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The national media has been highlighting incidents of bullying and harassment in schools, and for good reason – statistics show that many children are being bullied, electronically or otherwise.
Federal and state policy and lawmakers are trying to stop bullying of children through policies and legislation, which was the topic of a National Issues session of the Federal Relations Network (FRN) Conference on Monday. NSBA's General Counsel Francisco M. Negrón Jr. and Jay Worona, general counsel of the New York State School Boards Association, outlined to audience how those state and federal actions could affect school boards and districts.
At the federal level, the Obama administration has focused on the topic of bullying and harassment. President Obama "is using the bully pulpit to make connections that are not made under the law," said Negrón. "That spells untested liability."
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR), part of the U.S. Department of Education, sent out a "Dear Colleague" letter in October 2010. The letter had several problems, which NSBA responded to, saying it had "fuzzy standards of liability," said Negron.
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State legislatures also have been working in this area, including New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, and Louisiana. Worona told the audience about his experience with what is now the Dignity for All Students Act. He said that NYSSBA's lobbyists respond to all education legislation that includes unfunded mandates: "If it's unfunded, we don't like it."
Worona realized that a more nuanced approach would be required after he met with the head of the New York Civil Liberties, who asked him why the association was opposing the bill. Worona told her the training requirements would cost money and "our districts are broke." She answered: "But kids are killing themselves."
That's not where school boards should be in these types of conversations, he said. "You need to be thinking about what your reaction will be that kind of legislation. Take some steps back to see what it's all about."
The OCR held a briefing on the bullying issue in May 2011. NSBA submitted testimony stressing the common goal of preventing and addressing bullying and harassment but cautioned that OCR's approach was too broad. Federal initiatives can overburden districts when state and local initiatives appear to be working well.
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This member-centric approach is what spurs USAA -- a favorite in the Best Online Brokers survey -- to keep expanding and improving its online brokerage service.
The investment side originally started as a mutual fund company in 1983. But as member demand for accounts holding individual securities grew, the San Antonio firm launched a program for customers to invest in stocks .
"It was a very simplistic capital account," said Garcia. "And over the years, it was simply just that. We used it more as an accommodator for trading."
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"We focused a lot more on external mutual funds over the last few years," said Garcia. "We've almost doubled that number. Additionally, we've had a significant investment in the digital space."
In 2012, USAA unveiled an improved iPhone, Android and iPad investment center. Clients can get quotes, track their portfolio, use interactive charts and view options chains.
"We've really gone after that market, but at the end of the day we continue to position the brokerage platform as more of a relationship platform," Garcia said. "We want to have a vehicle to allow members to implement their investment strategies, whether they are self-directed or whether they are being given advice by one of our licensed investment advisers."
Members also can get advice on banking, insurance and retirement planning. "What I like about their investment services is that none of their brokers are working on a commission," said Ted Taveras, a military veteran, professional pilot and USAA client. "So they make really good recommendations. I actually did really well with my IRA.
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Americans have won more Nobel prizes in economics than any other nationality. Since the establishment of the prize in 1969, well over half of all the winners have been citizens of the United States, and many others have lived and worked in the country. One might reasonably draw the conclusion from these facts that the United States should have the best-run economy in the world. After all, if the best economists in the world live in the United States, shouldn't that translate into some concrete benefit in terms of economic policy?
While the United States is indeed the largest economy in the world, it would be hard to argue that it has the most effective economic policy. Just think of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and you will see that neither economists nor the federal government were able to prevent disaster. Over the past few decades, the United States has had neither the fastest growth in the developed world, nor the highest per capita income.
So where does that leave us? We appear to have the best economists, but not the best economy. This is a bit like having the best doctors but not the healthiest patients. Something is wrong with this picture. But what?
One might begin by questioning whether the Nobel Prize committee is picking the right people. Given that two prizes were awarded to economists from the Soviet Union, there is some room for doubt. Still, that was probably a political decision at the time (no one wanted to ignore completely the Eastern Bloc countries), but certainly now there is no political imperative to lay false praise at the feet of American economists. Looking at a list of winners, though, one sees a general pattern that there is little relationship between the countries that have won prizes in economics and how their economies are doing. Just as an example, France has more winners than Germany, and Switzerland is not represented at all while Cyprus is.
One explanation could be that economists know the right thing to do, but politicians just won't do it. After all, sometimes experts make recommendations that go unheeded by the political system. But in terms of our economists, that explanation does not appear to fit. Returning again to the question of the Great Recession, there were very few economists who accurately predicted the coming disaster. Perhaps a few did, but since someone is always making a dire prediction, on occasion these will come true. I do not know of any economists who predicted accurately the danger of a coming collapse, explaining exactly how it would unfold. In other words, the people who get paid to study the issue did not understand our economic system well enough to see what was coming down the pike.
The other problem with the economists versus politicians argument can be seen from looking at the list of Nobel Prize winners. Basically they come in all political stripes, with some being free market advocates and others supporters of Keynesian theories. Furthermore, politicians basically have one goal in life – to get elected (or re-elected). If they could find an economic theory that really worked, they would jump all over it. The problem is that none of the theories really seem to work that well.
