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Well, gas or elect.? if elect. just make sure the water is drained and store it in a dry place inside would be nice where temp. changes don't create moisture. gas IMO you want to drain the gas tank most likely it got some water in it from acidently spray, I also swab out any residue. I make sure the pump is drained by tipping it all directions. I also spary some WD40 down the connections hoses and on the rubber o-rings and seals. I also make sure the hoses and nozzle gun is drained of water and spray some wd 40 inside to help condition the seals. But, thats me and I always go overboard!?! others may disagree. |
The only thing I do with mine is make sure that the gas tank is empty and I store it in my basement because I don't want the pump to freeze. After every use I make sure to get as much water out of the pump as possible. I also completely drain the hose and wand. I've only had mine about 4 years so I have no idea if what I am doing is a good long term plan :p |
just make sure that all the water is out or look forward to replacing a cracked housing at the very least in the spring. |
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Lanny Breuer all but admitted it, but his former boss Eric Holder went all the way yesterday, telling Congress the Justice Department can't prosecute Wall Street banks because they're too big to fail. The Hill:
"I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy," he said. "And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large"…
"The concern that you have raised is one that I, frankly, share," he said, adding that ultimately the best deterrent would be if they could bring charges against individuals instead of companies.
He started off well, at least. Then it was back to the same old baloney:
However, he also added that all of the bad behavior on Wall Street leading up to the crisis may not necessarily have been criminal and that his criminal team has been "as aggressive as they could be."
Holder is backing himself into the old fraud-without-fraudsters corner. He implies that he would have criminally prosecuted banks had they not been too big to fail, but he can't find any individuals who actually worked at the banks to prosecute.
Regardless, in a sane political system, Holder's admission would be a turning point in breaking up the TBTF banks, who are so threatening that the Attorney General deems them unchargeable.
Needless to say, it won't be.
— In techno-utopia backlash news, Colin McGinn shreds the futurist and Google guy Ray Kurzweil in The New York Review of Books.
Kurzweil is the guy who has helped popularize the notion of the Singularity, a notion essentially posits that sentient computers will overtake humanity in the next three decades. You can tell from his book title alone that this is a guy with some kind of ego: How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.
McGinn punctures it, noting that Kurzweil's thesis that the mind is just a pattern recognition machine is fallacious:
When I am thinking about London while in Miami I am not recognizing any presented stimulus as London—since I am not perceiving London with my senses. There is no perceptual recognition going on at all in thinking about an absent object. So pattern recognition cannot be the essential nature of thought. This point seems totally obvious and quite devastating, yet Kurzweil has nothing to say about it, not even acknowledging the problem…
Then there are such mental phenomena as emotion, imagination, reasoning, willing, intending, calculating, silently talking to oneself, feeling pain and pleasure, itches, and moods—the full panoply of the mind. In what useful sense do all these count as "pattern recognition"? Certainly they are nothing like the perceptual cases on which Kurzweil focuses. He makes no attempt to explain how these very various mental phenomena fit his supposedly general theory of mind—and they clearly do not. So he has not shown us how to "create a mind," or come anywhere near to doing so. Thus the hype of the title explodes very early and with a feeble fizzle. Why write a book with such an ambitious title and then deliver so little?
— Meantime, in Bookforum, Evgeny Morozov just destroys former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's new book Citizenville, in which he shows he has drunk too much Silicon Valley Kool-aid (emphasis mine):
Margaret Thatcher would surely approve of Newsom's message. So would David Cameron. In fact, many of Newsom's proposals simply rehash Cameron's idea of "the Big Society," whereby instead of relying on the government to fix potholes in their neighborhoods, citizens are expected to do everything themselves, for the government has been starved to death and can't do those things anyway. But since Newsom serves all these ideas under the spicy sauce of social media and technological progress, the underlying libertarianism of his program is far less visible. Citizens, rejoice: Thanks to your smartphones, you can earn points—"innobucks"—for fixing those potholes ("Innobucks is like Angry Birds, but for democracy"). And, if Progress permits, soon you'll be able to manufacture the tools for road repairs right inside your bedroom—just leave your 3-D printer on.


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April 19, 2013, must have been a sad day for many liberals in this country. It was then revealed that the Boston bombing was not caused by some right wing extremist group. It wasnt the fault of the GOP. The Tea Party had nothing to do with it, nor did the National Rifle Association. No Right Wing militia was involved.
From the beginning, the bombing had all the earmarks of a Muslim extremist attack. Despite this, political correctness prevented our left wing media, Democrat politicians and, it seems, many other liberals, from even hinting that there just might be a relationship between the bombing and radical Islam. It didnt prevent them from implicating organizations associated with conservative causes.
The day of the bombings, I talked to a man who said he had been listening to public radio all day and heard that a patriot group was implicated. The source of his misinformation was National Public Radios counter-terrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston. She said that officials had promising leads and the thinking was that this is a domestic, extremist attack April is a big month for antigovernment and right wing individuals. Theres the Columbine anniversary Hitlers birthday the Oklahoma City bombing. The assault of the Branch Davidian complex in Waco.
