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Advanced Indexing and Array Concepts
In this article by Ivan Idris, the author of NumPy Cookbook, we will learn some of NumPy's more advanced and tricky indexing techniques. NumPy has very efficient arrays that are easy to use due to their powerful indexing mechanism. NumPy is famous for its efficient arrays. This fame is partly due to the ease of indexing. We will demonstrate advanced indexing tricks using images.
In this article, we will cover:
Installing SciPy
Installing PIL
Resizing images
Comparing views and copies
Flipping Lena
Fancy indexing
Indexing with a list of locations
Indexing with booleans
Stride tricks for Sudoku
Broadcasting arrays
Before diving into indexing, we will install the necessary software — SciPy and PIL. Some of the examples in this article will involve manipulating images. In order to do that, we will require the Python Image Library (PIL); but don't worry, instructions and pointers to help you install PIL and other necessary Python software are given throughout the article, when necessary.Read Advanced Indexing and Array Concepts in full
Advanced JIRA 5.2 Features
In this article by Patrick Li, author of JIRA 5.2 Essentials , we will take a look at two add-ons that can transform your JIRA to be more than just a simple issue-tracking system. By the end of the article, you will have learned how to:
- Run agile projects in JIRA with GreenHopper
- Collect feedback from visitors directly on your website with Issue Collector
Advanced Lighting in 3D Graphics with XNA Game Studio 4.0
By the end of the previous article, Introduction to HLSL in 3D Graphics with XNA Game Studio 4.0, we had developed a system to draw a model with custom effects and we had created an effect that rendered a directional light shining onto a model. This is useful if we want a scene with only sunlight, for example, but what if we wanted to light up a specific area? To start with, we'd need a light type that more accurately models real world lights—the "point" light. We will start this article by implementing this type of light in HLSL. We will then look at a similar light type—the "spot" light. We will spend the rest of the article, by Sean James, author of 3D Graphics with XNA Game Studio 4.0, looking at two ways to draw multiple lights at the same time.Read Advanced Lighting in 3D Graphics with XNA Game Studio 4.0 in full
Advanced Matplotlib: Part 1
In this article by Sandro Tosi we are about to explore some advanced aspects of Matplotlib. The topics that we are going to cover in detail are:
- Matplotlib's object-oriented interface
- Subplots and multiple figures
- Additional and shared axes
- Logarithmic scaled axes
- Date plotting with ticks formatting and locators
- Text properties, fonts, LaTeX typewriting
- Contour plots and image plotting
Advanced Matplotlib: Part 2
Read Part One of Advanced Matplotlib.Read Advanced Matplotlib: Part 2 in full
Advanced Output Formats in Python 2.6 Text Processing
In this article, by Jeff McNeil, author of Python 2.6 Text Processing Beginner's Guide, we'll look at some advanced techniques for generating richer text formats. Up until now, we've largely concerned ourselves with plain text output. Here, we'll shift a little bit. Instead of outputting plain text, we'll look at a few commonly used rich formats.
Specifically, we'll look at how to do the following:
- Build simple PDF output using the ReportLab Toolkit's high level PLATYPUS framework.
- Generation of true Microsoft Excel output using the xlwt module.
- Programmatically create and save OpenDocument files. This is the file format used by Open Office and quite a few other applications. Microsoft Word 2007 supports this format (though not by default).
- Open and edit existing OpenDocument files so that we can use them as templates sources.
Advanced Performance Strategies
In this article by Steve Perkins, author of Hibernate Search by Example, we will look at some advanced strategies for improving the performance and scalability of production applications, through code as well as server architecture.Read Advanced Performance Strategies in full
Advanced SOQL Statements
This article by Magulan D., the author of the book Getting Started with SOQL, gives more information on how to write advanced SOQL statements. This article deals with querying the records for one or more objects in a single SOQL statement. In this case, there should be some relationship among the objects. In Salesforce.com, we cannot query the records from two or more objects if they don't have a relationship between them. The relationships that are available in Salesforce.com are lookup relationship and master-detail relationship.Read Advanced SOQL Statements in full
Advanced System Management
In this article by Rich Pinkall Pollei, the author of the book Debian 7: System Administration Best Practices, we'll cover briefly several advanced administration subjects. Configuration administration will be covered, and we will briefly look at cluster management. Finally, we will look at one of the most useful administration tools for any Linux system, Webmin.Read Advanced System Management in full
Advanced Theme in Liferay User Interface Development
Advanced Theme, provides details about what can be done for advanced themes. It covers how to change the value of the theme.parent property for theme creation, and addressed how to add color schemes, how to use Configurable settings in a theme and Pre-defined theme settings, how to embed portlets in a theme, and other topics like theme upgrade, creating a FreeMarker-template theme, brower compatibility, Liferay IDE, and other development tools.
A typical portal page consists of a theme, a layout template, and one or more portlets.
In this article, by Jonas X. Yuan, Xinsheng Chen & Frank Yu, authors of Liferay User Interface Development, we will explore some aspects of a theme in depth and elaborate on the following theme topics:
- Changing the value of the theme.parent property for theme creation
- Adding color schemes
- Configurable settings in a theme
- Pre-defined theme settings
- Embedding portlets in a theme
- Theme upgrade
- Creating a FreeMarker-template theme
- Brower compatibility
- Liferay IDE and other development tools
We will have some lab activities of adding color schemes to a theme and upgrading a theme to Liferay Portal 6.Read Advanced Theme in Liferay User Interface Development in full
Advanced WordPress Themes
In this article by Lee Jordan and Nick Ohrn, authors of the book WordPress 2.8 Themes Cookbook, we will cover:
- Adding a theme options page
- Allowing for multiple theme color schemes
- Changing the default Gravatar icon for your theme
Advantages and History of OpenVPN
In the mid 1990s, the rise of the Internet and the increase in speed of cheap Internet connections paved the way for new technologies. This lead to the idea of providing secure connections between enterprise branches through low-cost lines using the Internet. This is a very basic description of what VPNs are all about.
In this article by Markus Feilner, we will discuss the features and advantages of OpenVPN followed by its release history.Read Advantages and History of OpenVPN in full
Aggregate Services in ServiceMix JBI ESB
Integration is a necessary evil using which we can interconnect systems, applications and services to facilitate seamless information flow within and across Organization boundaries. We have been using technologies like JSP, EJB, JMS, etc. in the Java world for building Enterprise Applications (EA). But if we have to interconnect such applications, we will need Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Many a times we also use EA technologies and tools to do EAI. This will give a short term solution to our integration problems, which may not scale up when we want to perform integration at Enterprise (Customers, Vendors, Partners, ...) level. Java Business Integration (JBI) is the new specification trying to fill this gap of EAI in the Java world. So next time when you want to integrate, don't write a single line of Java code, instead plug and assemble JBI based integration libraries to control your message flow! Does it looks promising? Believe it or read the article below to get yourself convinced.
In this article by Binildas Christudas, we will look into Integration in general and to JBI and ESB in particular. We will then explain few functionalities usually done by integration components like protocol conversions, content transformations, etc., with some code snippets too.Read Aggregate Services in ServiceMix JBI ESB in full
Agile with Yii 1.1 and PHP5: Creating themes
Themes provide a systematic way of customizing the design layout of a web application. One of the many benefits of an MVC architecture is the separation of the presentation tier from both the rest of the back-end stuff. Themes make great use of this separation by allowing you to easily and dramatically change the overall look and feel of a web application during runtime. Yii allows for an extremely easy application of themes to provide great flexibility in your web application design.
