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This is What a White Supremacist Presidency Looks LikeComments
This could be the worst racial policy to come out of a presidential administration since Woodrow Wilson increased segregation in the federal government.
The Trump administration is working on new rules that would allow the government to keep immigrants from settling in the US, or even force them to leave, if their families had used a broad swath of local, state, or federal social services to which they're legally entitled — even enrolling their US-born children in Head Start or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
A draft of the new regulation, posted first by Vox, can be found at the bottom of this article or on DocumentCloud. (If the DocumentCloud link does not work for you, here is a direct link to the PDF.) Reuters originally reported on the existence of the draft regulation Thursday.
The rule wouldn't make it illegal for immigrants to use public services that are open to everyone regardless of immigration status, or that are available to their US-born children. But it would make it possible for the government to deny their applications for a new type of visa, or a green card, if they'd used those services. In other words, it could force them to choose between taking advantage of available social services, and their family's future ability to stay in the United States permanently.
If approved and finalized, the regulation would vastly expand the federal government's power to bar an immigrant from entering the United States, obtaining a new visa, or becoming a lawful permanent resident (green-card holder) by labeling the immigrant a likely "public charge."
Right now, the government can only consider use of cash benefits, like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, in "public charge" determinations. The Trump administration wants to give officials the power to look at use of other benefits as well, including:
some "educational benefits," including use of Head Start for children
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
use of any subsidies, or purchase of subsidized insurance, under the Affordable Care Act
food stamps
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) assistance
Housing benefits, like Section 8
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
transit vouchers
Make America White Again! This is how ethnic cleansing works in practice.


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Laura Osborne, a fifth grade teacher at Sand Hill Elementary School in Effingham County, GA, has received two special honors from the Air Force Association.
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Invasive Species: Burmese Pythons May Be Slithering Up To A Backyard Near You
The Burmese python doesn't belong here in Georgia, but good luck keeping it out. The huge yellow and black snakes are invading the Everglades, but they are on the move, possible to this state. "They are making their way out because there are so many in the Everglades right now that they need more room," said Sharon Collins, host and executive producer of Georgia Outdoors on GPB. "They've just about completely wiped out the raccoon population, the possum population. If it gets under a rookery or egrets or wood storks- bye bye."
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Balance and respect
Another victory in the courts for same-sex marriage brings another round of vitriol on all sides. Marriage equality hangs in the balance.
That is what I want to discuss here. Balance.
Like any victory, we want to run to the end zone and do a shuffle, pound a ball to the ground and turn to the other side and give them an "up yours" salute.
Some would say that is the least we deserve. Sometimes I count myself among them.
But if there is balance in this fight, that means the opposing team is bringing something to the game. So, let's shed the raw emotion for a second and analyze this.
While we can paint this discussion in black and white, right and wrong, David and Goliath, victors and losers, the fact of the matter is that there are sincere points on each side.
Some Utahns are sincere in their notion that marriage is about children and parenting. Some have deeply held religious beliefs and rights they believe are being called into question.
Yes, there are those who use these arguments out of sheer bigotry. But not everyone.
Most who will read this will know that I believe that marriage is about much more than raising children. It's about much more than exercising a couple's religion. It is also about end-of-life issues, tax issues, hospitalization issues, child issues, divorce issues, and of course, fairness. But all of those things don't necessarily negate what the "other side" is arguing.
As we celebrate another victory along our path, it is how we treat the "losing" side that we will be judged.
Will we stand across the street from the Church Office Building and mock, bare our buttocks and call names? Or will we recognize that others may have a differing view and offer them at least a modicum of respect which we would demand if we had ended up on the other side?
Remember — we fight for love.
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to a child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."
—Mahatma Gandhi
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much."
—Oscar Wilde


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I was led here by searching for away to get my Toshiba Satellite L355 working. During my search I saw THIS THREAD posted by DissatisfiedToshiba December 21, 2009 at 14:22:08 Pacific. I would like to know what can be done. There is no recovery partition and they want to charge me to fix it. What can be done?
... when you purchased your "Toshiba satellite l355-s7835" did it not arrive with recovery media?
... Toshiba do tend to supply them with new laptops or there should be an option to create recovery dvd's through the programs listing.
... what exactly is the problem?
... Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties
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I have worked on many Toshibas in the past few weeks, I have to agree that they are not the best brand to buy...so many problems, etc.
Like response #1 said...what problem are you having that requires a re-installation?
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Last year it was the 'waterproof' software update that clever, but evil, people over at 4chan thought up. Last time there were some that fell for it, and this time it's no different. It isn't the waterproof hoax that makes the rounds again, but rather the new iOS 8 Wave function. This time we heat it up a little bit instead of cooling it down.
