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Discounting, even for a great high-end retailer -- or consumer electronic maker -- tends to be a slippery slope. Once customers see a sale, their perceptions and preconceived notions begin to change. They start to expect a sale.... Apple is not a discount house, but don't discount the eventual impact that discounting might have.The simple fact that Apple reportedly needs to clear inventory ahead of the iPhone 5 release should raise a red flag.
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offered solid reaction to the news:Couple this with a report from The Next Web that Apple is cutting hours and retail staff. If nothing else, take a moment to reflect on whether you're long and sitting on a hefty profit. TNW offers several benign or bullish reasons for the rumored moves: Apple is offsetting its recent retail pay raises or Apple is laying the groundwork to revolutionize retail with self-checkouts, a focus on the Genius Bar, and online ordering for in-store pickup. Again, maybe so. It might just be that when Apple introduces iPhone 5 next month it also announces groundbreaking changes to how it does retail. I hope this is the case. As somebody who wants to see Apple continue to dominate in Steve Jobs' name, I hope the staffing cuts, along with the discounting, does not indicate preparation for another soft quarter. When Apple reports results for July, August and September, it will include only a sliver of new product sales. Expect another underwhelming report. It's not like the current generation of iPhones, for example, are presently flying off of shelves. This much we know is true. After last month's miss, most everybody shifted attention to the holiday quarter as guaranteed redemption for Apple. It's too squeaky clean of a storybook story to be true. Don't take a Hollywood ending for granted. Since the earnings miss, AAPL is up about 10%. While it would not surprise me to see the momentum take the stock to new highs, proceed with caution if you're long. What if all of this writing on the wall is not quite as bullish as most of the media and analyst community insists on making it out to be? This might be the most pivotal time in the company's post-turnaround history. If the holiday quarter does not blow the doors off of estimates, AAPL could implode. It should make you uneasy that very few, if any, differences of opinion exist about iPhone 5 sales. If you follow the crowd this time on AAPL, don't press your luck. Monitor your position closely and be ready to bail if IPhone 5 does not salvage Apple's recent stumble. Follow @RoccoPendola At the time of publication, the author held no positions in any of the stocks mentioned in this article. This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.It feels strange saying this, but Apple reportedly will match $50 wireless carrier discounts on iPhone 4 and 4S. TheStreet's Marek Fuchs
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I am working on a side scroller akin to Golden Axe, TMNT, and the old Shadows over Mystara games. I'm looking at several ways to create my levels and was wanting feedback on anyone who has created a similar side scroller and was wondering what you used to create your levels?
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Burglar Jerry H. Christy, alias Nick Natti, has joined his wife, stolen-goods fence Georgia Christy, alias Monica Natti, and their co-conspirator, self-proclaimed criminal mastermind Kurt Lidtke, alias "I'm Bulletproof," in the loser's circle again. With Jerry's plea in federal court Friday, Lidtke's on Thursday, and Georgia's last month, all three have copped to operating a bumbling Seattle/Portland art-theft ring whose main client was an undercover FBI agent--part of the FBI Art Crime Team, originally created after the Gulf War to track down looters of Iraqi antiquities.
That heist by Jerry Christy, which Lidtke, 44, orchestrated from his cell, came a month before Lidtke left prison. He served almost three years for nine counts of first-degree theft, having stolen $435,000 in receipts from the sale of paintings consigned at his once-popular Pioneer Square art gallery in 2007.
In prison, he hooked up with Christy, an incurable burglar. Lidtke knew where the paintings were, and Christy knew how to break in and get them. His wife became the go-between, fencing some of the Seattle art to a Portland buyer--a female undercover agent, it turned out. Lidtke and Christy had been out of prison but a few months before the FBI was all over them.
The hapless trio all face sentencing next year. Lidtke can get up to five years in prison for conspiracy and 10 for interstate transportation of stolen property--same as Christy, whose wife (her calls to the FBI agent all were recorded) may see prison time, too.
At least some of the stolen art has been recovered, including the two Graves and the Tobey, as well as a Rembrandt etching. But other pieces are unaccounted for.
Back in 2007, before he was charged with the thefts that led to the collapse of his downtown gallery, Lidtke told the P-I: "I'm bulletproof." He wasn't worried about the law. "Does that sound arrogant? I'm not arrogant," he said. "I'm as humble as humble pie."
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anyone know exactly how many games you should be playing? in my party mode, not every game is there that was in the story the are only 24 games in my party mode is that right? or is this glitched?
ive played every game in party, pick and play, with 1 controller, 2 controllers, 3 player, 4 player, all 1 controller.
still no trophy lol, there are only 20 people with this trophy atm, anyone who has it can please confirm the way needed thanks!
ok so after alot of trial and error i now have this trophy. a tip i can give is not to jump straight into the multi mini games. and try to do them all in one sitting all trophies as well involved with them to save yourself the aggravation.
what i found out is best way to tackle this trophy in as less as many plays is to:
start of your multi games with 2 player and 2 controllers. do the first 10 games. trophy follows 10th, after the trophy continue till you finish every game on the list with these settings.
after you finish all game 2 players 2 controllers.
go for the next trophy 10 pass the controller games
set the settings to 2 players 1 controller then start back at the top of the list and work your way to the end.
what you will notice now is that some games are not shown it goes from 28 to 24 after you change the settings.
the difference is slight as in some games you play at the same time and some you take turns on the screen.
using this method will decrease the amount of plays looking for what your missing.
my problem was that i started with the pass controller trophy not knowing then continued after the last game and started the 2 controller from that last game.. **note that each game needs to be played a total of 2 times, one with one controller and one with 2 controllers. for a total of 52 games in all.
if your stuck, i hope my road map helps you get this trophy quicker then i did, not knowing lol
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Updated: August 4, 2011, 3:46 PM ETBy Tristan H. Cockcroft | ESPN.com
As active as this year's trade deadline was, there sure wasn't a lot of action involving closers, was there?
The story at this year's July 31 deadline wasn't about which closers got traded into setup roles for other teams; it was about which closers weren't traded. Owners of Heath Bell, Brandon League and Leo Nunez were sweating the chances of lost saves right up until the 4 p.m. cutoff, and hopefully none made any brash moves in fear, selling them on the cheap.
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Simple Definition of sulfur
chemistry : a yellow chemical element that has a strong, unpleasant odor when it is burned and that is used in making paper, gunpowder, medicine, etc.
