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With some students out of school for spring break, Easter holiday falling this Sunday, and warmer temperatures soon approaching, the travel season is entering full force.
The Governor's Highway Safety Program has teamed up with law enforcement agencies across the state to step up enforcement as part of its No Need 2 Speed Campaign, active through Sunday.
Since 2006, the campaign has been taking place in early spring, sending law enforcement officers across the state out in full force to cite speeders.
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Luicci and Lefeged are cousins?
There were not that many dumpoffs last year but I sure do remember one...it happened to be against Pitt. Worked out kinda nice, I'd say.
That is an area where they used Deering and Martinek (underhand passes against Cincinatti, draws, screens) effectively but not quite enough.
P.S.--haven't been around for a while but I see that NJ.COM is still allowing vinmantoo to call people "idiots" and "trolls" and otherwise insult them. What a shame.
Right on the money.
I mean, let's face it. Those red light cameras are all about safety. Heck, why take a uniformed policeman in a marked patrol car and place him at a dangerous intersection so that he can be present if an accident occurrs--and so that he can address the DRIVERS making the violations--when...
It would just make us all so much safer by taking a cop off of the road and parking him in a room so that he can watch a video that is several weeks old and then mail a summons TO THE OWNER of a car that was involved in a violation. Heck, he can even watch the accidents two weeks later.
Don't you see how that makes us all so much safer??
And to boot, Pohatcong is so generous with their cops that they even issue tickets to motorists making illegal rights on red at 22 west and 519....IN GREENWHICH TOWNSHIP!!!!!!! Wait till the public finds out that the Pohatcong Township Court never had jurisdiction to hear all of those improperly issued summonses. How can Pohatcong ever pay back all of those illegal fines?
This is the beginning of the end of Greg Schiano.
First he'll talk about how the season is a series of one-game seasons, how you don't want to "wish away" time, and then proclaim that he wants the Buccaneers to peak in November.
Then he'll take his number #1 draft pick and ruin him. If the #1 draft pick is a star, Schiano will harbor some peculiar jealousy and bench the player (and eventually run him off of the team). If the #1 draft pick turns out to be an overrated dud, Schiano will force him into the lineup no matter what.
And then, just when we all thought it couldn't be any worse, Schiano will put the kicker in at Quarterback, have him run a sand-lot "keeper" every play, and then subbornly stick with it the entire season.
[oh yea, right after Tampa Bay has an impressive upset, Schiano will tell the media that the team is ready for its next game. And then after the game, he'll take responsibility for the debacle because he did not have the team ready].
He may have a small degree of success but, what a blunder it was to choose this guy as the head coach.
Give up your Man Crush on Schiano. He has lied, played politics, and bludered much of the season. Without the talented players on his defense and special teams he would have blown 3 or more games this season. He finally wins a big game and you can't wait to rush out and post "see everybody. He's AWESOME (in Liberacce voice)." That's worse than his pathetic, self-serving "unselfish" speech after the Pitt win.
Still sticking with Nova? Now it's getting cartoonish, Greg.
Hey "Frankie Football"
LEARN FOOTBALL. The object is to put your best players and on the field so that you can WIN THE GAME!! You don't know this?
Rutgers can't do that. Dodd would show up Nova and Deering would show up Huggins.
Scary, isn't it?
Stop blaming it on the defense. The score should be 21-0 right now but for the defense. Blame the coach who just refuses to put the best players on the field. I haven't seen an RU QB look this bad since 1996.
Rutgers should be winning this game big right now. But the players are also fighting their head coach.
But for a couple of series, when has Nova looked good?
I can't disagree with what he's posted here.
Martinek has always been a terrific football player and this year is certainly no exception. I've always said that he was 1/2 step too slow to be an everydown tailback and I stand by that. But that was never to imply that he is slow, per se. This is the role that he should have been in for the past two years.
And it is a darn good thing that he does not have to compete against Huggins or else Schiano woulod have benched him and all of the arm chair quaterbacks on this message board would be defending the decision.
Same old posters. Every time I check into this website, it's all the same.
This VinMan guy must not have gotten enough attention when he was growing up. Like the kid on the playground who mouths off to everybody. You'd think a couple a slaps to the chops would shut him up but that's just the attention he craves. What does it say about a person?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go have internet conversations with my imaginary friends.
Exactly. Now I am confused. Did Williams rush for a total of 58 yards on 21 carries? Doesn't sound like it as GS was basically pleased but for the two backs "dancing" a little too much. If Williams rushed for 2.7 yards per carry after 21 carries, with only one going for positive yards, I doubt GS would have been that complimentary. Where did this 8 carries for 58 yards come from?
I think the undertone all along is that Deering is going to be a situational back. Hopefully he's healthy. Jamison, who if you remember, had a very nice Spring game so his situation is unfortunate as well. He now needs to play catch up. But let's keep in mind there are many more practices and at least one more scrimmage.
I just watched a video on another website where Schiano said that Williams had 20 carries. Did I misunderstand this or is the article inaccurate?
I am also curious how Isaac Holmes has been doing.
You also failed to mention that Jordan Thomas was moved from the Tailback position as well and that last year Williams was given a chance against Norfolk and had a couple a nice runs.
Oh goodness...here we go.
Umm...you've just contradicted yourself in three sentences (pretty commendable). His recovery is "slow but steady" you say? Well, WHAT DO YOU BASE YOUR ASSESSMENT ON???
Perhaps you need to stop "over thinking."
