discussions concerning size: create the feeling of "the Zoo is just right for me" keeping in mind wayfinding, comfort and transportation. Create "Zoo's within a Zoo" or "Three Zoo's for the Price of One."3. Become ultra-family friendly: provide more interactive areas and experiences that cater to family groups.4. Enhance real connections between guests and animals and staff: increase keeper interaction and education programming.5. Increase revenue through entrepreneurial zones: create synergy of food service and retail with animal exhibits and experiences.6. Increase revenue through corporate and private sponsorships and partnerships: develop compelling opportunities within exhibits as well as around exhibits.Tiger Trail Sumatran Rainforest Orangutan Canopy Predator CanyonPenguin Plaza African Safari Okavango Elephant Proposed LayoutCongo Gorilla Encounter Proposed LayoutGiraffe Feeding Station Proposed Layout
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Two people are killed in separate crashes in Butler County overnight.
The first happened just before midnight at Highway 77 and SW 120th Street, south of Augusta. One person, identified as 38-year-old Charles White of Douglas, was killed in that crash.
According to our news partners at KFDI, White's two daughters, ages two and three, were standing next to his body when emergency crews arrived. Both were taken to a hospital in Wichita with potentially serious injuries. They are expected to be okay.
The second crash happened near the town of Benton. A passerby called 911 after seeing the wreckage on Highway 254 east of town.
The driver of that car, identified as 18-year-old Austin Taylor of Valley Center, was thrown from the car and pronounced dead at the scene.
There were no witnesses to the crash, but authorities say the car left the roadway for some reason, then rolled several times.
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The first salvo of the Great Burger-Beer-Bourbon Skirmish of 2012 was fired June 8. The last salvo was also fired June 8. There were no casualties or damage, and to be honest, it was a one-sided skirmish.
Via Twitter, Owen & Engine in Logan Square fired on Publican Quality Meats in Fulton Market. Aside from a handful of retweets and stray comments, the war itself remained mercifully passive-aggressive, dumb and brief. PQM never bothered to fire back, or even respond, though it certainly had reason to. O&E tweeted: "So PQM can't come up with their own specials, gotta steal ours. Least we know where BBB started."
The BBB it alluded to was its Tuesday night burger, beer and bourbon special. PQM had recently announced its own Tuesday night burger, beer and bourbon special. So in subsequent tweets (none of which PQM responded to), O&E began referring to its own BBB special as the original Chicago BBB special.
"You know, I think the average person understands offering a burger, beer and bourbon special one night a week isn't an incredibly original idea in the first place. But I guess they were trying to instigate something," said Andrea Tambourine, PQM assistant manager, who has not-so-surreptitious plans to check out O&E's Tuesday night BBB special. Indeed, there has even been very tentative talk between the burger slingers to settle this — patty-to-patty, or as the O&E tweet stream suggested, "Fisticuffs on the Flattop."
Until that happens, here's our take.
Publican Quality Meats
The deal: $10 burgers (the Publican burger and a weekly special); $5 bourbon shots; usual beer prices.
The burger:
The nice thing about eating a burger in a deli/butcher shop is that you know the meat will look all screwy and idiosyncratic — like a mom's attempt at replicating McDonald's — and Publican's gnarled, craggy patties have a lot of personality. The signature burger comes with a square yellow slice of American cheese, ample mustard, a spicy dill relish and a pile of balsamic red onion, held in place with a white-dusted potato bun. It's not too big, not too small, a perfectly sloppy blend of sirloin, skirt steak and chuck. Also, each week there is a special second burger. The week we attended, Justin Large (of Big Star) contributed a "'Fun' Dido Burger" topped with house-made chorizo, roasted salsa, Chihuahua cheese and poblano pepper. (Oh, almost forgot: Burgers come with crisp, excellent fries and a house-cured pickle delivering a bit of kick.)