Why she didnt just come right out and say that some faction of the Republican Party is responsible for the bombing, I will never know. Probably she knows all us right wingers were too busy celebrating Hitlers birthday to take notice of the Boston Marathon. I dont suppose she found it ironic that Hitler was a leftist/socialist like herself.
Democrat Representative from Maryland Steny Hoyer made an attempt to link the Boston tragedy to budget cuts. Budget cuts caused by the evil Republicans, he surmised, so weakened security that it made it more likely that the bombing would occur. A few weeks earlier, using the same faulty logic, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blamed the sequestration for a mortar explosion that killed eight Marines.
On Wednesday, April 17, on MSNBC, Lawrence ODonnell stated that the investigation of the bombing could be moving along at a faster pace except for the successful lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association.
Another MSNBC reporter in an interview with Representative Bennie Thompson D-MS, tried to get him to say that someone on the right was responsible for the bombing. When she was unsuccessful at this she tried a different tactic. She asked him if he was familiar with a letter the Southern Poverty Law Center had sent to Attorney General Holder. Part of the letter read as follows: As in the period before the Oklahoma City bombings, we are now seeing ominous threats from those who believe that the government is poised to take their guns. To his credit the congressman didnt go along with her point of view.
You may recall the same kind of name-calling occurred when Gabby Giffords was shot on January 8, 2011. Her shooter, Jared Loughner, was captured on the scene. The left wing chattering masses assumed he was some sort of a right winger, probably from the Tea Party. As it turned out he was just plain crazy and, at one time, had held some fairly left wing views.
Poor liberals. Looks like they got it wrong again. It almost makes a person feel sorry for them. They wanted so badly for the bomber(s) to be a white racist or perhaps a member of the Tea Party. If the person would have happened to have had a life membership in the NRA, so much the better in their view.
Islamic terrorists have been bombing and killing people all over the world since who knows when. Their clerics preach death to America. They drove planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon while their brothers and sisters in other countries cheered them on. There have been more killings since. But political correctness and a willingness to demonize those who dont share their political and social views prevented many on the left, especially the media and certain politicians, from suspecting the most obvious perpetrators until the killing and capturing of the bombers last Friday.


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The past couple of days have been interesting. You see, it all started on Super Bowl Sunday. After church, I'd been out with the boys all day so the house could be nice and quiet for my husband. He enjoyed an empty house, soft sofa, food and the game. It was the day of his dreams! When I returned, the house wasn't nearly as warm as it would normally be. He explained that it seemed there was a problem with the heater and he was going to have to call someone out to fix it.
The next morning, I started the normal routine of our day and pulled out some pans to make breakfast for my sons. I noticed that the pans were taking extremely long to warm up but didn't think much about it until my husband popped his head in from our bedroom and said, "The shower is cold".
All of a sudden, things started to connect. The heater was out, the shower was cold and the pans weren't even hot enough to fry an egg. Hmm. The propane tank must be empty.
And indeed, it is.
So here I am, sitting at home in a big sweatshirt and pants and an oversized robe. This house is cold. I made a sandwich for lunch and the boys are getting grilled cheese for dinner (since I can use a George Foreman grill for that). I think the propane company will be here sometime today to give us what we need to get going again but until then, I'm extremely grateful for a simple pleasure - a habit I formed some years back.
I keep a heating pad beside my bed. Almost every night I turn it on while I'm getting ready, and then when I hop under the covers it's waiting under there, beckoning my cold feet to come and get wrapped up in its wondrous glory! If you've got cold feet like I do then I don't have to tell you how fabulous it feels to have something warm to cuddle those icicles up to. (Your husband will be grateful that, that "something" is not him).
Today, all day, I've been working from the warmth of my bed with my feet wrapped up in my warm heating pad - and I'm grateful for this simple pleasure that is keeping me warm in a house that's run out of gas.
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In a chaordic blend of informed intuition and measurable data, it is my work to identify and name patterns in people, in organisations, in processes and in systems.
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As an organisational anthropologist, I'm trained in (participatory) observation, analysis of values, value systems and belief systems, implicit and explicit behavioural (coping) strategies and developmental patterns of individuals and organisations and their cultures.
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Do Nurses Resist Implementing Evidence-Based Improvements to Patient Care?
Recently, Nurse.com covered a new study conducted by Bernadette Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP, FNAP, FAAN. Published in the September issue of the Journal of Nursing Administration, the study of more than 1,000 registered nurses found that resistance from nursing leaders and other barriers prevent nurses from implementing evidence-based practices, even when those practices could improve patient outcomes.
In a recent post for the American Journal of Nursing's Off the Charts blog, Mary Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN, program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) program, weighed in on the topic, discussing the complexities of today's health care system. Naylor noted that, "administrative and workflow inefficiencies limit hospital nurses from spending more than about 30 percent of their time on direct patient care."
Given the challenges and barriers noted by Melnyk and the limited amount of time that nurses actually get to spend with patients, how can nurses influence the delivery of evidence-based practices? Project investigators from the INQRI program commented on some of the challenges associated with translating research into practice.
Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, notes that "there is a well-known lag in the implementation of evidence-based findings into real world clinical settings with the average length of time from discovery of a drug intervention, for example, to implementation into practice taking approximately 13 years."