In this article by Jeffery Winesett, author of the book Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5, we will cover the following topics:
- Building themes in Yii
- Creating a Yii theme
- Configuring the application to use a theme
Agile with Yii 1.1 and PHP5: The TrackStar Application
In order to understand the framework in the context of a real-world application, we need to build something that will more closely resemble the types of applications web developers actually have to build. That is exactly what we are going to be doing.
In this article by Jeffery Winesett, author of Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5, we introduce the project task tracking application called TrackStar. There are many other project management and issue tracking applications out there in the world, and the basic functionality of ours will not be any different from many of these. So why build it, you ask? It turns out that this type of user-based application has many features that are common to a great many web applications out there. This will allow us to achieve two primary goals:
- Showcase Yii's incredible utility and feature set as we build useful functionality and conquer real-world web application challenges
- Provide real-world examples and approaches that will be immediately applicable to your next web application project
Agile Works Best in PHP Projects
We are developing software for users, and we want to ensure that the software is really useful for the users. Over time, people working on this software have faced the same problem over and over again. Therefore, they have come up with a concept called agile development. In this article, we will explore the concepts of agile development and will also see how these can help us with the PHP projects.
In this article by Samisa Abeysinghe, we will cover the following:
- What is meant by agility and how it can help
- Extreme programming principles
- Advantages of agile process models
- Team agility
- Agile process models
- Agile principles for the PHP project team
AJAX / Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms
AJAX—it's the buzzword that hit the Web with a bullet in 2005, thanks to Jesse James Garrett, a user-experience expert who founded AdaptivePath.com. If you're totally new to AJAX, I'll just point out that; at its core, AJAX is nothing that scary or horrendous. AJAX isn't even a new technology or language!
In this article by Tessa Blakeley Silver, we're going to take a look at the most popular methods to get going with AJAX in WordPress using plug-ins and widgets to help you include dynamic self-updating content and create interactive forms in your WordPress site. While we're at it, we'll also look at some cool JavaScript toolkits, libraries, and scripts you can use to appear 'Ajaxy'.Read AJAX / Dynamic Content and Interactive Forms in full
AJAX and Connection Manager with Yahoo User Interface (YUI)
The YUI Connection Manager utility provides an almost unequalled interface to AJAX scripting methods used today among the many JavaScript libraries available. It handles the creation of a cross-platform XHR object and provides an easy mechanism for reacting to success and failure responses among others. It handles common HTTP methods such as GET and POST with equal ease for negotiating cross-domain requests. In this article by Dan Wellman, we will explore the functionality of the YUI Connection Manager for providing an excellent interface to AJAX.Read AJAX and Connection Manager with Yahoo User Interface (YUI) in full
AJAX Chat Implementation: Part 1
In this article by Bogdan Brinzarea and Cristian Darie, we will discuss about AJAX Chat implementation in detail.Read AJAX Chat Implementation: Part 1 in full
AJAX Chat Implementation: Part 2
This is the second part of the article series on AJAX Chat. In this article by Bogdan Brinzarea and Cristian Darie, we will continue to discuss about AJAX Chat implementation in detail. Read AJAX Chat: Part 1 here.Read AJAX Chat Implementation: Part 2 in full


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Untold Story: A Novel by Monica Ali (Brick Lane, In the Kitchen) is about what might have happened if Princess Diana hadn't been killed in 1997. If alive, she would turn fifty on July 1, 2011. Ali imagines a fictional Princess of Wales whose life mirrors that of Diana's. She did not die in an accident, her death was faked, and now she is living in the United States. She calls herself Lydia Snaresbrook and is living in Kensington, North Carolina. Slowly, she makes friends and dates, but can never divulge the truth of her past. Eventually a British paparazzo comes to town and threatens her secret. Fans of Diana may enjoy this fairy tale of 'what if;' for as many questions as it answers, it's likely to leave readers asking more...what is it to live a life of peace, and is it worth leaving your children behind?
While you're waiting for Untold Story, take a look at what Newsweek's Tina Brown has to say about what Diana's life would be like in her article Diana at 50.
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RALEIGH — The Senate gave bipartisan approval Thursday to the first rewrite in 24 years of a legislative blueprint for spreading state and federal transportation construction dollars across North Carolina.
The Strategic Mobility Formula scraps the 1989 Highway Trust Fund Act and sets new guidelines for making the best use of money for statewide, regional and local projects. It was proposed in April by Gov. Pat McCrory and reflects his push to link infrastructure improvements with economic development.
It won preliminary Senate approval in a 42-5 vote after Republican sponsors adopted changes, sought by Triangle Democrats, to upgrade state priorities for regional transit service, passenger trains and bicycle and pedestrian projects. After a final floor vote Monday, the bill will return to the House – where it passed on a 102-15 vote last month – for concurrence on minor Senate changes.
"This bill is a new plan for transportation," said Sen. Kathy Harrington, a Gastonia Republican who co-chairs the Senate Transportation Committee. "We've worked hard to see all regions of the state have more opportunities than ever to fund all modes of transportation."
Sens. Floyd McKissick of Durham and Josh Stein and Dan Blue of Raleigh had complained last week that the bill would make it nearly impossible to win state funds for the Triangle's planned light rail lines and rush-hour commuter trains. They thanked Harrington and Republican Sen. Bill Rabon of Southport Thursday for writing compromise language into the bill when it moved through the Senate Appropriations Committee this week.
"They didn't – and maybe this will make you all happy – " Stein said Thursday, addressing the Senate's Republican majority, "they didn't do everything we wanted. But they did do something. And we appreciate their willingness to work with us."
An urban advocate praised the Senate vote.
"This is a major piece of transportation reform in North Carolina that everybody can be proud of," said Julie White, executive director of the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition.
Under the new formula, 40 percent of all transportation construction money would be spent for projects of statewide importance, with an emphasis on creating jobs and cutting traffic congestion. That's about $600 million a year for big airports, mainline freight railroads and major highways.
Another 30 percent ($450 million) would be divided among seven regions, according to population. The eligibility for regional money is broadened to include ferries and second-tier highways. McCrory and legislative leaders want to use some regional money to improve commuter routes into the cities, so small-town folks can drive to urban job centers.
The bill includes Harrington and Rabon's agreement to make regional money available also for regional bus and light-rail transit projects, and for commuter rail, Amtrak and other passenger trains that use standard freight tracks. The two had proposed earlier to make transit and passenger trains compete with local roads for the remaining 30 percent of state and federal funds, which will be split evenly among the 14 Department of Transportation divisions across the state.
The Strategic Mobility Formula directs DOT to use objective criteria to rank projects for funding. Local political input will count for 50 percent of the grade at the division level and 30 percent at the regional level, but state-wide project choices are supposed to be 100 percent "data-driven," Republican leaders say.
The legislation gives DOT until August to work out criteria for evaluating projects, and for comparing roads with other modes. One Senate critic said it was wrong to approve the legislation without these details.
Sen. Martin Nesbitt, an Asheville Democrat, warned that the new DOT criteria will be shaped by special-interest groups. Small towns will end up with less money than they get now from the Highway Trust Fund, he said.
"The more rural you are, I think, the more at risk you are with this bill, ..." Nesbitt said. "We're sitting here taking a pig in a poke, and saying we're going to scrap what we've got. And we'll find out later what we're going to have."
Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, a Chapel Hill Democrat, criticized the bill for not giving higher priority to passenger trains and bicycle and pedestrian improvements. It was amended this week to protect money for greenways and other bicycle-pedestrian projects scheduled through 2015, but no state funds will be allowed after that.
Sen. Tom Apodaca, a Hendersonville Republican, said he hoped the new law would improve prospects for widening a neglected section of Interstate 26 west of Asheville.
"We've had the old system, and it hasn't helped," Apodaca said. "You know I would love to be able to have a greenway between Asheville and Hendersonville, and ride a bicycle, and take a train. But right now I'd rather be able to drive between Asheville and Hendersonville. Hopefully this might give us a little light at the end of the tunnel."
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Another historic first for this blog: documented spoken-word apologetics from my evangelical Protestant period (1977-1990). This was an interview on the largest Protestant radio station in metro Detroit: WMUZ-FM (103.5 FM), on 3 November 1989, with a Protestant pastor, Emery Moss, who is a friend of a Baptist friend of mine, Martin Smith, with whom I still keep in contact (his brother is Jerome Smith, author / editor of Nelson's Cross-Reference Guide to the Bible: Illuminating God's Word Verse-by-Verse).
Dave Armstrong: October 1984
The show was part of the ministry out of the church of the very influential and respected Detroit pastor and valiant prayer warrior George Bogle (who is heard briefly at the end of the show). Actually, the same show remains on the air today, and I am (by a pleasant coincidence) listening to it right now as I am typing this.
I did extensive research on Jehovah's Witnesses from 1982 to 1987, eventually compiling a huge treatise (available online) designed to help Christians share true Christianity with these lost souls, deluded by the Arian heresy, that believes Jesus was created, rather than God the Son. See also a photograph of yours truly witnessing to Mormons at the Ann Arbor Art Fair, just a few months before this interview.
Other papers in my (1600 +) online collection from this period include extensive compilations of the biblical proofs for the divinity / deity of Jesus and the Holy Trinity, a refutation of the "name-it-claim-it" / hyper-faith" wing of pentecostalism, and a presentation of the gospel message (all from 1982). Another from the same year is Old Testament and Jewish Conceptions of the Messiah.
Here is the mp3 file of this radio talk (48 minutes long).
I've also uploaded the 28 minute interview version of my conversion story (9-8-97), from WDEO 990 AM, in Ann Arbor Michigan, with my friend Al Kresta (the transcript is already on my site). It is one of three times I have been on his radio talk show; the others were in 2002 (parts one / two /three / four) and 2004 (parts one / two); all available online for free.
I have some more material to add, and then I will create a "radio talks" page with all the links.


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Thomas asks if that money is enough to pay off her debts.
"I don't think this reflects her salary" referring to the chart amounts.
There is a dramatic drop in 2008. Thomas says how did she pay off debts?
Sauer says she received funds in previous years and cashier's checks.
You mean funds she stuffed in mattress? I don't know if she stuffed money in mattress says Sauer.
Sauer says you are characterizing something that is not accurate when referring to gambling figures.
Did you consider the fact that she might be saving money? I did consider that says Sauer.
This woman is a gambler? Correct says Sauer.
Did you check any other gambling establishments in Detroit? She gambled at Greek town.
You can't tell the jury that you have records from other gambling establishments. No I can't says Sauer.
Sauer reads "EB stored cashier's checks in her mattress or drawer"
12:20PM Bullotta redirects.
Emma Bell didn't cash all the cashier's checks on the same day? Refresh my memory says Sauer.
She would cash about $10,000 at a time.
Bullotta says if Emma Bell is giving money to Kwame and he is going home and putting it in a shoe would that conceal? Yes says Sauer.
12:21PM Bullotta calls Bob Beeckman of the FBI. Wanted to call another witness but it would take too long.
Judge calls 5 minute recess.
Judge tells court that a juror is ill. So we will adjourn until the morning.
"Watch the presidential debates tonight!" Edmunds tells the jury.
Day 7 recap:
It was all about Emma Bell today.
The former Kwame Kilpatrick fund-raiser didn't actually make it to court but her presence was certainly felt. In his cross-examination of IRS special agent Ron Sauer,
Kwame Kilpatrick defense lawyer Jim Thomas did his utmost to discredit the government's co-operating witness, branding her just about everything out there: liar, criminal, snitch, gambler and alcoholic who stuffed money in her bra and mattress.
Bell plead guilty to tax evasion last year. She was sentenced to 18 months in jail but may see that amount reduced.


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HAGERSTOWN — St. James broke open a tight game with a three-run fourth inning and downed Bishop Walsh, 6-2, in a frigid season opener on Thursday afternoon.
Bishop Walsh trailed 2-0 after the first inning then tied it with a two-run second. Dylan Wilson smacked an RBI single in the inning.
The Saints (2-0) broke the tie with a run in the third before tacking on three insurance runs in the fourth.
Both teams had five hits and two errors. Brandon Reed had a pair of singles for the Spartans.
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Community health is a service-oriented profession with a variety of career opportunities that can make meaningful contributions to the health and welfare of the individual and society. Today, with the emphasis on prevention rather than solely on treating the ill, many institutions are developing health promotion and wellness programs for community members. Currently, the job market in community health is excellent. If you enjoy working with people and are interested in health or health related areas, you may want more information about the variety of challenging and very rewarding careers
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The purpose of the doctoral program in Behavioral and Community Health is to prepare health education researchers of the highest quality. The program provides students with the opportunity to develop research skills essential in making significant contributions to the scientific and professional literature in health education. The goal of the program is to develop health professionals competent in understanding the health needs of the nation and qualified to conduct research that will result in setting the public health agenda for the future.
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The MPH in Community Health Education program is designed to promote the development of professional community health educators who understand the science, theory, and practice of public health and can apply this knowledge toward the enhancement of health status in communities. Graduates will participate in both academic and applied training in program planning and implementation, program evaluation, public policy analysis, research and management.
Community Health Education MPH graduates are being sought in the field of public health, especially in the area of behavioral science. Career opportunities abound in both the private and public sectors - in public health agencies, volunteer programs, in business and in industry. MPH graduates are highly competitive in the fast-growing marketplace of community health education and public health.
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Should Barack Obama be in Berlin to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall?
There is one world leader who is not coming to Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall -U.S. President Barack Obama. Much to the chagrin of the German government that spent months trying to get him, Obama won't be here. It's turned into a bit of a political controversy in the United States.
But it's also intriguing to Germans and German media. Why isn't Obama here? Berlin loves (most) American presidents — going back to John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. Is there more than meets the eye to Obama's decision not to come?
Obama, of course, wanted to speak at the Brandenburg Gate in July 2008, when he was only the Democratic candidate. Merkel intervened to prevent that from happening — he ended up giving the speech a few km away at the Victory Column. Tomorrow, Obama could have spoken at the Brandenburg Gate.
Obama did come back to Berlin after that speech in front of 200,000 spectators as presidential candidate (www.reuters.com) last year — but only as a wax figure at Madame Tussauds (photo) The life-like creation was included at Madame Tussauds in Berlin, just a few blocks east of the Brandenburg Gate, in January.


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How to Prepare for Rising Interest Rates
Whether you're a saver, borrower, investor or homeowner, it's time to prepare for rates to go up.