The booze:
The Tuesday night we went, they poured a strong and caramelly Old Weller Antique bourbon. As for the beer: Generally, two drafts (one light, one dark) are offered and a smallish but well-chosen selection of bottles. (For example, Three Floyds' terrific and vaguely citrus-esque Zombie Dust pale ale, which is $6.)
Mitigating factors:
Pleasant outdoor patio. Offering a choice of burgers (and beers) is thoughtful. And despite the a la carte nature of this special, our tab for two wasn't significantly higher than the O&E bill.
Publican Quality Meats, 825 W. Fulton Market; 312-445-8977. Special runs 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays.
Owen & Engine
The deal: And what a deal. The burger, fries, pickle, beer and bourbon shot — $15.
The burger:
The kind of burger that bleeds, that leaves a pool of beef juice on the plate (and on your chin). A patty is a half-pound Slagel Farm grind of short ribs and brisket, dropped between a toasted, house-baked potato "bap" — or a crinkled, airy English-style bun. It's all topped with a second burger's worth of caramelized onions. Comes with textbook fries (crisp outside, molten in) and a creamy malt-vinegar aioli.
The booze:
Everything arrives at once. We received a black, malty German Kostritzer Schwarzbier holding a thick white head of foam; and the bourbon was a smallish shot of mildish Old Overholt rye whiskey. (The offered beer, our server explained, tends to be "something smooth and drinkable with a huge burger.")
Mitigating factor:
The beer and bourbon are selected by the bartender.
Owen & Engine, 2700 N. Western Ave.; 773-235-2930. Special runs 5 p.m. Tuesdays to 2 a.m. Wednesdays.
The winner
Owen & Engine. The price is crazy, the burger is one of the city's unsung treasures and the beer selection is can't-miss. That said, it's quality burgers and booze for cheap — if we could call a tie, we would.
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Two restaurants, similar specials on Tuesday nights
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Nobel Winners Unlocked Cells' Unlimited Potential
Originally published on Mon October 8, 2012 1:28 pm
The two scientists who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered that cells in our body have the remarkable ability to reinvent themselves. They found that every cell in the human body, from our skin and bones to our heart and brain, can be coaxed into forming any other cell.
The process is called reprogramming, and its potential for new drugs and therapies is vast. If neurons or heart cells are damaged by disease or aging, then cells from the skin or blood potentially could be induced to reprogram themselves and repair the damaged tissue.
The winners — John Gurdon of the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, England, and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco — made their discoveries more than 40 years apart.
In 1962, Gurdon proved that a cell from a frog's stomach contained the entire blueprint to make a whole frog. When he took the cell's nucleus and popped it into a frog egg, the egg developed into a normal frog.
This method eventually was used to clone all sorts of animals, including cats, dogs, horses and, most famously, Dolly the sheep — the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Gurdon, 79, continues to study reprogramming and was working in his lab when he received the call from the Nobel committee.
But a major obstacle stood in the way of further development of these stem cells: Getting the frog's stomach cell to strip away its specialization and turn into one of the 200 or so cell types known to exist in animals always required the use of an egg.
A question hung over the field for decades: Could a specialized cell reprogram itself all on its own?
In 2006, Yamanaka and graduate student Kazutoshi Takahashi found the answer, and it sent shockwaves through biology and medicine. They demonstrated that any cell could be reset and induced to develop into another cell type. And, even more remarkably, that it took little to get the job done.
Yamanaka and Takahashi took some cells from the skin of a mouse and then switched on four specific genes. After a few weeks, the cells stopped looking like skin cells and starting looking more like embryonic stem cells. That meant the cells could then be manipulated to develop into just about any cell Yamanaka wanted. He could even get the cells to form heart muscle that beat inside a Petri dish.
Yamanaka, 50, had essentially unlocked a cellular genie in the bottle. The discovery meant that a cell wasn't necessarily trapped in its fate to be, say, a skin, liver or heart cell. Rather, with the right instructions, a cell had the ability to strip away its specialization and become whatever cell the scientists chose. They called these new cells "induced pluripotent stem cells."