"Similarly," Resnick notes, "there continue to be individuals who do not benefit from simple and well established interventions such as pneumonia vaccines or exercise interventions. Currently there is a need to better understand the effectiveness of dissemination and implementation approaches and the science that underlies implementation research. It is only in this manner that we will truly change care at the bedside."
Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN, clinical professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, says the common organizational and leadership barriers noted in Melnyk's articles "are real, and have to be dealt with. However, we also need to pay attention to the role that nurses themselves play in choosing which evidence-based practices they will implement."
In an editorial in Nursing Outlook earlier this year, Disch pointed out several evidence-based practices nurses do not routinely implement (e.g., routine oral care, open visitation) and several practices that nurses persist in using despite the fact that they are not evidence-based and may, in fact, be detrimental (e.g., injecting saline before suctioning, 12-hour shifts).
"The issue of implementing evidence-based practice is complex, multifactorial, and requires interventions at all levels to assure that patients receive the care they deserve," Disch says.
It's a support issue, according to Nancy Hanrahan, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN, the Dr. Lenore H. Kurlowicz Term associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She suggests that the culture clash Melnyk noted between nurses who were educated to use an evidence-based approach and those who were not reflects a paradigm shift occurring throughout health care in which we are moving toward greater accountability for the quality and outcomes of health care services.
According to Hanrahan: "Nurses, being the largest [sector] of the health care workforce, have the most face-to-face time with patients when compared with other providers. Changing the nursing practice paradigm could have a large return if organizations, agencies and government programs supported the appropriate educational and mentoring programs. But, as Melnyk reports, nurses do not experience support. So often nurses are held responsible for change but managers and hospitals do not provide the time or resources. Magnet hospitals are exemplar places for nurses to work with high standards for nursing practice. Nurses can emphasize to their administrators that magnet would be good for the facility brand and good for nurses and patients. Thus, here is a way to support the paradigm shift to achieve better work environments for nurses and better care for patients."
Resnick points out that more support is needed not only for clinicians, but for nurse researchers. Until recently, the National Institutes of Health has not focused on research dissemination or implementation.
"There is now, however, a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and the Institute of Implementation Science in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute. Although still limited, there are increased resources toward this type of science. It is critically important that nurses have the knowledge and skills to disseminate and/or implement their findings into real world settings and participate in the development of the growing science around dissemination and implementation," Resnick says.
The successful translation of knowledge to improve nursing care and patient outcomes is a core part of the INQRI program's mission. In its final funding round, INQRI sought proposals focused on projects that would promote ways to implement successful evidence-based strategies and practices. The six projects selected in 2010 included: the creation of a nurse manager development program to increase patient safety; the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based methods to measure and improve pain outcomes; and the implementation of a risk-specific fall prevention intervention to reduce falls in hospitals. In addition, INQRI grantees have received additional support from other funders to implement what they learned through their INQRI projects.
Resnick recently completed a dissemination project funded by the Stulman Foundation. With this grant, she was able to implement the Function-Focused Care for Assisted Living Residents intervention which was tested under the purview of her INQRI grant.
Resnick notes that, "through a combined face- to-face and email based intervention, we established champions in 20 assisted living settings and were able to change the philosophy of care in these settings. The findings and successes of the intervention through this type of dissemination were impressive and we found that the facilities taking early responsibility for the intervention and care approach led to much better long-term success than can be seen in traditional effectiveness research. While there is a place and need for both effectiveness and controlled randomized studies, implementation research is greatly needed to establish the best ways in which to spread our many successful interventions."


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syswei Posts: 1,804If the LS is available in AWD in late 2007, then probably late 2007. Whether LS460 or 460L depends on options packaging at that time. Next gen 7 series, if offered AWD, might be a possibility, but my inclination is not to purchase a German car so early in its lifecycle. Will there be a new Q45 out by then and will it be AWD? If so, that might be a possibility too.
lexusguy Posts: 6,419From what I understand, there is indeed supposed to be a new 2008 Q from Infiniti, but I have not heard whether or not it will be available as AWD.
Yeah, considering how close the next Q supposedly is, its surprising that there's still basically no information on it. No concept art, nothing. Apparently they want to keep this one a secret until the last minute. -
blkhemi Posts: 1,717The next Q is supposed to get a new-gen AWD system that will be a variation of the current one used in the G35/M35x's.
So Syswei, Lexus pulled out all of the stops with their AWD system by developing a very sophisticated system with a very Audi-like Torsen center diff. Supposed to be the best on the market behind, you guessed it, the A8.
Hopefully they'll release the technology down to the 460 models also. -
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hpowders Posts: 4,269"Whether one chooses any of the five is probably 90% subjective."
Uhh... no.
Not when the objective evidence shows that:
1. C&D couldn't duplicate the Lexus LS460 numbers for 0-60 mph time, among other accelleration numbers; all too slow.
2. The braking distance numbers for the LS460 as reported by C&D are cause for concern (even the devout Lexbyterians among us admit this). -
syswei Posts: 1,804C&D couldn't duplicate the Lexus numbers for 0-60 mph time
C&D also couldn't duplicate something else: the weight of the car. They listed the LS460L's curb weight at 4700 lb. Lexus puts it at 4332 lb. Do you think Lexus is lying?