What a shame. The kid shows promise but first he allegedly reported out of shape last year, than got injured, and now got injured again. Maybe he should look to Kordell Young for inspiration. Now there's a kid who just kept getting back up. Although missing at least a week of training camp is a tough thing to overcome, Jamison will be back in the mix at some point. You've got a long career ahead of you. Keep your chin up.
Alright. Loved seeing Eric lifting his right arm up. He's standing up 35 minutes per day now. He works out every day. Hmmm... Sounds like he is progressing to me. Again, I would like to hear what spinal cord injury "experts" have to say about this.
As it relates to predicting that Eric walks again...count me in. I've been saying it all along but now...officially...that is my prediction.
I did, however, find it interesting that Coach Schiano classified his progress as "slow but steady." I'm not sure what litmus test he used for the "slow" part of his comment. Maybe he's right but I'm not sure what he bases that on.

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PHOENIX -- An early morning armed robbery at an Arizona adult boutique Monday ended in a shootout with a sheriff's deputy that left one suspect dead and another injured, authorities said.
The two suspects entered the business at about 6 a.m., tied up a female employee then fled with a safe and cash from the register, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said.
The woman was able to escape and call 911 with a description of the suspects' car.
A short time later, a Pinal County sheriff's deputy spotted the vehicle on Interstate 10 about 80 miles south of Phoenix and a chase ensued at speeds exceeding 110 mph, authorities said.
The suspects turned off the interstate onto Highway 87 south of Eloy and collided with the deputy's vehicle in a field.
Babeu said the two suspects jumped out of their car and shot at the deputy, who returned fire, killing one man and injuring another with gunshots to his leg and arm.
The suspect still attempted to flee on foot, but the deputy was able to subdue and arrest him.
The man was being treated at an area hospital.
Babeu said the safe was found unopened in the car, and the dead suspect had a large amount of cash on him, likely taken from the boutique's register. Authorities also believe the suspects were monitoring the pursuit with their own police scanner.
Babeu said the clerk at the store, which does brisk business just off I-10, ``is lucky to be alive.''
A person who answered the phone Monday at the M Passion Adult Boutique declined comment.
An investigation was ongoing. The suspects' names haven't been released pending notification of their families.
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His name and age hadn't yet been released. Babeu called him a ``model of fitness and of discipline.''


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Whether the controversial debt ceiling proposal put forward by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., advances or not, spectrum legislation he put in the bill is facing its own obstacles.
Reid's proposal includes legislation that would raise $15 billion to help pay down the deficit by persuading TV stations, the federal government, and other users of spectrum to give some of it up for sale.
Reid's spectrum language includes many provisions similar to those in a bill approved by the Senate Commerce Committee last month aimed at building a national broadband public safety network and freeing up spectrum for mobile broadband technologies.
"The spectrum piece of Leader Reid's bill is very good. We continue to work closely with the White House and other parties in the debt talks to make sure that the final version reflects our early goals—including a key component to this, which is essential funding for rural deployment," a spokesman for Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said in a statement.
"Ultimately, this plan mirrors Chairman Rockefeller's legislation in many ways and would help us get the nationwide network built and operable to help ensure public safety."
The National Association of Broadcasters released a statement Tuesday, however, voicing strong concerns with the Reid proposal. Like the Commerce Committee bill, Reid's measure would authorize the Federal Communications Commission to conduct incentive auctions, enticing broadcasters and others to give up some frequencies in exchange for a share of the proceeds. Broadcasters say they can accept incentive auctions as long as they include provisions protecting those broadcasters who choose not to participate.
"NAB is deeply concerned about provisions currently in Senate Majority Leader Reid's legislation that would threaten the future of a great American institution—free and local television," NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton said in a statement. "We will work with him as the process moves forward in hopes that our issues can be addressed."
Wharton said the Reid spectrum legislation does not include some key protections broadcasters are seeking. They include protections against forcing broadcasters to share channels and assurances that broadcasters forced to move to a new channel would be able to replicate their existing coverage area. In addition, he noted that the Reid measure does not require the FCC to compensate broadcasters for giving up their spectrum or for moving to a different channel.
Reid's spectrum language also will likely face pushback from House Republicans. Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled their own spectrum bill earlier this month. Unlike the Senate Commerce bill and the Reid measure, the House GOP measure would not reallocate a chunk of spectrum known as the D block to public safety officials for their public safety network. Instead, the GOP draft would auction off the D block to commercial bidders, as required by current law, and use the proceeds to pay down the deficit.
So far, the debt ceiling proposal that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, proposed Monday does not include spectrum legislation. But Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said that as part of the process set up by Boehner's measure, he expects Energy and Commerce will likely be directed to come up with ways to reduce the deficit. He said spectrum legislation would likely be part of that.
The $15 billion that Reid says would come from spectrum sales for deficit reduction is well above what the Congressional Budget Office estimates would come from the Senate Commerce bill.
CBO estimates that Senate Commerce bill would raise $24.5 billion from spectrum sales but would only leave $6.5 billion for deficit reduction because of the other provisions in the bill, including $12.5 billion for the creation of a public safety network. Reid's spectrum measure would only allocate $7 billion for the public safety network.


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FOR years the novelty Christmas jumper was the one present everyone dreaded.
But retailers in Cheltenham said the garish woollen warmers were the latest must-have fashion item.
Adorned with anything from reindeer and snowflakes to Christmas trees, snowmen and Santa on his sleigh, the seasonal sweaters have been flying off the clothes rails in the town.