Another possible explanation is that economists study the wrong subjects, or that they are only successful in certain limited areas. Or they may be focusing too much on theoretical subjects. But isn't that like saying someone studies aerodynamics but cannot actually help make a plane that flies? Not much job security there. It would seem to me that anyone who could actually make accurate economic policy predictions and recommendations that worked would be in high demand. If an economist could really help a country increase growth rates over the long haul, he would be both popular at home and would be high on the list of potential prize winners in the future.
While there are other potential explanations, what seems most likely to me is that economics as field of study in its present form is simply not up to the task of understanding the complexity of a modern economy. If you look at economic literature, it often is cloaked in the language of science. There are many mathematical formulas and the calculus flies fast and furious. Excel spreadsheets generate charts for every page. But that does not actually make economics a science. Something is missing.
One problem of course is that it is pretty difficult to do controlled experiments in economics, at least at the macro level. You cannot really take two identical countries, implement different policies and see which one works. There may be proxies for this, but they are by definition inexact. Furthermore, in any scientific endeavor, there needs to be more than one crack at an experiment. So it would have to be done repeatedly to ensure it was replicable. Although not all science is experimental, on some level at least there has to be a way to judge the truth of various propositions, or else one is no longer in the realm of science. And as far as economics is concerned, that has not been possible on a meaningful level. People can and do analyze data, but the ability to predict is between very limited and nonexistent.
The other part of the problem may lie with the complexity of modern economic systems. There may just be too many variables to allow observers to accurately understand what is going on. One of the valid criticisms of centrally planned economies was that no one group of people could really master all the information needed to plan accurately for the future, which is why communist economies either collapsed or changed. Similarly in market economies, when millions of individual consumers and businesses make decisions, it is simply impossible to predict future events. Economists may be able to understand parts of the economic system, but not the whole.
Why does all this matter to the political system? For one, government dollars flow heavily into economic research. Just about every university in the country has an economics department, and most of these are subsidized on one level or another by the government. We also spend large sums on collecting huge amounts of economic data, which may be interesting, but in the long run does it really help us manage the economy? Perhaps we need to be more focused on where we spend this money, and try to ensure we get concrete results from these funds. For example our economists might study those countries that are doing well even if they are not winning Nobel Prizes.
More fundamentally, though, we need to be more realistic about what economics can do for us. In spite of our expenditures on, and faith in, the field of economics, we are flying blind in terms of what the future will bring. We do not know what will happen, and when disaster strikes, we will largely be guessing about what the best response will be. Kind of a sobering thought, but an accurate reflection of where we really are.


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Oakmont's Gill quietly leads by example
It almost seemed like Tony Gill snuck into the spotlight, but for those who have seen him play, he leaves a lasting memory.
"I believe that Tony falls in line with a long line of Oakmont players," said former Oakmont head coach Gary Donnell. "He is thoughtful, articulate, and humble. He is quietly working his way to adulthood and will continue to add to the lives of those with whom he comes in contact."
Gill was not one of those players who stormed onto the high school scene. He did not even play AAU basketball until after his junior year at Oakmont, but instead played in the local recreational leagues and on school teams.
Perhaps a blessing, he was not always the big man on the floor.
"I was primarily a small forward/power forward (at Antelope Crossing Middle School) due to me being one of the smaller guys on our team," Gill said. "Middle school is where I learned to play the perimeter and I was able to keep the things I learned as I my body grew bigger and I developed into a post player."
Now, the 6-foot- 8 senior is equally comfortable in the post and on the perimeter and it has made him extremely difficult to guard.
"If you put someone smaller on him, he takes you inside and if you put someone bigger, he takes you outside for the three," said Woodcreek coach Burnel Pinkerton. "He is a great shooter from any range. He has a whole bag of tricks both offensively and defensively."
Gill says that family is the most important thing to him. His parents were both born in India and did not participate in organized sports, but they have instilled in their son a sense of family, humility and responsibility that has served him well in his athletic pursuits.
"I spend a lot of time with my family, not just my intermediate family but my cousins," Gill said. "We have a really big family so we often spend weekends doing fun activities such as movie nights, going to the beach, skiing and snowboarding. You often see a lot of my family at my games."
As a sophomore, Gill was called up to participate with the varsity for the 2008 playoffs, which ended after a first-round loss to Elk Grove.
"Even though I didn't play in that game, I was terrified on the bench and as much as I wanted to go in I knew I was way too nervous especially looking at the size of the guys on the floor," Gill said.
Those nerves are a thing of the past, as the senior put was the clear leader of this year's highly successful Oakmont squad, which saw its season end Saturday in the Northern California semifinals.
"Tony is a definite leader on the team, said Oakmont coach Rick Campbell. "He makes everybody around him better. He draws a lot of attention from opposing defenses, but because he has great court vision and passing skills, he is able to find teammates for open shots and he is very unselfish."
Donnell, who has been around the Oakmont basketball program for a long time, has noticed the maturity in Gill.
"He accepts coaching and is willing to be a leader on the floor," Donnell said. "Tony embraces pressure, responding time and time again when he is called upon."
Gill is still considering his options for next season. He has received some interest from a number of four-year schools, mostly at the Division II level. As he leaves Oakmont, his legacy will carry on with his frontcourt running mate, 6-6 junior J.T. Adenrele.