Or do you think maybe the discrepancy could be due to the fact that C&D tested a pre-production car? And if so, do you think there might, just possibly, be other differences between pre-production and production versions of the LS? -
hpowders Posts: 4,269I don't know about that, doc. I for one am willing to let the fruit slowly ripen rather than throw it out prematurely.
I agree with syswei that if Lexus says it will create a high-performance division, we should give them a chance and see what they can come up with.
I did love the Toyota Supra once upon a time in yesteryear.
They just may come up with some exciting vehicles with prices that would even make Steve gasp! -
hpowders Posts: 4,269Sorry, but I don't think the driving dynamics of a pre-production and production vehicle should be all that different. Maybe the seats aren't as comfortable, but the brakes, steering, turning circle, acceleration and body lean should all be "ballpark."
I trust C&D's findings far more than I would ever trust any car company's published data and that includes BMW as well as Lexus. -
tagman Malibu, CaliforniaPosts: 8,441C&D also couldn't duplicate something else: the weight of the car. They listed the LS460L's curb weight at 4700 lb. Lexus puts it at 4332 lb. Do you think Lexus is lying?
Unfortunately there was a 368 lb. fat man in the back seat eating a hamburger and listening to the Mark Levinson stereo.
They couldn't eject the guy from the car... So they ran the tests anyway.
This further explains why the car was so slow and the brakes were so bad.
TagMan -
hpowders Posts: 4,269"Toyota already has an established relationship with Lotus, for example, and they know suspensions."
Sure they do. Look what Lotus did to poor cervical spine injury dude.
Anyhow, still waiting to give Lexus the benefit of the doubt on this one since up to now, they have primarily been manufacturing luxury vehicles, ON PURPOSE!
A new Lexus division devoted exclusively to high-end performance vehicles should not be taken lightly, IMO. -
laurasdada Posts: 2,743Snow: A natural (and man-made) substance that forces me to drive in a generally slow, more-controlled manner with the goal of staying in a straight line and avoiding any newfound irregularities in the road.
Ultimately up a mountain road so that I can strap on some 175cm plastic/wood/fiberglass/metal sticks to my feet, which are entombed in heavy plastic/fabric/metal boots. So that I may hurtle down an even higher elevation on the aforementioned beautiful natural and man-made substance in a seemingly uncontrolled manner. Often seeking out surface irregularities and rarely skiing in a straight line. And very fast but for the most part, like driving, in control! And unlike while driving my car in the snow, I will intentionally head into the woods!
I enjoy driving, even in the snow. I love skiing, especially in the snow! Long live Northern New England!!!
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tagman Malibu, CaliforniaPosts: 8,441I think Lexus should spend less time on creating bad commercials ... and more time on getting their numbers straight.
Just think what it would be like if people were to constantly praise themselves the way Lexus praises itself (especially the halftime show, eh?), the words conceit and self- admiration would fall short by a country mile.
So, tell me...does Lexus actually know the true weight of their cars or not?
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merc1 Posts: 6,081BTW the exterior styling of the S is definitely growing on me. I view it as distinctive-looking and preferable (exterior-wise) to the LS. Even with the wheel arches, which I still don't care for. Still haven't driven one, though. The S for me remains a possibility, in AWD trim, along with the A8; I'll decide once AWD is available on the LS460.
I remember you saying something about the reliability of the S when you were looking at the Q7? Are you hearing anything about the S at the dealer level as far as reliability goes?
merc1 Posts: 6,081Glad you agree but...I do think you like the S driver's seat better.
Better than the A8? Maybe, maybe not. I think each respective seat fits the character of the car. The A8 is just so sheek and modern while the Mercedes is more classic luxury brought up to date.
I do know that that the S and A8 are my favorite sedans in this segment by far right now. The next 7 has got to be better looking in order to get on the list. Blkhemi has one hell of a garage, but I'd have a S8 and a CL550 to balance things out.
merc1 Posts: 6,081I seriously doubt a pre-production car would add 400lbs to the curb weight. As a matter of fact I know it wouldn't. The discrepancy is that the LS460L tested was loaded with options including whichever one takes up trunk space. I see people on the LS board talking about this, which option are they talking about? Plus C&D weighs cars fully gassed so their numbers are always going to be more than the manufacturer's number.
merc1 Posts: 6,081Probably serving time somewhere for price-gouging.
I sure hate he isn't hear to see this. He went on and on about how Lexus should match BMW and Audi in price and they did just that, but still staying below Mercedes, though not by as much as in previous years. He got exactly what he wanted.


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Cheers to Adam Sachs for his article. I agree that the only way to travel there is to have no plan at all. I spent six months in Christchurch in 2002 and discovered the rest of the country in this way. From the people to the food to the landscape, it was a life-changing experience, and Sachs captured it all perfectly. It's refreshing to read an article that's not about luxury hotels or jam-packed itineraries, but the real essence of a place. —Tara Deponte, Kailua, Hawaii
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I just received my first issue of T+L and was dismayed to see the rabbit-fur vest in "Best Travel Gifts 2009." Surely you can be stylish in a faux fur. —Lynda Austin, Orange, Calif.
