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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Climate change is an issue of urgent international importance, but for 20 years, the international community has been unable to agree on a coordinated way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In a "Perspective" piece published in the June issue of Nature Climate Change, J. Timmons Roberts, the Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, proposes a four-step compromise toward emissions reduction that offers "effectiveness, feasibility, and fairness."
Their proposal comes as another major United Nations meeting on climage change approaches.
"We face a major deadline in December of 2015 for a deal to be agreed on by the parties of the global United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change," Roberts said. "Either to get things moving toward that meeting or as a way to adequately address the issue afterward, this approach is practical, fresh, and fair."
Roberts' proposal, which he co-authored with Marco Grasso of the Universitá Milano-Bicocca, is made up of four core elements for sharing the burden of carbon reductions. Their analysis is based on a carbon budget of 420 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide over the period 2012-50.
A successful approach, they write, must take into account both developing and developed countries without penalizing any economies disproportionately, while also proposing an equitable way to share the burden of emissions reductions.
"Some of the steps have been proposed, but what's new here is the combination of elements in a way that has the genuine ability to coalesce interests of the key players who have blocked action in the past," Roberts said.
The first factor Grasso and Roberts propose is reducing the number of actors involved in the initial reductions process from the 194 involved in U.N. negotiations to the 13 members of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) that are the largest emitters in the world. The list includes both developed and developing countries with the United States, European Union, and China at the top. Together, the 13 members on the proposed list contribute 81.3 percent of global cumulative emissions.
Grasso and Roberts suggest that limiting the participants in this initial effort will allow the group to agree an a path forward, which has been elusive during two decades of negotiation. Such a deal will have maximum impact due to the members' size and global leverage. Trade benefits, such as promotion of trade and investment in climate-friendly technologies and renewable energies, would motivate MEF members to take the lead in emissions abatements, they write.
Second, the authors suggest switching from production-based to consumption-based carbon accounting. The latter, they write, is considered a fairer system that measures emissions from the final use of goods and services. Production-based emissions accounting, the currently accepted system, can penalize economies where carbon-intensive stages in globalized production chains take place and force countries to send those production processes off-shore, a step known as "carbon leakage." While this system will cause some members to have a higher emissions abatement burden than with the previous system, for the most part consumption-based accounting does not disproportionately penalize any one member, the authors write.
The third element in the proposed compromise is a redistribution of the burden of carbon emissions reductions based on MEF members' responsibility for climtate change and capability. Previous concepts of responsibility and capability pitted developing, newly industrialized countries against developed countries that had historically greater contributions to global emissions. Grasso and Roberts propose a model that would bring developing, relatively low-responsiblity countries into the decision-making process while also calling for accounting for emissions retroactively to 1990, a concession to those developing countries that have long called for accounting based on historical responsibility. They suggest calculating the economic responsibility of shares of the carbon budget based on the economies of members.
Lastly, Grasso and Roberts call for bringing these changes back to the larger U.N. group to address the other 19 percent of emissions and to be inclusive of the rest of the world. They propose that richer countries provide transitional assistance to others in the form of tools, methodologies, training, and knowledge.
The authors explain how compromise, rather than competition, will benefit all involved.
"Each MEF member would gain and lose something in our proposed framework," Grasso and Roberts conclude. "They all would have to relax some of their hardline positions, otherwise a meaningful outcome will not be achievable. By so doing, all countries will gain a liveable future, the core principle of national security."


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The monster storm "Bernardine" did more than devastate the tiny Gulf Coast community of Belle Ville.
It uncovered suppressed evidence that exonerates a man wrongly imprisoned for murder.
Twenty years ago Nell Jarreau identified Alvin "Pirate" DuPree as the murderer who killed her boyfriend right in front of her—and she later went on to marry the detective, now the police chief, who made the arrest. She and Clay raised a daughter and had a happy life—but now Pirate is free, leaving Nell haunted by doubt, guilt, fear . . . and troubling hints that a rot may be festering at her own family's core. For the sake of her sanity, her marriage, and the safety of those she loves, Nell must uncover the truth about a nightmare that will not end. But the search is leading her into twisting dark alleys she might never escape from . . . where a wild card ex-con waits in the shadows.
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ResearchMoz: Global Tele-Health Market (Carts and Associated Server) Will Reach $1.4 Billion by 2018 - Market Research Report
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ALBANY, New York, December 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
New Report Added in ResearchMoz Reports Database: "Tele-Health Carts, Servers and Monitoring: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018"
ResearchMoz announces that it has published a new study, Tele-Health Carts, Servers, and Monitoring: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018. The 2012 study has 366 pages, 111 tables and figures. Tele-health improves the treatment of chronic disease, reduces cost of care delivery, lets baby boomers age gracefully in their homes. Tele-monitoring is evolving more sophisticated ways of monitoring vital signs in the home, thus protecting people in a familiar, comfortable environment. The improvements in care delivery relate to leveraging large information sources that permit understanding what care works for what conditions.
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Tele-health systems server markets are anticipated to grow because they represent a way to steer patients with a particular clinician to those most expert in treating that particular condition. Tele-health is not yet to the point where it is able to be used effectively to implement changes that represent significant improvements in overall healthcare delivery; they are largely confined to being used in the treatment of chronic conditions.
The aim of tele-health systems that will grow markets significantly is if the tele-health is used to prevent the onset of chronic conditions of CHF and diabetes through interventional medicine, wellness programs, and simply intelligent nutrition and exercise programs implementation. Is this the task of the hospitals? Or, are wellness programs meant to be implemented elsewhere? In any case, tele-health represents the delivery mechanism for the programs.