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: a nonmetallic element that occurs either free or combined especially in sulfides and sulfates, is a constituent of proteins, exists in several allotropic forms including yellow orthorhombic crystals, resembles oxygen chemically but is less active and more acidic, and is used especially in the chemical and paper industries, in rubber vulcanization, and in medicine for treating skin diseases — see element table
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The spelling sulfur predominates in United States technical usage, while both sulfur and sulphur are common in general usage. British usage tends to favor sulphur for all applications. The same pattern is seen in most of the words derived from sulfur.
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Middle English sulphur brimstone, from Latin sulpur, sulphur, sulfur
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February 18, 2012
Is What I Crave Connected to My Heritage, Where I Live or Both?
It always seems to take over a month for those post holidays sugar and fatty food cravings to disappear. I've noticed that those cravings are often more prevalent during certain times of the year and when I visit certain parts of the world, and it's not just because those "cravings" are the only things that locals eat.
I currently live in northern California and have lived in 10 countries, including more than my fair share of cold-weathered cities. There's no question that colder climates can make you crave heartier dishes and hotter temperature foods, even though Brits argued that soups and curries helped them cool down in India during the colonial years.
Since living on the west coast, I crave more sushi than when I lived in Boston. When I visit northern European cities, I crave more red meat even if there's fish or chicken on the menu and the weather is warm.
Culture contributes to those cravings and may explain why my Italian-born friends prefer a crisp Sauvignon Blanc over a buttery Chardonnay and how I developed such a tight bond with South African biltong that it's hard to convince natives that I wasn't raised there.
That said, there are some dishes I crave that feel like they're "part" of who I am, such as squash, kobasa, duck, and toast for starters. Call it comfort food but I wonder, is it a craving for "comfort" or is it connected to heritage, where generations of eating certain things gets passed on, embedded in our DNA if you will?
When my grandfather sat down for lunch, his staple to-go plate included cold meats, pickles and onions. My grandmother would add a bowl of onions to the table since he added onions to more dishes than I'd care to admit.
Observing this behavior was subliminal at best, yet here I am years later craving many of the same things my grandfather ate, and have noticed a "craving" increase of some of his favorite dishes as I get older.
There are examples of this across the globe, such as the thousands of banana varieties in Africa alone, not to mention vegetables and fruits not that plentiful in the west like guava and okra. Whatever we have an abundance of, we eat, another reason I'm thrilled the holidays are over.
When we lived in Florida, oranges were a regular sighting in our kitchen as was coconut juice when I hung my hat in Kenya. I lived on curries in London and ate French fries with peanut butter sauce in Amsterdam.
But, how much of our cravings are connected to other factors such as our body chemistry and general health?
Rest assured, there are lots of foods that make me feel better, such as fruits and vegetables. And, when I eat healthier, my body chemistry changes as do my cravings. When I used to juice regularly, I'd find alcohol and low-alkaline foods hard to stomach. Our bodies adapt just as our ancestor's bodies adapted to different kinds of foods as a result of changes in climate, food availability and the economy. (Think The Depression).
Many doctors and health experts may argue that our cravings have nothing to do with heritage whatsoever. There's certainly no shortage of doctor-blessed diets that promise to reduce your cravings, decrease your "bad" cholesterol and add years to your life.
D'Adamo suggests that the human blood type is key to the body's ability to differentiate self from non-self. Lectins in foods, he asserts, react differently with each ABO blood type and to a lesser extent with an individual's secretor status.
One source suggests that orange juice is bad for my blood type whereas grapefruit juice and I should shine. The truth is that while I like both, I prefer grapefruit juice and "feel" healthier drinking it.
One of the noted symptoms of adrenal fatigue, a condition where your adrenal glands become "tired", is a craving of salty, fatty, and high protein food such as meat and cheese. Some blood type diets observe that Type O's don't find dairy products and grains as 'body-friendly." It makes you wonder what percentage of people from northern Europe are Type O's versus those who hail from Africa or Asia?
Chinese Medicine for Maximum Immunity by Elias & Kethum suggest that I should add more "cool foods" to my diet and avoid red vegetables such as tomatoes and red peppers which can make you feel more "irritable & off-balance" and bitter foods and beverages, which are considered more 'healing.' They focus on five elemental types: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. After doing a questionnaire, they recommend certain foods based on your results and tell you to avoid others, with the goal of getting your body into balance and harmony.
Albeit not new, Dr. Barnet Meltzer has written about something he refers to as "food swings", the reactions in your mind and body to what you eat, a link between your diet and your emotional and physical well-being. Female friends have admitted that they may eat more at times when they knowingly don't want to attract men into their lives.
Those who have tried the Atkins Diet know that it makes you forget about carbs after the first week and soon, its promise to drop the pounds becomes a reality, for a price that is and not necessarily a healthy one.
A highly alkaline and juice diet made me enjoy raw foods in a way I never thought was possible. Being a vegetarian for awhile made me despise the smell of meat for a few years and Rosedale's diet argues that Leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells, tells the brain when to eat, how much to eat and when to stop eating.
The time of day you eat is also a factor. When I returned from Italy several years ago, I craved pasta in the mornings and it wasn't until I avoided carbs until late afternoon that those sharp cravings disappeared.
The Telegraph's Science Correspondent Richard Alleyne unveiled research in 2009 that examined how the time of day you eat affects how much weight you put on; eating high fat foods during the day led to a 20 per cent weight gain.
This is just the beginning of an exploration of how cravings are connected to heritage, location, time and health. If you have ever documented your cravings and have insights to share, let's evolve the conversation. Over to you, health afficiandos, doctors, researchers, experts and those who are as genuinely curious as I am about this topic, to offer your opinions and data.
February 18, 2012 in America The Free, Europe, On Food & Wine, On Health, WBTW | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 05, 2011
Georgia Tech's Rosa Arriaga on the Power of Human Censors
Georgia Tech Psychologist Rosa Arriaga talked to the Idea Festival audience about the importance of human censors to not only empower patients to take better control of their diseases, particularly chronic diseases, but improve self reliance overall.
She notes that individuals of chronic conditions aren't even aware of their own symptoms. She brought up SocialMirror, which is a targeted social network for individuals with autism. Tools like this for patients can help them stay motivated about making their regime a priority, including medicine.
Through his network, the app can provide feedback about what an autism patient should do or not do in a particular social situation, such as what to wear at a particular event, what to say, what to bring to a meeting or party, certain behaviors and so on. The social network combined with caregiver and doctor feedback can be a powerful tool to help patients become so much more self reliant than they could ever have imagined in the past.
This would obviously work for so many other conditions and chronic diseases. She ends with this parting thought and prediction. "The future of health and well-being will be done with social computing and social/human censors."