In a clever made up, but fake, iOS 8 advertisement, people are told that they can charge their iPhones with their microwave after the update. It takes just about a minute. The fake advertising is being circulated via social networks, and some people are falling for it as it seems.
The mentioned information and function is utter non-sense, and the only thing that will happen is that your phone will burn and probably take your microwave with it to the afterlife. If unlucky you might even burn down your entire house. So don't try this at home, or any place else for that matter.
There are always people who act first and think later, and as such you can find beautiful images on twitter, of fried iPhones with evil comments on the posters less intelligent actions.
I tried using the new IOS 8 feature WAVE where you can charge your phone with a microwave, does not work @Apple pic.twitter.com/33NSv42hgO
— i dont (@rizarul) September 22, 2014
DO NOT TRY THE WAVE THING FOR IOS8!!! pic.twitter.com/g0N2ENJnrv — Bryan Kim (@bryankim23) September 18, 2014
Thank you ThatsNonsense for providing us with this information
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In an effort to make tagging photos in the social networking site easier for users, Facebook announced last week tag suggestions, a new tool that automatically groups similar pictures and suggests the names of friends who might appear in them.
When a Facebook user or a friend of a user uploads new photos, the site's new face recognition software will automatically match photos to other tagged photos.
"By making tagging easier than before, you're more likely to know right away when friends post photos," writes Justin Mitchell, Facebook engineer, in a post on the Facebook blog. "We notify you when you're tagged, and you can untag yourself at any time. As always, only friends can tag each other in photos."
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Crochet Kit Molly the Seehorse
This adorable seehorse is designed exclusively by Christel Krukkert for Hardicraft.
The seahorse will be approx. 17 cm in height.
Molly is the little friend of Mila (also available in our webshop).
The kit contains:
Pattern in English, German, Dutch and French
25 grams of turquoise cotton yarn
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If you are looking for a new truck to keep up with your active lifestyle and work as hard as you do, take a look at the full inventory of new 2020 Chevy Colorado trucks for sale at our local Chevy dealership. When you make the quick trip from Round Rock to our Austin, Texas, Chevrolet dealer, you'll find a wide selection of trim models and color options. Here at Henna Chevrolet, we're personally fond of the Pacific Blue Metallic paint. Drivers of the new Colorado pickup will command a 2.8-liter turbo-diesel engine that can tow up to 7,700-pounds and delivers an EPA-estimated 20/30 MPG (City/Highway). When you are ready to get behind the wheel, book your test drive in advance.
With a max payload of up to 1,578-pounds, the Colorado is ready for all the gravel you can throw at it. If you are looking for a new truck to haul large watercraft to the lake, keep up with you on the job site, or log long highway miles, the Colorado offers three engine options to meet your needs. Starting with the 2.5-liter 4-cylinder, drivers can expect 200 horsepower, 191 pound-foot of torque, and a 3,500-pound towing capacity. Upgrade to the available 3.6-liter V6 and horsepower increases to 308 and torque performance also raises to 275. With more horsepower and torque, the towing ability is now 7,000-pounds. Lastly, we have the available Duramax™ 2.8-liter turbo-diesel. Along with 369 pound-foot of torque and a 7,700-pound towing ability, this turbo diesel also boasts an EPA-estimated 30 MPG on the highway. What motivates you?
If you are looking for a new Chevy truck with Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™, you just found it. The 2020 Chevy Colorado boasts the Chevrolet Infotainment 3 System that keeps you connected to your compatible Bluetooth®-equipped smartphone. Control your favorite mobile-apps, audiobooks, navigation, podcasts, and more. To keep your device fully charged while on-the-go, the available wireless charging eliminates the hassle and mess of cords and cables. For passengers who like to plug-in, there are multiple USB ports in the new Colorado. The available 4G LTE Wi-Fi Hotspot also gives your passengers the ability to stream their favorite movies on the drive to Round Rock, Texas, from Austin.
To help you keep your passengers and cargo safe and secure, Chevy gave their 2020 Colorado a host of safety features. Notable systems include the standard rear vision camera, available forward collision alert, available lane departure warning, and available rear park assist. Now that you've discovered how the new Colorado keeps up with your performance demands, keeps you in touch with your compatible iPhone®, and looks out for your safety, you'll be ready to apply for lease deals and finance offers on new trucks. The finance associates at Henna Chevrolet make it easy to apply for new truck financing online from the comfort of your home.