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I hope Bruce Schoenfeld made it to Xanadu winery, near Margaret River, while reporting "The Ultimate Australian Wine Tour." My husband and I went there during a trip to Australia last October. It has some of the oldest vineyards in the area—and fabulous Shiraz! —Barbara Stokey, Virginia Beach, Va.
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Peter Jon Lindberg's "Social Media Revolution" story got it right. Recently, after an exhausting two-week business trip in Bangkok, I had a car pick me up from my hotel and drop me off at a bungalow near Khao Yai National Park, three hours north. There, I went on a guided hike through the jungle, where I saw elephants, tigers, and snakes. How did I arrange this? I didn't use Google Maps or TripAdvisor; I didn't even pick up my phone. I simply told the concierge that I wanted to go someplace quiet, get a bit of fresh air, and maybe see wildlife—and that I didn't want to look at a brochure. It turned out to be the best little trip I've ever had. —Ed Bayron, Tokyo
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Mark Orwoll's December Smart Traveler column got a flood of responses from readers and users at TravelandLeisure.com. Here, scams you've experienced—and your tips for avoiding them.
Southeast Asia: The Flat-Tire Fix
The Scam: Two guys on a scooter discreetly deflated one of my back tires at a stoplight; when it turned green they whizzed by, shouting that I had a flat. I pulled over to change it, leaving the windows open and the car unlocked. Meanwhile, the same two guys pulled up on the street side of the car and took everything inside. Advice: If you have to change your tire, shut your windows and lock your doors first. —Garland Wilson, Port Charlotte, Fla.
Paris: The Escalator Trip-Up
The Scam: We were nearing the top of an escalator at a crowded Métro stop when the man in front of me dropped something and bent over to pick it up. I fell over him and my wife over me, while one or two accomplices clambered over us, grabbing whatever they could. Advice: Keep your valuables in a safe place—and put a fake wallet where you might carry a real one. Also, keep your distance from others on the escalator! —Herb Falk, Hendersonville, N.C.
Italy: The Currency Change
The Scam: While boarding a Circumvesuviana train in Sorrento, I paid for my ticket with a 50 euro note and was "accidentally" given the wrong change. Advice: When using a foreign currency, it's not immediately obvious that you've been ripped off—especially if you're in a hurry to catch a train. Pay with the smallest denomination of bills possible. —Travelandleisure.com member
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The health-care company says in late February and early March burglars stole laptops out of cars that nurses were using. The computers had the records of 122 hospice and home-care patients in Snohomish County.
The latest thefts are much smaller than the one disclosed in January that affected 365,000 patients.
But Providence officials say they're frustrated. Despite training, the employees weren't following a rule that says they must keep computers in sight at all times. Instead, they left computers in their cars, once to visit a patient, another time to run into a store.
Providence says it's begun encrypting the daily records that nurses keep.
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Updated Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 01:01 AM
LONDON — The repercussions from last week's suicide of the nurse who answered a prank telephone call at the hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge were felt again Friday with reports that the DJs who made the call had received so many threats that they had been forced into hiding.
Quoting an unnamed person at 2DayFM, the Australian radio station where the two DJs work, The Daily Mail said they were under the protection of security guards and "could be in hiding for months due to ongoing fears for their safety." They have been taken off the air indefinitely.
"The safety of our employees is an absolute priority," 2DayFM's parent company Southern Cross Austereo said in a statement. "We have sensible measures in place, as we always do, to ensure our people are safe. This is now a matter for the police, and we trust they will investigate any specific threats that emerge."
New South Wales state police in Australia also said they were investigating a letter sent to the station that made several threats against the DJs. Police declined to release details of the letter.
At the inquest into the episode in London on Thursday, it emerged that the nurse, Jacintha Saldanha, 46, had hanged herself in the nurses' quarters of the King Edward VII hospital on Dec. 7, three days after the prank call. The police said that she also had marks on her wrists and that she had left behind three notes — one that was among her belongings, and two that were found near her body.
They did not say what was in the notes, but The Guardian reported that one was addressed to the hospital and that it was critical of staff members there. According to the newspaper, one of the other notes dealt with the hoax call; the third was about funeral arrangements.
Saldanha's death came after the DJs, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, convinced her and another nurse on duty that they were Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. The pair made the call at 5:30 a.m.; Saldanha took the initial call, and then transferred it to the second nurse.
The name of the second nurse, who was working on the ward where the Duchess of Cambridge had been admitted with acute morning sickness, has not been released. But despite the DJs' poor accents and rude, unroyal chatter, she was also taken in by the ruse, according to the tape that was played on the radio station and then disseminated across the Internet.
Although none of the details the nurse revealed were particularly humiliating — she said the duchess was sleeping, had successfully been given fluids and had not been "retching" — the incident was an acute embarrassment for the hospital, long a favorite with the discretion-seeking royal family.
At first, Greig and Christian and the station bragged about the hoax on outlets such as Twitter. But after Saldanha's suicide, they became hate figures, with commenters on social-media sites saying they should be charged with murder. Interviewed on Australian television, they apologized for the episode, and Christian said he was "gutted" and "shattered" by what had happened.
At the inquest, the police said Saldanha, 46, who had two teenage children and commuted home to Bristol on weekends to see them and her husband, had also sent a number of emails and made telephone calls that might shed light on what led her to kill herself.