Statins have a warning label that indicates that patients who take these drugs risk mental deterioration and diabetes. Is this what we want for our people? Or are there wellness programs that provide alternatives? These are issues confronting hospitals, physicians, clinicians, big pharma, and patients everywhere. We are all patients; the task is to figure out good tele-health systems that work to implement wellness programs before the onset of chronic conditions.
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Under this scenario, the local physician and specialist becomes the expert in ordering the correct diagnostic tests, not just any test they can think of, but a proper test that is recommended by the expert systems and by the expert clinician. In this manner the out-of-control testing costs in the US can be controlled. There will need to be some law changes, there will need to be some adoption of protections for the expert doctors, but when decisions are backed by standards of care instantiated as tele-health servers we begin to have a rational, very effective health care delivery system.
The use of tele-health systems in the treatment of chronic conditions is important. 90% of the cost of care delivery is tied up in the treatment of chronic conditions. A large percentage of the tele-monitoring servers was sold in the U.S., where the VA system did home monitoring of 92,000 patients in 2012. Tele-health equipment shipments are anticipated to grow rapidly worldwide as efficiencies of scale are realized for monitoring and treating people with chronic conditions in a more standardized manner that addresses the particular combinations and clusters of conditions any one patient presents.
Tele-health systems rely on monitors with integrated connectivity. Systems use monitoring hubs with integrated cellular capability and carts that permit remote diagnosis for places where there is a shortage of good doctors and where people want second opinions from a trusted expert. A physician that sees hundreds of patients a week with a certain condition is more apt to render an accurate diagnosis and to provide effective treatment than a physician that only sees that condition once a year.
The only way to connect patients with a particular condition with a clinician expert in treating that condition is through telemedicine. Everyone knows that a surgeon who operates within a particular specialty every day is more expert than one who operates only once a year. The same is true across the board for all specialties.
Systems like the Bosch health management programs with evidence-based guidelines are great in this context. These-evidence based systems can be used to keep physicians and clinicians focused on the most significant part of the condition being treated.
IBM Watson is similarly great in the context of connecting expert clinicians with patients presenting a certain combination of symptoms. This type of care delivery represents significant change, but it is change for the better, it is lower-cost care delivery with higher quality of care. Watson or competing computing systems have the potential to be incredibly useful in this context. Because Watson and other cognitive computing systems can recognize clusters of symptoms in a particular patient, these types of system are potentially useful in guiding patients to the care delivery clinician that is most likely to be able to recognize the best treatment and to provide the recommendation to other clinicians as to what will be the highest level of effective care for the least cost.
The aim of tele-monitoring is to improve patient compliance with standards of care known to support improved outcomes for patients with chronic conditions. Tele-monitoring is one way to improve patient compliance, but there are other ways to achieve that as well.
Tele-monitoring increases patient compliance. The aim is to improve the delivery of healthcare to clients by monitoring vital signs to detect changes in patient condition that may indicate the onset of a more serious event, much as nurses in the hospital monitor patient vital signs.
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According to Susan Eustis, the principal author of the study, "The advantage of telemonitoring is that it increases patient compliance. It brings expert medicine into the home and attempts to present it in a manner patients can hear. The aim is to improve the delivery of healthcare to clients by performing medical exams remotely and monitoring vital signs to detect changes in patient condition that may indicate the onset of a more serious event, much as nurses in the hospital monitor patient vital signs for the purpose of permitting sophisticated care delivery."
Tele-health equipment units decrease the cost of care delivery while improving the quality of care and the quality of lifestyle available to patients. They have been widely adopted and extremely successful in use by the veterans administration in the US and by CMS Medicare and Medicaid. Use is anticipated to be extended to a wide variety of care delivery organizations based on this base of installed systems. Healthcare delivery is an increasing concern worldwide. Markets for the carts and associated servers segment of the market at $98 million in the first three quarters of 2012 are anticipated to reach$1.4 billion by 2018.
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NYC Food Events for the Weekend and Beyond
Thursday (November 15)
Aquavit's 25th Anniversary
Ongoing, 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Aquavit is celebrating its 25th Anniversary all November with a special seven-course tasting menu. $125. 65 East 55th Street, New York NY; event website
Hurricane Sandy Relief at Scarpetta
Thursday, November 15th, 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Until the 18th, Scarpetta will be offering two multi-course tasting menus, $20 from which goes to City Harvest for Hurricane Sandy relief. Prices Vary. 355 West 14th Street, New York NY; event website
The Remarkable Life of Julia Child: Bob Spitz and Melissa Clark in conversation about Julia Child
Thursday, November 15th, 7:30 p.m. Bob Spitz, author of the recent Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child will be discussing Child and his new book with New York Times columnist and cookbook author Melissa Clark. Free. 274 Garfield Place, Brooklyn NY; event website
Hermann J. Wiemer and Pindar Wine Tastings
Thursday, November 15th, 5 p.m. Stop by participating wine stores for free tastings of Hermann J. Wiemer and Pindar wines. Find the full list of stores on the website. Free. multiple locations; event website
From Cocktails to Dessert: The Delicious Underground World of Root Vegetables
Thursday, November 15th, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Diane Morgan, author of the cookbook Roots, is teaching this class on root vegetables at Haven Kitchen. There will be a book signing as well, and the class includes a copy of the book. $125. 109 West 17th Street, New York NY; event website
Saturday (November 17)
Grand Portfolio Wine Tasting at Millbrook Vineyards & Winery
Saturday November 17th, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Millbrook Winery in the Hudson Valley is opening up their entire wine portfolio. The event will feature twenty two of their wines, as well as lunch and a seminar about New York pinot. $45-$82. 26 Wing Road, Millbrook NY; event website
Cookies & Sweets with SALTIE