"I think of him like a little brother and he thinks of me as his big brother," Gill said. "He has so much potential and I constantly remind him to work hard so he can make the best of his God-given talent. I can have a lot more fun when he is on the floor because it takes away some of my responsibility and it's always fun to watch his crowd-pleasing blocks."
"Together they are a special combination," Campbell said. "We refer to them as Bounce (J.T. , because of his leaping ability) and Buttah (Tony, as in smooth like butter)."
Campbell has brought out the best in Gill, and the results showed on the court as the Vikings returned the roar to the gym on the Oakmont campus.
"He (Campbell) has believed in me since day one and knowing you have a man like him behind you and believing in you it makes things so much more joyful and easier," Gill said. "He trusts me to take the big shot or trusts me to do pretty much anything, and with him believing in me the team starts to buy in and then I have everyone trusting me."
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Family: father- Kulwant Gill, mother- Surjit Gill and two sisters, Neeta age 26 and Parminder (Pinks) age 23. Parents were born in India.
Interesting fact: "I speak Punjabi fluently but I cannot write it."
Role models: "My parents, no doubt about it. They have always been there for me through thick and thin, through the championships and also through all the heartbreak losses. I owe them everything and wouldn't be who I am today without them."
If not basketball, what sport?: "If I could be a professional athlete in any other sport besides basketball it would most likely be football. Unfortunately I am not the guy who likes to be in the torturing heat three hours a day every day over my summer vacation when I could be eating and sleeping."
Pre-game: "Before every game I have to have a solid meal and a nap. If those two things don't go as planned it might be a rough night."
Free day with no other responsibilities?: "I would probably go sky diving. Something I've always wanted to do but my mom said she will never let me do."
Strongest food you have tried? : "I'm usually a chicken guy but I would have to say the craziest thing I have ever tried was calamari. Not too exciting I know but it made me sick and I missed the next day of school because of it so I guess you can say that's somewhat crazy."
Sizing up Tony Gill
Gary Donnell has been around the Oakmont High campus and its basketball program for many years. Here is his list of the top inside/outside threat big men he has seen wear the Viking uniform over the years.
Jess Sitterud, 6-4, 1992 – "Wonderful shooting touch, powerful interior player who could handle like a guard and finish in a crowd."
Whitney Brake, 6-6, 1994 – "Extremely skilled. Could play any position on the court. Led his class to a four year record of 94-13."
Anthony Flood, 6-6, 1995 – "Same a Whitney, tenacious defender/rebounder. Record of 55-9 over his last two seasons at Oakmont. Once scored 17 straight points in a tournament final game."
Sam Henning, 6-6 - "Every bit as tenacious as Anthony Flood, probably unselfish to a fault. Led his team to two consecutive NorCal playoffs."
Tony Gill, 6-8 – "Highly skilled, terrific shooting touch with good range. He is patient in the post, and is supremely unselfish. He will find the open man. As a defender, he is long, and will change shots-he forces the shooter to adjust shots through good positioning, and staying long-going straight up."


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I have been running a fluval 205 on a hagen 800 deep tank and find that I have small bits in the water. It's just not as clear as I would expect for an expensive filter. The bits are about 0.1 mm or something like that, like small pieces of dust. The water is moving quickly through the system and the filter has been cleared out. I have tried water clearers but they make no difference. On my son's tank he has an internal fluval running and he doesn't seem to have any bits in his tank. My tank has had plenty of water changes and has good water test readings. Would any of you suggest a second filter to improve water quality, or not?
Hello 8) I had this same problem with my Fluval 304. I set it up as per the directions but even after the water was fully cycled I could see fine particulate in the water, giving the water a slight cloudy look to it. I tried everything including several different drops to place into the water. Nothing worked until I purchased the White Fluval floss pads from the store. Within 24 hours my water was crystal clear and has been ever since. So my questions to you are..
What is in the Fluval canister itself?
How long has your tank been set up? Cloudy water can be a part of the natural cycling. Also, different types of fish food or overfeeding can cause clouding.
not cloudy
Hi thanks for your reply
My water is not cloudy, it just has bits in. I had thought about using floss pads when I first bought the filter, but I believe they have to be changed very frequently which I thought defeats the object of having a good filter. I had used the loose type of floss initially but found this did nothing noticeably. I understood floss pads were something extra. My local shop, (I live in Inverness), didn't even stock floss pads.
I have pre-filter media, at the bottom then carbon, then biomax at the top. the tank has been running about 4 months now. I only feed once a day sparingly and have about 15 medium sized fish. I spyphon my tank and hoover the bottom each week.
you don't have to buy pre-made floss pads. I use polyester batting for my filter floss. it's called Polyfil, it's the stuff your Mom puts between two big pieces of cloth, calls all of her friends over, to make quilts or blankets out of it.
it's cheap and easily replaceable. I just buy a big roll of it, sit down to watch a movie and cut out multiple pieces in the right shape for my Eheim filters. and my 55g looks very clean.
Go to ebay and put in a search for filter floss, it's real cheap. :D
changing floss
Okay, so the consensus is floss. Thanks.