We are excited to tell you more about this new truck for sale and help you choose the trim model that meets your needs. Will it be the Colorado Base with a standard locking tailgate or the Colorado WT with the available folding rear bench seat? The Colorado LT is a popular model due to its 6-way power-adjustable driver seat while the Colorado Z71 sets itself apart with a Z71 off-road suspension. At the top of the Colorado lineup for 2020 is the new ZR2 with the off-road appearance package and increased ground clearance. Which new Chevy for sale will find a home in your garage? Our sales associates are waiting to assist you. Take these step-by-step directions to our nearby Chevy dealer.


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NESU Estonia
NESU Estonia (Nordiska Ekonomie Studerandes Union), previously known as NESU Tallinn, was established in late 2010 by students from TalTech University and Estonian Business School with NESU Finland's support. Since then NESU Estonia has grown to become a well-known student organization. It has strong ties to Nordic NESU organizations, down the line is seeking opportunities to invigorate student life.
NESU Estonia interacts with other NESU cities by hosting events open for all organizations' members. On return members of NESU Estonia have the privilege of participating at NESU cities' events. The highlight of the year is the one-week NESU conference, held every Spring and Autumn. The conference consists of case competitions, lectures, and workshops at company visits, interesting panel discussions and lots of fun!
NESU offers its members an efficient way to get to know Nordic business life and to create a network of business students. It is a non-political, non-profit organization for university level business students. NESU does not carry membership fees, and all activities hosted by NESU Estonia are held in English.
Like us on Facebook or Instagram and you'll keep updated on our events!
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Elina Rautanen
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Silja Rouru
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I am treasured wife and girlfriend to Don, who by the way is pretty close to having developed the patience of a saint over the past 11 years. I am the constantly busy mother of 5, ages 6,7,9,10 and 11! (boy, girl, boy, girl,& boy) I love people and their idiosyncrasies! I enjoy having many friends with varying interest and personalities! God has richly blessed me! The notes above are only a small sampling of all He has accomplished on my behalf. YEAH GOD!!!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
I Know I'm Not The Only One..
My own "warming" to the idea started in the 5th year of marriage when I was pregnant with our 5th child. We had not had a TV in our house previously, but a friend had loaned us a 7" screen/ VCR combo. I occasionally used it to entertain Homer (4) Marlene (3) and Jon (2) for 20-40 minutes in the evening while I cleaned up after supper. It was a time of "blessed quietness"!(Delphia, 9months or so, was generally sleeping on Homer's lap. He was a great one for rocking the babies!)
Over the years the screen has gotten slightly larger, though still small, and we can play DVDs as well. There are times I have overused it as an excuse for being lazy. But all in all I find it like everything else in life: Balance is the key, and balance is actually much harder than reverting to one extreme or the other.
So, anyway, today we had a little friend over who had not previously visited without his mom. There was some question as to how things would go but thanks to Dora and Diego we have found a common ground. 20 minutes of the overly cheerful, bilingual toddler plus some fruit snacks and they are off playing on their own and I am trying to find the house I KNOW is somewhere under all the piles!
One last note. Due to Delphia's former craze with all things Dora we have quite a few episodes of her show. Monday I had to take Jesse to U of I hospitals for the yearly check up on his leg. During a down time out doors Jesse stayed busy running back and forth on a rise in the sidewalk asking me, "Mom, what does ___________ mean?" He threw in various, I'm assuming, Spanish words. I did know what Amigo meant, but beyond that, I had no idea if he was even saying a real Spanish word or just making one up. I'm not real crazy about being the uni lingual parent of a bi-lingual child. We may have to nix that chipper chick!
P.S. I am trying to choose flooring, I found some I LOVE!!! Guess what, it's the most expensive out there! Go figure. It's hard to pick something else when you've seen your hearts desire. I just have to keep remembering the choke inducing price tag!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Well Said
10 Year Anniversary! (yestserday)
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Getting Things Accomplished
We've had our address since last summer, but we finally have our "Emergency Response" address marker in place. Don will be working on getting the mail box up here soon, then we will be able to get mail!! I am planning to start changing the address on all our stuff as soon as the mailbox is in place. I drive by there 2x a day, and it will be one less thing to do at move time!The tractor is the kids favorite place to "stay out of the way".
Also, as of today, our septic tank and seepage bed are in place. Now we just need to get a toilet set up and we will have a bathroom! Thrilling I assure you! No more poison ivy scares!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Controversial (t)issues
My children are not real tuned into the weather changes and thus have been experiencing some "costume malfunctions". Due to continuing to go barefoot outdoors in the chilly weather, and possibly due to having a water fight in this chilliness, I have needed to place the tissue boxes at their winter posts rather than just stick with the single "summer" box of Kleenex.
Having some drainage issues of my own caused me to seek out a new winter favorite of mine: Vick's Kleenex. I LOVE these things! All the perks of a Halls menthol cough drop PLUS a thick layer of Vicks under your nose, but none of the mess! I just send the kids to bed with one and tell them to lay in on their pillow. (away from their eyes!) Personally I have not found a better way to clear out the morning mucus than smothering your self with all those fumes!