The landmark finding triggered thousands of studies. Researchers quickly wanted to learn how these new stem cells could be used to treat a vast array of diseases, such as Alzheimer's, muscular dystrophy and diabetes.
Although stem cell treatments for these diseases are still quite far away, the induced pluriopotent stem cells are turning out to be invaluable tools for studying hundreds of diseases. They can serve as a platform for screening drugs or for even simply testing how a patient will respond to a particular medicine.
The discoveries by Gurdon and Yamanaka have opened up a new era in personalized medicine, where each person's own cells may one day serve not only as a reservoir for fixing damaged tissue, but also as research tools for deciphering how diseases work inside each person's unique body.
Induced pluripotent stem cells also offer a possible alternative to human embryonic stem cells, which are controversial because they are obtained from embryos.
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The 4th album, out now!
Tom hooked up with one of his all time heroes recently: Kevin Rowland of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
The NME caught up with Tom backstage at T in the Park last weekend.
Watch Kasabian shaking down the main stage at T in the Park.
The rain fell hard but that couldn't dampen spirits on Saturday as Kasabian took to the stage for Radio 1's Hackney Weekend.
Last night fans packed into Old Trafford to witness the Soccer Aid charity football match in aid of Unicef - and Kasabian's very own Sergio Pizzorno stole the show to be crowned Man Of The Match.
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Posted: Jan 9, 2013 4:29 PM by UL Sports Information
Louisiana head football coach Mark Hudspeth announced on Wednesday that defensive coordinator Greg Stewart will not return to the coaching staff for the 2013 season.
A search for Stewart's successor is underway.
"I would like to thank Greg for the contributions that he has made to help the Ragin' Cajuns win 18 games including a pair of New Orleans Bowl titles over the last two years," Hudspeth said. "His hard work and dedication helped make these things possible."
Stewart, a 24-year coaching veteran at the collegiate level, joined the Cajuns in 2011 when Hudspeth was named head coach. He previously serevd as an assistant coach at Jacksonville State for 18 seasons, starting as an asisstant coach working with the outside linebackers from 1989-94 before coaching the running backs (1995), defensive backs (1996) and defensive line (1997).
After a two-year stint as defensive coordinator at Delta State (1998-99), he returned to Jacksonville State in 2000 as defensive coordinator, a position he held for 11 seasons.
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Posted: Sep 24, 2010 7:03 AM by Posted by Sharlee Barriere
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Voters seeking to cast early ballots in the Oct. 2 election for lieutenant governor, judgeships, school board seats and other local races have until Saturday or will have to wait until election day.
Turnout so far has been light, with about 41,000 voters - or less than 2 percent - out of 2.9 million registered voters showing up for early voting, according to data from Secretary of State Jay Dardenne's office.
That's still well above the 26,000 people who early voted in the Aug. 28 congressional party primary elections.
Candidates have urged voters to consider casting their ballots early this year, because the election falls on a Saturday with LSU and other colleges playing home football games and with some hunting seasons under way.
Early voting began Sept. 18. Balloting is at parish registrar of voters' offices, though some parishes also have additional locations. Offices are open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. More information is available at.
At the top of the ticket is an eight-candidate race for the lieutenant governor's seat, to fill the remaining year of the job left by Mitch Landrieu when he became mayor of New Orleans.
Two constitutional amendments also are on the ballot statewide. One would change the date of legislative sessions, to start them a few weeks earlier each year. The other would make 425 workers in the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness not subject to civil service rules and protections.
In southeast Louisiana, Republican voters will choose their candidate for the 3rd District congressional seat, between former state House Speaker Hunt Downer of Houma and New Iberia lawyer Jeff Landry. The winner will face Democrat Ravi Sangisetty in November.
Other races on the ballot include appellate court positions, district judge races, more than 900 municipal posts and nearly 650 school board seats, according to Dardenne's office.
Runoff elections as needed will be held Nov. 2.