I did find floss rather annoying, though, when I had it in before. I was led to believe that it had to be changed every week. Also, I found it seemed to reduce the water flow after any longer than this. I would rather have had something with less maintenance. Any thoughts?
It's me again 8) I just rinse mine out in the tank water that I have taken out for water changes. I only do this every 2 or 3 weeks. Would that work for you?
Thanks, shaggbark, I have just received some wadding through the post and have reorganised my 205 to see if it makes any difference. If this doesn't work I might try adding a secondary filter.
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- "Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who has gone at last! Even Muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day!"
- —The violet-cloaked wizard to Vernon Dursley.[src]
Violet-cloaked wizard was an old man Vernon Dursley ran into in November 1981. Upon being knocked over by the latter, he stood back up and, told Vernon no apology was necessary as nothing could upset him that day and walked off, but not before giving Dursley a hug around the middle. He, among many other wizards, were in gleeful spirits that day as Lord Voldemort had been nearly vanquished (although everyone believed he was completely gone) by the baby Harry Potter.[1]
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The national media made a big hubub over the weekend about Michael Jordan turning 50 years old. Perhaps that is an occasion worth making a big deal about in the sports world. Who knows? Maybe they needed something to talk about other than Muggsy Bogues and meatball sandwiches. Maybe M.J. deserves that kind of attention. But one of our basketball heroes turns 50 today and we don't really know how to honor the man.
The Level crew discussed Barkley turning 50 over the weekend and tried to brainstorm our favorite Sir Charles memories. It seemed the consensus, for better or worse, was that most of us remember Chuck for his antics off of the court after he retired from the game. He's arguably one of the best sports broadcasters in the business and he's absolutely one of the funniest, most honest commentators around.
I remember my older brother had pretty sweet classic red No. 34 Sixers jersey when we were kids. I wore a pair of Barkley's all-black Air Max Nike's with one of those sweet air bubbles when I played a CYO football game at the legendary Vet in seventh grade. They turned green from the turf. I was bummed. I remember Charles joking around with me and my brother and being genuinely awesome with us when we waited in line to get his autograph at the King of Prussia Mall as kids. I remember pulling for him when he played for the Suns, hoping he'd get that ring. I remember running into him in Vegas during All-Star weekend in 2006 and him shaking everyone's hand. I remember him making jokes about butt implants on women being false advertising when I met him at CSN a year or two ago.
Mostly I remember him being hilarious.
I don't have any crystal-clear memories of much of what he did on the basketball court though, which kind of bums me out. I might need to track down some old archives.
What are your favorite Chuck memories? And may I suggest you click around here to see some of our best Sir Charles coverage on the Level over the years. There's been a lot of it.
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College: Alabama
Position: Guard
Height/weight: 6-2, 317 pounds
Did you know: One of four Alabama players named to first-team All-America squad in 2012.
Lane Johnson
College: Oklahoma
Position: Offensive tackle
Height/weight: 6-6, 303 pounds
Did you know: Played quarterback in high school.
Three to watch in NFL Draft
When Lane Johnson, Geno Smith and Chance Warmack are drafted — each is widely projected to be among the top 15 — could play a role in the Chargers' approach to the 11th overall pick.
Geno Smith
College: West Virginia
Position: Quarterback
Height/weight: 6-2, 218 pounds
Did you know: Surpassed 4,000 yards passing as junior and senior.
By now, more should be known.
Like the player who will be selected first. Or the first few who will follow. Or the number of quarterbacks who will go in the top 10.
This, Tom Telesco said Tuesday, is a "unique year."
The Chargers' general manager is a little more than a week away from his first draft on the job. The team needs are outlined. The draft board is set. As for gaining a grasp of what may occur in the 10 selections before San Diego's assigned No. 11 pick, that is an ongoing task.
A mock draft, like the ones generated galore on websites and radio shows and TV segments, is a key exercise in NFL front offices, preparing them for various draft-day scenarios.
With 10 question marks, the April 25-27 draft has variety.
"We do this for a living every day, and we don't really know … who's going to go in the first 10 picks," Telesco said. "We have to be prepared to maybe trade back, maybe trade up, maybe sit, but to have all those scenarios done before draft day so draft day is very quiet.
"You sit and you know all the decisions have been made already. Whatever happens, you know exactly where you're going. You're not sitting there on the clock and deciding now, 'Hey, what player do we want? We don't want any of these two guys. Now, let's call and make a trade.' All those decisions are made before next Thursday."
The Chargers have needs.
To avoid an influence on their draft board, they don't prioritize them, Telesco said.
They do evaluate spots in the draft where they consider there to be value, and that can have a say in which position is addressed in the early rounds. As a hypothetical example without knowledge of its draft board, should San Diego choose between a guard and left tackle at pick 11, it may lean toward the left tackle if there are five or six guards projected in the middle rounds it likes.
If the Chargers numbered their needs, there would be many to count.
That may cause some hesitation before trading up into the top 10, but Telesco did not dismiss the possibility.
"It's a decision you have to make, especially in the first round because you have to give up a good amount to do it," Telesco said. "It depends who's there and also depends on who's not there later."
A scenario could arise when the Chargers trade back, allowing them to pick up extra draft choices.