It was unclear whether her husband, an accountant, or her children had been aware of her role in the hoax.
Material from The Associated Press is included in this report.
In this screen grab, Australian radio DJs Michael Christian, left, and Mel Greig appear during an interview on Australian television.
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Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997
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161New submitter gthuang88 (3752041) writes In the 1990s, Microsoft was in position to own the software and devices market. Here is Nathan Myhrvold's previously unpublished 1997 memo on expanding Microsoft Research to tackle problems in software testing, operating systems, artificial intelligence, and applications. Those fields would become crucial in the company's competition with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Oracle. But research didn't do enough to make the company broaden its businesses. While Microsoft Research was originally founded to ensure the company's future, the organization only mapped out some possible futures. And now Microsoft is undergoing the biggest restructuring in its history. At least F# and LINQ saw the light of day.


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Here's a link to an interesting sexuality quiz a friend gave me.
I know the questions are kind of EXACT and kind of poorly written and they might not pretain to you and you can identify with more than one sexual orientation at once.
But if you take the quiz and feel like sharing what you got post your results.
Here's what I got:
According to your answers, it is likely that you identify as
Concurrent bisexual
Concurrent bisexual-4
Past heterosexual, currently homosexual-3
sequential bisexual-3
homosexual with some heterosexual-1
past homosexual, currently heterosexual-0


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According to SkyNews, 2 women in the UK had split birth quadruplets within 22 hours of one another. Confused? Don't be. Karen Wesolowski and Martha Padgett spent 3 years and like $70,000 trying to get pregnant. The lesbian couple tried it all and finally the IVF took... for both of them. Using Martha Padgett's eggs and donor sperm the couple decided to double their odds by both undergoing IVF. And the gamble paid off with four-of-a-kind.
IVF First Turns 30
In Vitro Fertilization has been in the news pretty regularly as of late. Off the dome, some knobs in the media accused Brangelina of having IVF, there was a lawsuit regarding overzealous use of IVF that was just settled in Australia, and we heard something about reproductive tourism becoming trendy. So, what's this whole business of using test tubes to make babies began 30 years ago. The first IVF baby, that the government acknowledges, was Louise Brown. No-longer-young Louise Brown done turned 30 the other day, according to the Los Angeles Times via the Houston Chronicle.
comScore's Top Dating Sites
Do you know the site PlentyOfFish.com? No, well get with the program. It's North America's (and the UK's) most visited dating platform. In addition to that, it's free and totally ad supported. So, that's pretty fun.
comScore's Top Dating Sites
Do you know the site PlentyOfFish.com? No? Well get with the program! It's North America's (and the UK's) most visited dating platform. In addition to that, it's free and totally ad supported. So, that's pretty fun.
Self-Deprecating Humor Works
It turns out that dropping a joke on yourself from time-to-time is actually a good move for dudes. An aptly named study shows that men with self-deprecating wit actually do pretty well with the ladies. Hopefully, plays-on-words will have their heyday, one of these days.
NY Subway Romance Is Over
Remember that young man that made a website to track down that girl he 'shared a moment with' on the subway? Yeah, they met up and it was pretty cool. Well we regret to inform you that "it's a tragedy for me to see the dream is over. And I never will forget the day we met. Girl I'm gonna miss you." It's like that, Milli.
Aussie Lesbians Lose Fertility Case
A couple in Australia tried to sue their doctor over giving them twins through IVF. The explicitly wanted 1 baby and claim that his negligence is a major problem. They just got shot down but the case raised many questions about who should get access to IVF and they've really stirred up a hornets nest.
Gift Registry Firm May Ruin UK Weddings
A wedding gift registry company in the UK is an eyelash away from becoming insolvent. Some people that got hitched in 3 months ago have yet to receive their gifts. This could be the makings of a fine buddy comedy.
Dating An Only Child
Awesome question from the Daily Bedpost. Would you date an only child? There are clearly reasons to steer clear of the single child: solipsism, mom issues (or dad issues), socialization difficulties, reliance on television/imaginary friends for company, skewed POV, no experience with sharing a room/clothes/affection, pressure to have children now… basically a lot of stuff that home schooled kids go through just without the spelling bee dominance.
Dallas Swingers Club Raided, Again
e do not know why we're so obsessed with the trials and tribulations of the Cherry Pit but we are. Duncanville, a Dallas suburb, has about the best little swingers club in Texas. And the squares (as well as the fuzz) are not happy about it. The long line of static betwixt the Cherry Pit and the municipality has been largely cat-and-mouse games between 2 equally determined opponents since November '07. The city decided that parking was a problem for neighbors, so they banned the sex club. There was hemming and hawing over what the definition of a sex club was, exactly. Duncanville wrote out a series of things that define a sex club, which is not permitted in residential ares, so Cherry Pit owner/operator/fan Jim Trulock did what any red-blooded American would do: sue. The city, of course, countersued and on and on and on.


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photo by Lisa Hubbard
Makes 4 servings
active time
20 minutes
total time
20 minutes
- 2 bunches broccolini (1 pound)
- Kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon toasted white sesame seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes plus more to taste
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- Freshly ground black pepper
Cook broccolini in a large pot of salted boiling water until crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a large bowl of ice water. Drain and dry well. Halve broccolini, if desired. Place in a large bowl.