Saturday November 17th, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Caroline Fidanza (formerly of Diner and Marlow & Sons) and Rebecca Collerton of SALTIE in Williamsburg teach this cooking class based around their new cookbook. $55. 100 Frost Street, Brooklyn NY; event website
Momofuku + Governor: Project Rebuild
Saturday November 17th, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Momofuku is holding a charity lunch to raise money for the restaurant Governor in DUMBO, which suffered severe damage during the hurricane. This all-inclusive and paired six course lunch is a collaboration of Momofuku, Governor, and Booker & Dax chefs. $325.207 Second Avenue, New York NY; event website
Thanksgiving Primer for Root Vegetables with Diane Morgan
Saturday November 17th, 11 p.m. to 1 p.m. Prep for Thanksgiving with this cooking demonstration on root vegetables, led by author of Roots Diane Morgan. She will also be signing copies of the book. $20.95 East Houston Street, New York NY; event website
Fundraising Food Crawl for Hurricane Sandy
Saturday November 17th, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Foodtoeat.com hosts this food crawl to raise money for Hurricane Sandy. Get a list of participating restaurants, and set off on a food adventure. There will be an after party with life entertainment after. $10. various locations; event website
Sunday (November 18)
Eat, Drink, and Think like...The Vanderbilts
Sunday November 18th, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Learn the story of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and try Gilded Age snacks with T.J. Stiles, the author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. $68. 200 Hudson Street, New York NY; event website
Chili Takedown at The Bell House
Sunday November 18th, 2 p.m. Try thirty chilis made by New York home cooking enthusiasts and vote for your favorite at The Bell House this Saturday. $15.149 7th Street, Brooklyn NY; event website
Bunna Cafe in Chelsea
Sunday November 18th, 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. The vegetarian Ethiopian pop-up restaurant will be appearing this weekend in Chelsea. Free entry, dinner is $8 to $12.73 8th Avenue, New York NY; event website
Monday (November 19)
Thanksgiving Cooking Class at Prospect
Monday November 19th, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Fort Greene restaurant Prospect will be holding a pre-Thanksgiving cooking class. Learn how to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving, and get tips for non-traditional twists. $60 plus 10% off on your next visit.773 Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY; event website
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Game theory uses deceptively simple challenges to provide insights into human decision making and cooperation. Many of the challenges force players to choose between (for example) taking a small but guaranteed payoff or a big payoff that will be lost unless another individual cooperates. The games themselves are often simple enough that they can be adapted to work with other primates so that researchers can determine which human behaviors are shared with our closer relatives. But that adaptation can significantly change the appearance of the game, raising questions about whether the results are actually comparable. So, to avoid this problem, a group of researchers attempted to test humans and primates using a single game that was largely the same for all species tested.
The game they used is technically called the assurance game, but is also known as the "stag hunt" by researchers. Participants are given a choice: they can take a small reward that's guaranteed (a rabbit), or risk choosing a big reward (the stag) that can only be obtained if a partner has chosen the stag as well. In the case of the primates (chimps, capuchins, and humans), the hunted animals were replaced by different quantities of money or food, depending on whether the primate was human.
To even things out as much as possible, the authors replaced the rabbit and stag with different colored poker chips. To avoid letting the humans' ability with language give them an unfair advantage, the participants were given minimal instructions—nothing about the rules of the game, and only a brief mention of what to expect once they sat down; the primates weren't trained on the game, either. The primates, in contrast, had extensive experience with being used in tests that ended with them getting a reward. To keep that from influencing the results, the humans were recruited from among a pool of college students that had previously been involved in economics experiments.
In a lot of ways, this does help to even out matters. But it also changes what the game's all about. When you know the rules, it's a simple test of cooperation and risk/reward (will both individuals risk the stag for a big payoff). Without them, all the primates need to perform an organized set of experiments to identify the pattern of behavior that gives them the biggest reward. Only then can issues of risk and trust come into play.
The authors expected to see differences among the species, and they did, but the differences suggested there was a lot more going on than simple mental horsepower. The capuchins are the most evolutionarily distant from humans, and they did worst from the perspective of maximizing returns: only one of the six pairs of partners chose the high-reward combination more often than they would by chance. But, individually, they made nonrandom choices. One capuchin seemed to like the "stag" chip and used it repeatedly; another switched its pattern when they switched it to a new partner. That last bit could be rather significant, since other primates have social hierarchies that they'd be aware of, which wouldn't apply to college students who don't know each other.
The chimps used in the work came from two different research centers, and exhibited what might be called cultural differences. At one center, most pairs tended to consistently pick matching or anti-matching chips, even after they saw the high reward provided by matching the right kind of chip. At a different center, two pairs of chimps (of four tested) quickly settled into the pattern that gave them a big payoff. But these had been used in cooperative experiments in the past, and might be more inclined to understand what was going on. In another pair, one individual consistently played stag, but got undercut by her partner choosing randomly.
Those of you expecting the humans to show their fellow primates how to play the game: prepare for some disappointment. Less than 20 percent of the human pairings managed to consistently get a high payoff. In contrast, 30 percent never managed to do that. Like some of the primates, most of the students picked a color and stayed loyal to it, and some of the pairings consistently matched their chips, even if it only ensured a low-payoff. Overall, most of the participants seem to have failed to understand the rules of the game, or simply couldn't be bothered enough to do so.
Overall, humans did better than chimps, and chimps than capuchins. But it's not as if the humans blew away the competition, and some pairings of the other species seemed to figure the rules out and work with them. Thus, the result seems to suggest that the mental capacity to figure out the rules of the game might be a spectrum. Humans may be at one end, but they haven't made a radical departure in ability compared to their primate peers.