But they'd have to do so while being comfortable with the players who'd be available at their new draft slot. And, of course, a team must be interested in trading up.
Telesco has received "just a couple" trade-related phone calls so far. The frequency is expected to increase over the next week and then during the draft.
In the interim, the Chargers plan to continue preparing for situations that could arise April 25.
"It's very fluid," Telesco said of the first round. "I think one of the main reasons is usually there's a couple quarterbacks who you know are going to go in the top 10. And I hope five go in the top 10. It's hard to predict this year; it really is. Once we get to picks 4 and 5, I think we'll have a pretty good feel where it's going to go for us. But we won't know that until Thursday night."
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Merge Healthcare Incorporated (MRGE)
Q3 2013 Earnings Call
October 30, 2013 8:30 am ET
Justin C. Dearborn - Chief Executive Officer, Director, Chief Executive Officer of Merge Dna and President of Merge Healthcare
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Good morning, and welcome to Merge's third quarter 2013 earnings call. Today's call is being hosted by Justin Dearborn, Chief Executive Officer; and Steve Oreskovich, Merge's Chief Financial Officer.
Before we get started, please consider that the comments today may contain forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and not historical facts. Actual results may differ. Various critical factors that could affect future results are set forth in the company's recent SEC filings and press releases. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
In addition, there may be references to non-GAAP financial measures. These measures are supplemental to the GAAP financial measures and should not be viewed as an alternative to them. For greater information regarding these metrics, please see the related discussion in the company's earnings release.
With that, I will turn the call over to Merge's CEO, Justin Dearborn.
Justin C. Dearborn
Thank you. And thank you to everyone for joining us this morning.
Q3 was a challenging quarter for Merge. The new management team stepped up and kept the organization focused on the future growth of the company while increasing cash flow and returning a portion of our debt ahead of schedule. And Merge's status as a market leader in the imaging and the interoperability field was confirmed, as we received several third-party accolades for our innovative solutions.
I'd like to address the industry trends and challenges we are seeing, which are driving market uncertainty. As I mentioned during the last earnings call, Q2 was a challenging quarter not only for Merge but for many other vendors in the health care information technology industry. Market drivers have not changed significantly in the past 90 days.
In Q3, we witnessed spending delays in both ambulatory and acute or hospital settings. And while Q3 is generally a soft quarter in health technology spending, we attribute additional hesitation in spending to several external pressures. In the hospital or the acute market, budgets have been negatively impacted by the federal budget sequester that was applied on April 1, which cut $11 billion in Medicare reimbursements for fiscal year 2013. Additional potential budget reduction efforts stalled forward progress on decision-making amongst our largest clients and prospects. Regulatory mandates, including the conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 and Meaningful Use Stage 2 has focused technology investments in core hospital information systems and revenue cycle management and not in other important but not mandated projects.
In the nonhospital or ambulatory market, the industry is experiencing a movement towards consolidation, with many physician and radiology practices being acquired by larger systems. This move towards consolidation can result in purchasing delays and, at a minimum, complicate decision-making. Despite the spending pause, we have continued to develop innovative technologies to help meet the inevitable market demand.
In the ambulatory radiology market, the majority of our clients will need to upgrade their current products to stay in compliance with either ICD-9 or Meaningful Use. To help our customers embrace these changes, we are working diligently to update our financial systems and radiology information systems for ICD-10 coding and certifying virtually all of our existing imaging, interoperability and workflow products for Meaningful Use Stage 2 over the next few months.
Merge is the industry leader for radiology Meaningful Use. We launched the first comprehensive certified RIS to support Stage 1 requirements. And recently, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data showed that Merge RIS solution is the most widely used Certified Electronic Health Record Technology by radiologists.
Despite market conditions, we do see encouraging trends and areas of sales opportunity in 3 core areas of our business. First, in interoperability. As more health care organizations adopt the cloud as a viable, cost-effective solution to help manage images across the enterprise, we've seen our backlog for Merge Honeycomb Archive, a cloud-based archiving solution with a subscription pricing model, gain momentum. We've also realized 2 large net new customer wins in both the hospital and ambulatory sectors and have a significant sales opportunity to advance the market with the new iConnect Network.
Recently, Frost & Sullivan, a worldwide leader in market research, recognized Merge's experience in this area. In August, Merge officially announced that we received the 2013 Product Leadership Award for clinical imaging and interoperability. This Best in Interoperability Award acknowledges our industry leadership with the entire iConnect Enterprise Clinical Platform, which includes iConnect Access and iConnect Enterprise Archive and Merge's VNA solution.
According to recent industry reports, the entire global VNA market is now estimated to be valued at $165 million and is expected to reach $335 million by 2018. For the second year in a row, IHS has named Merge as the world leader in VNA solutions. More studies are being archived by Merge clients than any other solution provider. In total, Merge clients have accumulated over 237 million exams, which equates to over 15 billion images.
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Bereavement food
Yesterday a dear friend at work brought me (OK, technically my husband, Gailor and me) four beautiful pastries from Stone Mill Bakery, each in its own little container: a fruit tart with pastry cream, a lemon bar, chocolate mousse in a chocolate cup, and a pear half in puff pastry (pictured just before being devoured).