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Motel 6 Grand Prairie, TX
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Motel 6 is conveniently located off Hwy 360. Less than 5 miles away you will find Six Flags Amusement Parks, Cowboys Stadium, Ball Park in Arlington, and Ripley's Wax Museum. There is also dining & shopping nearby and Free Wi-Fi in all guest rooms.
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Excellent older thermometer that has stood the test of time. Kids even chewed the flexible tip, and it still gives accurate readings. After reading reviews on the newer "flexible" model, I think I will simply order another one of these!
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11:35 pm
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Is A Recess Appointment Valid If The Senate Says It's Not Really Gone?
Originally published on Wed December 5, 2012 6:09 am.
Let's go back to that period nearly one year ago: It's Jan. 6, 2012. An aide is talking in a nearly empty chamber. She's reading a couple of lines that put Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, a Democrat, in charge.
Webb steps up, saying, "Under the previous order, the Senate stands adjourned until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012." And then, he pounds the gavel.
No votes. No legislation. No nominations. And 30 seconds later, no more Senate.
Whether that day in January and 19 more like it constituted legitimate business in Congress is a question for the federal appeals court.
What Counts As Recess?
The U.S. Constitution says the president needs to get advice and consent from the Senate before filling certain jobs, unless the openings come up during a recess. It's who defines recess that's the problem.
Miguel Estrada, a Washington lawyer, is representing the views of dozens of Republican senators.
"The Constitution itself says that each house of Congress is the master of its own rules," Estrada says — and "the master of its own rules" means the Senate is in charge.
Not so fast, says White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler.
"Our view is that a pro forma session at which the Senate, by its own definition, is not conducting any business and is unavailable to provide advice and consent on the president's nominees is, for all practical and functional purposes, in recess," Ruemmler told NPR earlier this year.
The issue is being litigated in more than a dozen cases in federal courts all over the country. But Wednesday's case comes from a Washington state company, Noel Canning, which bottles and distributes Pepsi-Cola products. The company is challenging an unfavorable decision by the National Labor Relations Board this year.
Big Implications
Noel Canning argues that the labor board can't force it to sign off on a collective bargaining agreement with the Teamsters union. In fact, the company says, the NLRB wasn't really fit to do business because three of its members were not appointed properly under the law.
The case is being closely watched by Lily Fu Claffee, the top lawyer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
"The issue of whether the president's recess appointments are valid was going to get litigated one way or another, and we, on behalf of the business community, wanted to make sure that it got litigated as soon as possible and that we had certainty as soon as possible," Claffee says.
The Justice Department, which is arguing for the Obama administration, says the president was only fulfilling his constitutional responsibilities to keep government agencies running.
"If the president hadn't done what he did ... a really important agency responsible for enforcing workers' rights in the workplace would have literally gone dark," says Lynn Rhinehart, general counsel of the AFL-CIO. "It wouldn't have had enough members to actually function, and it wouldn't have been able to enforce the law."
The appeals court ruling could have big consequences for labor and business. The NLRB has acted in more than 200 cases since its new members arrived in January. All of those decisions — and dozens more that the three new members of the NLRB make before their terms expire late in 2013 — will be under a cloud of uncertainty until the federal courts weigh in.
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A popular Northgate pizza chain was reopened Wednesday afternoon after roaches forced its closure.
Papa John's Pizza in the 600 block of University Drive was shut down Tuesday after health inspectors said they found several roaches on the counter and floor.
Officials were following up on last week's inspection that turned up a third violation involving insects, according to inspectors.
According to the Brazos County Health Department, the roach problem has been remedied by pest control.
Papa John's was charged a $500 fine.
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The Texas Attorney General filed a civil lawsuit Monday against Shon Perez and his wife Desiree. The suit claims both defrauded their customers and asked that their assets be frozen. That means they can't spend any more money on entertainment paid for with the money hundreds of people lost.
You may have noticed that when we confronted Extreme Fitness owner Shon Perez back in April, there was a Hummer in the background. That vehicle is his. He also has a Harley motorcycle and lives in a 2364 square foot home. Many of you had your suspicions where he spent the money he collected for membership dues. Court records show Perez collected at least $40,000 from about 800 consumers.