Supermarket Asda claimed it had sold over 10,000 festive knits and High Street fashion retailer New Look said that it sold one every minute during its busiest week.
Michaela Duffy, manager at Joules clothing store, in the Promenade, said they were one of their best-selling items this year.
"They have been selling really well," she said. "We have almost run out because demand has been so high.
"For some reason what everyone wants this year is a festive jumper.
"The used to be a bit of a joke item but now they are definitely back in."
A particular favourite among customers at the store has been a red and blue top with a robin on it. Another popular design is a blue and white top featuring a reindeer with antlers.
Michaela put the surge in popularity of the once-derided garments down to the festive cheer they bring.
"They just help to cheer everyone up," she added.
"They keep people warm in the cold weather and they put a smile on people's faces too."
Countless people have been seen sporting the woolly warmers in the town and many more will doubtless be donning them after opening their stockings on Christmas Day.
Echo rugby writer Will Wood, 30, from Tivoli, said he had hardly taken off his blue and white knit, which features a snowman, since his girlfriend gave it to him earlier this month.
"I'm delighted with it," he said.
"I think it's just very me. I have had a lot of compliments from people."
Ollie King, 20, a student in Cheltenham, was so taken with the trend he went online and bought his own.
"Mine's blue and white with reindeer on it," he said. "I just like the pattern.
"I think people are drawn to the quirkiness of them and don't care that much if they look a bit daft."


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and DiPrima,
Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems.
Any edition will do.
(You can get old editions of this book at abebooks.com for as low as $1.)
There will be three in class, 50-minutes-long exams, given most probably during the following weeks:
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There will also be an optional three-hour final exam during the finals period for those students who will not be happy with their previous grades. The rules for and implications of taking this final exam are explained below.
You are allowed one handwritten sheet (8.5 by 11 inches) of notes for each exam and the final. No other materials (books, notes) or electronic aids (calculators, clle phones, laptops, etc.) will be allowed.
Only students with notes from the Student Experience Office, (4th floor of Academy Hall, x8022) will be allowed to take makeup exams.
Here, you will find a number of old exams. The format of the exams and quizzes will likely be similar to this.
There will be approximately biweekly quizzes given during the recitations. They will closely follow the material presented in class, recitations, and on the suggested homework listed below.
The dates of the quizzes and their contents will be announced here.
No aids of any kind will be allowed on the quizzes.
There will be no makeup quizzes. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped automatically. For any additional missed quizzes you will need to bring a note from the Student Experience Office, 4th floor of Academy Hall, x8022. In case you do, the zero for that quiz grade will be dropped, and the average over all the other quizzes will be substituted for it.
Copying from fellow students' work or from unallowed aids during a quiz or an exam, as well as using electronic means to contact helpers outside the examination room, is a breach of academic integrity, and will not be tolerated. Standard Institute procedure for academic integrity breaches will be followed.
Suggested homework can be found at the URL http://www.rpi.edu/~kovacg/classes/diffeq/2400HW.html
These homework problems are representative of the material tested on the quizzes and exams.
It is strongly recommended that you work through all the suggested homework problems. This is because mathematics is a skill acquired through practice, similar to playing an instrument or a sport. The only mathematics you will ever really master is the mathematics you will do yourself. Passive ability to understand lectures and recitations alone is no guarantee that you will be able to solve problems on the quizzes and/or exams.
Working on the suggested homework problems in groups or at least checking your solution methods with other students is highly recommended. While most of the problems are standard, they sometimes do require generating an idea, and this is always easier in a group.
To help you with your practice, here is a list of suggested problems from the 9th edition of the textbook. Here and here are two more lists of suggested problems, one from the 7th edition of the Boyce-DiPrima book, and one from the 7th and the 8th editions. Solutions to some of these practice problems are also available.
Here are also some video clips of Prof. Schmidt solving problems from the Boyce-DiPrima book.
If you have serious problems when trying to solve the suggested homework, you should seek tutoring from the Advising and Learning Assistance Center. Available times Monday through Thursday, 8:00-10:00 PM in DCC 345.
I am expecting to use the following grading rules: Each of the three exams will constitute 1/3 of your final grade.
The lowest exam grade will automatically be replaced by the quiz average if the latter is higher.
The percentages for grade cutoffs will be no stricter than
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At any given moment, you can compute your current grade as follows: Drop the lowest quiz grade, add the points you got for your remaining quizzes, and divide by the maximal possible number of points on those quizzes. (Each quiz will have that number printed in a prominent place.) This will give you your total quiz percentage so far. Then take the percentages on your exams so far. Drop the lowest exam percentage or the total quiz percentage so far, whichever is the lowest, and average the rest. Compare with the above table. This is the worst your grade can be at that time.
Grades should first be appealed to the instructor. Any further appeals should be directed through the office of the department head.
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If you are unhappy with the grade that you got from the exams and the quizzes, you can give it up, and instead take the optional final exam during the finals week. The grade on the final exam will supersede all the previous grades, so do not take the final exam unless you are absolutely sure that you will do better than during the semester.
The Optional Final Exam will be given during the finals period.
You are allowed one handwritten sheet (8.5 by 11 inches) of notes. No other materials (books, notes, calculators, etc.) are allowed.
Sample Maple worksheets can be found here. Many more Maple links can be found here.
In the framework of Rensselaer's Project Links, a number of interactive learing modules have been developed. For us, the most interesting ones will the ones on differential equations, especially those on mechanical oscillations. Other modules of interest for this course include Fourier series, drag forces on solid objects, heat conduction, and chemical kinetics.