After the other deaths in my family -- father, mother, stepmother and father-in-law -- I don't ever remember people bringing food, although they may have. I know casseroles and such are more conventional, but that's usually when family has gathered, not when the service will be held at a later time, as my mother-in-law's will.
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Mr. Marriott was previously employed as Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer by Host Marriott Corp., Chairman by President's Export Council, a Trustee by The National Geographic Society, Inc., a Trustee by National Urban League, Inc., and a Trustee Emeritus by Mayo Clinic. He also served on the board at U.S. Naval Academy Foundation.
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It has happened at least a dozen times since September, according to information released by the Colorado Springs Police Department Thursday.
Catalytic converters can be worth $200 to a crook, due to the palladium, rhodium and platinum they contain.
Larger converters, or vehicles with several converters attached to the exhaust system, can bring more money to the thieves. Replacing the part is costly for victims.
Vehicles parked in outdoor lots are being targeted, including the lots of car repair businesses. SUVs that sit high off the ground, such as Toyota 4Runners, are also easy targets.
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It is at these facilities that (1) full-scale production systems are used on Grand Challenge scale applications that cannot be scaled down without modifying the problem being addressed or requiring unacceptably long execution times, (2) early prototype systems are evaluated, feedback is provided to developers, and systems are made more mature and robust, (3) small versions of mature systems are used for developing parallel applications, and (4) advanced visualization systems are integrated into the high performance computing environment. The largest of the Grand Challenge scale applications are being run on multiple high performance systems located at these HPCC facilities across the country and networked at gigabit speeds. These facilities are demonstrating a new paradigm for conducting advanced R&D by the Federal government and American industry and academia.
The facilities are a virtual meeting place of an interdisciplinary group of experts. These groups include facility staff, hardware and software vendors, Grand Challenge applications researchers, industrial affiliates that want to develop industry-specific software, and academic researchers interested in advancing the frontier of high performance computing. HPCC funding is heavily leveraged by discipline-specific agency funds, equipment and personnel from hardware vendors, funds from state and local governments and universities, with industrial affiliates paying their fair share. Industrial affiliation offers a low risk environment for exploring and ultimately exploiting HPCC technology.
Production-quality operating systems software and software tools are developed at these facilities. Applications software developers access their resources over the Internet. Production-quality applications are often first run at these facilities, with user access increasingly at gigabit speeds. With their wide range of hardware and applications software, these are often sites for benchmarking systems and applications, and feedback is provided to hardware and software developers and vendors.
Other broadly common features of the facilities are extensive K-12 and undergraduate educational opportunities; training for researchers, graduate students, and faculty; and publication of articles in professional journals, annual reports, and newsletters.
Many of the systems listed below are funded by the named agency and receive additional funding from other HPCC agencies. For example, funding for systems at NSF centers also comes from ARPA, NASA, and NIH.
The resources at each facility and their key focus areas are as follows:
NSF Supercomputer centers
NSF funds four Supercomputer centers and augments the computing facilities at NCAR (the National center for Atmospheric Research). The systems at these centers are listed below.
The term Metacenter refers to the joint cooperative activities of these centers and others in naturally overlapping research and technology areas. The Metacenter facilitates collaboration, communication, technical progress, and interoperability among participating institutions. To encourage further extension and collaborative integration of Metacenter activities with those of other providers of high performance computing, communications, and information infrastructure, in FY 1994 NSF initiated a program of Metacenter Regional Alliances (MRAs) resulting in six awards. In addition to augmenting national support activities, these MRAs are intended to complement, expand, and strengthen existing Metacenter activities at the regional, state, or local level. Participants in MRAs are expected to prototype new local and regional activities having the potential for being broadly replicated. NSF intends to add a similar number of MRAs in FY 1995.
Cornell Theory center (CTC), Ithaca, NY
The main CTC system is a 512-processor IBM SP-2. One CTC focus area is a globally scalable computing environment, including mass storage, I/O capability, networking, archival storage, data processing power, and graphics power.
National center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Urbana- Champaign, IL
Resources include:
The three-tiered NCSA network consists of (1) Ethernet or FDDI to the desktop; (2) FDDI backbone between buildings, high-end systems, and the Internet; and (3) HiPPI between high performance computing systems, mass storage, and high-end peripherals.
NCSA is also involved in ATM research in (1) a local area network, (2) a trans-continental 155 Mb/s (SONET OC-3) national network, and (3) the BLANCA gigabit testbed at 622 Mb/s (SONET OC-12).
NCSA's virtual reality CAVE is described in Section II.3, and NCSA Mosaic is described earlier.
Pittsburgh Supercomputer center (PSC), Pittsburgh, PA
Resources include:
San Diego Supercomputer center (SDSC), San Diego, CA
Resources include:
An environmental modeling case study performed at SDSC appears in the Case Studies Section.
National center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO
NSF HPCC funds enabled NCAR to acquire a 64-processor Cray Research T3D and an 8-processor IBM SP-1 for use in the global climate modeling Grand Challenge.