Dr. Jason White paid almost $1,000 for memberships for eight of his employees. "I am shocked," said Dr. White.
The Texas Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Lubbock District Court on Monday. After four months of investigating, they were able to find out that Perez and his wife spent money at numerous restaurants, bars, video stores, the Main Event, movies and so on. Their investigation also revealed he was using the money to pay the loans on his automobiles, including his Hummer, boat, house and he bought a LakeRidge Country Club membership with the money as well. It goes on to say the Perez's repeatedly transferred money between their business and personal accounts, which can explain why the AG's office wanted their assets frozen.
"I knew that when he cashed the check back in February and went and checked on the locks, I knew the money was spent. And when the reports came out in your investigation, and you saw the Hummer and boat and other stuff, you just knew where the money went," said Dr. White.
Back in April, the Perez's were supposed to open Extreme Fitness on Frankford. They promised top of the line fitness equipment, but now we know that equipment was never purchased, nor did they have the money to buy it, according to the AG's suit.
The Perez's have been charged for 17 violations under the Health Spa Act and 11 violations under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The Perez's are possibly facing a fine of at least $237,000. We also found out he may be the owner of Flex Fitness. We know he filed under an assumed name earlier this month for Flex Fitness.
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Irene's Floods Dry Up Business In Vermont Town
When Waterbury, Vt., got walloped by the remnants of Hurricane Irene, the small town sustained an estimated $9 million in damages to personal property, and countless millions more in lost business revenue. Five months later, the waters have receded, but Waterbury's future remains uncertain.
On Main Street, a church bell still chimes every day, but daily life in Waterbury hasn't been the same since Irene.
"It's palpable," says Bill Shepeluk, Waterbury's municipal manager. "You can sense that it's not as vibrant as it was."
He says about 200 properties in the town were hit by flooding — nearly a third of all its homes and businesses. But for residents, that's not the worst of it.
State Employees Gone
For decades, 1,500 employees worked at the sprawling state office complex along one end of Main Street. Irene's floodwaters inundated all 49 of the century-old red brick buildings. All but one of them was rendered uninhabitable.
That meant almost all those workers had to go to temporary offices elsewhere. They still haven't returned.
Shepeluk says the town felt the loss immediately. The 1,500 people who were once in and out of restaurants, grocery stores, and dry cleaners are now gone.
"You know, every job has a multiplier, so every dollar of payroll maybe translates into seven or eight or $12 and that dollar just gets circulated through a community," he says.
Loss In Business
More than half of Albert Caron's customers were state workers. His auto repair shop is just a block from the state office complex, and work has dropped off dramatically.
"I have nothing scheduled for next week, week after," Caron says. "Near lunchtime, usually I can probably figure out anywhere between eight and 10 walk-ins. Now, I get one if I'm lucky."
The irony of Waterbury's situation is that the town was in tough straights 30 years ago, when the state mental hospital occupied the buildings that have since been converted to the office complex.
It was that transformation — from state hospital to state offices — that triggered the town's renaissance.
Community Support
At Waterbury's winter farmers market, Mark Hall says residents in this close-knit community have been trying to support village businesses.
"The community is great," Hall says. "I mean, we do everything we can, but there's not enough of us to keep it going the way it was going before the flood."
The state has been studying whether it's financially feasible to renovate some of the aging buildings at the Waterbury complex so workers can return.
The question now is: How long can the village wait?
While many businesses struggle to hang on, people in town are fighting back. They've created ReBuild Waterbury, a nonprofit to help push along the recovery process.
"People are really, I think, committed to the community," says Amy Hoskins, who volunteers at the farmers market.
She says that before Irene the town was just hitting its stride, with the addition of things like a wine bar and performing arts studio.
"It had become sort of a more thriving lively place in the last few years," she says. "And to have Irene hit us when it did, has really set us back."
Looking Ahead
Like many others in town, Hoskins is hopeful that Waterbury's resilience will carry it through this new challenge. Shepeluk, the municipal manager, sees it as a challenge the town will rise to.