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The Future of Medicine is the Engaged Patient Who Makes Their Own Decisions
John Moore who is currently a PhD candidate in the New Media Medicine group at the MIT Media Lab, is working to fundamentally change the role that patients can play in their care by empowering them with knowledge, understanding, confidence, and channels for communication.
He is studying the effect that new technology-mediated paradigms for doctor-patient collaboration can have on education, adherence, and behavior change.
In the future of medicine, his goal is to design systems to make the patient help decide what medicine to take, where the doctor acts as the "guide."
He gives us in the Idea Festival audience a few sad facts. People retain only 15-20% of what they hear from doctors after they leave the office. Very few actually follow through and take their medicine even after picking up the prescription. He says that the reason that the stats look so grim is because the system we have today has been designed so poorly.
As a result, Moore and his team are working on transforming systems and creating programs that are more integrative and effective. For example, with Parkinsons disease, they can monitor patient's activity by wearing a device and matching that back to the medicine they're taking. Patients can also correlate their behavior as well so they can take their medicine in a timely manner. This is being done through online video conferencing and games.
Games are being developed so patients can set goals with their physical therapist in real time and then have the game results and feedback sent back to the clinician while they're playing at home. This feedback can help adjust and re-adjust exercises and medicine that they do so improvement is more dramatic. Much of this can be monitored at home so a lot can be diagnosed without the patient having to come into the doctor's office, saving both time and money.
Moore wants to empower patients to change how they view their own conditions through experience not through reading or simply doing what a doctor tells them to do. He believes that patients should be able to get interactive feedback in real time.
"The future of medicine is the engaged patient, where they participate in their own 'care' program", ends Moore.
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October 04, 2011
Aubrey De Grey Talks Regenerative Medicine, Aging & Rational Denial of Aging Process
In an effort to ignite regenerative medicine and transform the way we think about health and aging, Aubrey de Grey spends his time on airplanes between England and Silicon Valley, as well as to conferences and events where he can evangelize his message to those who help accelerate his mission.
How should we go about developing medicine in the near future? he asks a large group who showed up in Louisville for Idea Festival, who committed their time to be there because they're interested in innovation, advanced learning and making the world a better place.
He encouraged people to think about aging and dying differently. Death from aging is not only "natural causes, it's anything that mainly kills older people."
A few stats: about 150,000 people die per day worldwide, two thirds of them die of aging which equates to 100,000 per day. In the USA, the proportion is over 90%.
None of us are getting any younger and those of us who live in the United States know how broken our healthcare system is...we don't like to think what that means while we're still under 50 because frankly it's too painful to go there. It's only when we see our aging parents go through the system, where things don't work, their live savings are wiped out within months, service is inefficient and disagnoses happen more than they should but because traditional doctors aren't thinking holistically rather than incompetence.
Aging is considered ghastly but also inevitable. It is rational to put ghastly but inevitable things out of our minds, even if we have to be amazingly irrational in order to do so. He calls this rational denial.
"But what if that inevitability became unclear?" he asks. The focus of his talk revolved around the following issues and how we can make a difference:
- Repair versus retardation.
- Specifics: the seven types of damage
- Intracellular junk/medical bioremediation
- Longevity: escape velocity: the concept
- Some evidence that LEV is realistic
De Grey made it clear that his focus is centered around health not longevity which is where regenerative medicine comes in, which he defines as any intervention that seeks to restore a tissue/organ to its state before it suffered damage.
Aging is essentially when metabolism ongoingly causes damage and damage eventually causes pathology over time. Options for intervention divide into two different approaches: the gerontology and the geriatrics approach.
The geriatrics approach is better than nothing he says but the gerontology approach isn't much better.
Damage can be slowed down to some degree and other things along the way can be repaired. He asserts that there are seven deadly things that make up damage in our bodies:
- Junk – inside cells
- Junk – outside cells
- Cells – too few
- Cells – too many
- Mutations – chromosomes
- Mutations – mitochondria
- Protein Crosslinks
If we can develop bioremediation in a way that is sustainable, we can tackle aging diseases that cause damage and eventually lead to our death. Robust human rejuvenation he says, can give the middle-aged 30 years of extra healthy life.
Repairing damage periodically can buy us time. In other words, you can slow aging down.
First generation therapies should be likely to transform the health quality of a 60 year old into a 90 year old body. If you start early, you benefit from buying time and putting off some of the damage from aging by 20-30 years.
Then, 20-30 years later, you can do another therapy that has decades of research and improvement.
Essentially therapies double efficacy only every 42 years. The result is that you can add decades to your life, particularly if you start the therapies early enough.
In Aubrey's words: "we have a humanitarian duty to fix aging." Hear hear Aubrey. Hear hear!
Maverick Aubrey de Grey is the editor-in-chief of the journal Rejuvenation Science and co-author of the 2007 book Ending Aging. He challenges the most basic assumption underlying the human condition —that aging is inevitable. He argues instead that aging is a disease --one that can be cured if it's approached as "an engineering problem." His plan calls for identifying all the components that cause human tissue to age, and designing remedies for each of them —forestalling disease and eventually pushing back death…providing for an indefinite lifespan. He calls this approach Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS).
October 4, 2011 in America The Free, On Health, On Innovation, WBTW | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
October 03, 2011
Wanna Shed a Few Extra Pounds? Meet Autom, the Dieting Robot & Weight-Loss Coach!
I met Cory Kidd in Kentucky recently at the annual Idea Festival, who flew south from New England to show off Autom, a robot designed to help people with their diets. It is up to the user to enter in the details of their diet, such has their fitness level and then Autom uses its databank to interact with the user, engage in conversation and give you feedback.
Along with keeping a record of what you have been eating throughout the day, Autom inspires you to look good and remain in shape. She comes complete with an artificial female voice for commands and has a touchscreen belly for all kinds of input. Describes one site: "it is harmless, and like a human it won't rebuke you for eating one extra dessert but would surely keep account of the same." The selling price being estimated is around $600 or $500.
Think of it as a weight-loss coach, but a robotic one, one who knows how much you've been exercising, and a whole lot about your diet. With a touch of your finger, she knows if you're in a good mood or not as well. Below is a video I shot of Cory explaining how she works:
October 3, 2011 in America The Free, Conference Highlights, Events, On Health, On Innovation, On Robotics, On Technology, Videos, WBTW | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
September 29, 2011
Aneesh Chopra: Blue Buttoning Our Own Data Will Fuel Innovation & Empower Americans
If you haven't heard of the name before, Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer, where he serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. Whooah Nelly, that's a mouthful of a title.
In other words, he works to advance the President's technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland.