Borrowers have been enjoying historically low interest rates since the Great Recession hit. For those with solid credit histories, taking out a mortgage, auto loan or personal loan has never been cheaper. But all that could change. Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages have started creeping upward, and financial experts say other forms of debt could soon follow suit.
"We do anticipate rates going up, but how far and how fast that's going to happen is an open question," says Bradley Roth, managing partner at Kattan Ferretti Financial, a Pittsburgh-based financial planning and investment advisory firm. He expects the rates on 10-year Treasurys, which are currently approaching 3 percent, to reach 3.25 percent before the end of the year and then 4 to 4.25 percent in 2014.
A rise in interest rates could soon be reflected throughout the entire financial services space, from credit cards to personal loans to home equity lines of credit. The good news for savers is that rates on deposit accounts could also climb after years of very low, or no, rates of return. Here's a roundup of how to prepare for rising rates, depending on your own money identity:
[See: 10 Things to Watch When Interest Rates Go Up.]
For savers:
"Savers should be able to benefit," Roth says, because he expects the rates on certificates of deposit, savings accounts and money market accounts to all go up. However, he warns savers against locking up their money in longer-term products, like CDs, which can make it harder to take advantage of quickly rising rates.
Any rise in savings rates, though, will likely come slowly, says Greg McBride, senior financial analyst for Bankrate.com. "The Federal Reserve is still 18 to 24 months away from boosting short-term rates, so that will keep a lid on the savings yield," he says.
In the meantime, with deposit rate accounts still low, savers can maximize their rate of return by shopping around, says Richard Barrington, senior financial analyst at MoneyRates.com. Online banks tend to offer higher rates of return, he says, because they don't have the expense of supporting branches.
Casey Bond, managing editor of GoBankingRates.com and a U.S. News My Money blogger, also encourages people to explore local banks, which sometimes offer higher rates of return. Otherwise, she says, savers have to take on additional risk to find higher returns. When it comes to short-term savings accounts for emergencies and daily expenses, "It's better to keep [money] in short-term deposit accounts with FDIC protection," she says, even if that means foregoing higher yields.
[See: 10 Target-Date Funds Producing High-Grade Nest Eggs.]
Regardless of where you park your cash, the most important point is getting in the habit of saving, and saving as much as possible, says David Tysk, an Ameriprise financial advisor based in Eden Prairie, Minn. That's much more important than the interest rate you are earning on your short-term accounts, he says. "Make saving as automatic as possible, so it's not up to you to save money or not," Tysk says. That way, it's less tempting to spend the money instead of putting it away, he says.
For borrowers:
Anyone carrying credit card debt is probably paying dearly to do so, since credit cards rates have remained at relatively high levels even as other interest rates have fallen. Roth says he encourages his clients to pay off their credit cards each month to avoid fees and interest.
Other types of loans, such as auto loans, personal loans and home equity loans, have seen lower rates, and there's still time to take advantage of that, says Tommy Gletner, senior vice president and private financial advisor at SunTrust Investment Services. "Anybody that's seeking to take on debt should do it now rather than later," he says, adding that borrowers should lock in current rates so they're protected from future rate increases.
For investors:
Roth says he expects some volatility in the stock market as interest rates go up. "Long-term bonds and bond mutual funds will likely do poorly as we see major outflows," he says, adding that utilities, real estate investment trusts and emerging market funds could also take a hit. "We recommend keeping your bond exposure on the short end and staying diversified," he adds.


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Video Remembrance: Paul Newman
September 29, 2008 12:16 PM
Much of the opportunity for young New York-based actors to hone their craft in the mid to late 1950s was on television. One of the young actors making the rounds in those days was Paul Newman, who died Sept. 26 at the age of 83.
Almost all of TV was broadcast live in those days, and there were a number of drama series on the air. Most of them were broadcast from TV studios in New York. Furthermore, most of these series were anthologies, meaning every week a different story was broadcast with a new cast—they were not continuing series with the same cast of characters.
By mid-1956 Mr. Newman had appeared in more than 20 TV productions. He'd also made two movies. The first one, "The Silver Chalice" in 1954, was a costume drama that Mr. Newman himself later said almost ended his career before it had really begun.
The second one was more auspicious. He played the lead character—boxer Rocky Graziano—in the MGM biopic "Somebody Up There Likes Me." He got the part when the actor who was supposed to play Graziano, James Dean, was killed in a car crash.
The film was released in July 1956.
Mr. Newman's next film role would be in "The Rack," by Rod Serling. That movie was based on an hourlong drama of the same name (that Mr. Newman was not in), which had been broadcast in 1955 on TV on "The U.S. Steel Hour," an anthology drama series sponsored by the United States Steel Corp.
But before he began work on his next feature, Mr. Newman appeared in a moving drama, "Bang the Drum Slowly," that also appeared on TV on "The U.S. Steel Hour."
It's the same story—about a slow-witted baseball player who finds out during the season that he's dying—that was made into the 1973 movie starring Robert De Niro as the dying player and Michael Moriarty as his roommate, a pitcher.
In the original TV version Mr. Newman played the pitcher and Albert Salmi played the dying player.
Richard Corliss, the longtime film writer and reviewer for Time magazine, in his essay about the death of Mr. Newman this past weekend, wrote, "Looking today at Newman's early work, we see that he wasn't always convincing when he played characters whose IQs were 30 points below his. As Graziano, or as the star pitcher in the TV version of 'Bang the Drum Slowly' (both in 1956), he struck attitudes rather than slipping into these athletes' skins. At 31, he was still callow in film terms. To prove his movie mettle it took another two years, and another broken-down jock: Brick Pollitt, the crippled, impotent husband of Elizabeth Taylor's Maggie the Cat in Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' Newman's acute expression of Brick's Scotch-stoked bitterness earned him the first of his nine Academy Award nominations."
I think Mr. Corliss has it exactly right.
We are pleased to present a short clip of Mr. Newman's work in "Bang the Drum Slowly." The show was broadcast live, on Sept. 26, 1956, 52 years to the day that Mr. Newman died. In 1981, producer Sonny Fox dug up an excellent kinescope of the show and it was rebroadcast as part of a PBS series on the Golden Age of Television. Kinescopes were made by taking a "film" picture of the live broadcast. We present this clip with the kind permission of Mr. Fox.
—Chuck Ross


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Boston's families have new tools to deal with mental illness and stress in children, thanks in part to new federal grants. There are numerous mental health resources and services available in Boston, but the first line of prevention is the family's pediatrician, said Debby Allen, Boston Public Health Commission's Director of the Bureau of Child, Adolescent and Family Health.
One new program is Project Launch, which is targeted to help very young children, who don't have serious manifestations of serious illinesses, but are acting up, or in life situations such as being homeless, or instability, such as a having mother suffering from depression.
These programs are available at three Boston sites, and employ early childhood clinicians: Boston Medical Center Pediatric Department in the South End; Martha Eliot Health Center in Jamaica Plain; and the Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester. These sites also employ a family partner to work with families to help avert mental illinesses with kids who are infants to 8-years-old.
The second program, MYCHILD is geared toward children ages 0-6 in risk of serious disorders.
"These kids are showing more serious manifestations from a range of being very explosive, to a kid who bites other children, terrorizes a pet, or is very, very withdrawn and beyond shy," said Allen.
This program is available at: Joseph Smith Community Health Center (Allston); Dorchester House Community Health Center (Dorchester); Bowdoin St. Community Health Center (Dorchester); Boston Health Care for the Homeless (shelters citywide).