And herein lies the controversy. Not every one likes these "Spicy Kleenex". (my kids named them that)
Can you believe it? There are those who would rather not have a burning sensation run thru every orifice in their head when they wipe away a stray drip. Funny how that works!! Granted, these are not the tissues I use to wipe my eyes, but even as I sit here I am enjoying the proximity of these and the head clearing affects they have.
Someone very near and dear to me does not like these tissues. Better said, I think she may even hate them. They offer no comfort to her, and even a box of plain tissues set next to these takes on too many fumes for her to handle.
What do I do? Do I sacrifice the person for the preference??
Duh!!! No!!!! We just have two kinds of tissues in this house.( plain, spicy and extra crispy (Just Kidding! Please smile that was funny!))
This whole preference on tissues issue has really gotten me thinking about other preferences we all have and how they drive us and effect those around us. For example: music, hair, clothes, movies, books, food, family size, vehicles, bed time, parenting, teaching.... the list could go on forever!
More often than not, two people do not match up PERFECTLY when it comes to preferences. Even more uncommon is to find a group of people living lives with perfectly matched preferences. So how do we handle these oddities...in others?
One group of people we interact with often is our church family. Don't you think we should all agree on everything?!! Isn't that what unity is about?
I am convinced, "Not so much." Beauty lies in variation. Contrast brings depth, and nuance.
Which brings me to what I have been learning. I am responsible before God for my response to the preferences of others. I don' have to join them, but I neither do I have to "beat" them.
Who knows, He's may even want me to facilitate THEIR preferences and die to my self!
Friday, September 12, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Hurried Updates
rolling down the road and I would think, "OH! I wish they were headed to our house!!!!" The trucks finally rolled into our place last month to supply the concrete for our basement floor, and once again this weekend to pour the stoop cap, and bases for our egress window wells. It's funny how simple a deal it seems now, but I do remember how painfully I wanted them to be going to our house!!
Exhibit B is rather hard to make out, but at the top of the picture there is a flag which is mounted on the tip top of the equipment our well drillers are using. Yeah!!! A well!! (another big milestone!)
Granted, Don was less than trilled to pose for this picture, but it is a tribute to my mother and her sewing skills. They have saved us a fortune!!!!
I just cracked up, no pun intended, (I am a McCallum by marriage) when Don was headed off to work Saturday morning. At present this pair of work jeans has 3 patched holes in the back, and one new one needing patching. This doesn't include the patched seam in the front... Let's just say we needed to keep the work clothes G rated....
So again, thanks mom! We started this project with 3 pair of grubby jeans, but were it not for patching I would have been spending money on new jeans just to have them destroyed!!! One pair was sacrificed for the patching material, but we still have 2 pair in circulation.
Oh! Funny note: My dad and Don's mom share a birthday, today! Happy Birthday!!!


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Anyone who works in the construction industry knows the inherent dangers of onsite tasks. It's no surprise that accidents and injuries are common in an environment that includes power tools and heavy machinery. But apart from the obvious risk of injury, contractors also face liability risks that could result in lawsuits. Here are a few of the most common risks that contractors face, along with tips for minimizing them.
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Rough day in the shop….first trip did not go well, was making mistakes, could not concentrate on things…ran the Stanley 45 along the wrong edge…..hands were getting too close to sharp objects….closed the shop. Went back upstairs until the mind could focus on the jobs being done. Much safer that way. Did not leave any "Fresh DNA" on stuff in the shop.
Kept stewing about it all day long..it kind of got me irish up…...was finally able to calm down, and focus that evening, enough to get a little bit done….
First off, I cleared anything that wasn't needed to be on the bench….until just what I needed for that job was left.
Made a jig to act as a "plane stop"...
Where the part was flush with the edge of the bench, wanted clearance for the fence of the Stanley 45. Then added a stick to the end vise. I tighten the vise to "lock" the stile into the jig..
At least I can even use a smooth plane. Saw marks from where the company ripped a 2x down had to go. Edges were planed, as well
With the correct part ( this time) I could make a bead along that edge…then lay the stile flat..
Three cuts, to make one molding..
Repeat for the other stile….
Had to keep clearing shavings from the plane..
Since I was using a depth stop, which was also a trap that held shavings. Some even were jammed between the skate and the fence…..but at least it wasn't cutting too deep. The smooth plane?
Just an old Stanley,type 10. Stiles were done, would need to reset the jig, as the rails are quite a bit shorter
That "blue ball"? that be a scratch awl, that I was using to clear the shavings from the Stanley 45. Was getting late in the evening…time to stop for the night…stay tuned for part 2, aka The Sunday Follies….