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Actress and model April Scott seemed a bit distracted as she began her interview with Toledo Free Press Star. But she has a lot on her mind these days: a role on a hit FX series that just finished filming, a modeling gig coming up, a play she's written that will soon be released to the public. But the biggest preoccupation of all comes in the smallest package — the tiny person she cradled in her arms as she spoke.
Her baby daughter's name is London. Like most doting parents, Scott's love and adoration for the new person in her life shines through with every word she utters.
"It's like a full-time job, especially in the beginning," Scott said.
"She's 2-and-a-half months old, but it's been such a learning experience. I've never had any little brothers and sisters to take care of, so it's all new to me. But she's great. At first you get no sleep whatsoever, but she's just adorable. Now she's sleeping through the night.
"It definitely changes your priorities in life and everything, too. She's like the most important thing, you know?"
Unlike most doting parents, however, Scott has years of experience as an on-camera personality and performer to her credit, as well.
And now, as she begins to take tentative steps back into show business, Scott said her primary focus is to find roles and jobs that won't distract from her most crucial role back home.
"I knew I wanted to go back eventually, I didn't know when I wanted to try," Scott said. "Auditioning and things like that is like a full-time commitment, also. And I didn't want that to take away from me spending time with her. But I thought, let me try a couple things."
The search didn't take long. She recently finished shooting a guest role for the ninth season of the hit comedy "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
She also — a mere three months post-labor, mind you — is preparing for a modeling gig as part of an "alcohol campaign" in the coming weeks.
"I didn't know how my body would recover after giving birth. I had no idea," said Scott, who has modeled for more than 10 years. "It's just naturally going back to normal, which is kind of lucky for me. And I'm trying to eat healthy and everything, too."
Performing has been in Scott's blood since her early days growing up in Campbell, Mo., population 1,992.
"I grew up on a 20-acre farm in the country, and we had no neighbors, nothing. It was just very rural. And we had two TV channels growing up, and that was it. And so for me, it was really exciting when we got to watch movies or anything that would come on the TV.
"So, from a very young age, it was, 'Well, I'd like to be like those people.' And that just planted the seed."
After graduating college with a degree in theater, Scott took the plunge by moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting fulltime.
Considering her country upbringing and charm, it seems fitting her big break came filling the boots of Daisy Duke in the prequel "The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning."
"That [role] had just thousands and thousands of people audition for it.
Probably 5,000 girls auditioned for that role. So the odds of getting it are just insane," Scott recalled.
"But if you happen to be the right personality for the role, and they're actually willing to cast an unknown, you can luck out and get something that fits your personality. It's just a 'meant to be' kind of thing."
She also had a regular role as one of the models in the early seasons of the NBC game show "Deal or No Deal," and penned a book on her experience, "Behind the Briefcase."
Writing has blossomed into another
of Scott's passions, including a full stage
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late June.
"I'm just going to release it as a complimentary download, if anyone wants to perform it. Because, you know, if you wrote a play, you'd really like to see it performed, basically, and learn what you can learn from watching it being performed."
In the end, though, Scott's main focus remains at home, with the joy and growth that little London brings to every day.
"I'm just trying to be happy," Scott said. "Be happy and not be stressed out. … London is the most important thing in my life.
"So if I can spend a lot of time with her, but also do some of the things that I love — I love the writing and I love performing — but it's just about finding the right kind of projects that's going to allow me to not be so busy that I can't spend time with her.
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SAN ANTONIO - Two school district police officers were honored Monday night by the San Antonio Independent School District for rushing to a mother's side after she was stabbed at least 30 times outside of Bonham Academy on Aug. 28.
Officer John Catts and Officer Jessica Sepulveda were given the "Police Lifesaving Award" at Monday's school board meeting. Sepulveda was the first to tend to the 38-year-old victim and apply pressure to the wounds in her neck and chest. Officer Catts arrived seconds later.
The woman's husband, 38-year-old Roberto Barron, is accused of stabbing the woman after the two dropped off their child that morning at Bonham.
The stabbing happened outside the school after classes had begun, so no children witnessed the attack.
Some might call their actions heroic, but these officers call it part of the job.
"In situations like this, our training kicks in and you just react," said Catts. "You really don't think about what you're doing. You just do it. We're just fortunate that everything kicked in without us having to think twice about it."
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Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for 'The righteous shall live by faith.' But the law is not of faith, rather 'The one who does them shall live by them.' [Gal 3.12] . . . [the law] requires doing something. . . . faith is the opposite of doing. There are two conceivable ways of salvation. One way is to keep the law perfectly, to do the things which the law requires. No mere man since the fall has accomplished that. The other way is to receive something, to receive something that is freely given by God's grace. That way is followed when a man has faith. But you cannot possibly mingle the two. You might conceivably be saved by works or you might be saved by faith; but you cannot be saved by both. It is 'either or' here not 'both and.' But which shall it be, works or faith? The Scripture gives the answer. The Scripture says it is faith. Therefore it is not works.
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Last week my 52-year-old sister died suddenly. The cause is not known. Around dinnertime she complained of a migraine, drew the shades, took to the couch, closed her eyes and never woke up. Aneurysm has been ruled out. Her death is a mystery.
We had a memorial service for Liz on Monday in our hometown of Bismarck, N.D., which allowed my 82-year-old father to attend. He's been wheelchair bound since he fell and cracked his skull on an icy sidewalk three years ago. Dad's in a nursing home. My angelic mother visits him every day and indeed has sacrificed much of her life for him.