Beyond these programs and others, a consult with the family physican should be the first stop for concerned parents.
"Virtually all children are insured (in Massachusetts), so get regular visits," said Allen.
"That system (of primary care) helps catch kids early to do some prevention. The kid may have the condition, maybe a life-long condition, and early intervention really makes a huge, huge difference because you can shape the child's behavior instead of getting into partterns that isolate them the rest of their life," said Allen. "Mental health problems, once (an individual is) engaging in those behaviors they get reenforced, like if a kid acts out and people get angry. It's behaviorial immaturity, rather then being bad or naughty. Being punitive often makes it worse. Early intervention is really key."
Allen added when working with children it'd could to use certain terminoloy.
"Using the term 'stress' is better than 'mental health,'" she said.
Please call 911 for emergency services, and also contact your physician to make them aware of the situation. For immediate trauma support there are several options, you can contact the Boston Public Health Commission through the Mayor's Health Line at 617-534-5050.
There are also school-based health centers, but note these are currently closed for the summer, but will be reopened in the fall.


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The Valdosta Daily Times
Frankie J. "Dee" (Bonnell) Rice went to be with the Lord on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, in Tallahassee, Fla., at the age of 95. Dee was born in Valdosta, Ga., on Dec.7, 1917, to Jasper J. and Hattie Bonnell. She graduated from Valdosta High School and married her high school sweetheart, Joel N. Rice in 1935. She was an active member in Lee Street Baptist Church, where she began teaching Sunday School at the age of 12. In 1947, she moved to Dothan, Ala., and was a member of the First Baptist Church, leading the Children's Choir. She spent most of her life in Jacksonville, Fla., where she was a very active member of several churches over the years. At Brentwood Baptist Church, she was instrumental in building the Youth Choir program. Dee was a member of Mayfair Baptist Church, where she faithfully taught Ladies Sunday School for over 40 years. She was also a member of Holiday Hill Baptist Church. In 2006, she moved to Tallahassee, Fla., to live with her daughter, Nancy, and joined Crossway Baptist Church. She and Joel had three children and her greatest accomplishments were being a loving wife, mother, homemaker, caregiver and Sunday School teacher. She was a gifted poet, pianist and master candy maker, often referred to as the "Doctor of Divinity." Dee was a generous and loving person who always put others before herself. Throughout her life, she was a beautiful and refined lady who was positive and encouraging to all her friends and family. She loved the Lord and was especially proud to be a child of the King.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Jasper and Hattie Bonnell; sisters, Mamie Probert, Bessie Lawson and Florence Rodgers; son-in-law, Walter Dodson; grandsons, Peter Rice and Brian Rice; and her loving husband, Joel N. Rice.
She is survived by her precious children, Nancy Rice Dodson; David Franklin Rice and wife, Mary; Thomas L. Rice and wife, Brenda. She cherished her grandchildren, Sheryll Goedert and husband, Karl; Cathy Meunier and husband, Chris; Amanda Romeo and husband, Ross; David Rice and wife, Andrea, Joel Rice and wife, Kristin; Nathan Rice; Melissa Rice; Tony Dodson and wife Laura; and Walter Craig Dodson. She was very proud of her great-grandchildren, Kasey Bickley, Casey Meunier, Chrysalin Meunier, Alex Bickley, Hank Goedert, Anna Goedert, Nikki Romeo, Ashley Romeo and Ian Pirrall, Holly Dodson and Jessica Kassees and husband Pete; and one great-great grandchild, Alec Stetson.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution to the Crossway Baptist Church Building Fund, 405 Crossway Road, Tallahassee, FL 32305.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28 at Culley's Funeral Home (1737 Riggins Road, Tallahassee, Fla.).
Funeral service will be held at Crossway Baptist Church (405 Crossway Road, Tallahassee, Fla.) on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at 10 a.m. with burial at 2:30 p.m. in Sunset Hill Cemetery in Valdosta, Ga. — Culley's Funeral Home


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WSU Transfer Coursework Action Plan
Heres a quick guide to help you understand how credits transfer to WSU:
WSU will determine what credits transfer and whether they meet degree requirements. WSU accepts D grades for transfer.
WSU will review credits from courses and programs and look for equivalencies to course goals, content and level of instruction.
Not everything that transfers counts towards graduation requirements. Degree programs usually count credits in three categories: general education, prerequisites, major/minor courses and electives.
Changing major or career goals may mean that you cannot complete all degree requirements within the usual number of graduation credits.
Winona State Credit Transfer Policies
WSU credit transfer policies depend on the type of institution previously attended or program in which students are enrolled. WSU also has articulation agreements in place with selected colleges.
Students who have not yet enrolled may print out this WSU transfer decision appeal form.
Currently enrolled students can use an online WSU appeal credit transfer decisions form.
Transfer credits meet WSU general education requirements if you have earned an AA degree after May 1985; you have earned a BA or BS; or if you have completed the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC). AS or AAS degrees will waive all Unity and Diversity MnTC goals 7-10.
MnTC is a cooperative program between all public colleges and universities in Minnesota. To complete the entire MnTC, you must earn a minimum of 40 credits in the ten goal areas, as well as the requirements for each of the goal areas. Passing grades (A-D) for MnTC courses apply including transfer courses; however, a cumulative MnTC GPA of 2.0 is required to complete the entire 40 credit package. WSU accepts D grades. If you are transferring to WSU from a participating institution and you have satisfied all 10 educational goals of the MnTC, we will give you credit for completing all general education requirements. See this dynamic listing of the most current WSU courses approved to meet MnTC goal areas.
Students may also use Transferology to determine transferability of coursework. Minnesota Transfer has many tools and resources to assist transfer students.
WSU complies with Minnesota State College and University guidelines, such as Undergraduate Course Credit Transfer Policy (3.21) and Procedure (3.21.1); Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (3.37.1); and Transfer Rights and Responsibilities (3.39).
Contact Admissions if you are interested in transferring credits from technical colleges.
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International students must satisfy all WSU application procedures if they are not U.S. citizens.
3-Year Nursing Program Credits
Licensed registered nurses who have completed three-year hospital training programs may receive 48 semester (72 quarter) credits of electives toward any undergraduate degree program except nursing.
Military Credits
Veterans may be granted academic credit for formal military schools attended while on active duty. The American Council on Education Guide to the Evaluation Experience in the Armed Forces will be used to evaluate military experience. A copy of the student's SMART, AARTS, or CCAF transcript is required for the evaluation. Additional information about system-wide military transfer is available at www.mnscu.edu/military/transfer.html.
The DANTES Subject Standardized Tests (DSST) program is a series of examinations in college subjects that are comparable to the final or end-of-course examinations in undergraduate courses. DANTES funds DSST testing for eligible Service members and personnel at DANTES military Test Centers. The DSSTs are now also available for use by civilians at universities and colleges throughout the country. DSST exams can be individually reviewed by WSU academic departments. See Transferology.
Credits By Exam
Credit for prior learning, such as Advanced Placement (AP), College Level Examination Program (CLEP), and International Baccalaureate (IB) scores, are evaluated for the potential awarding of college credit according to WSU standards.
Students enrolled in PSEO courses must transfer those credits to WSU regardless of earned grade
Send an official transcript of all PSEO coursework to WSU
Find course equivalencies for PSEO courses at Transferology.