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Working through best practice of creating collector dashboards. The various data collecting tasks provide a wealth of info that can be customized as desired into widgets for such a dashboard. But there doesn't seem to be anything that can provide visibility into the underlying collector mechanisms (tasks, processes, thread, cpu, mem, etc) that support netflow operation. Would probably be nice to be able to see such info, and to be able to put it onto a collector dashboard particularly since its best to pipe netflow to a dedicated collector.
Working through best-practice of setting up collector dashboards. Instead of navigating to Settings-->Collector would anyone find value in being able to create a dash widget that displays the collector version? Perhaps even some way to display current running version, other available versions and their status (R-GD, O-GD, EA), and timestamps of version upgrades that occurred?


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Daily hydration instead of hydrating cream.
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Email marketing is as old as the Internet. Although some spam filters have been able to remove unwanted messages from going into an individual's inbox, when email marketing is done right, it is helpful for the recipient and the sender. Use the information in this article to help improve people's lives and increase your income.
Every single person on your email marketing list must request a spot on it, so never add anyone against their will. If you don't get permission first, you may get lots of spam complaints and even lose otherwise loyal customers.
Implement different sorts of resources and gain as much knowledge as possible about email marketing. There is a wealth of information available online about this. Locally, you may even find seminars or workshops to help you work on your campaign, so consider contacting business groups near you for more information.
Be sure you get a subscriber's permission before emailing. Businesses that are taken seriously do not send out mass mailings via email. You could lose customers and get reported for sending unwanted emails.
A double opt-in list is a great way to ensure that anyone who signs up for your list actually wants to be there. Although that may seem like overkill, it ensures that the individual truly wants your emails and reduces the likelihood that you will get in trouble for sending spam.
Try to send only one email campaign message each week. Most of your customer base probably has to tend to many other email messages each day. Sending more than one a week may make them skip or delete your messages without regarding your work.
If you want your marketing emails to be effective, give your customers lots of options. This can include how much mail they will receive, how frequently your newsletter will be sent, and how much of their personal information they want you to have. Being able to control their experience will make them more comfortable with your brand and your emails.
Make sure that you have an unsubscribe link that is easily visible within your emails. Do not forget to insert the unsubscribe link or put it in a hard-to-find spot. You should strive for your readers to feel that they are in control and that you're not controlling them.
You want every email campaign to have feedback that is passive as well as active. Active feedback means things like customer opinions or suggestions. Passive feedback could even be invisible and is subtle to the reader. Passive feedback is comprised of the tools and monitoring techniques you use to see which links receive the most clicks and to determine the open rates of your emails.
If you do email marketing right, it doesn't even look like marketing. The reader doesn't even realize the email is an ad. They will anticipate receiving your messages if you offer something that is worthwhile. This is beneficial to more than just your brand. Building relationships with your customers will lead to loyalty, increase profits and a better reputation. Apply the tips you have learned here to expand your email marketing campaign and watch your business grow.


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That headbutt….that statue
GOTP Editorial Team
Posted on October 26, 2012
A controversial work of art has just been placed outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris – a statue of Zinedine Zidane headbutting Italy's Marco Materazzi, the last action in the career of a great footballer.
Quite why Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed has chosen to immortalize this pivotal moment in bronze is anyone's guess. And quite why the French have placed it so prominently is another mystery.
While football statues seem to be cropping up everywhere – Henry (Arsenal), Osgood (Chelsea), Moore (Wembley), Bremner (Leeds), Robson (Newcastle) and countless more – they are generally celebrating a player. Is Zidane's statue meant to do that? Or is it irony?
Perhaps it is a statement from the artist who wants to point out that if Zidane had stayed on the pitch, France may have beaten Italy in the 2006 World Cup final. Let's face it, the game was up for grabs.
As for the statue, it's poor. There's something a little homoerotic about it, and as one report said, Zidane looks like a stumbling tailor's dummy. Zidane deserves better recognition of his talent – the most entertaining Frenchman since Cantona, the greatest since Platini.
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You Need to Know the Various Important Things That You Need to Consider When You Are Looking for the Right Medical Imaging Equipment.
If you are focusing on adjusting your health center so that you have more space for treatment and diagnostic procedures, you need to ensure that you can figure out the right equipment store that you will need to consider. This will include ensuring that you are working with the right firm, technicians and treat patients who will ensure that they refer other patients to your facility. You will enjoy some benefits that are normally associated with buying the latest model equipment, and this will play a great role in your business.