Despite the best efforts of the authors to equalize cross-species influences, it's not clear that the results are free of individual peculiarities and, at least outside of the humans, social influences. The primates raised here share housing and are part of the same social group. Those same things tend to apply to college students, but the typical college class is much larger and (probably) less hierarchical than a primate social group. It's also impossible to tell whether any of the participants simply didn't care about the rewards enough to learn the rules of the game, or play it to maximize rewards if they did. The fact that you can't distinguish these two possibilities also limits the conclusions you can draw from the work.
Overall, it's an interesting first effort, but a much larger study would seem to be needed before any conclusions can really be extracted from the data. In the end, the value of the paper may be in simply highlighting the limitations we face when making cross-species comparisons of behavior.
PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016269108 (About DOIs).


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It's not surprising, then, that the 17-person company is still using Windows XP, Microsoft's popular but aging operating system. But they're not sticking with XP because they don't want to buy new hardware or software. Rather, the company is sitting on a stockpile of printer supplies -- toner, drum units, and the like -- for seven Konica Minolta Magicolor 2200 color lasers. Standardizing on a single printer enabled Veripic to purchase large volumes of supplies at discount. The problem occurred when Konica Minolta released the next generation of the Magicolor line. "They didn't upgrade the drivers because they wanted people to go to the new printers, but by then we already had several years of supplies," said Veripic CEO John Kwan in an interview.
Veripic does have Vista, Windows 7, and now Windows 8 machines in its office. But they are primarily there to ensure that Veripic's software for managing digital evidence, which is used by law enforcement agencies and the military, runs well on those platforms. Any employees who rely regularly on the Magicolor printers, such as the accounting department, will keep using XP until the supplies are exhausted. It's going to take a while: Kwan said they've got "thousands of dollars" worth of toner and other supplies on hand.
[ Holding back on upgrading to Microsoft's newest OS? You're not alone. Windows 8: Why I Won't Upgrade. ]
Depending on whose numbers you use, as many as two in five PCs worldwide still run XP, even though the OS is now more 11 years old. Microsoft will end support for XP in April 2014. Last year, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner told financial analysts, "This has been a great product, XP has been a wonderful product; great TCO has been given. It's now time for it to go."
As part of its overall cost-saving strategy, Veripic handles its own publishing and printing for everything from estimates and invoices to marketing collateral -- one of the reasons for its supply stockpile. When the ink eventually runs dry, Veripic plans a broader technology upgrade that will include its printing processes. Still, Veripic will likely have at least one XP box in use for five or more years, Kwan said. Many of the customers are police departments, which Kwan said tend to lag behind in technology refresh cycles.
"Believe it or not, in this day and age, most of our customers are still on XP," Kwan said.
Microsoft's end-of-life date for isn't circled on Veripic's calendar. "We have to ignore it," Kwan said, adding that his engineering team has found that some of Veripic's graphics-intensive applications -- the software is commonly used to store crime-scene photos -- still run faster on XP than on subsequent Windows versions. "Rendering digital pictures on screen is faster on XP than under the later platforms," Kwan said. "For our industry, performance is everything. A little bit of difference makes a big difference for us."
Veripic's not alone. Bryce Katz, president of Katz Computer Consulting, said he has several SMB clients whose legacy networks, equipment, or applications have made an upgrade from XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8 far from a straightforward decision. A small sign-making business, for example, asked Katz to review their hardware and software for a possible Windows 7 upgrade soon after it was released because they'd been hearing rave reviews.
"The versions of all their design software would work with the security changes in Windows 7, but there was one large problem," Katz said via email interview. "The $12,000 material cutter they used to create decals didn't have a driver for Windows 7." In effect, upgrading would be far more costly than any potential downside of staying on the older OS, so Katz advised them to wait. The manufacturer has since released a Windows 7 driver, and the sign maker is now running Windows 7.
But Katz has other clients that plan to ride XP into the sunset and beyond. One industrial client plans to use refurbished XP boxes on its production floor for the foreseeable future, owing to an expected lifespan of just eight months under harsh conditions. "Even clean factories aren't nice places for computers," Katz said. "The software used on the floor is pretty light, has a few oddball issues with Windows 7, and the ready availability of refurbished Windows XP machines for $300 or less makes them largely throw-away units."
One of Katz's retail customers runs on even older infrastructure: four aging point-of-sale locations networked with a server via "thinnet" cable. "The 'server' is a Windows 98 box running on, I think, a 486 processor with 128MB of RAM," Katz said. "A screaming-fast system once upon a time, but now it makes people like me scream in horror at the thought of supporting it."
The store's owner is well-aware of her system's antiquity, but replacing the network, POS, and accounting system was estimated to run $75,000 -- a project that would also include the manual re-entry of thousands of SKUs worth of inventory data.
"The risk of crash, while real, was actually less expensive," Katz said. "$500 every six to 12 months to resurrect an ancient machine wouldn't pay for the cost of a new system before she retired and sold the operation."
Morris Tabush, head of the IT firm Tabush, isn't actively trying to extend the life of XP for any clients, which total more than 3,000 desktops under his management. He's also not in any huge rush to get them to Windows 7, nor is he concerned about Microsoft's 2014 end-of-life deadline. While Tabush sometimes turns to Microsoft for server support, PCs are another story.
"For many end users, XP is just fine," Tabush said via email. "Not having Microsoft support is meaningless. We [have] never had to call Microsoft for desktop OS support in the past and don't plan to in the future."