I had a chance to listen to him speak at the Idea Festival recently, where his talk focused on the President's mission and goals, with a central core theme to make it happen: working from the bottom up, not the top down and opening up data so others can create and innovate with it, and we, as a nation, can thrive.
Here's what they're currently focused on within the above framework:
- Putting more people back to work
- Boosting access to capital for high growth companies
- Turning job seekers to job creators
- Unleashing the mobile broadband revolution
- Modernizing 35,000 schools
- Making government services transparent to job creators
- Open Government aka the Start Up America initiative
- Patent reform
- Catalyze breakthroughs
Technology was a big part of his message as he echoes Obama's pitch, "for our families and our businesses, high speed wireless service and mobile is the next train station, it's the next off-ramp..it's how we'll spark innovation, new investment, new jobs." He also referenced Silicon Valley start-ups on more than one occasion, including Instagram and Crowdflower.
He sees cloud computing and mobility unlocking major potential and accelerating productivity in key sectors.
Aneesh says that there's an aministration commitment to unleash market opportunities by framing current or proposed policies to inspired entrepreneurs and gaining valuable policy feedback for iteration with an emphasis on healthcare, education and energy.
Where is the puck heading?
"We need breakthroughs," he says. "The only way is to tap into new hubs outside Silicon Valley." Hear hear Aneesh.
He also talked about education dominance, pushing software that adapts to how students learn, inspiration for the proposed ARPA-ED. They want to open up the data to teachers and make it accessible to them and their students, regardless of where they are in the country.
Another challenge they face he throws the audience's way is the clean energy revolution. They're hoping that ARPA-E investments and NIST standards activities will spur creativity.
He cites the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as an example, America's center for weather data. The weather industry is worth about $2 billion he reminds and "they're fueled because of open government data."
Aneesh adds, "we can also encourage market transparency." Healthcare.gov is a comprehensive catalog of insurance options, an effort to create more transparency than ever before. You'll be able to find pricing data, how often an insurance company charges a premium, and how often were people rejected (denied coverage for whatever reason).
He also mentioned "Blue Button", a public/private initiative that scales, where veterans can download their personal health information from their My HealtheVet account. My HealtheVet users who receive VA health care services can also refill their prescriptions and view their appointments, allergies, and laboratory results online.
Why not transfer that kind of tool to other areas and industries he says, such as education. "Imagine if every student could get a downloadable document of his/her assessment, a personalized platform that translates from student performance to market reality. We need personalized platforms for each of our children that can translate into something meaningful. This is the kind of thing that can fuel products and services. Find where the data sits and find out a way to liberate that data."
He adds, "We're liberating government data & if people can become billionaires because of it, God Bless." The audience laughs.
He continued to push the open government throughout his talk including in the Q&A at the end, which was incredibly well received. (note: while the audience had visitors from the west coast, DC, the north, NYC and other places, there was a large number of locals - aka the midwest meets the south...in other words, family values and education are high priorities).
Certainly blue buttoning our own data is going to fuel innovation and empower individuals. Isn't it where we have to go? If we don't, we become victims rather than creators of our own lives and destinies in more ways than one.
September 29, 2011 in America The Free, Conference Highlights, Europe, On Being Green, On Education, On Health, On Innovation, On Mobile & Wireless, On Politics, On Technology, On the Future, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 17, 2011
FutureMed: Healthcare & Medicine Migrate From Linear Growth to Exponential Growth
I just finished attending a mind blowing event called FutureMed, the medical arm if you like, of Singularity University, which was founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil. Director, curator and chair of the program is Daniel Kraft, who together with a dedicated team, brought in some of the smartest creators and thinkers in medicine and healthcare for the 5 day long program.
Ask yourself: what is the impact that exponential technologies will have on medicine and healthcare? What was your initial response? Whether you're a scientist, physician, venture capitalist or biomed executive, the answers are profound because of the fast rate technology is developing, improving and having a direct impact on the "well-being" of our lives.
What's unique about the event is not just the content, which is deep and thought provoking and brings in insights from the top in their fields, but the structure of the event itself. Imagine a combination of panels, lectures and field trips with demos, workshops and breakout sessions all under one roof with only 70 or so attendees.
In other words, the intimacy of the event creates an environment where not only do you have an opportunity to have your answers questioned (and challenged) directly, but you have quality time with the speakers and technology creators, so you can more effectively understand what lies ahead -- and then act upon it. It also means that attendees are vetted, so not only is the speaker line-up phenomenal, but the attendees themselves have a host of honors, accolades and accomplishments, all of which result in an environment where the brightest minds can come together to learn, create and grow. A community is formed in which like-minds in medicine and healthcare can accomplish more together than they can alone in their respective fields. (Below is Peter Diamandis and Daniel Kraft in the first session of Day One).
Challenging the status quo is never easy but if through a combination of persistence, trial and error and really smart, caring and passionate thinkers who want to make a difference, things can change, particularly as you begin to see validation after validation for your thinking (and actions) along the way. In other words, linear thinking "be gone."
As CNET described the environment for participants, "For attendees, who range from executives in the medical field to practicing doctors to entrepreneurs looking for the next area to invest in, and who come from countries all over the world, FutureMed gives access to talks on topics as diverse as personalized medicine; the future of pharma; patient engagement; regenerative medicine; neuromedicine; synthetic biology; the future of medical education; global health and the hospital of the future; and more."
Ray Kurzweil and XPrize founder Peter Diamandis kicked things off with the notion that advances in healthcare and medicine have migrated from linear growth to exponential growth. As recapped so well in the MedGadget summary which you'll find me referencing a number of times because their coverage of the event was so extensive: "One fascinating insight from Ray's talk was that these exponentially growing advances are often the combination of many different paradigms that grow and develop in a sigmoidal fashion. The exponential growth of computational power per dollar, for instance, is driven by say, vaccum tubes, which start slow, progress extremely rapidly, and then level off, only to be replaced by transistors, which did the same thing until integrated circuits came into the picture. Collectively, even though each of these technological paradigms hit a wall at some point, they were replaced by another advance that allowed the final outcome of computational power to continue to scale exponentially. In proof of this, Ray showed us what seemed to be an exponentially increasing number of charts that demonstrated exponential technological growth."
Three-time astronaut Dan Barry and Gabor Forgacs addressed the future of 3D printing technologies and how they'll have a significant impact on both consumer and medical products.
Another message we heard from many of the speakers, is how low the costs are going, from sensors that we wear and can self diagnose to the world of 3D printing, which using both plastics and metals, doesn't cost more to use.