The "Tammy" in today's title is not a relative or anyone I knew prior to the memorial service. Tammy is a nurse temp I hired to watch over Dad at Monday's service. Getting my dad out of his wheelchair and into the front seat of the SUV rental is not difficult and is a task I've mastered. What's really hard–physically but even more, emotionally–is getting Dad to the bathroom. Should he stand or sit? Should I watch him or give him privacy? Questions of potty protocol that do not phase you as a parent of a small child can strike deep into your heart as a child of a helpless parent.
So I wussed out and hired a woman named Tammy to be with my Dad at the funeral, mainly for the inevitable bathroom call. I had booked Tammy the day before. The temp agency had almost apologized for the eight-hour minimum charge, since we'd need Tammy for only about four hours. The charge came to– hold your breath–$114.
There is no way to put this delicately. Tammy was a middle-aged woman who looked poor, sad, beaten down. She drove an old small Chevy. Her hair and teeth were not the best. She was probably in her 40s but looked a decade older. Poor people in small towns have that look.
Knowing that Tammy's share of the $114 was probably $50 and that she had to wipe an old man's bottom to earn it, I tipped her $60. This seemed generous at the time but now seems so ridiculously puny it pains me to write it.
Of all the memories I took from my sister's memorial service, the one that haunts is of a poor woman cleaning my Dad's backside in the men's room.
As I ponder the economy and its challenges, I will think about Tammy. The question worth asking is what kind of system is best at producing heroes like Steve Jobs and products like the iPad while at the same time giving different sorts of heroes, like Tammy, the dignity they deserve? The solution is not government-ordered socialism. Nor is it capitalism free of any moral foundation.
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If HSPH's crash course can help rebuild trust in the health care industry, the results could be as powerful as any medicine available today
Across the United States, trust in institutions that guard the public's health and provide care has fallen to an all-time low. Patients mistrust insurers and pharmaceutical companies, and lack complete confidence in their doctors; physicians, in turn, are skeptical of clinic and hospital leaders. Citizens doubt government's ability to protect them from epidemics and bioterrorism, deriding each new "orange" or "yellow" warning as an empty scare.
That's the assessment of representatives of the Harvard School of Public Health led by David A. Shore, executive director of the Center for Continuing Professional Education and an expert on health care branding and marketing. Backing up theseperceptions, they say, is a growing body of research and polling data.
Why does trust matter? Eroding trust jeopardizes preparedness and takes a toll on people's health and well being, they say. It makes the public skeptical of expert advice concerning smallpox and flu vaccines alike. It drives patients to take their care into their own hands, self- medicating or relying on unproven remedies. It breeds costly regulation--and litigation.
To help health professionals understand the roots of mistrust and craft strategies to restore it, Shore launched the HSPH Trust Initiative. Since 2002, the program has drawn public health and health care administrators, pharmaceutical company directors, physicians, nurses, and representatives of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Shore also takes the program on the road, addressing National Institutes of Health leaders last spring as well as an invitational conference in Tuskegee, Alabama, on health disparities. Due in 2005 are two books on the trust issue, and a new program on the expanding role of key intangibles--trust, branding, and reputation--on health care's future.
"This symposium's topic and agenda are absolutely the most important issue in America's current health care delivery system," wrote Michael Fletcher, MD, of Lee Memorial Health System in southwest Florida, in his evaluation of HSPH's program. The lack of trust in doctors, health care systems, government, and third-party payers damages the practice of medicine, continued Fletcher, a director on Lee Memorial's board, and only total openness and transparency can salvage it.
The Roots of Mistrust
In the 2002 movie John Q, a HMO-style insurer refuses to cover life-saving surgery for a small boy. Desperate, the boy's father takes an emergency room hostage and forces a doctor to operate. "The film struck a chord with American audiences," Shore says, "because of a widely held belief that insurers put financial interests above patients' health."
That attitude marks a precipitous fall for U.S. health care from its trusted position 50 years ago, in the heyday of antibiotics and X rays. The image of physicians as benevolent Marcus Welbys began to wither in the 1960s, however, as Medicare and Medicaid bureaucracies encumbered the doctor-patient relationship. With the 1980s and '90s came managed care, for-profit hospitals and insurers, shorter patient-doctor visits, and that blunt, all-business question, "Do you have health insurance?"
Since then, Shore notes, service has declined while premiums have risen. News headlines have fueled public suspicion by spotlighting both tragic medical errors (Boston Globe reporter succumbs to cancer chemotherapy overdose) and fraudulent practices (a hospital scam to bilk Medicare of $2.6 million). Meanwhile, government has been unable to resolve two problems Americans consider urgent: rising health care costs and the growing ranks of the uninsured.
Racial and ethnic disparities also taint doctor-patient interactions. Shore points to the fresh wave of revelations in 1997 about the U.S. Public Health Study at Tuskegee, Alabama from 1932 to 1972, in which doctors withheld treatment from black syphilis patients without their knowledge or consent. Minority groups believe they are treated unequally, according to the Institute of Medicine. Indeed, Shore notes, news accounts of the 2001 anthrax attacks alleged that racism was to blame in the death of one man among largely African-American postal workers who were not offered the antibiotic Cipro, unlike Senate employees.
Confusion, dismay, and "alarm fatigue" have intensified, Shore says, in the wake of reversals in research findings (e.g., hormone replacement therapy) and contradictory health advisories (eat fish; avoid fish tainted with mercury). People shrug: "I'll just do what I want. There'll be a new study next week anyway."