"The old adage is you have to adapt or you die," he says. "And we're in a position where we have to accept there's going to be change."
Meanwhile, the town looks ahead to March. That's when state government expects to make decisions about whether any state workers can return to Waterbury — and when.
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Board Member Edie Nebel says Becky Harkema comes to Washington from the Northern York County YMCA in Maine where she has been the CEO since 2005.
Nebel says Harkema brings over 20 years of experience ranging from Wellness Director and Physical Director to Associate Executive to CEO.
Prior to her work in Maine, Harkema served as CEO for the Ottumwa Y for three years. Harkema’s first day at the Washington Y will be August 27th.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The Santa Barbara County Agricultural Commissioner's Office is holding a public meeting at the Santa Maria Library regarding possible spraying of insecticides in the area. Beekeepers in the area plan on voicing their opposition.
Santa Maria Valley Beekeepers Association is at that meeting. From what they tell Central Coast News, their whole colony of bees are in danger if this pesticide is used.
Ronald Gromak walks up to one of the five bee colonies in his backyard. Gromak is the president of the Santa Maria Valley Beekeepers Association. He says the association will voice their concerns at an open forum with the Santa Barbara County Agricultural Commissioner's Office regarding two insecticides that may be sprayed throughout the county.
"The pesticides they use are inappropriate for the application," says Gromak.
The insecticides are called Tempo and Merit and they would be used to kill the Asian Citrus Psyllid, an insect that carries a disease that is fatal to citrus trees. The Santa Barbara Assistant Agricultural Commissioner says the insect has been found mostly in the San Diego and Los Angeles areas. But a state order could call for spraying up in the Central Coast.
"The material is toxic to other kinds of insects, so if there are some other insects on the trees when they are sprayed, then those insects will be killed," says Guy Tingos, Assistant Agricultural Commissioner.
But the insecticide could have long term effects.
A bee that goes out and picks up pollen from a plant that's been contaminated by the pesticide can bring that pollen back to the colony. And that pollen could contaminate the food for the larvae.
Gromak expressed concern for the safety of his bees. When asked what would happen if any spraying of the insecticide occurred nearby his house in Santa Maria, Gromak answered bluntly, "they'll die."
The Santa Barbara Assistant Agricultural Commissioner says the insecticides pose no health risk to people.
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Foreclosures Leave Holes In Voter Outreach.
And canvassers have been left with voter databases — an indispensable tool for getting out the vote — riddled with outdated addresses and phone numbers.
Since the housing crisis went full tilt in 2008, the same states continue to have the worst foreclosure markets, such as California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada.
Today, three of the eight states with the highest foreclosure rates are presidential battlegrounds: Florida, Ohio and Nevada. Candidate Barack Obama won these states in 2008, but voter frustrations about his economic policies have since led each state to elect Republican governors.
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns say they are working to locate displaced voters, but declined to discuss their methods.
Given months of polling showing that likely Republican voters are more engaged in the election, Democratic officials and strategists in both parties say the Obama campaign has the greater challenge of mobilizing its base.
African-Americans and Latinos, two groups whose turnout is critical to Obama's chances, have lost homes to foreclosure at disproportionately higher rates, according to the Center for Responsible Lending.
Here's a sampling of conditions in those three pivotal swing states:
Florida: Evictions Limit Door-Knocking In I-4 Corridor
Florida, with its 29 electoral votes, is the biggest prize. It also has had the most foreclosures behind California over the past four years. Currently, 1 in every 352 homes is in foreclosure proceedings, nearly double the national rate, according to market research firm RealtyTrac.
Central Florida, along the Interstate 4 corridor, is ground zero for troubled mortgages, as well as swing voters.
For instance, the Tampa area recorded the nation's highest increase, at 47 percent, in foreclosure activity in the first half of the year. Tampa and surrounding Hillsborough County voted for Obama in 2008, but elected a Republican governor and senator in 2010.