NSF Science and Technology centers
Each of these four centers addresses a particular research area; common to all four is cross-disciplinary focus, knowledge transfer and links to the private sector, and education and outreach. The centers are:
The center for Research in Parallel Computation (CRPC) at Rice University
CRPC aims to make parallel computing systems as easy to use as conventional computing systems -- efforts include HPF, PVM, MPI, and NHSE, HPC++, algorithms for physical simulation, algorithms using parallel optimization, and ScaLAPACK. These are described in Section II.3.
The center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization at the University of Utah
This center is building and displaying models that are visually and measurably indistinguishable from real world entities.
The center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science headquartered at Rutgers University
This center is applying discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science to solving fundamental problems in science and engineering; in FY 1995 a special year on Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology, focusing on DNA sequencing and protein structure, was begun; in FY 1996 a special year on Logic and Algorithms, focusing on the relationship between mathematics and computational algorithms, will begin.
The center for Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania
This center studies the human mind through the interaction of disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, linguistics, logic, and computer science. Work in human cognition, perception, natural language processing, and parallel computing has applications in robotic and manufacturing systems, human-machine interfaces, and language teaching and translational tools.
NASA Testbeds
NASA maintains testbeds throughout the country to offer a diversity in configuration and capability. The testbeds are:
Ames Research center, Moffett Field, CA
Resources include:
Goddard Space Flight center, Greenbelt, MD
Resources include:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA
Resources include:
The Paragon came into service in August, 1993, for Earth and Space Science Grand Challenge applications development. Peak performance is 5.6 Gflops in single precision (using 56 nodes with 1.8 GB aggregate memory and more than 20 GB aggregate on-line disk). The system is available to NASA HPCC investigators and select collaborators. Interactive access to all compute nodes is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Langley Research center, Hampton, VA
Resources include an Intel Paragon (with 72 compute nodes, 3 service nodes, 8 I/O nodes, 2 Ethernet nodes, 2 HiPPI nodes, and 2 FDDI nodes, each with 32 MB memory and 38 GB disk).
Lewis Research center, Cleveland, OH
Resources include an IBM SP-1 (with 16 processors, 2 GB disk, 800 Mflops peak speed).
Other Resources
These include:
Further information about these NASA testbeds is at:
DOE Laboratories
National Energy Research Supercomputer center (NERSC), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA
The Supercomputer Access Program at NERSC provides production computing for investigators supported by the Office of Energy Research in the following areas: material sciences, chemistry, geosciences, biosciences, engineering, health and environmental research, high energy and nuclear physics, fusion energy, and applied mathematics and computational science. The center serves more than 4,000 accounts involved in some 700 projects. NERSC resources include:
Anticipated FY 1995 accomplishments include providing initial production use of a storage system based on National Storage Laboratory (NSL) technology to Energy Research programs, and bringing in a pilot early production massively parallel system. FY 1996 plans include replacing this system with a fully configured system, increasing disk capacity and robotic tape capabilities for the storage system, installing Kerberos-based security for NERSC services, and providing client access to the Distributed File System (DFS) from major NERSC computing platforms. DFS is a distributed file system based on the Andrew File System (AFS), which is now part of the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NM, and
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), TN
These DOE HPCC Research centers provide full-scale high performance computing systems for work on Grand Challenge applications and use in scalability studies. These applications must be run on large prototype systems -- they cannot be scaled down without removing essential aspects of their physics.
LANL operates a Thinking Machines CM-5 (1,024 compute nodes, 32 GB memory, 128 GB Scalable Disk Array using four HiPPI channels). This system has 128 Gflops theoretical performance with 50 Gflops observed on several codes.
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Several system upgrades are anticipated in FY 1995. FY 1996 plans include expanding DOE storage capabilities by implementing the HPSS network-centered parallel storage system management software.
NIH Systems
The Division of Computer Research and Technology (DCRT) has a 128- processor Intel iPSC/860 with 2 GB memory. In FY 1995 DCRT will install a 10- to 20-Gflops massively parallel system. Both systems are used by NIH staff in biomedical applications.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Frederick Biomedical Supercomputing center has an 8-processor Cray Y-MP and a MasPar MP-2 with 4,096 processors along with a comprehensive collection of biomedical software available to all scientists who use the facility.
The National center for Research Resources (NCRR) supports systems for biomedical research applications at its High Performance Computing Resources centers at CTC, PSC, SDSC, NCSA, and Columbia University.
NOAA Laboratories
The Forecast Systems Laboratory in Boulder, CO, has a 221- processor Intel Paragon, with 6.5 GB memory and 28.8 GB disk, rated 15 Gflops peak. This system is used to parallelize regional and mesoscale forecast models.
The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ, is acquiring a high performance computing system including massively parallel capabilities in FY 1995, and the Numerical Meteorological center in Camp Springs, MD, will acquire a system in FY 1996. These systems are to be used for the global climate modeling and weather forecasting Grand Challenges. The GFDL procurement is funded in part by NOAA HPCC funds; it will provide an order of magnitude improvement in performance, have more advanced data archiving facilities, and use the new scalable models now being developed to address important climate problems.
EPA Systems
EPA's National Environmental Supercomputing center in Bay City, MI, has a Cray C90 (with 3 processors, 64 Mw memory, and 90 GB disk). In FY 1995 EPA plans to acquire a scalable massively parallel system for installation at this center. These systems are dedicated to environmental research and problem solving.