As the divide between Americans and their health system widens, people postpone doctor visits and don't follow treatments reliably, Shore says. Patients insist on antibiotics for viral infections, and ignore advice to exercise more and eat less. They try unproven alternative medicines, and withhold vital information about their medical history or behavior. And they decline participation in clinical trials.
The consumer health movement, patient's bill of rights, the health information privacy act, hospital rankings, concierge medicine, and the overuse of services ("defensive medicine") are all what Shore calls "fallouts of mistrust." Isolated medical scandals cast long shadows: a doctor's dramatic error in Pennsylvania weakens trust in a health center in Oregon.
As these negative effects mount, public health practitioners have come to appreciate the importance of trust in their line of duty. Asked in Congress in 2003 if the nation's public health system could handle a SARS outbreak or bioterrorism attack, Shore notes, CDC Director Julie Gerberding replied, "You can manage people if they trust you."
Lessons learned
Shore knew he had hit a raw nerve while concluding a 1998 Wall Street Journal keynote address on health care branding. "I invite you to think of something you'd rather be known as than a trusted provider of health care," he said, a remark that elicited more discussion than any other point. Similar remarks at other forums had the same catalytic effect.
"What struck me was the universal nature of the trust issue, from Wall Street to Main Street to the developing world," Shore recalls. At HSPH, he says, deans and faculty were likewise intrigued: "They thought we'd identified an important area and come up with something fresh and new."
To define trust, Shore and faculty co-director Marc Roberts, professor of political economy in the Department of Health Policy and Management, turned to Roberts' mentor, Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow. Arrow outlined two pillars of trust: competence (faith in another person's expertise) and conscience (faith in that person's integrity, values, and honesty).
Roberts suggested that the Trust Initiative probe two questions: What must health care providers and institutions do to be perceived as trustworthy? What must they do to be worthy of trust?" The initiative presents these trust-building tools, whose common threads are consistency, communication, and caring:
Embrace Trust as a Mission
Articulate the importance of trust in your every endeavor. Think of trust as a brand, in the way safety is Volvo's brand. A clinic serving poor, uninsured patients should no more offer cosmetic surgery than Volvo should sponsor extreme sporting events.
Protect the Trust Mission
Organizations must ensure the trustworthiness and consistency of their every action. A simple rule of thumb asks: Does an act inspire trust? Not inspire? Or breed mistrust?
"All caregivers and employees of a health provider, all government and public health officials are ambassadors of trust," Shore says.
The public cannot separate untrustworthy individuals from their institutions, comments Trust Initiative participant Rueben Warren, who encounters this problem in his work for the CDC. This rule acquires added importance in corporations and government agencies, Warren notes, where the actions of one branch can undermine trust in another.
Appoint Trustworthy Messengers, and
Check their Effectiveness
The public needs information and advice from experts explicitly entrusted with protecting their health, such as the U.S. surgeon general, not politicians, law-enforcement officials, and the like.
"During the 2001 anthrax attacks, we heard confusing messages from the FBI, Homeland Security, and HHS," laments Trust Initiative speaker Robert Blendon, HSPH professor of health policy and management. It pays to ask people what they understand about a health issue so that misperceptions can be corrected, says Blendon, who designs public opinion surveys, including CDC polls. As an example, he points to a 1980s survey that showed adults thought they could catch AIDS in the same way people caught the common cold.
Develop Relationships
Why do patients tend to trust their personal physician, but not their health system generally? "People trust doctors who talk with them, care about them, remember them," notes Shore. Establishing trust is hard when patients don't see the same physicians consistently. Many managed care organizations strive to provide consistency, he says, but the problem is intractable for the uninsured.
Doctors need to be good communicators. "The three most important things I say to patients are 'I'm sorry,' 'I don't know,' and 'Let's find out together and decide what you should do,'" volunteered Trust Initiative participant Terrance Hammer, a family doctor from California.
Next Steps
Will building trust make a measurable difference for public health? The science of linking trust-building measures to specific improvements is in its infancy, but HSPH's Trust Initiative lays groundwork: Participants are asked to define strategies to put trust higher on their agenda, then measure the results
"For years, I felt that health care organizations were not selling health care services, but something less tangible and far more important," says Tom Schultz, former senior vice president of strategy for Baptist Health Systems in Alabama, who has attended three HSPH trust programs. "These programs help me understand problems with trust in a very objective, research-based manner."
"Trust is an important lubricant of the social system," wrote Kenneth Arrow. "It is extremely efficient; it saves a lot of trouble to have a fair degree of reliance on other people's word it [is] essential in the running of society."
Trust also lubricates public health. Without it, the gears of the nation's health system will continue grinding down.
Cathryn Delude, who is based in Andover, Mass., writes about health and science for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, The Scientist, the Boston Globe, and other publications.
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"The chatter, however, one-sided resumes Tuesday at The Q."
A reporter must love it when the copy editor, with the simple move of a comma leftward, turns his sentence into blather.
You nailed it.
Wow. Nice pick!
Some pretty awful comments here. I like the dog park, I wish the RR residents hadn't sued, I wish the city hadn't taken up their cause, I think Lakewood did a nice job and I'm glad the park is staying open ... but none of this is important enough to be so nasty about the folks who lost the case.
Good post. These stories (and the headlines, and the placement) are betraying what seems to be a real desperation just to sell papers. PD: Your guy lost. Move on.