Republicans believe the shift demonstrates that their strategy of tying the slow recovery to Obama's policies is working.
"We have an aggressive and robust ground game to identify and turn out voters in the I-4 corridor and beyond, many of whom are these homeowners directly impacted by President Obama's failed leadership," says Jill Bader, a spokeswoman for the Florida Republican Party.
In Orange County, the foreclosure rate has reached 36 percent, particularly in some Orlando neighborhoods with large Latino populations that voted for Obama.
A southeast Orlando precinct that includes the Lake Frederica and Ventura Country Club communities has had 545 foreclosures completed in the past year, and another 925 homes are in process, RealtyTrac says. About 46 percent of the precinct's roughly 9,700 registered voters are Latino.
Evictions in the Orlando area have prompted Mi Familia Vota, which registers voters in states with large Latino populations, to delay the start of door-to-door canvassing and hold registration drives at high-traffic sites such as gas stations and supermarkets.
"The process takes a little longer ... because a lot of people who used to be in those residences aren't there anymore," says Jose Balasquide, the Florida director for Mi Familia Vota. "So we have to invest more time in cleaning the voter lists, and we're probably going to find a lot of discrepancies."
Ohio: Cleveland May Not Be Obama's Juggernaut Again
Ohio, one of the most reliable bellwethers, has voted for the winning candidate in every presidential election since 1964. The Romney campaign is targeting suburbs and smaller towns that lean toward Republican candidates, while the Obama campaign is trying to mobilize large metropolitan areas that delivered him the state in 2008.
Obama supporters are finding the task more difficult this year in Ohio's two largest cities, Columbus and Cleveland, where foreclosures are highest. In the first half of the year, more than 10,717 properties, or 1 in every 89 homes, were in foreclosure in Cleveland.
Most of the properties are on the city's heavily Democratic east side, where thousands of homes bear an "X," marked for demolition.
"You see it in every precinct," says Samara Knight, vice president of the Service Employees International Union in Cleveland, who is leading a voter canvassing effort. The SEIU has endorsed Obama.
Since 2008, more than 99,000 of Cleveland's registered voters have dropped off the rolls, a loss of 26 percent.
"If they have moved and haven't voted since 2008, then it's really impossible to find them. Then I have lost that person," Knight says.
Nevada: 'Ghost Towns' Set Back Voter Registration
Nevada had the nation's highest foreclosure rate for much of the past five years until it dropped to sixth in July, RealtyTrac says. Nevada also had 12 percent unemployment in July, the highest of any state.
The conditions have prompted residents to leave the state, complicating voter outreach. A scrubbing of the state voter list in April removed some 64,000 registered Democrats who have departed Nevada. By comparison, Democratic voters outnumbered Republicans by nearly 100,000 when Obama won Nevada in 2008.
During a nonpartisan registration drive in Las Vegas last month, one SEIU official described visiting neighborhoods where "whole blocks are almost ghost towns."
Since April, Democratic voter registrations have increased by a 2-to-1 margin over Republican registrations, which also have been outpaced by nonpartisans, who choose no party affiliation.
"Nevada has always been a highly transient state, so re-registration is very important," says Rebecca Lambe, a senior adviser for the Obama campaign in Nevada.
Last year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney angered some Nevadans when he said he opposed foreclosure relief for homeowners and preferred the market to "hit the bottom" so that investors could lead the recovery. A new Obama campaign radio ad airing in Nevada uses those remarks to attack Romney.
Romney last week told a Reno television station: "My plan for housing gets this market to come back. The president's plan for housing, now 3 1/2 years running, has not done the job." When asked, Romney didn't offer specifics about his plan.
Obama made a campaign speech in Reno last week, but didn't address housing. He has visited Nevada in the past to promote his housing policies.