Upgrading isn't the easy decision that Win 7 was. We take a close look at Server 2012, changes to mobility and security, and more in the new Here Comes Windows 8 issue of InformationWeek. Also in this issue: Why you should have the difficult conversations about the value of OS and PC upgrades before discussing Windows 8. (Free registration required.)


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New York's gay marriage law remains stuck in the Republican-controlled state Senate, where legislators are considering the law's potential impact on religious groups – and, some analysts say, their own political fortunes.
The Democratic-dominated Assembly last week approved the bill, which would make New York the sixth and most populous state to permit same-sex marriages. Since then, the Senate's Republican majority has held a series of closed-door meetings – several with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo – to discuss the bill and whether it should be brought to a full vote.
The holdup has centered on whether exemptions in the bill to protect religious groups from civil lawsuits if they refuse to preside over or host same-sex ceremonies are sufficient.
To some legal analysts, Republicans' concerns are well founded. Religious-affiliated nonprofits such as Catholic Charities or the Salvation Army lack certain protections, as do individuals who are morally opposed to gay marriage, says Robin Fretwell Wilson, a law professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.
Moreover, municipalities could penalize religious groups that refuse to serve married gay couples.
"Just because the state has this idea that they'll write these exemptions in doesn't mean that local governments won't come in and say, 'We'll punish you,' " Professor Wilson adds.
In particular, she says municipalities could refuse to enter into contracts with or give tax breaks to groups that violate their antidiscrimination policies.
Defenders of the marriage bill, however, say these concerns are unfounded and that overly broad religious exemptions would conflict with New York's existing human-rights law.
The state law bars discrimination based on sexual orientation, but makes certain exceptions for religious institutions. If the marriage law expanded the exemptions to include individuals or businesses, the law would be seriously weakened, says Susan Sommer, director of constitutional litigation for Lambda Legal, which supports same-sex marriage.
"This would be a rollback on civil rights, setting us back decades," she says.
Ms. Sommer calls the threat of municipal penalties or lawsuits against religious-affiliated nonprofits "red herrings." "Allowing people to marry within the state doesn't change the preexisting [non-discrimination] requirements or necessarily create new conflicts that weren't already there and being navigated fine in New York," she adds.
Indeed, the real sticking point in the negotiations might have nothing to do with protecting religious groups, says Gerald Benjamin, a political scientist at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
"The fundamental issue is their fear about losing their majority in the Senate," he says.
Republican senators – the majority of whom oppose the bill – may have real moral concerns about gay marriage, but they also may have used the debate about the exemption language to let them avoid bringing the controversial measure to a vote, Professor Benjamin says.
"I think, at bottom, they'd prefer not to act, and they'd like to find reasons not to act," says Benjamin.
Part of their reluctance may stem from threats by conservative groups to punish any Republicans who support the bill. The state's Conservative Party, which makes influential endorsements, threatened to oppose Republicans who vote for the bill.
Until Republicans bring the bill to the floor, debate on the bill will continue behind closed doors.
For government watchdog Common Cause, that highlights a problem. "Each member of the public is entitled to know the position of their elected representative," says Executive Director Susan Lerner.
Legislators Wednesday told reporters they had made progress on the religious exemption language and could soon bring the bill to the Senate floor. But that was far from set in stone.
"I don't ever feel confident what the New York state Legislature is going to do," says Ms. Lerner, "until I see them do it."


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Total Time: approximately 50 minutes or less
1 lb. lean bacon or sausage cut in 1" pieces
2 pounds ground chuck
2 cups diced seasoning (onions, bell pepper, celery)
2 cans black eyed peas (drain juice in measuring cup)
2 boxes Tony Chachere's dirty rice mix
1. Add bacon/sausage to a 5-6 qt. pot (Dutch oven). Cook until half done.
2. Add ground meat, mixing well. Brown well, adding chopped seasonings, browning more. Drain off grease if too much.
3. Then add drained peas, reserving the liquid in a 4 cup measuring cup. Add water to make a total of 4 cups, including the liquid from the peas.
4. Add the water, along with the rice mix to the pot; stir well and bring to a fast bubbling boil, then turn down to low and cook covered for 25-30 minutes, or until rice is done to your liking.
Yield: Serves 8 or more
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Bipartisan bill defines telehealth and provides principles to guide states considering telehealth policies.
New federal legislation establishes a national definition of telehealth and clarifies the scope of which electronic methods can be used to safely deliver health-care services.
The Telehealth Modernization Act of 2013 provides principles to guide states that are considering their own telehealth policies. Introduced in December and sponsored by Reps. Doris Matsui, D-Calif.; and Bill Johnson, R-Ohio; the legislation aims to standardize what telehealth is and promote its use by health-care professionals in the U.S.
In an interview with Government Technology, Johnson explained that the bill – H.R. 3750 – isn't a mandate directed at states. Instead, it encourages them to look further into telehealth as a viable option for physicians and patients to maximize the quality of health care.
A number of states have statutorily defined telehealth over the last several years as technology advancements have enabled doctors and patients to meet virtually with confidence. But according to a joint statement issued by Matsui and Johnson, 50 sets of rules for what types of care can be provided can often lead to uncertainty for providers. The Telehealth Modernization Act should provide principles and guidance to help standardize terminology on a national scale.
"It's not a regulatory burden like an EPA rule or Obamacare," Johnson said of the bill. "It is meant to get the states to start thinking about setting standards for telehealth, so as technology innovations make it more available, that they're all stalking the same code and shooting for the same standards."
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But if the bill isn't a mandate for change, what if a state's definition of telehealth differs significantly from the federal one? Would states have to amend their own laws? Johnson admitted he didn't look at everything on the books from all 50 states, but said he believes if a state is already engaged in enabling telehealth, then they'd likely want to look at their laws to see how they can be more facilitative.