Correspondence Courses
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75. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?KiwiAdventure Nov 17, 2012 2:31 PM in response to soldit2u
Think about it. When you use your phone in the car using the car USB connection it also charges the phone. The phone regulates the charge.
76. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?soldit2u Nov 17, 2012 3:07 PM in response to KiwiAdventure
Thought about it.
Phone still gets hot with iPad charger and battery drains quicker.
Any more solutions?
77. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?Zerotogo Nov 18, 2012 12:33 AM in response to soldit2u
Yes I have a solution. To all you guys who say that you can't use the iPad charger to charge your iPhone...don't use it!! Use, oh I don't know, your iPhone charger maybe? If you are right and everybody else is wrong, then let them find out the hard way. How about that for a solution? Cheers mate!!
78. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?soldit2u Nov 18, 2012 12:56 AM in response to Zerotogo
Smart arse.
...but you only qualify for the second word unfortunately ;)
79. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?Smash209 Nov 20, 2012 5:17 PM in response to emfung
I find this interesting:
Still just a slightly better built power supply, but they try to make it sound smart. With all this tech inside being so important, why didn't apple build a car charger?
I agree with most everyone, the ipad supply should by rights not cause any problem, but it does seem to for some people I know. Must be the 0.1 extra volt in the ipad 5.1V supply that's burning up everyone's phones!
80. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?Jose10013 Nov 21, 2012 11:11 AM in response to merlin1128
I am not attacking your point that ipad chargers may do harm.
Sep 5, 2012 9:38 PM:
iPad 3 11,500 mAh battery 42.5 watts
Pad 2 6,944 mAh battery 25 watts
IPhone 4S 1,420 mAh battery (1.42 Amps)
5 Volts x 1.42 Amps = 7.1 watts...
So why would you use a charger that is 2.1 Amps 10 Watts on a battery that is 1.42 Amps = 7.1 watts
Your charger specs/calulations are correct. Your battery specs are not. mAh stands for miliamp hours. 11,500mAh in the ipad3 = 42.5 watt hours, not just watts (also at internal 3.7V btw). In the iPhone4S 1,420mah ≠ 1.42 Amps... 1,420mah = 1.42 Amp hours. 3.7V x 1.42Ah = 5.254Wh
Also you posted this Sep 5, 2012 9:38 PM:
Does anyone know what the cost is for Apple to put a new battery in your phone? I am curious on that one and would guess its not cheap.
Yet at Sep 6, 2012 8:29 PM, 22 hours and 9 mins later:
I used an old iPhone and obtained 2 other ones and put brand new batteries in them. Altered the charger to put out more than 2.1 amps and did 50 charge/discharge cycles on one. Did the same with te other one at 1 amp, and the other at .5 amps After that let all 3 devices sit for 3 days all at the same settings and the one that was charged at .5 Amps had the best battery capacity and the one with the altered charger was the worst?
So in less than 24hrs you were able to go from not knowing the price of a new iphone battery, to replacing 3 of them yourself, charging them with different chargers, and letting them sit for 3 days to obtain your "results"? Ok sure.
81. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?trip1ex Nov 30, 2012 7:53 PM in response to emfung
I think everyone is wrong to some degree. I don't think the ipad charger overcharges the iPHone. But there is a good chance it charges it faster. And the faster you charge a battery the worse it is for long term battery life.
Some say the charging is regulated by the device. But I don't think this is an entirely accurate either as some have painted it.
After all Apple makes a more powerful charger for the iPad 3. And this more powerful charger (or power supply) charges the Ipad 3 faster than the included charger. Why is this if the charging is strictly regulated by the device?
It seems that the charging isn't strictly regulated to a certain amperage. But must have some acceptable range at the very least.
This is all easy to test. Charge your iphone with both chargers a few times and make a note of charging times to full from x percentage. See if a pattern develops.
82. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?Lawrence Finch Dec 1, 2012 6:34 AM in response to trip1ex
trip1ex wrote:
I think everyone is wrong to some degree. I don't think the ipad charger overcharges the iPHone. But there is a good chance it charges it faster. And the faster you charge a battery the worse it is for long term battery life.
A common misconception. Electric cars (which use the same battery technology as the iPhone) can charge at 120 V, 220 V, or 440 V. A typical electric car charged at 440 V with a high current supply can be completely charged in 20 minutes. Yet it doesn't hurt the battery, which has a 10 year warranty.
Some say the charging is regulated by the device. But I don't think this is an entirely accurate either as some have painted it.
After all Apple makes a more powerful charger for the iPad 3. And this more powerful charger (or power supply) charges the Ipad 3 faster than the included charger. Why is this if the charging is strictly regulated by the device?
Charging is regulated entirely by the device. The iPad 3 power supply can charge faster because it can provide more current than the included charger. The internal charger cannot charge the battery at a higher current than the 5 volt supply can provide.
This is all easy to test. Charge your iphone with both chargers a few times and make a note of charging times to full from x percentage. See if a pattern develops.
Yes, I've done this. I am currently charging my phone with an Apple 10 W charger (5 v, 2.1 amps). It takes the same time to reach full charge (when the starting % is the same, of course) as it does with a 5 W charger that I previously used. I've also measured the temperature of the phone while charging. That is, I MEASURED it using a laser temperature probe, rather than saying "it felt warmer". It stabilized at the same temperature (~85 deg F) regardless of charger.
I can imagine a scenario where the phone will get warmer and appear to charge faster with a higher current charger, but that isn't because the battery is actually charging faster. There are always background processes running in the phone. They are powered by the battery when the phone isn't charging, and by both battery/charger combination when the phone is connected to the charger. If a background process is busy sending or receiving data the additional capacity of a 10 watt charger can power the app while charging the battery at full current. However, a 5 watt charger will be putting current into the battery while the app is taking it out. There's less total power consumption, so the phone won't be as warm. And, as the battery is being drained while charging, it will take longer to charge. There are even scenarios that have been reported in the forum where the battery actually goes down while connected to power (usually to a USB port on a computer, which typically can only supply 2.5 watts).
83. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?trip1ex Dec 1, 2012 8:11 AM in response to Lawrence Finch
Afaik not a common misconception that the faster a battery charges the less its lifespan will be.
The difference wouldn't be night and day but measureable and a company could chalk up the difference as acceptable like, for example, 1000 cycles vs 900 cycles. And note there are different battery technologies out there.
And by strictly regulated I mean some of these devices seem to have leeway to accept more charging current (than dictated by the included charger) if it is being provided. Are all iPhones, for example, only able to make use of 1A of charging current? Possible the newest iPhone models can charge faster with a more powerful charger? i say this because Apple made a larger 12W charger for their newest iPads in order to charge them faster even though the first iPad 3's at least came with a 10 W charger.
84. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?yushenng Dec 1, 2012 5:26 PM in response to trip1ex
I'm convinced by Lawrence Finch's and Lumen's latest posts. I'm a EE major who does a lot of electronics DIY work (micro controllers, embedded systems, robots, as well as household repairs), and I trust the measured results from Lawrence and Lumen (in actual current delivered with less than 1% variation between the two chargers, and temperature gained) to believe that: Apple has designed things such that it *should* be totally safe to use an iPad charger to charge an iPhone.