Finely chop 2 tablespoons sesame seeds and 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes in a spice grinder (or finely chop with a knife). Transfer to a small bowl; stir in both oils, vinegar, and garlic. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle over broccolini; toss to coat. Transfer to a platter; sprinkle with remaining 1 teaspoon sesame seeds and more red pepper flakes, if desired.
166 calories, 15 g fat, 7 g carbohydrate
Nutritional analysis provided by Bon Appétit
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recipe at a glance
type: Quick & Easy, Vegetable
main ingredients: Broccoli, Sesame
dietary considerations: Low Sodium, Vegetarian, Low Cal, Healthy, Low Cholesterol, Vegan


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July 1, 2013
Anthony Mantha, a winger, stands with officials from the Detroit Red Wings sweater after being chosen 20th overall in the first round of the NHL hockey draft, Sunday, June 30, 2013, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
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Vermont ACLU discusses surveillance on borderSeptember 17,2013The Associated Press
MONTPELIER - The proliferation of technology that makes it easier to track the lives of ordinary residents prompted the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday to call on the Legislature to ensure state and local law enforcement agencies don't misuse information that may be available.
To prove how easy it is becoming for law enforcement to monitor the lives of law-abiding residents, the ACLU demonstrated a small, remote control drone that collected video while flying in the skies above the Statehouse in Montpelier.
"If you carry a cellphone, you are being tracked. If you're driving a car, (automatic license plate readers) are picking up where you're going. You've seen what a drone can do. We're going to see hundreds of these things flying overhead in a couple of years," said Allen Gilbert, executive director of the ACLU's Vermont chapter.
In addition to drones and the electronic bread crumb trail left by most people today, Gilbert said Vermonters are more prone to be watched by the government than people in other parts of the country because of the state's proximity to Canada. Within 100 miles of the border, Department of Homeland Security agencies have broad powers to stop motorists.
Gilbert said his organization would ask the Legislature to pass a bill that would regulate the use of aerial drones. The group wants the state to pass a law or establish rules governing police access to "digital face prints," created by facial recognition software used by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
The agency's website says its facial recognition software is designed to protect against identity fraud and to prevent people from getting driver's licenses in multiple states. It says law enforcement agencies "may submit images of suspects in crimes for analysis by DMV investigators."
The ACLU wants Vermont to pass a law that would prohibit employers from requiring that they provide access to social media accounts as a job requirement.
It also is calling for passage of a Vermont electronic privacy act, which would require law enforcement agencies to get warrants before obtaining email, phone and Internet records, location tracking data and digital face prints.
"It's when you get into the areas of invasion of privacy, harassment, even stalking where things are going to get very interesting," Gilbert said. "None of this is going to be easy."MORE IN This Just InPolice: Man robbed Full StoryIllegal gun buy Full StoryPolice are looking for a hit-and-run driver. Full Story -
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2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let us make a joyful noise to him with psalms! | 2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. |
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Warm Homes Discount Scheme
Energy and Climate Change
Caroline Flint (Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; Don Valley, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 22 February 2012, Official Report, column 833W, on the Warm Homes Discount Scheme, what estimate his Department has made of the average level of financial support that will be provided to low-income and vulnerable households beyond the core group.
Gregory Barker (The Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change; Bexhill and Battle, Conservative)
In 2011-12 energy suppliers are required to spend £153 million providing support to low income and vulnerable households beyond the core group.
Within this set total suppliers have a degree of discretion over how this support is provided. As the first year of the scheme represents a transition from the previous voluntary agreement, suppliers may spend up to £150 million providing legacy forms of support such as social and discounted tariffs and on industry initiatives (which provide support such as energy advice and debt relief to those at risk of fuel poverty).
Within the total of £153 million, suppliers are required to spend a minimum of £3 million on providing electricity bill rebates of £120 to low income and vulnerable households through the broader group. If suppliers spend less than £150 million on legacy support and industry initiatives, they must make up this spending through an increase in spend on the broader group.
The impact assessment published for the Warm Home Discount scheme made an assessment of the average level of support that would be provided to groups beyond the core group. Those assisted through the broader group will receive a rebate of £120 and we estimate that those assisted under legacy spending through support such as discounted tariffs will receive on average £89.


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University of Maryland Student Indicted For Producing and Selling Fake Driver's Licenses
Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Theodore Steven Michaels, a/k/a Teddy Michaels, age 20, of Potomac, Maryland, on charges related to the production and transfer of fraudulent identification documents, in connection with the sale of fraudulent driver's licenses that Michaels allegedly produced while he was a student at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP). The indictment was returned on May 2, 2011. Michaels had an initial appearance on May 4, 2011, at U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, and was released.
The indictment was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; David B. Mitchell, Director of Public Safety and Chief of the University of Maryland Police Department; and Special Agent in Charge David Beach of the United States Secret Service – Washington Field Office.