Johnson added that his intent is not to tie any potential future government funding regarding telehealth to adherence to H.R. 3750. He said he's not in favor of forcing states to comply with a national definition of the term and is more for letting the private market drive telehealth innovation and standards.
On the subject of insurance companies and how they'd interpret the Act, Johnson added that he's not worried that the definition of activities that constitute a telehealth "visit" could be construed to include emails and phone calls. He doesn't envision being at that level yet, and reiterated that the bill is simply a vehicle to define what telehealth is and provide a framework for states.
"I think the states and the private market are much closer to what the needs of their citizens are," Johnson said. "They'll come up with the right answers. The right answers rarely come from inside the Beltway here in D.C."
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(USA TODAY) -- When a batch of a popular brand of gin ended up with nearly twice its stated alcohol content, drinkers took to social media to offer their sober observations.
Sure, some bottles of Bombay Sapphire may be 154 proof, or 77% alcohol, not the 80 proof, or 40% listed on the label. And yes, authorities in Canada, where the mistake was discovered, ordered a recall last week. But those posting on Twitter apparently didn't exactly see overly boozy booze as a public menace or moral threat. Actually, they thought the debacle was pretty funny.
Officials have advised consumers who purchased 1.14-liter bottles of Bombay Sapphire from the affected batch to throw them out or return them to the store for a refund. The collective reply? Yeah. Like that's to happen.
Bombay Sapphire gin recalled for having too much alcohol. When I drank Bombay, I didn't recall anything.— Joey DiPiazza (@joeydnewyork) May 4, 2017
Bombay Sapphire Gin recalled becuz it was accidentally made twice as strong & is "not safe for consumption." In other words, It's fantastic!— Howie Fox (@fabbeatlebob) May 5, 2017
Bombay Sapphire is recalling some gin in Canada because it has twice the normal alcohol level. Good luck getting people to return that!— Steve Cooper (@coopertalk) May 5, 2017
Some see the situation as absurd.
So I guess a double shot of Bombay Sapphire is out of the question at the moment??— Black Dalek (@ProCopy_Aus) May 5, 2017
Or took a dig at the product itself.
Save on expensive Bombay Sapphire gin by simply filling an ordinary bottle with antifreeze.— grantepidemik (@grantepidemik) May 5, 2017
Someone even brought soft drinks into the discussion.
Vogue India team drinking that Bombay Sapphire Gin for sure. https://t.co/H2Aircf89C— Lizelle Alexander (@LizzzzAl) May 5, 2017
And a few who were serious about the recall.
There are over a million bottles of Bombay sapphire dry gin with 70% alcohol instead of 40% written on the bottle. Be careful guys— Otunba Olusegun (@mr_shegzienator) May 5, 2017
The recall is only for parts of Canada, The U.S.supply is unaffected, according to Bacardi Limited, which owns the Bombay Sapphire brand.
The problem arouse when switching from one bottling tank to another one, the company said.
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Launched during the Space Age and overshadowed by missions to the moon, the deep-diving submersible known as Alvin has nonetheless racked up an impressive list of explorations over more than 40 years of plying the world's oceans.
And now, after a year-long retrofit, Alvin is ready to tackle what many scientists consider the last frontier on earth — the deepest parts of the ocean floor — and transmit its findings back in broadcast-quality pictures and video.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is in the final stages of a $41 million overhaul and is readying Alvin for relaunch in April. Shaped like a short, stubby submarine, the rebuilt vessel will bristle with high-resolution cameras outside and have a mini-TV studio inside. Its 3-inch-thick titanium inner core will allow it to dive as deep as four miles, covering nearly all of the ocean floors around the world.
"It's a huge portion of our planet that we've never even seen," said a Woods Hole marine geologist, Susan Humphris, the principal investigator for Alvin's upgrade.
The original Alvin had a celebrated career. Its most famous exploration was in 1986, when it made 12 dives to the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic. The pictures that scientist Robert Ballard and his colleagues took during their expeditions were a sensation.
Commissioned in 1964, Alvin was used two years later by its owner, the Navy, to locate an unexploded hydrogen bomb nearly 3,000 feet below sea level off the coast of Spain.
In 1977, it set off a new line of inquiry when Alvin's explorers were the first to observe up close how a teeming ecosystem of clams and other organisms on the ocean bottoms survived on the chemical discharges of underwater hydrothermal vents and not from photosynthesis, as plants do.
Before being taken out of the water and brought to Woods Hole in 2011, Alvin was in the Gulf of Mexico, measuring the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea corals.
But for all its successes in more than 4,600 dives, Alvin has been hobbled by its design and age. In 2004, engineers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which operates the vessel, began working on improvements that will take Alvin even deeper, allowing scientists to make the most of their precious time in this little-understood ecosystem.
The original "personnel sphere," which carries two scientists and one pilot, was designed so that each crew member looked out of separate windows, or view ports; none of the porthole-like windows had overlapping fields of view.
That meant the pilot could not necessarily see what the scientists singled out for investigation and had to guess where to navigate the vessel, or which samples of rock or ocean life to pluck out with Alvin's robotic arm. And because it is so crammed inside, the scientists could not easily move into a position to look out the same viewing port as the pilot.
"It was incredibly frustrating," Humphris said. "I never knew if the pilot got the right rock."
Alvin's new sphere was designed so the crew can collaborate better. It has five large windows that provide a 245-degree viewing field and are placed so the pilot and the scientists can focus on the same object simultaneously.