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Preview of Lessons for 1949-50
Elder G. Homer Durham
The social science lessons for 1949-509 are based on “The Declaration of Belief Regarding Governments and Laws in General,” section 134 of the Doctrine and Covenants. The lessons follow, naturally, the previous year’s study of “Latter-day Saint Political Thought.” Whereas the lessons of last year were, of necessity, somewhat abstract, the new series has the advantage of relating to concrete scriptural verses in the Declaration of Belief. Each is explained, together with its significance of the problems of current political life. The seven preceding lessons attempted to portray some aspects of Latter-day Saint thinking with respect to the nature of government, constitutionalism, and public affairs, including international relations. The Declaration of Belief is a specific statement of an official position taken by the Church, in August 1835, with regard to law and government. It is one of the most unusual sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. The first lesson attempts to tell how and why.
Each lesson will be accompanied by suggestions for class projects to the end that every member and class may arrive at a more complete understanding of what the various provisions of the Declaration signify. As the gospel is a way of life, and as modern life involves political processes at nearly every point, it is more important that all of us enlarge our understanding of the position of the Church in such matters. Students of the subject will be delighted to know, in advance, that the Declaration is a most liberal yet practical, simple but far-reaching, platform. The same general references and helps listed for last year’s study will again prove to be very beneficial and helpful. To come to a knowledge and appreciation of the position of the church with regard to governments and laws is no mean nor simple task.
The various statements issued by the leaders of the Church from Joseph Smith to the present day are most helpful in gaining this knowledge. Of course, the Doctrine and Covenants itself, with its useful cross-references and index, will be of constant assistance. Alert class leaders will also watch for illustrations and examples to be found in current Church and other literature. Society is most complex. Social science lessons dealing with important relationships of the Church in society require, and are worthy of sincere study and effort.
The titles of the seven lessons for 1949-50 and their accompanying objectives follow:
Lesson 1. “The Declaration of Belief Regarding Governments and Laws in General”
Objective: To study and appreciate the preamble of the Declaration of Belief.
Lesson 2. The Significance of “The Declaration of Belief” for Modern Government
Objective: To consider different types of government in the world today, and to appreciate the basic principles contained in the “Declaration of Belief” as the culmination of the experience of the race.
Lesson 3. Government Instituted for the Benefit of Man
Objective: To show that governments exist for the benefit of man when founded on the free exercise of conscience, right and control of property, and protection of life.
Lesson 4. Public Administration and Good Government
Objective: To point out the need for electing government officials who will uphold freedom.
Lesson 5. The Obligations of Citizenship and the Responsibility of the State
Objective: To show the responsibility of the State to enact proper laws and of the people to uphold them.
Lesson 6. The Conditions for Achieving the Kingdom of God
Objective: To show that civil and religious liberty must be maintained for the establishment of the Kingdom of God.
Lesson 7. Achieving the Kingdom of God
Objective: to demonstrate that the Kingdom of God will be achieved by preaching the gospel throughout the world.
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- Stocks are lower on Wall Street amid rising tensions over increasing the country's borrowing limit. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told congressional leaders in a letter late yesterday that the U.S. government will reach its borrowing limit as soon as mid-February, earlier than expected. And Fitch Ratings is warning that the United States could lose its top credit rating if there's a delay in raising the debt ceiling.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a new search feature called "graph search," which lets users search their social connections for information about people, interests, photos and places. Facebook users will now be able to look for people who live in a specific city and share a specific interest. But to protect privacy, they'll only have access to content that has been shared with them.
- The National Retail Federation says holiday sales rose 3 percent. That's below the trade group's forecast of a 4.1 percent gain. Non-store sales, including includes online sales, rose 11 percent. The season was marked by heavy discounting in its final days as stores tried to unload excess goods after shoppers held back on spending.
- U.S. home prices continue to recover from the housing bust. Private data provider CoreLogic says home prices rose 7.4 percent in November compared with a year ago, the biggest year-over-year increase in 6½ years.
- Fiat, Chrysler and a Chinese automaker have signed an agreement to expand manufacturing in China. The companies say the next step for their joint venture is to build Jeeps in China for the Chinese market. The agreement was signed at Chrysler headquarters in suburban Detroit.
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