According to the 16 count indictment, from October to December, 2009, while Michaels and a co-conspirator were students at UMCP, they produced and sold fraudulent Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania driver's licenses to individuals under the age of 21. The driver's licenses falsely represented that these individuals were 21 years or older. Michaels allegedly informed acquaintances from his Montgomery County high school who were attending UMCP and other universities that he was selling false driver's licenses featuring holograms that appeared to be genuine, and magnetic strips encoded with data that could be read by "swipe" card readers.
The indictment alleges that Michaels received $100 to $170 for each license sold and that he offered a free license to anyone who referred five other applicants to him. Michaels allegedly asked the applicants to provide photographs of themselves and to specify, the names, addresses, dates of birth and other identifying information they wanted on their false driver's licenses. According to the indictment, Michaels and his co-conspirator then produced the fraudulent licenses in their dormitory room using an identification card printer and encoder, a thermal printer used to create false holograms of state seals, and other tools.
Finally, the indictment seeks forfeiture of $12,500, the alleged proceeds of the illegal activity, and the document-making implements.
Michaels faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the conspiracy; and 15 years in prison on each of seven counts for the production, and seven counts for the transfer, of fraudulent identification documents; and 15 years in prison for possessing document-making implements.
An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised the University of Maryland Police Department and U.S. Secret Service for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorney Robert K. Hur, who is prosecuting the case.


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Federal Register: January 7, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 4)
DOCID: fr07ja10-50 FR Doc 2010-83
Coast Guard
Docket ID: [Docket No. USCG-2009-0299]
DOCID: fr07ja10-50
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.
Terminate Long Range Aids to Navigation (Loran-C) Signal
DATES: Transmission of the Loran-C signal and phased decommissioning of the LoranC infrastructure will commence on or about February 8, 2010. All Loran stations are expected to cease transmitting the LoranC signal by October 1, 2010.
On October 28, 2009, the President signed into law the 2010 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act. The Act allows for the termination of the LoranC system subject to the Coast Guard certifying that termination of the LoranC signal will not adversely impact the safety of maritime navigation and the Department of Homeland Security certifying that the LoranC system infrastructure is not needed as a backup to the GPS system or to meet any other Federal navigation requirement. Those certifications were made; and the U.S. Coast Guard will, commencing on or about February 8, 2010, implement plans to terminate the transmission of the LoranC signal and commence a phased decommissioning of the LoranC infrastructure. These plans include ending transmissions at 18 Loran stations located in the contiguous United States and 6 Loran stations in Alaska. The Department of Homeland Security anticipates that all Loran stations will cease transmitting the LoranC signal by October 1, 2010.
Terminate Long Range Aids to Navigation (Loran-C) Signal
Background and Purpose
The U.S. LoranC system is a low frequency hyperbolic radionavigation system. A LoranC receiver measures the slight difference in time it takes for pulsed signals to reach a ship or aircraft from the transmitting stations within a LoranC chain to develop a navigational position. LoranC is approved for use in the U.S. Coastal Confluence Zone and as a supplemental air navigation aid. LoranC is operated and maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The LoranC system was a valuable position and navigation system when it was established in 1957. As a result of technological advancements over the last 20 years and the emergence of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), LoranC is no longer required by the armed forces, the transportation sector, or the nation's security interests, and is used only by a small segment of the population.
The LoranC system was not established as, nor was it intended to be, a viable systemic backup for GPS. Backups to GPS for safetyoflife navigation applications, or other critical applications, can be other radionavigation systems, or operational procedures, or a combination of these systems and procedures. Backups to GPS for timing applications can be a highly accurate crystal oscillator or atomic clock and a communications link to a timing source that is traceable to Coordinated Universal Time.
With respect to transportation to include aviation, commercial maritime, rail, and highway, the Department of Transportation has determined that sufficient alternative navigation aids currently exist in the event of a loss of GPSbased services, and therefore Loran currently is not needed as a backup navigation aid for transportation safetyoflife users.
The Department of Homeland Security will continue to work with other Federal agencies to look across the critical infrastructure and key resource sectors identified in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan assessment to determine if a single, domestic system is needed as a GPS backup for critical infrastructure applications requiring precise time and frequency. If a single, domestic national system to back up GPS is identified as being necessary, the Department of Homeland Security will complete an analysis of potential backups to GPS. The continued active operation of LoranC is not necessary to advance this evaluation.
On January 22, 2009 (74 FR 4047), the U.S. Coast Guard began a public review process for its Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), under the National Environmental Policy Act, which evaluated the environmental impacts of several alternatives for the LoranC system, including termination of the LoranC signal. The U.S. Coast Guard considered comments received in response to the Draft PEIS and released a Final PEIS on June 12, 2009 (USCG200728046). A public notice will be issued to announce the Record of Decision.
This announcement is for the purpose of informing the public of the Coast Guard's intention to begin termination of the broadcast of the LoranC signal starting on or about February 8, 2010. All Loran stations will cease transmission by October 1, 2010.
The Department of Transportation was consulted regarding the
preparation of this notice. This notice is issued under the authority of 6 U.S.C. 111, 14 U.S.C. 81, and 5 U.S.C. 552.
Dated: January 4, 2009.
Kevin S. Cook,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Director of Prevention Policy. [FR Doc. 201083 Filed 1610; 8:45 am]
If you have questions on this notice, contact Mr. Mike Sollosi, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, telephone (202) 3721545, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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