Wow. The PD stoops to reproducing press releases. (See Section A of today's print version, in particular, which simply lists the top 10 without any explanation.) Embarrassing.
Classy post, Shane. For all my difficulties with Lanci, I have to recognize the guy ran a good, respectable (and respectful) campaign. And you were a worthy adversary here. Good luck to you.
"Dear Daddy,
While I pretend we can't see each other or talk for the next four years, here are a few things to know:
The keys to the county are in the drawer. Help yourself to the public bank account when it comes time to get yourself an upgraded stadium. The account password is 'Sinagra.' If anyone says anything, just blame it on Dimora, make it sound like all Democrats are corrupt. You know the drill.
Thanks for the allowance, Pops! See you in four years. We are going to be even richer!
Dutifully yours,
How about what the Ohio Elections Commission says, http://elc.ohio.gov/AdvisoryOpinion/99ELC-03.pdf, for starters.
"The Ohio Revised Code gives a specific definition of what is an allowable expenditure of campaign funds in R.C. 3517.01(B)(6). A refund is not specifically included therein. When the statutes of the state of Ohio do discuss the concept of a refund, it is only done in the context of campaign contribution limits and statewide candidacies and not on a more comprehensive scale across a wider array of political campaigns in this state."
So just as FitzGerald cannot refund $3200 in clean union contributions (nor should he), Dolan cannot refund his $13,000 in dirty Cafaro and Sinagra money.
How about the $6250 Dolan took from Cafaro, accused of corruption in Youngstown, or the money Dolan took from Anthony Sinagra, who's pleaded guilty to felony corruption charges in this case? Why is that being glossed over?
Wait, I have a hunch: it rhymes with "litchpunt," and Dolan appears to be getting a free pass from the PD.
Don't hold your breath, readers, for the story on the sources of Matt Dolan's $1.6 million in PAC donations. Nevermind, nothing to see here with our endorsed candidate. Move along, move along.
Once again Dolan tries to pull the wool over everyone's eyes when he says he'll "abstain" from votes involving his uber-wealthy family, who are blithely funding his campaign to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the county-funded Gateway assets from which the Dolans benefit.
Please describe the last time a mayor or president "abstained" from a vote. Someone needs to remaind Dolan, who we remember has never held executive office, that abstaining is a legislative decision, not an executive one.
The citizens of Cuyahoga County deserve an executive who's not beholden to multi-millionaires dumping stadium-loads of money into his campaign. Sorry, Matt Dolan's not the guy.
That section of the Revised Code, if you bother to read it, only applies to statewide candidates.
That's not the law. Campaign expenditures cannot be in the form of repayments to donors -- no matter who the donor is. Get your facts straight.
Let me pose another few questions along the lines of those of "SomeLogicWouldBeNice":
Why did the PD "package" this story with, and not just set it next to, the auditor's office story?
If the two stories are unrelated (as they are), why did they run the main headline about the auditor's office across the top of this story on the front page?
Why does the PD expect everyone but the PD to be ethical?
Ohio law does not permit a candidate to return money to donors. Period.
Mr. Gomez, with all due respect, you wrote that article in July, back before anyone knew Dolan was about to take $280,000 from his Indians-owner father.
Remember Dolan's quote then? "I'm going to hold myself to avoid the appearance of any conflict." Well, what of that? Why hasn't the PD challenged him on making that quote, and then taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in a clear conflict-of-interest situation?
^^^ Answering "flapjacket."
Untrue. FitzGerald is not a target in the corruption case. Everyone with even a little reading comprehension knows this.
What galls me about this story is that we're talking about a next-to-nothing contribution when compared with the minimum $280,000 Dolan took from his dad --- who stands to benefit directly from Dolan being county executive by virtue of the taxpayer-funded Gateway appointments Dolan would get to make.
How a small-potatoes contribution from a union (not one of its members) is cast in the same light as this kind of clear conflict of interest is way beyond me. And why the PD is not doing more to look into how Dolan would "recuse" himself (which an executive can't do) from Gateway appointments is troubling.
Judge Gaul's conduct didn't have anything to do with Robinson's conviction for witness intimidation. That was all Robinson.
Gaul sounds like a sharp guy. I'm glad he's still on the bench.


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by CHRIS GRAYOfficials in Bruce Township are seeking ways to fund a $2.2 million project that would pave 34 Mile Road.
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The Board of Trustees agreed to apply for a state infrastructure loan during its Jan. 16 meeting in order to finance its match for a federal grant.
Supervisor Richard Cory said county road officials told him the project was a "once in a lifetime opportunity" for the township, and would be the largest allocation of money in the northern portion of the county.
The project will be $2.2 million in paving on 34 Mile Road from Campground to Fisher roads. Of the cost, $1.8 million will come from federal grant dollars, but to receive it, a portion of the grant and engineering costs must be matched by the beneficiaries.
The township must contribute a $450,000 match. Among the options discussed for financing such a hefty price tag, the board decided to apply for a low-interest loan.
Clerk Susan Brockmann said the loan is a maximum of 25 years with 3 percent interest. She estimated it to be $18,000 to $20,000 a year for the township.
"Obviously, the general fund doesn't have the money to fund this project," she said.
Outside of the meeting, she said the township could look at having its sewer fund pay back other funds, such as the cable fund, to have excess money available.
Other options the board considered included a Special Assessment District (SAD) for the area affected by the project or with municipal bonds.
Trustees noted it wouldn't be fair to impose the cost of the project on residents with a SAD since many residents would use the road, not just those on 34 Mile Road.