And the explorers inside Alvin won't be the only ones enjoying the view.
The new sphere will have high-resolution cameras in multiple places: two on top of the sub that will record the terrain as Alvin moves; two at the "basket," or front deck where samples are stored, to provide closer-in shots; and even more cameras on the manipulator arms that scientists can use to zoom in on an interesting shrimp, for example, or geological formation.
The scientists will see much more through the cameras, with greater ability to tilt and pan and with multiple screens to view images.
In the original Alvin, scientists took screen grabs from video for stills, which limited image quality. But Alvin's new cameras will produce publication-quality photos or video.
"Whatever you can print or put on TV, that's the quality that will be available," said Kurt Uetz, the program manager for Alvin. "And scientists will have much better control of what they're looking at."
The challenge for Alvin's scientists was getting all this high-tech equipment to survive the immense pressures of the deep-sea environment. The housings for the imaging and lighting equipment need to withstand about 10,000 pounds of pressure per square inch, Uetz said. Feeding the video back onto the ship required engineering special "penetrator plates" to get the fiber optics and other cabling through the three-inch walls of the titanium sphere.
The 41,000-pound titanium sphere can withstand the pressure down to 6,500 meters, or about four miles, allowing Alvin to cover 98 percent of the ocean floor around the world.
For now, Alvin will not be able to get that deep, kept back by lead-acid batteries that limit its dives to no more than eight hours. So in its initial relaunch, Alvin can dive to 4,500 meters, or nearly three miles, still deep enough to explore about two-thirds of the ocean bottom.
Uetz expects to replace the older power pack with lighter and more powerful batteries, such as lithium-ion batteries.
Although the new sphere will be slightly roomier inside, it will not be much more comfortable for the crews that take the rebuilt submersible down for a dive. The quarters will remain cramped and cold, and the retrofit skipped one important amenity: a bathroom. Crew members must either dehydrate the night before or use bags.
Deep-sea oceanographers are quick to note that more is known about the moon or the surface of Mars than the farthest corners of the ocean floor. In April 2012, filmmaker and explorer James Cameron traveled to the deepest part of the world's oceans — the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, nearly seven miles underwater — in a specially made submersible.
"I felt like I literally, as if, in the space of one day, I had gone to another planet and come back," Cameron said after the journey.
Soon, Alvin will be able to probe other deep, unexplored parts of the world's oceans. Woods Hole scientists said the research they expect to gather from Alvin's deeper dives — more than 1 terabyte of images and other data from each mission — will prove vital to understanding the biology of organisms that live miles below sea level.
Scientists hope that exotic microbes and rare samples taken during the dives could yield clues for biomedicine and other novel natural products.
And although long in coming, the retrofit is expected to allow Alvin to continue to explore new underwater frontiers for another 40 years.


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The department's communications director says the Philadelphia Police hope the move will help build trust with the community.
Fifteen Philadelphia police officers will soon be trained in the use of a new crime-fighting tool: Twitter. At a City Council hearing last week, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said that with a tight budget, he plans to have his officers make more use of tweeting and other technologies.
Ramsey's communications director, Karima Zedan, says that the department is launching an effort to have officers at all levels tweeting regularly using their smartphones. In this abridged, edited transcript, she discusses why using Twitter to the police's advantage will bring many benefits for Philadelphia's communities.
Our driving philosophy has been: Why not try to pave the way and use [Twitter] as a great tool to connect to people and put a face to the men and women who serve in the department. That's really what Twitter allows us to do. We've been on Twitter (@phillypolice) since September of 2009. It's been a great way to respond to people's questions, to give information to highlight programs that the police department is doing [and] to highlight the good works of people.
We have a very enthusiastic detective on Twitter, Joe Murray, and he's actually been tweeting for probably close to two years. We didn't even know about it. Joe Murray has been connecting to communities in our University City area (where the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University are, and a number of other organizations) and he's gained a following. Right now he has over 1,400 followers, and people have really loved having him as a virtual presence.
If you read @ppdjoemurray's Twitter stream, you see just how engaged he really is. He'll tell you, "I'm not really doing anything more than what people did back in the '50s or '60s, people went out on foot patrol, they went into stores, they went and talked to people. I'm doing the same thing; I'm just doing it with my cellphone."
Joe Murray will help lead the way. He understands the language, he knows how to use it and he's had great success. He's already contributed so greatly to our efforts here, to pushing information out and supporting the department's efforts. He is helping people see that this could be a really great tool. [Officers] will have their own independent accounts, and we really want them to become known in their community.
We expect them to tweet information that is timely and relevant: public safety alerts, crimes in the area. We want them to stay within [the social media policy], so for example, please respect the privacy rights of victims, respect the integrity of an investigation [and] those kinds of obvious things. We don't want them tweeting about that. We don't want them sending out press releases; we can do that. We want them having conversations with people, which is Twitter's tagline: "Join the Conversation."
Definitely, we plan to expand it. We have a lot of people and we don't need everyone on Twitter, but it would be great to have a number of people, particularly in patrol, uniformed patrol and our detective divisions who are talking to our communities every single day.
I think when they start seeing the positive interactions that come about as a result of these conversations, change will happen quickly. From my personal experience, when it comes to implementing any kind of organizational change around communication and technology, we have to show them why they should be invested, give them good reasons and show them the results. And when people see that they can talk to this person directly, set up community meetings, give the information that people really, really want — all from my cellphone — that's really quite empowering. I think once people experience that, they will come around.