I do see the reasoning in Merlin's points, but I believe that the data has proven that (as Lumen has said) that the charger/current regulator/current limiter is actually built into the iPhone device, and not into the wall adapter. I cannot explain why Merlin's experiments showed greater battery deterioration when using the iPad charger. It must have been chance: perhaps some batteries were worse than others in his test, and his test results happened to reinforce his hypothesis.
I do acknowledge that some people have observed real-world deterioration in their iPhone batteries. However, I am convinced that these issues were due to faulty batteries and/or faulty chargers built into the phone itself. There's no other rational explanation.
Again, I'm convinced.
Another possible explanation of the disparity: maybe it's the charger/current regulator at fault in Merlin's and the other gentleman's experiences and not the batteries. That is, perhaps both Lumen and Lawrence Finch received devices with working chargers/current regulators. Maybe others didn't have faulty batteries, but had faulty chargers/current regulators built into their iPhones. A faulty charger/current regulator could conceivably have this symptom of working fine with iPhone 1A wall adapters, but unable to cope with 2.1A wall adapters. If this is the case, the result would be: battery life would be fine with the 1A adapter, but poor with the 2.1 A adapter.
In any case, it's clear that Apple *designed* their iPhone so that it would behave completely identical with either adapter (or with any other vendor's adapter, for that matter). However, if Merlin and others are indeed seeing battery life degradation when the 2.1A charger is used, it's either:
- a one off coincidence...really attributable to the batteries that Merlin and others used in their tests
- Or, if this behavior is fairly consistent, then perhaps Apple's built-into-the-device charging/current regulating circuit is frequently failing
I'll take my chances and trust Apple's hardware design. I'm going to buy a 2.1A wall adapter (i.e. an iPad charger) to use with my iPhone.... not because I Want to charge my iPhone faster (because it won't), but because I want to be able to occasionally use the same Lightening plug to charge either device at their fastest possible charging rate.
85. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?Adrift02 Dec 5, 2012 11:17 PM in response to emfung
Wow, what a thread to stumble into.
Couple things:
Lawrence (and Apple depending on how you interpret "compatible") are the only ones that i see have provided data (measurements) to support that the iPad charger is works the same.
Showing charging or battery life difference does NOT prove causality. There's many ways that you can use the phone to kill the battery faster or shorten its usable life. It doesn't mean the charger made the difference.
As far as I know, USB chargers are pretty much all interchangeable (or at least that's how I've used them coming from many android phones). It makes sense that the phones determine the "pull" because they often need to cut down the charging rate to avoid "overcharging" the battery. That was one way I knew of to truly damage my old Epic 4g. You could keep re-plugging it in at 100% to overcharge it for more battery life (killing it in the long run). The fact that the regulation was done in the phone makes sense.
Anyways, jumping into this thread for the first time, I've only seen real data for Lawrence's argument.
86. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?Hornsan1 Dec 5, 2012 11:25 PM in response to Adrift02
Could you guys stop fighting and please help me. My question is right under this one in the hardware forum... Thanks
87. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?Lawrence Finch Dec 6, 2012 6:04 AM in response to Hornsan1
It isn't right under this one anymore, so a link would be helpful
88. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?Morose1985 Dec 6, 2012 8:59 AM in response to Lawrence Finch
I have to admit having just read through this thread, that I too am buying Lawrence's and Lumen's explanations. They fit with my understanding from my engineering degree, although I have to admit as soon as I was able to drop Electrical, I did - but that was after 2 years of degree level study!
I might be hijacking the thread a bit (apologies if so), but I have a very related question and want to exploit the expertise on show in this thread.
I travel a lot and just bought an iPhone 5 in Europe with a European plug for the power charger. I have an old charger with UK plug from my previous Android phone.
Both Apple and Android chargers show the same output performance stats: 5v, 1A (i.e. 5W max output). In a perfect world, they should then be identical. However...
Is there any reason to believe the Android charger could damage my iPhone? Quality of components perhaps?
I'm hoping to avoid giving Apple yet more money for a UK charger...
89. Re: Can use ipad charger to charge iphone?deggie Dec 6, 2012 10:38 AM in response to Morose1985
No problem whatsoever, I had to charge mine with an Android charger the other day.


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Douglasville will be treated to the last chance to see Braves Manager Frank Wren before he heads off to spring training. The Braves' regular season starts April 1 vs. Phillies.
"Biscuits and Baseball with Frank Wren," General Manager of the Atlanta Braves will be held Thursday, Feb. 7 from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Doors open at 7 a.m., at the First Baptist Church of Douglasville.
Tickets are available for a $15 donation before the event, and $20 at the door. Advanced tickets are available at Chick Fil A at Arbor Place Mall. The event is sponsored by The Douglas County Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
"We are thankful for the many professional athletes and coaches in Georgia who support FCA," Steve Camp said, Douglas County FCA coaches ministry director. "We are so blessed that Mr. Wren has agreed to come to Douglasville and support our local Fellowship of Christian Athletes program. Having him just a few days before he is off to spring training allows the community to get the latest on Braves Baseball as the season begins."


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Carolyn McClanahan, Contributor
I discuss all things money and medicine.
Since the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act in June, many people have taken a sudden interest in learning about the law. I originally posted this article in November, 2011. Today, I am updating this article with slightly deeper information, and some observations.
The law contains so much more than insurance reform. Changes in health care delivery, how we address chronic disease, and how we beef up our primary care workforce are included in the law. These changes are important to the infrastructure of our health care system and are sorely needed. Implore our leaders to think hard about the rhetoric of repeal – ask for implementation of the good sections and repair of the complex and convoluted mess of our insurance and billing system. We can do better.
So here is the update…
Since financial planners look to me to explain things related to health and finance, it was natural that I read the entire health care reform law. Fortunately, nothing excited me quite so much since reading the full version of "Paradise Lost." This is really true – I enjoyed it. An overview of the law is important, and deeper articles can be found under the "Health Care Reform Reference Post."
The law is 2,409 pages. For those of you who have never been privy to reading legislation, let me share a secret – they put very few words on a page. The document is double spaced, and each line is numbered to make it easy to reference which takes a lot of space. There was also a lot of fluff. What I thought would take me an eternity took a total of 40 hours. Yes, I timed myself. Doing follow up research is not included in that time, and I needed to do a lot of follow up. It is fascinating how so much of the law is not talked about in the press and how much is misrepresented.
There are ten "titles" in the law, each dedicated to a different part of our health care system. Today is an overview of those titles and subsequent posts will delve into the details, where the devil is of course.
Title I is "Quality Affordable Health Care for All Americans" and is 374 pages. This is the most important and widely discussed part, as it deals with health insurance. It is a very complicated section, and our leaders decided to make a complex and costly health care payment system more complex and costly.
It is important to understand how insurance will change. First, you cannot be turned down for coverage because you have an illness. Second, everyone is required to have coverage. It is the only way coverage is financially viable. Third, people who have difficulty affording coverage will get assistance paying for it unless they are under the 133% poverty level. Those people will go on Medicaid unless their state refuses to expand Medicaid.
To learn more details about the insurance provisions, Kaiser Family Foundation has a great primer with the basics.
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Title II is "Role of Public Programs" and deals with, you guessed it, public programs. Medicaid and the Indian Health Services are covered. There will be significant changes in how care is delivered. The exciting part of this provision is the development of medical care homes, which basically moves us from a paternalistic model of medicine to a team based approach, and the move to home based care for the chronically ill.