Treasurer Deborah Obrecht spoke against bonding, saying it would be too costly to the township, and instead suggested going for the loan.
"You don't have all the up front costs on the bonding like we did for the sewer," Obrecht said.
Trustee Paul Okoniewski said the Ford Proving Grounds is interested in having the road paved, so the township could talk with it about financial support.
He agreed that the township may never have an opportunity like this again.
"Were going to try every which way we can to see how we can pull something like this off," he said.
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|Zero Wing
One of the two Japanese arcade flyers of Zero Wing.
|Tatsuya Uemura, Toshiaki Tomisawa, Masahiro Yuge
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Zero Wing (ゼロウィング Zero Uingu?) is a 1989 side-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Toaplan and published by Taito. The player is a lone hero who will save the universe from an evil force.
It enjoyed a degree of success in arcades and was subsequently ported to the Mega Drive by Toaplan on May 31, 1991, in Japan, and by Sega during the following year in Europe, followed by a Japan-only release by Naxat Soft on September 18, 1992, for the PC Engine's CD-ROM².
The European version of the Mega Drive port was the source for "All your base are belong to us", an Internet meme which plays off of the poorly translated English in the game's introduction.
As with other scrolling shooters, the aim of the game is to shoot all enemies that appear on screen and avoid getting obliterated by enemy fire, crashing into enemies or into foreground scenery. There are mid-level and end-of-level boss enemies that stay with the player until they are defeated. The game features eight levels, each a few minutes long and featuring different styles and enemies: Natols, Legrous, Pleades, Aquese, Submarine Tunnel, Barricade Zone, Bellon, Gerbarra.
The player, a "ZIG" star fighter, has several ways to attack:
- Using the main cannon: single-shot (without power-ups), scatter-shot (red power-up), lasers (blue power-up), or homing missiles (green power-up). Similar to configuring the Vic Viper in Gradius or collecting pickups in R-Type.
- Ramming smaller enemies with the orbital cannons that appear above and below the ZIG. These cannons fire whatever weapon is equipped on the main ship at the time, similar to R-Type Leo.
- Grabbing an enemy using the tractor beam and releasing it at another enemy.
- Releasing the spherical front shield once it is collected.
In the intro scenes, the ZIG's windows are green. In the game itself, the windows change color depending on what weapon the player has.
Soon after starting, the player encounters power-up ships. If destroyed, they leave behind power-ups. These run in the sequence of red weapon, blue weapon, green weapon, and speed-up, and then start with red again. There is also an occasional shield power-up, which attaches to the front of the ship. Once the first weapon power-up is collected, two small ships appear above and below the ZIG, and follow its exact movements. These extra ships are impervious and can be used as shields. As they occasionally move nearer to the ZIG when blocked by large enemies or foreground scenery, they can serve as a warning to the player that they should move carefully to avoid a collision.
Each of the three main weapons has three power levels. Each time the same weapon is collected, the power level increases. If a different weapon is collected, it starts back on level 1 power, unless level 3 power was already attained previously. If a second shield power-up is obtained while one is already held, a special power-up will replace it which increase all weapons to a special, otherwise unattainable, level 4. Level 4 weapons may also be obtained by detonating an object that would yield another bomb power up while already carrying a bomb.
After it became fairly successful in the arcades and game centers, Zero Wing was ported to the Mega Drive in 1991 by Toaplan themselves and the CD-ROM², an add-on for the PC Engine, by Naxat Soft in 1992. The Mega Drive version was also released in Europe by Sega in 1992. The home console versions of Zero Wing were never released in North America due to the release of the arcade version distributed by Williams Electronics. The Japanese release will play fine on American consoles. Like most early titles it had no region protection, nor had the European release been PAL-optimized.
In the Mega Drive version, to expand on the game's plot, Toaplan added an introductory cut scene to the game. This introductory scene was translated by Sega of Europe to English from Japanese rather poorly for the European release (a phenomenon dubbed Engrish), resulting in dialogue such as "Somebody set up us the bomb", "All your base are belong to us", and "You have no chance to survive make your time". The introduction does not appear in the arcade nor CD-ROM² versions, rather, a different intro takes place with a blue-windowed ZIG.
GameTrailers listed the Mega Drive version of Zero Wing as the seventh-worst video game in its "10 Best and Worst Video Games", though the focus was on its bad translation.[1] However, in a later ScrewAttack review, it was noted the game was "not that bad". It praised its soundtrack, stating that it contains "some of the best 16-bit rock music you'll ever hear".[2] Retro review site HonestGamers noted that "Much is made of this game, all things considered. And it's funny, because there's not a whole lot to it," before awarding a lackluster score of 4/10.[3]
"All your base are belong to us"[edit]
This is likely the best example of bad translations becoming popular memes.
In 1999, Zero Wing's introduction was re-discovered, culminating in the wildly popular "All your base are belong to us" Internet meme.[4]
- ^ Nov 17, 2006 (2006-11-17). "Top 10 Best and Worst Games of All Time". Gametrailers. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- ^ Nov 2, 2009 (2009-11-02). "Video Game Vault: Zero Wing". ScrewAttack. Retrieved 2009-11-13.
- ^ Nov 23, 2010 (2010-11-23). "HonestGamers: Zero Wing". HonestGamers. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
- ^ Jeffrey Benner (2008-08-28). "When Gamer Humor Attacks". Wired.com. Retrieved 2009-10-21.[dead link]
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- Zero Wing at the Killer List of Videogames
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