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DIY – Sand and Water table
My husband is an accountant. I love him dearly, but it isn't a stretch to say that I am the more creative one in our relationship. So when he took me aside a couple of weeks ago and stated that he wanted to build a sand and water table for our son, I thought I would be helpful and send him some plans that I found online for DIY sand and water tables like this perfectly simple one from Cara75 that I found on flickr:
…or this slightly more complex one from Handyman Wire…
…or this one over at Bumble and Bean that I thought was the perfect combination of the two ideas:
My husband was patient with me while I sent him email after email of what I deemed 'doable' DIY sand and water table plans and then promptly explained to me that he wanted to make his own plans. I TRIED to explain to him that was a bit like being a novice knitter and deciding to create a knitting pattern for a sweater….or being a new sewer and trying to make a new pattern for overalls…but in the end, his persistence paid off.
This past weekend, we debuted our son's new, custom DESIGNED and MADE-by-daddy sand and water table complete with storage compartment for toys:
My husband DID decide to keep one element that I had suggested to him and used plastic bins for the actual sand and water:
…see…nothing fancy here, just a good ole' under-the-bed storage container from the Container Store!
The corner of the unit has a toy bin on hinges for easy access. We're thinking we might add a hydraulic lift option to keep fingers from getting squashed.
Of course, all this beauty took a bit longer than ONE weekend to build, so our son got to try it out before it was finished. It was definitely a hit!! In the end, I have to say, I am super impressed with not-so-handy-hubby's skillz and I have promised never to doubt him again. Ok…maybe not never, but not as often, I pinky swear.
Have you seen any other DIY'd kids stuff out there you care to share with the crowd?
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One Response to "DIY – Sand and Water table"
sarah Says:
September 22nd, 2011 at 8:00 am
Is it bad that the thing that pleases me the most about your reveal is the elephant watering can in the water table side?! I have coveted a watering can like that for awhile. . . Also, the sand and water table looks great .


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People who are on the lookout for a new smartphone may be tempted to wait to get their hands on one of a range of devices unveiled by Samsung.
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U.S. stocks and bonds were jolted after the Federal Reserve released the minutes from its past policy meeting in July, providing more evidence that the central bank is intent on winding down a key part of its economic stimulus as early as next month.
The Fed offered no official timeline for when the tapering might begin, but the minutes indicated that officials are "broadly comfortable" with chairman Ben Bernanke's plan to reduce its bond-buying program, known as quantitative easing or QE, later this year and end it by mid-2014.
"While it's far from a certainty, the minutes from the [Fed] meeting back in late July appear to support our view that the Fed will begin to slow its monthly asset purchases at the next meeting in mid-September," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
He believes the first step would reduce bond purchases by $10-billion (U.S.) a month, which is smaller than he had initially expected.
Economists at National Bank Financial also believe that a tapering announcement could be made in September.
"Having already set up the market for a tapering this fall, it would take a true worsening of economic data (e.g. weak non-farm payrolls) to get the Fed to postpone its tapering plan to next year," said Paul-André Pinsonnault and Krishen Rangasamy.
Each month, the Fed has been purchasing $85-billion worth of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities in an effort to juice economic activity. However, it has been preparing markets for a reduction in bond-buying, a prospect that has been hanging over stimulus-driven stocks and bonds for the past few months.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell to a low of 14,880, down more than 120 points, soon after the minutes were released on Wednesday afternoon. It briefly rebounded into positive territory before sinking again into the close.
It ended the day at 14,897.55, down 105.44 points or 0.7 per cent, marking its sixth straight decline and its longest losing streak in 13 months. The broader S&P 500 closed at 1642.80, down 9.55 points or 0.6 per cent.
Stocks aren't the only assets looking jittery over the prospect of a shift in Fed policy. Bonds, too, have turned turbulent, sending yields sharply higher and threatening to derail the economic recovery with rising borrowing costs.
The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rose to 2.89 per cent on Wednesday, up from just 1.63 per cent in May, touching its highest level in more than two years. Yields rise as bond prices fall.
Even though economists see September as a likely starting point for the first reduction in bond purchases, recent employment numbers are feeding some uncertainty about the ultimate timing.
In the minutes, the Fed said that the unemployment rate has fallen considerably with QE and monthly payroll gains have been solid – although the payrolls report for July, released after the period covered by the minutes, was disappointing.
However, the Fed also noted that other aspects of the labour market, including the participation rate and the number of discouraged workers, have shown only modest improvements.
"While a range of views were expressed regarding the cumulative improvement in the labor market since last fall, almost all Committee members agreed that a change in the purchase program was not yet appropriate," the minutes said.
The Fed is also sounding slightly less optimistic about the health of the broader economy. Some officials pointed to a potential drag from rising borrowing costs, higher oil prices and fiscal pressures from reduced government spending.
Nonetheless, markets have been contemplating an end to stimulus for some time, and the minutes did not alter this view.
"Overall, the minutes clearly suggest there are [Fed]members seeing the need for the pace of asset purchases to start to be slowed," said Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada. "Thus the prospect of tapering to commence some time this fall remains a very strong possibility."


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