In addition to 3D printing, Dan Barry talked about one of his favorite topics: robots.
There's no question; robots are getting smarter and smarter. Through sensors, robots are learning how to put objects in the right location and in the right spots within that location, i.e., product placement into a particular location on a particular shelf. "We want to move up the ladder even further," says Barry. "We want robots to not just organize but to sense, throw and manipulate."
Robot's dexterity is improving and their movement is getting more and more fluid. A robot's hands can correspond to a human's movements.
Dan gave a useful example of the impact on a human body when they do a space walk. He says, "it takes 4 hours just to get the nitrogen out of our system, but you can do a space walk with a robot through virtual reality and get the job done a lot faster."
He also brought up the social and ethical implications of people who may choose robots as their companions rather than human beings. In the future, robots will become true companions for people who are lonely, have lost their loved ones or generally just want companionship. Hmmm. Not sure about companionship (for me that is), but I definitely get the value of robots in eldercare and have already seen amazing advancements coming out of Willow Garage, where their PR2s are being trained to put dishes away, set the table and clean among other things.
On the Data Driven Healthcare panel, Stanford University's Dan Riskin talked about the convergence of devices. Says Riskin, "We're able to take these platforms, such as an iPhone or a computer system, pull together valuable information and make it really useful. We're seeing an innovation shift to mature platforms."
As for devices and technology, medical intervention will become an app. In fact, it's already starting to happen. Apps will be prescribed just like medication, i.e, welldoc shows a decrease in diabetics problems (a 4 fold benefit from an app than using medications alone).
We also heard about a perspective on the fundamental flaws of the RCT, which included things like the long term nature of it (often a decade to change care), the high expense (not affordable without support), the fact that it can be biased (selected based on drug and device firms) and lastly, that they're poorly generalizable. It's just not working and ineffective.
Other apps are able to extract words/language that a patient uses and put them into a matrix to show how these words relate to each other, i.e., fever, nausea, chest tightness. The power of analytics is helping the doctor make a diagnosis by structuring a record so that he/she has more data and beyond that, some actual "meaning" within that data.
An example that was given was a test they did with a small group of patients who got re-admitted into the hospital. They did an analysis and discovered what contributed to people being re-admitted to the hospital and more importantly, why. The results helped with quality improvement and flow of data.
A force behind eLegs is Iceland-born Eythor Bender from Berkeley Bionics. They augment humans with wearable, artificially intelligent bionic devices called exoskeletons. Below is a young man demonstrating it to the FutureMed audience, showing how flexible and dynamic his world has become using their technology. Since visuals (and patient feedback) is most powerful, check out their YouTube channel for stories and use cases and their eLegs FAQ for the hows and whys. All I can say is: inspiring. There are no words for the rest.
Below Tamara Mena talks about her dream of being able to accept her college diploma standing rather than in wheelchair.
Healthtap founder Ron Gutman pushed the need to unite consumers and physicians in personal health – both the data and the conversation. In other words, get physicians into the game and allow them to particate in the conversation so they can access this data in real time and better help their patients. The two step approach involves creating an infrastructure, then getting the physicians to engage with the data so its always up to-date and therefore relevant. It's essentially a database that combines data, conversations, and personalization around the patient so the physician can be more effective in their care and decisions.
Sutha Kamal talked about feedback loops, which was a constant theme throughout the program. If I (a patient), can access data in real time through a wearable sensor and make sense of that data, then I can help my doctor better understand what is happening with my health over time. Feedback loops provoke action. (also refer to the beginning of my TEDxSV post where Wired's Chris Anderson talks about the same thing citing examples).
If you have no "meaning" from the data, then essentially you have a "broken" feedback loop. Data without meaning doesn't move a patient to take the right action OR have the right conversations with their doctors and other experts. "When you get this data, that data should belong to you," says Kamal. "We want to understand the things that you would adhere to but don't today. Feedback is personal but meaning needs to be in that personal data so you, the patient, end up doing something with the data."
Ultimately, if you think your body is a "black box," aka poor health, you're going to end up getting depressed because you don't know where to start. In the future, a lot of this gathered data will end up on our phones because they're with us all the time.
Google's Roni Zeiger says, "our cell phones will become our data lens for information about our bodies. You will also be able to access information in real time about the workflow of a hospital and the wait of the line in the emergency room. The patient is at the center of information flow and decision making."
The patient has ALL of the data because they know how they feel better than anyone else does. The data transmitted from a patient's body in the not too distant future, will be used to allow physicians to look at your veins and arteries remotely on a device. Ones and zeros will be flowing back (aka the patient's data), with analysis so the physicians can make real-time diagnostics and decisions.
It's happening now with sleep devices and soon it will be happening from a lot of different sources. He also gave examples of smart health realted search queries like "poison control," which immediately returns the number for the US poison control center, and "suicide," which displays the number for the US suicide prevention hotline.
Additionally, people are putting their data online, on Twitter, Patients Like Me and in other places and asking people to mine that data in a way that will be useful for their care givers and doctors. The distinction between data and conversations are becoming blurred, and eventually they'll go away.
Lawrence Sherman added wit and humor to a talk on medical education - video clips of his talk can be found here and he tweets over at @meducate.
Esther Dyson and health economist Carol McCall discussed behavior change and no surprise, feedback loops were raised again.
Gamification is a natural example, where incentives are given for a a particular behavior. Esther asked: "Where are the HR execs in this conversation?"
There's an increasing trend in employer benefits where companies can start to engage with employees in innovative ways that has a positive impact on their health.
On reimbursement, McCall suggested that rather than see this as a barrier, think about creative ways to compensate. She noted that "there are ways for these things to pay for themselves."
Google's Astro Teller gave a fascinating talk about body monitoring. He asserts that body monitoring isn't really about healthcare. "It misses the point," he says. "That way of thinking derails us from understanding what body monitoring can actually become in the future. Fitness people tend to be quantitative nuts. If you drive at the group that makes the most sense, you miss all the other amazing opportunities."
He talked about major obvious opportunities in this space, such as the "patch" which is very small and very cheap. Other trends around body monitoring in the future?
Upselling new pieces of value to the same wearer by showing value and cost effectiveness. Passive monitoring will also be big, he says, because at the end of the day, people don't like to "do" a lot for their health but they do want to be healthy. Passive monitoring allows us to have sensors on our bodies, but we don't have to think about them. He's spot on about that one.
Monitors can tell us how much time people spend on their computers, their heart beats, the "way" they use something, such as a mouse. By monitoring a "behavior" such as mouse movement, you can get an idea of visual motor quality which is often a result of sleep deprivation or early warnings of Parkinsons and Alzheimers disease.