I think when it comes to making change, there are always cynics and a fear of change, a fear of what the change will mean for them. But really, Twitter, Facebook, all of the social media channels, they're no different from what was 10 years ago a regular cellphone, and before then, a telephone. These are all just other tools in our tool chest of ways to talk to and communicate with people. Five years from now, we will be having the same conversation about a different technology innovation, and how to incorporate it into our daily lives. We had the same conversation about email, and now email is a regular part of our lives; for some people it's even passé. Some rely strictly on text messaging. So it is a complement to what they are already doing.
I think it will help them become connected to their communities much quicker than perhaps they expect. I also think if people know who is on the other end -- if they can put a face to whose on that account — they're more likely to give more information when it comes to solving a crime. Joe Murray has provided an excellent example of that. He's gotten a lot of tips. People email him every single day with tips because of the information he's putting out on Twitter. He's using social media to build trust in our communities, and that's the best possible outcome — these channels, they bring people closer to the department, they build trust over time, people get to know us and our communities become safer.
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HARTFORD -- Five months after he escaped being shot in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent felt the blood drain from his face when he saw an alert about another mass shooting, this time in Newtown.
Rodriguez-Torrent will testify Monday along with others, including friend Stephen Barton who was shot in the theater, before the state legislature's task force on preventing gun violence.
Barton and Rodriguez-Torrent both grew up in Southbury, a town adjacent to Newtown.
Barton said what he remembers most about the shooting was the darkness, the chaos and the steady report of a machine gun.
"It's not the movie theater. It's not the school. It's the gun. That's the issue," Barton said at a press conference held at the Legislative Office Building Sunday.
Barton and Rodriguez-Torrent were on a cross-country bicycling trip when they stopped in Aurora to visit a friend.
"People ask if I think it's following me. I was there when it happened in Aurora, and then it happened in the town right next to me.
"I don't think it is. It can happen anywhere, and that's what's so scary," Rodriguez-Torrent said.
The two men joined with Rabbi Shaul Praver of Temple Adath Israel in Newtown and Lois Schaffer, whose daughter was killed by two men with guns four years ago, to say they hope to put a face on gun violence.
"I do not want to see families hearing such noise and falling to the ground and wailing anymore. ... We all want to be able to put our children on that yellow school bus and know that they will be safe.
"And right now just a bunch of different subjects in our society make that less and less certain," Praver said.
"There is too much of a culture of violence ... in our American country, and we can do so much better than that," he said.
No one in the group proposed banning guns altogether. Barton said he wants to see work done on the state and federal levels when it comes to making background checks more effective, calling them "Swiss cheese" now, with holes and missing information.
He also said Connecticut needs to "add teeth" to its assault weapon ban.
"We just have to do something. It's unacceptable to me that that we're still having this conversation after so many tragedies, but that's the thing, we have to keep pushing."
Praver said the way that guns are marketed and advertised to children is part of the issue.
"Guns are marketed like sugary sodas are marketed to children, to the youth. BB guns are made to look like these automatic guns so that after you get done with the thrill of shooting BBs, that you'll want to shoot real live ammunition, the big stuff," he said.
"It's too insidious in our culture. We're not even talking about taking guns away or anything like that; we're just talking about the insidious nature of guns penetrating the lives of even our young children."
Schaffer's daughter was killed while interrupting a robbery at her home. The single working mother wouldn't even let her children have water guns, she said.
"Since my daughter was shot I have said then that there was going to be something that was going to happen, that was going to catch the eye, the heart and the mind of people. This was it," she said, referring to the Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Barton and Rodriguez-Torrent said being subjected to gun violence is something neither of them thought would happen. But now that it has, they want to be part of the cause that stops it.
"We've all read about these tragic shootings that seem to happen every few months now, and you never think you're going to be in that situation.
"I'm here to tell you that even when you're in that situation, you can't believe it's happening. ... I didn't think I'd ever be affected by gun violence, and what happened to me in Aurora was horrible, but then for five months later ... in the town I grew up right next to, I still can't believe it," Barton said.
"I'm really hopeful that these sorts of events will spur people to action that's long overdue."


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Ten Reasons To Be A Scout Leaderstevejb68 on September 6, 2010 in Leadership, Scouting
Four years ago I wrote a blog post that became one of the most read posts I have ever written. It was during the time when many packs and troops were conducting recruitment drives and school nights. The article listed some reasons on why a parent should get involved as a leader in Scouting.
Well, it is that time of year again, so here is that article for all the new readers to this blog, and to refresh the memories of those of you who have been with me for awhile.
Boys around the country will be joining Boy Scouting for the first time this month. And new parents will be asked to help their troop or pack by becoming an adult leader. There are many reasons not to be a leader, but let me give you ten reasons why you should become a Scouter. (These are not in any sort of order.)
1) Be a positive influence in a boy's life. I think we can agree that there are many youth out there who can benefit from more of this in today's world.
2) Learn new skills. You are never too old to learn a new skill. And to tell the truth, I don't think a person can ever learn too many skills.
3) Teach boys new skills. There are few things in life that will make you feel more proud then when you watch a boy or young man using a skill that you have helped them to master.
4) Make new friends. Not only will you form friendships with the boys, but you will also form new friendships with other Scouters.
5) Help your community. You provide this service through your unit's service projects and by helping boys grow up to be better adults.
6) Spend time in the Great Outdoors. You really do need to get out of that recycled-air, stressed-filled office environment at least once a month.
7) Have a good laugh. Working with Scout age boys can be fun and funny in many ways. Just remember to laugh with the boys, not at the boys.
8 ) Go traveling. There are thousands of places to go that provide a great Scout Outing. And do not forget the opportunities to go to a National Jamboree, Philmont, or the other high adventure bases.
9) Get some exercise. We could all use more exercise. Just try keeping up with a group of Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts.
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