This is also the section of the law the Supreme Court had issue with – expanding Medicaid and withholding funding from states who won't expand Medicaid. It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
Title III is the most important section for health care providers and details changes in Medicare. "Improving Quality and Efficiency of Health Care" dedicates 501 pages for changing how health care will be delivered. It moves us from a fee-for-service system toward payments based on quality of delivery. This starts with Medicare and what Medicare does is usually followed by private insurance. This will go a long way eventually toward controlling costs. When my audiences hear about the content in Title III, they want much of that part implemented.
Title IV is another section that gives me hope for the future. "Prevention of Chronic Disease and Improving Health" addresses the problem of chronic illness in our country. Chronic illness is very costly, and we need to do a better job of preventing disease or treating it very early before expensive complications arise. Actually, we really stink at that in our current health care delivery, and these 130 pages aim to change that. Many smart organizations were involved in this section of the law – Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente to name a couple. This section of the law needs to stay.
Title V is what I call "The Jobs Bill." It is actually the "Health Care Workforce" and the legislation in these 256 pages recognizes that we don't have enough health care workers to take care of everyone. It especially addresses the lack of primary care in this country. Although we are all special, most of the problems we have don't need a specialist to take care of them. Since we have rewarded specialty care through the years, the primary care system has been decimated. Countries with strong primary care systems have healthier populations with lower costs.
Another important component is an increase in the Public Health Service Corp and creation of the Ready Reserve Corp. I promise we will be grateful for these groups when the next bio-terrorist event occurs. To me, this is a matter of public defense and security.
Title VI is 323 pages. "Transparency and Program Integrity" is dedicated to reducing fraud and abuse. Billions and billions are lost each year in this department and we definitely need to do something.
Title VII sounded very exciting when I looked at it – "Improving Access to Innovative Therapy" and is 65 pages basically dedicated to improving access to generic drugs. Innovative, indeed.
The one part of the law that was blatantly troublesome from the beginning was Title VIII "Community Living Assistance Services and Support." This is basically a bill that instituted a federally run long term care insurance program. These 53 pages would have been a nightmare to implement because it created another system similar to our current Social Security disability system. This was Ted Kennedy's baby, and although well intended, I wonder if the main reason this part passed was because of "The Lion's" death during the construction of this law. Fortunately, this part of the elephant was put on the back burner because the HHS analysis revealed there would be many problems with implementation. Most likely, it will never be implemented. This also points out that we can change the law and don't have to use energy to repeal it all and start over. I would appreciate all of you calling for total repeal to take note of that.
Title IX is the 93 page "Revenue Provisions" and spells out how we were going to pay for the elephant.
Title X was the most challenging, and it ended the novel like it began – complicated. Remember Title I, "Quality Affordable Health Care for All Americans?" Well, in the same law, we already had to strengthen it. Title X is called "Strengthening Quality Affordable Health Care for All Americans." It really is called that. My name for it? "The Bucket List." These 372 pages include a lot of neat pilot programs on changes in health care delivery, and the usual favors for special interests. There are two pages dedicated to gun owner rights and a provision that Nebraska doesn't have to follow the Medicaid rules because that Senator would only vote for the law if his state was exempt. (It doesn't say the information about the Senator but that is what happened.)
That is the health care law in a nutshell. Please ask questions, provide unbridled feedback, and please share this post with your friends. The more we can educate, the better decisions we can all suggest to our lawmakers. For further detail on these issues, please feel free to dive deeper on the "Healthcare Reform Reference Post."
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Thanks for breaking this down. A great starting point for most of us :)
The IRS codes, and Labor codes allow the Feds to inspect business records. Are you one of the ignorant Tea Partiers? These laws, if enacted, will serve our Nation well, and strengthen the Medical community.
Thanks Carolyn. I just recently found your blog when looking for more information in regards to the Affordable Care Act. I have really enjoyed your articles. I posted the link to this article to my facebook wall because many of my friends are conservatives and are being fed a steady diet of fear and deception in regards to the Bill.
Carolyn, I appreciated your analysis and your approach to ACA. ACA is very complex legislation trying to deal with a very complex healthcare system (with serious flaws) and deserves to be studied Title by Title before sound byte responses are issued. I have been involved with health insurance for more years than I care to count, and therefore have spent many hours with ACA. I will forward "Cliffnotes" to everyone I know in the industry.
Thanks Carolyn. Very useful as a starting point (I wish we had have started seeing more columns like this two years ago).
I'm interested in your views about the most effective ways to do education/outreach about the law and the health care system. I do this as part of my job and find that many people do not have an accurate picture of the problems in the health system (there's a lot of "America has the best health care in the world"), so don't have an understanding of what the ACA is trying to address in the first place.
I look forward to your feedback.
Also, the CLASS section of the law has not been repealed; instead, HHS has chosen not to move forward with implementation because the long-term program finances don't work.
If the rich can afford health insurance, many middle class folks will continue to have coverage through their employer , and poor people are exempt from penalties, is there any estimate of how many pepole will be required to pay the tax?


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Overview of the Animal Welfare Act
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What is Animal Cruelty?
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Overview of the Humane Slaughter Act
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Animal Advocates and Agribusiness Interests Divided on Egg Bill
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Why is the term "guardian" preferable to "owner"?
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How the Government Shutdown Impacts Animals
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Japanese Whaling Declared Illegal
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The Obama Administration's Animal Protection Record
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TX Court: Pets Have a Special Value
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Arguments For and Against Horse Slaughter
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West Hollywood Passes Fur Ban
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Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
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Are Animal Fostering and Rescue Expenses Tax-Deductible?
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Animal Law Bibliography
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Christopher Lee Eads, 28, of Mineral Wells, passed away on Tuesday, July 16, 2013.
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Chris was born in San Angelo on Oct. 20, 1984, to Jesse Eads Jr. and Katherine White. In his spare time he loved to be out on the river fishing, camping and hanging out with his friends.
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SYRACUSE, UT (KSTU/CNN) - A father is credited with ending a high speed police chase on Saturday when the car came dangerously close to kids.
He pulled his truck in front of the suspect's speeding vehicle - and it was caught on camera.
"There were probably like 15 kids present at the park at the time," Brandy Rowley said. 'Three of them almost got hit. They actually had to jump out of the way. He had to have been going at least 60 in the parking lot."
The teenager went on quite a joyride before he ended up at the park. It started in Duchesne County where police say the 14-year-old stole his grandfather's car and drove it several hours back toward his home in Sunset.
"We caught up with him, and when the officer initiated the traffic stop, he did not slow down," said Erin Behm, a police officer.
"My heart dropped," Rowley said. "I honestly thought one of those kids is going to die."
Police say the vehicle weaved at high speed through neighborhoods and eventually turned into the park. That's when officers called off the chase for fear it might endanger the children there. It was a quick-thinking parent who jumped in his truck and rammed the stolen car, finally ending the chase.
The man who stopped the erratic driver was watching his children play at this skate park. He said he didn't think too much about what he was doing. He was just angry someone would be driving so close to his children.
"The person driving the truck could see it was turning back into the park, and he did not want the car to hit all of the children or any of the children," Behm said. "And he actually pulled his truck in the way."
The 14-year-old, who is expected to face charges, is behind bars at a nearby detention facility. Neither driver was hurt in the crash.
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Project Nim
|Release Date: July 08, 2011
|Running Time: 93 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG 13
|Box Office: $410,077.00
|Genre: Documentary, Foreign
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