With sensors, people often ask "what does it measure?" Teller says, "this is not the point. We want the guess/surrogate to be better than it makes the statement about and we want accuracy to be good enough that we can make a better analysis overall about your body."
He also reminded us that while we've spent a lot of time sequencing the human genome, we haven't spent much time sequencing the human lifestyle. Wearable body monitoring isn't about being quantified, reinforcing his point by saying that "Mary Jo Jane" (aka the average person) doesn't want to be quantified.
"Wearable body monitoring is about having the right parts of the world know who you are and in what you want and need in a million little ways, in real time, and all the time."
At the end of the day, you want people/things/data to respond to what you need without you having to think about it. AND, there will literally be a million apps for that. (his prediction is 1 million+ apps by 2015).
Check out the CBS Interactive Smart Planet clip for a "short" on Dan Barry's talk. And for incredibly in-depth coverage of the entire event, check out the summaries by MedGadget by the day.
Day One Summary: Ray Kurzweil, Gabor Forgacs, Eythor Bender and more.
Day Two Summary: Eric Schadt, Esther Dyson, Kaiser's Innovation Center.
Day Three Summary: Robert Hariri, Mike West, Autodesk and more.
Day Four Summary: Andrew Hessel, Philip Low, Intuitive Surgical and more.
Day Five Summary: Erik Rasmussen, Andy Kogelnik, Brad Peterson and Goodbyes.
And let's not forget David Bolinsky and team's incredible animation.
For a mind numbing experience, check out their site for a video that will take you through the human body in the most exciting way you could ever have imagined. (it's a bit like being on a Back to Future ride). Below, a glimpse of the magic they have created for companies, healthcare institutions and hospitals.
Below is a shot from the FutureMed graduation at NASA AMES in Silicon Valley on the last night, a group shot taken during the week and one taken at an after party. And, here are some images I shot from the kick off party, which includes an overview of the program and the first day.
Disclosure: I provided some consulting to FutureMed.
May 17, 2011 in America The Free, Client Announcements, Client Media Kudos, Conference Highlights, Events, On Education, On Health, On Innovation, On People & Life, On Robotics, On Science, On Technology, On the Future, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 16, 2011
TEDx Silicon Valley: Anderson, Hogg, Meier and Stein: #tedxsv
Chris Anderson kicked off TEDxSilicon Valley last Saturday, May 14, 2011 at Stanford University's new Knight Management Center.
Anderson asserts that a data feedback loop can improve behavior as you see real-time stats on the consequences of your actions, whether its from a device or a non-intrustive wearable monitor. Simply by being aware of how your body is affected by your actions, you can improve your performance and lead a healthier life - emotionally and physically.
Feedback loops was a popular theme of many of the speakers, who focused on the growth of sensors which track your patterns and behavior. Bpttom line: once we see value in the feedback we receive from sensors, which continue to come down in price, we can measure everything we do. "Measurement," says Anderson, "quantifies what matters most and through that feedback loop, we can make smarter decisions."
Gamification -- on and offline -- can also be effective and is growing in popularity. Whether its points or rewards we give a child who remembers to brush his or her teeth or badges and coupons to buy things online if we cut out that donut and coffee for five days in a row, the feedback we receive through gamification is validation that we're doing something right or wrong.
Imagine a future where you're measuring nearly everything you do? Tomorrow, your thermometer can let you know when is the most efficient time to run the dishwasher, shaving money off your bill month after month. Today, you can already do quite a bit with measuring devices, right down to measuring stress levels in real time based on who you're talking to. (be prepared bosses, mother-in-laws, accountants, dentists and lawyers - stress meter readings may not be all that pretty).
Chris Hogg reinforced Anderson's message about the importance of data and measurement, particularly as it relates to better health and well being.
He pointed to his 67 year old step father who regularly drinks foul tasting tea and can see a correlation between drinking it and improved health, all of which he tracks on his iPhone.
Patrick Meier gave us a demo of something he referred to as Check-Ins with Purpose.
Country after country, he showed us a mapped location of how check-ins and smart location mapping has helped humanitarian efforts.
Starting with Haiti and an initiative they called Mission 4636, they were able to measure and track people, resulting in hundreds of lives being saved during the recent crisis.
Forward wind to the Japanese Tsunami. They created a "crisis map" to help locate missing people, which the Japanese government and other organizations who were providing relief, could access.
The other example he used was Libya, where they created a "social media map" to improve their humanitarian efforts on the ground. Take a look at Libya Crisis Map.net.
The Libya Crisis Map platform was activated by the request of the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to the Standby Task Force (SBTF). The platform continues to be supported by volunteers.
We can be more effective at helping people than we ever have been able to do in the past with rich geo-location based services and social media tools at our fingertips. We can use Facebook to schedule and post notices, Twitter to coordinate and get the word out and YouTube to share the story in more depth. "These live maps," he says, "are like having helicopters above you so you can see exactly where people are and therefore find them that much faster."
Lara Stein shared with us story after story of the countless number of TEDx events that are sprouting up around the world. She asks: "A movement or a tribe?"
One of the things she has learned from going through the process is to keep your ear to the ground....in other words, listen to voices from the local community. She calls the phenomena they have created, a "global tribe."
Says Lara, "My goals have migrated from how do you create systems and back ends on the ground TO how to we paint the story of this massively global and passionate tribe? The latest stats are staggering: 1,783 past events, 1,002 future events, 101 cities and 46 countries.
A handful of guidelines she has learned include the following: plan for the predictable, be prepared to invent as you learn, don't get in the way, pave the way of your real time feedback loop, ignore the chorus, be prepared to fail (another theme of speakers), don't think of it as a part time job, listen to the community on the ground, and follow your moral compass. She adds, "our focus is inspiration and action, not education."
She quoted an attendee who attended a TEDx in a remote area: "I was sitting on the end of the world, huge oil fields surrounded by massive dunes and nothing else, I was surrounded by really smart kids and nothing else." Indeed. That feeling is most definitely is a TED-like moment.
May 16, 2011 in America The Free, Conference Highlights, Events, On Education, On Health, On Innovation, On People & Life, On Science, On Technology, On the Future, Reflections, Social Media, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 13, 2011
Lawrence Sherman Adds a Little Wit to the Future of Medical EducationLawrence Sherman uses humor and wit to talk about the future of medical education at FutureMed this week to an audience of investors, physicians, medical visionaries, thought leaders and healthcare executives:
May 13, 2011 in America The Free, Conference Highlights, Events, On Fashion, On Health, Videos, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
May 11, 2011
FutureMed 2011 Kicks off at NASA AMES
Daniel Kraft kicked off Singularity University's FutureMed program at NASA AMES Research Center last night. A main goal of the program is to educate, inform and prepare physicians and senior healthcare executives to understand and recognize the opportunities and disruptive influences of exponentially growing technologies within medicine and healthcare.