Get to know what you need and see if the patients appreciate the 3D ultrasound or the best 4D images that will work great for your facility. There is need to ensure that you can carry appropriate due diligence to ensure that you can focus in life in a great way. You need to know that for you to be able to get the right facilities, there is need to ensure that you can carry out the right services in the right manner.
Discover some of the important strategic measures that you need to take when you are looking for the right service providers who see the equipment. You need to ensure that you get to know the right price that will work for you when you are working with the right service provider. You need to know the price depending on whether it is new or refurbished.
You need to ensure that you have the environmentally friendly equipment, this means that if the equipment fits well in your hospital. You may have successfully got the right initial buying price, but when it comes to maintenance services, it may be a problem to your business, and this may be significant with the services that you are going to be doing.
Before you end up getting the right services, you will need to ensure that you have the right facilities that will ensure that you can come up with the right services. Get to know that for you to be able to carry out your services in the right manner; you need to have that the documents that will offer you enough time to be able to figure out what is good for the repairs in the best way. The longer the number of years the more reliable the equipment can be and this will play a great role in the facility that you have invested in bringing at your health center.


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About Social Innovation Hub
Coworking Office Space - Dublin 9. Professional co-working space at a highly affordable rate.
Daily rate €10, monthly rate €192.
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Meet the Committee
The Fellowship is organised into Regions, who elect their own Secretary, who are part of the National Committee. To hold it all together we also elect National Officers every two years. Former Chairmen also sit on the National Committee, so we can gain from their wisdom and experience (???)
Who's who in the Fellowship
And here they are:
I'm Nicky Partridge, currently Chairman of the fellowship of Christian Motorcyclists. I became a member of the FCM in 1995, shortly after passing my test, thanks to the parents of my best friend at school who knew of it through a friend of theirs. Incurious as I was I did not find this out until I recognised him at my friend's 40th birthday party, some 15 years later. It's a small world! It was friendships already gained in the FCM that kept me riding after my first miserable winter on the bike (Honda Benley 200) and after I worked on the spinal injuries ward at Stanmore..... I have been on some great motorcycling tours overseas with members of the FCM. It is great as most of us already have two things in common (only having one of those things is OK too!) Come and join us!
Nicky Partridge.
National Chairman.
February 2020
If you have any questions about "Giving your life to the Lord", or "Baptism, or anything else about Christianity, then please feel free to get in touch with us and we will try to explain it (or put you in touch with someone who can).
Membership Secretary
Publicity Officer
BMF Rep
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National Secretary
Hi, my name is Ric Pirson (pronounced "person") but I'm more often known as Perce. I was born the youngest of six boys, in Middlesex to a motorcycling family.
It's no wonder then that my first bike (of sorts!) came along at my 16th birthday. A Puch Maxi moped. 49cc of raw power! With pedals for extra go! My 17th saw me taking delivery of a brand new blue CZ 175. Eighteen months of commuting into central London saw two accidents, which I & the CZ survived and then the acquisition of a Triumph TR6R, basically a single carb Bonnie, with a Morgo 750cc conversion. It went like the clappers!
Next up was my second brand new bike, a Moto-Morini Strada 500 in steel grey. It was wonderful, so long as the weather was above 4 degrees C, Below that the carbs would ice-up open! Sadly Harrods were not so impressed with the Morini and drove one of their vans over it & me in Knightsbridge. I survived the bike didn't. Next on parade, for 22 years, came a Honda CX500.
Although my ownership of the CX lasted 22 years, I didn't actually have it in my keeping all that time. When finances didn't allow the luxury of the bike, it was lent to a mate who needed it. When it came home it was 7 years older and in a rather sorry state. No matter, I spent far more than it was worth on it and the return of the "grin factor" was complete. 1st September 2001 brought a very clean and shiny Bonneville into my life. Many will testify that since that date I have done all in my power to cure the shininess and it's now generally known as the "great unwashed Triumph".
My Christian life is no less an exciting journey. I first made a commitment at Sunday school at 7 years old and promptly forgot all about it. Moving on from that Church to another where the Cubs met, it was not until I was 21 that I realised all they were telling me about Jesus was true.
Richard (Perce) Pirson.
National Secretary.
March 2017
I go by the name of Robert and have just taken up the role of FCM treasurer again (I was there a few years ago), and am happy to say that we're still solvent. Health (and age) is now catching up, making long distance riding not so comfortable, but I still love riding around the English and Welsh countryside on my Honda Forza, or any other powered two wheeler I get the opportunity to try.
Robert Morris.
September 2019
My name is Sally Rice and I am the Membership Secretary for the fellowship. I am a Maths Teacher (Secondary) in the Suffolk area, but I hail from South East London. My fit of madness recently was to agree to be the Secretary for my church!