The program will also help attendees understand how many rapidly developing and converging fields affect the future of clinical practice and the biomedical industry.
Daniel Kraft is the Executive Director of FutureMed and Chair of the Medicine Track at Singularity University. Co-founder of Singularity University Peter Diamandis (and founder of the XPrize) also gave a talk. Below are some photos of the FutureMed opening reception.
Dan Barry and Jonathon Knowles of Autodesk
Barney Pell, David Bolinsky
Far right, Neil Jacobstein, President of Singularity University
Middle: Dr. Joseph Dwoskin
Robin Farmanfarmaian, FutureMed Program Manager, Daniel Kraft
GE's Technology Leader for Biosignatures & Signal Processing, Babu O Narayanan
Julielynn Wong, Barnell Pell gets his blood pressure
May 11, 2011 in America The Free, Conference Highlights, Events, On Health, WBTW, Web 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack


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Not that trains are not running in this country, but strikes happen! Or sometimes it is simply impossible to get to a town/village by train. Then you only possibility is a bus. Since many buses pass through many different villages the cost of such a ride can be higher than by train. However, the competition still exists. During the summer from June to end of August, you may purchase a "Zomerwerfskaart" and travel by bus all day long for just 8.90 Euro. The only catch is that you can't use this card on the "Interliner" busses and will have to pay some extra fee (not too high though).
This card is great if you want to explore some smaller cities and villages. You can travel from province to province getting on and off a bus and explore the unexplored. Similar cards exist per province as well. You can purchase them for about 4 Euro.
Information about such discount cards can be usually found at tickets' booths located in train stations. Look for signs "B.B.A." or "Connexxion" and you won't miss it.
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The South Sudan Teacher Education Program (SSTEP) is a three-year, nationwide program supported by the United States Agency for International Development that focuses on strengthening primary school education.
How do math teachers grow and improve? A new research synthesis seeks to answer this question.
In the Curriculum Matters blog, EDC's Eden Badertscher discusses a partnership with the Pittsburgh school district to improve math education.
Funded by the National Science Foundation's Informal Science Education grant, National Partnership for After School Science 2 (NPASS 2) is:
EdTech Leaders® Online enables state departments of education, school districts, regional educational service centers, colleges and universities, and other educational organizations to develop local capacity to provide online professional development for teachers and administrators and online courses for students.
STEP works with the Ministry of National Education (MEN for its initials in French) to build the capacity of its personnel to offer high-quality training and support to Madagascar's growing numbers of teachers and schools. Based on STEP's successful pilot program in the provinces of Toliara, Fianarantsoa, and Tamatave, MEN is expanding the program nationally with technical assistance from EDC.
The Focus on Mathematics project seeks to increase student achievement and teacher quality by accomplishing the following:
Focus on Mathematics is a project of the National Science Foundation's Targeted Math and Science Partnership.
The National Center on Health showcases research-based practices to ensure the health and mental wellness of Head Start staff, children, and families.
The Center creates high-quality information to help every Head Start and Early Head Start program implement effective approaches to:
EDC is creating and studying a two year professional development model for middle school mathematics teachers with an emphasis on teaching struggling math students in the areas of fractions and rational numbers.
The professional development is composed of online modules, professional learning communities, and face-to-face workshops. Each of the online modules is one week long and covers:
EDC is developing an online professional development course on China based on the content of Primary Source's The Enduring Legacy of Ancient China. This course will be designed as a model that may be part of a series of online courses based on other Primary Source content areas. EDC will also provide online facilitator training to prepare online facilitators selected by Primary Source to deliver this online workshop to teachers in participating school districts or to other teachers recruited by Primary Source interested in this content.
Supported Literacy for Adolescents is a research-based literacy program. Its goal is to improve reading, writing, and comprehension among both high-risk and typically achieving populations. The program is deeply rooted in standards-based curriculum design, and all components of the program align with national reading and writing standards, as well as selected content standards.
The National Center on Program Management and Fiscal Operations works to strengthen the management of Head Start and Early Head Start programs. The Center will showcase best practices in program and fiscal planning, as well as address issues such as risk management, governance, data collection and analysis, and budgeting and cost allocation. Also, the Center will help organizations strengthen their infrastructure to better support a well-managed system of early care and education.
EDC has been awarded more than $14 million in multi-year grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to begin new initiatives or to continue ongoing work to enhance science and mathematics teaching and learning from preschool through high school.
A group of Indonesian educators visits Boston and Washington, D.C., to learn about school reform. Will it lead to changes back home?
This project is developing a series of online professional development modules for school counselors—middle grades, high school, and postsecondary student service professionals—that focus on career counseling and college preparation. The modules use a learning community approach where school counselors will participate in the project as a cohort and engage in structured online discussions with their colleagues and the instructor during each of the module sessions.
EDC's EdTech Leaders Online (ETLO) is now offering Common Core State Standards (CCSS) courses in Mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) to help teachers and administrators better prepare students for college and careers.
Scratch, developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, allows young people to program their own interactive stories, games, animations, and simulations, and share their creations with one another on the Web. In the process, they have opportunities to learn important mathematical and computational concepts, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively-essential skills for success in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workforce of the 21st century.
The Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast and Islands (REL-NEI) is one of ten regional laboratories and has a mission to help pre-K–16 educators use the best available evidence to make decisions leading to improved student achievement and reduced performance gaps.
EDC is examining the ways that ITEST (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) for teacher education projects leads to changes in classroom practice.
Specifically, the project seeks to understand what kinds of professional development activities promote and/or influence changes in teaching practices and the integration of innovative technologies in the classroom.
Learning and Teaching Algebra (LTA) seeks to address and resolve the root causes of poor student achievement, namely, incoherence in student curricula and incoherence in teacher professional development. The LTA project focuses on teachers in urban settings who are teaching eighth-grade Algebra 1 classes.
Writers' Express (WEX) is a year-long writing program for students in grades 3-12 and is supported through professional development for teachers and school administrators. EDC is conducting a research study to determine whether the program is effective for students in elementary schools.
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EDC is creating a series of online professional development course for teachers of American History. The courses will assist teachers in building their skills as historians, using primary source documents in the classroom, and making use of local historical sites and museums. Each course includes online readings, interactive activities, online discussions, assessments, and other Web-based resources. Additionally, EDC will train and support facilitators to deliver each of the courses to teachers from school districts participating in the project.
The Coaching Cycle project is creating an online professional development course for K–8 mathematics instructional coaches in rural areas and small schools who do not have access to regular districtwide professional development.
The course will build participants' coaching skills through the use of classroom artifacts, such as student work, videotapes, and transcripts drawn from the classroom.
The Coaching Cycle project will also examine how online learning and instructional coaching change teachers' instructional practices and increase student achievement.
The Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program is designed to increase opportunities for students and teachers to learn about and use information technologies within the contexts of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
ITEST supports:
This large-scale research and technical assistance project focuses on principals who are serving in elementary and middle schools.
EQuALLS2 increases access to quality basic education and livelihood skills in areas most affected by conflict and poverty in the Philippines (primarily the Muslim areas in the Mindanao island group in the south). EQuALLS2 is a large-scale project that seeks to benefit 345,000 children and youth in 37 municipalities and four cities by training 37,238 educators and school officials, building the capacity of 850 local education stakeholder groups, and expanding local education resources through public-private partnerships.
This project tests the efficacy of the Foundations of Science Literacy (FSL) professional development program that was developed for use with Head Start teachers.
By focusing on the Head Start community, FSL addresses the achievement gap in early science education by providing a framework for teachers to learn and implement preschool science instructional practices in classrooms serving children from low-income backgrounds.
The New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC) is one of 16 regional comprehensive centers that are federally funded to implement the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In doing so, NYCC engages the New York State Education Department in using research-based findings and rigorous evidence. The Center provides technical assistance services to meet the Department's priority needs and further the key initiatives of the US Department of Education. Additionally, the NYCC works with the State on emerging needs based on new statutes and policy mandates.
The New England Comprehensive Center (NECC) is one of 16 regional comprehensive centers that are federally funded to implement the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The NECC engages state education leaders in using research and best practice to meet the goals of NCLB. Our purpose is to design and deliver technical assistance services that meet education leaders' priority needs, further the key initiatives of the U.S. Department of Education, and have the greatest potential for building states' capacities to help districts and schools improve.
The Partnership to Improve Student Achievement in Physical Science: Integrating STEM Approaches (PISA2), a project of the Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology, is working with 12 districts throughout New Jersey to provide graduate training in physical and earth sciences and professional development to 400 in-service elementary and middle-school teachers and 120 school leaders over the next five years. EDC serves as the external evaluator for PISA2.
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Jacqueline Suzanne Hackett McNeil passed away on June 13, 2012. She was 77.
Jackie was a long-standing resident of Dover, and a 1952 Dover High School graduate. The former Miss Dover pageant winner of 1953 graduated from Bucknell University in 1956, and worked for Sen. Frear of Delaware until she married her high school sweetheart.
She was preceded in death by her former husband, Robert A. Mc Neil in 2006 and her son, Robert D. McNeil in 2007.
Jackie is well remembered for being an educator at Central Middle School for many years and was a member of Calvary Assembly of God Church.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Lisa and David Boothe, her daughter and son-in-law
"Andy" Amanda and "Pistol" William Robinson, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Visitation will be 6-8 pm Monday, June 18 at Pippin Funeral Home, 119 W. Camden-Wyoming Ave., Wyoming. Service will be 11:00 am Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Lakeside Cemetery, Dover.
Jackie was very fond of St Jude's Children's Hospital. As a two time cancer survivor, donations to St Jude in lieu of flowers can be made at www.stjude.org/donate or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memorial Program, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
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Painting in South Korea has always been a glorious form of South Korean Art. It has a long history and even tells the story of South Korea in pictorial form. The paintings belonging to different eras and portraying various aspects of Korean lifestyle is probably the best way you can know this place. Whether colorful forms or sketches it sure does give you a detailed insight into the Culture of South Korea.
The first ever paintings of this place are believed to be wall paintings, deciphered on some of the walls of tombs belonging to the Three Kingdom Period. From then each era saw some specialty or the other. In the beginning it was highly influenced by Buddhism. However Painting in South Korea has flourished gradually from the Three Kingdoms Period to the contemporary era and has also undergone innumerable changes over this long time period.
South Korean Paintings are classified according to its predominant characteristics:
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Patterns of Birds and Flowers
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Modern Painting in South Korea has found a firm footing after wavering a little. The period of transition saw a conflict between the traditional and the modern genre. With artists from both the genres trying to uphold their respective techniques the clash was evident. However what emerged as a winner was the South Korean Art which was a blend of both. It was only after the World War II that modernism crept into Korean style. The artists used many methods to incorporate it into the existing form. Even modern artists have taken a liking for subjects like nature, man and cosmos, with played a major part in conventional art.
However modernism in Paintings of South Korea became greatly visible between 1960 and 1970, when South Korean Artists took more interest in geometrical shapes and in intangible subjects. Establishing a harmony...


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|Quake (1996)
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|Mob Enforcer (2004)
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|Stunt Racer 64 (2000)
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|World Driver Championship (1999)
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|Twisted Edge: Extreme Snowboarding (1998)
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|Powerslave (1996)
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|Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (2015)
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|Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! (2010)
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|Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! (2009)
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|Powerslave (1996)
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|Death Tank (2009)
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|Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
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Unemployment insurance benefits are paid by the North Carolina's Unemployment Insurance Fund. This program is funded by taxes paid by the employers, there are no deductions applied to the employees' wages. Unemployment benefits are administered by the Division of Employment Security (DES). The division provides temporary financial aid to individuals that lost their job through no fault of their own. Applicants must be able and available for work, as well as actively seeking re-employment options to be eligible.
DES has the obligation to ensure that all beneficiaries meet the eligibility requirements according to federal laws. The Division of Employment Security also partners with the workforce community to offer the appropriate resources and skills to those seeking employment.
To be eligible for unemployment benefits, you must register for work at http://www.NCWorks.gov. Each week, you need to have contact with at least two potential employers on two different days. A work search record must be kept, as it might be requested to continue your benefit entitlement. As stated by the requirements, you cannot reject any offer of suitable work; otherwise, you can be disqualified from the program.
Initial eligibility will be determined after you file your first unemployment claim. To file a claim, you will need to provide the following information:
The Division of Employment Security will review your information and determine if you are entitled to benefits payment. If you disagree with an unfavorable determination, you can file an appeal and request a hearing. You need to send a written letter to DES and explain the reasons why you disagree with their decision. Keep in mind that the appeal needs to be signed and dated.
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