I started to ride on an old Honda SS50, moved up to a Yamaha RXS100 and now currently ride a Kawasaki GT 550. Hope to meet you at some point through the year.
Sally Rice.
Membership Secretary.
July 2019
I am currently a vacant post, waiting for some keen member of the Fellowship to fill. Any takers, please see the National Secretary who will be more than pleased to tell you all about the job.
I M Vacant.
Publicity Officer.
March 2018
I'm Tim Rice and I get to put together the monthly magazine of the fellowship, Trans:Mission which contains all the latest run adverts and reports from completed runs and generally helps the Fellowship know was, has and is happening.
I have been riding bikes since I was 16, starting off on a NSU Quickly moped. It may not have been stylish, but it was fun! Living and working in the London area makes travelling around on two wheels quite important (if you want to know you can get somewhere in a certain time) so the only breaks in my motorcycling career have been due to finance coupled with dead machinery. Recent changes in my work means that I get the occasional blast around Kent and Sussex at company expense (sorry, to attend client meetings,)
Having joined the Fellowship in 1996, it wasn't until around 2000 that I was able to join in on runs (2 young children taking up a lot of time plus no working bike - it died soon after I joined). Since then, it has been ride after ride of fun and fellowship, gaining friends that you know you can rely on. Being able to share our Christian faith during these events is the icing on the cake. Some outings are tours around the countryside, some to sites ranging from industrial / motor museums to bird sanctuaries and anything in between. We've even organised trips on the Continent. Food is usually liberally mixed in, so if you join us an a run I would be surprised if you went away disappointed.
When I get out on the road it's on a Triumph Trophy 900. Being keen on staying in one piece, I finally passed my advanced test (on two wheels) in June, three days before heading off to India to ride some of the highest road in the world - in the aid of charity of course.....
My wife and I are members at a local Grace Baptist Church in Thamesmead.
Hope to see you on a run at some point through the year.
Tim Rice.
July 2019
In a fit of madness at this years AGM I put my hand up and volunteered to take on this role. My last involvement with the FCM Committee was when I was Chair over the Millennium. Let's see what I can do this time round.
Phil Crow
BMF Rep.
March 2018
My name is Stewart Rice and I am the Web Master for the Fellowship. Any problems with this site end up with me 'cos I built it!
We are constantly trying to add new features to the site so, if you do have a problem, or would like to suggest an improvement, then let me know.
Stewart Rice.
Web Master.
March 2018
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Published: Jul. 12, 2019 at 4:24 PM EDT
A Floyd County man was arrested in late June on sexual abuse charges.
The sheriff's department charged Eric Roberts, 23, of Prestonsburg with first-degree assault and third-degree sexual abuse.
According to court documents, Roberts held a woman down and injected meth into her arms before groping her.
Officials said this happened on June 22. He was taken to the Floyd County Jail.


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The sophomore took on Windham outfielder Aaron Martineau and forced a high pop into left field to end the game and preserve a 4-2 victory.
With one out in the top of the seventh and Windham's Juan DeJesus at first base, Jack Risley hit a ground ball to Lyman Memorial's Jake Tarbox.
The second baseman quickly flipped it to shortstop Joe Gamache, who tagged the bag and threw to first.
The Lyman dugout began to erupt following the team's third double play of the game, but that eruption was capped when the base umpire's hands went up, signaling Risley safe at first base.
"I thought we had them," Bulldogs coach Marty Gomez said. "It was a bang-bang play, and you usually get that call to the end the game but we didn't."
Windham's Luis Vega then followed with a double to the gap in right-center.
"You could just feel the momentum (shift) and it was like, 'Oh, boy,' " Gomez said.
The only one not flustered, however, was pitcher Evan Hopkins. The sophomore took on Windham outfielder Aaron Martineau and forced a high pop into left field to end the game and preserve a 4-2 victory.
It was a kind of coming of age game for the southpaw (3-3), who not only had to battle Windham but his own body.
Lyman (10-8) broke out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on Frank Bazzano's two-run single and Hopkins' RBI hit. Vega (2-5) also allowed three walks in the inning.
"We didn't pitch well early in this game," Whippets coach Ken Valliere said, "and we haven't pitched well throughout year, and that's where it starts. ... When I say haven't pitched well, it's walks, walks, walks, that have hurt us."
The Bulldogs added another run in the second when Justin Starr scored on an error, but the Whippets cut the deficit in half in the third when both Gil Torres — with the first hit off Hopkins — and Brady Labbe, who had walked, scored on an error.
Hopkins went into the fourth having allowed just the one hit, but after he picked up the second out of the inning with his eighth strikeout, he ran into another problem.
"My calf started to tighten up and it was tough to stride off the mound," Hopkins said. "It was a tough last couple of innings."
Gomez had to let Hopkins continue as the Bulldogs, already pitching thin, still have games with Cheney Tech tonight and Somers on Saturday to finish the regular season.
"We've been hovering around the .500 mark, and my goal has been to be playing good baseball going into the (state) tournament," Gomez said. "We might just catch a little lightning and surprise a couple of people in the tournament."
A double-play got Hopkins out of trouble in the fifth, but he got back into trouble in the sixth. Vega and Martineau singled, and an infield error brought up Torres, who already had two singles. Hopkins jumped ahead in the count, 1-2, but then threw two balls.
"I knew he was the one who was hitting me," Hopkins said. "I was nervous. I just wanted to make a good pitch."
A fastball on the outside portion of the plate and up in the zone turned out to be good enough. Torres lofted it to right field, where Starr had to make an early adjustment to the slicing fly ball before making the catch.
The loss meant Windham (7-11) still needs one win in its last two games to qualify for the state tournament.
"Hopefully we can do it against Ledyard on Saturday," Valliere said. "Not that I don't think we can't beat E.O. Smith on Tuesday night, but you never want to get to that last game where you have to win."


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Lucknow: In a gift on the eve of Teachers Day, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday announced to give the Seventh Pay Commission recommendation to the teachers and its associated cadre of the state Universities.
However, the new pay scale would be implemented for the teachers, while the related cadre of agriculture and technical varsities, along with the veterinary colleges, would be given the same later.
The decision was taken by the state Cabinet here on Tuesday, chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Briefing the mediapersons here, state government Spokesperson and Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh said the new pay scale to the state and related cadre will be enforced from January 1, 2016.
The new pay scale would be enforced in 18 state varsities, which also includes one law university, one deemed and an open university. He said the government will have to bear a financial burden of Rs 921.54 crore for this hike and in the first year, 50 per cent of the burden would be shared by the Centre. The Minister said the Cabinet has also in-principal approved the implementation of the new pay scale to the teachers of agriculture and technical varsities, along with the veterinary colleges, but it will be enforced in later dates. UNI


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A new music is coming to Dublin's Dame Street next month in September.
'The Underground' is the name of the new venue set to open shop next door to Peadar Kearney's pub and will be run by Dave Judge - the owner behind Abner Brown's barbershop.
Judge said:
"The Underground was an iconic place back in the day and I hope to recreate the vibe just a few doors up from the old venue , very excited about this project, it'll be a place for music lovers and for all of you people who've supported Abners up to now. Open in mid Sept all going well.''
Judge told The Irish Times that acts such as Something Happens, The Fat Lady Sings and Lord John White will be the opening acts when the venue first opens.
It is reported that the venue will also lead this year's Hard Working Class Heroes festival.


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KStar News
for MBC Drama awards, whoever is winning, as long as it is JYJ member, i'm on it so Yoochun-ah and Jaejoong-ah fighting for drama awards and Junsu-ah fighting for your concert !!!!
Besides Junsu's 3-day 2012 XIA Ballad & Musical Concerts with Orchestra between the 29th-31st,
Jaejoong and Yoochun will attend the 2012 MBC Drama Awards on the 30th!
And Yoochun will also attend the 2012 SBS Drama Awards on the 31st!
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5 reasons you must get the Galaxy J7 Prime
Are you looking to buy a new Samsung smartphone but don't want something overpowered like the Galaxy S7? Then we know the right phone for you. Here are 5 reasons you must get the Galaxy J7 Prime.
Galaxy J7 Prime: good performance, great cameras
The first reason is its design. The Galaxy J7 Prime looks good with its metallic body. If you are considering to buy one, then go for the Black color, it will make your phone looks better, showing off the curve of its 2.5D screen. The display is the second reason why you must get this phone. Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime is mounted with a 5.5″ Full HD screen. The phone uses PLS LCD panel, giving it a wide-angle view and nice color display. However, the color is a little colder compared to other displays.
Fingerprint scanner is the third reason this phone is a must buy. Surprise! Yes, this phone comes with a fingerprint scanner, a little out of the ordinary for a mid-range device. Fingerprint scanner allows the phone to take advantage of many applications and smartphone payments feature. Sooner or later, fingerprint scanner will be a must have for Android phones.
The phone has really good performance compared to other phones at the same price tag – the fourth reason to get this phone. RAM and ROM are two most notable things of Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime specs. The phone comes with a 1.6GHz octa-core Exynos 7870, 3GB RAM and 32GB ROM. Thanks to 3GB RAM, the phone can multitask easily without experiencing many bottlenecks, even under heavy gaming. The fifth reason is Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime cameras. The device sports a 13MP f/1.9 back snapper and an 8MP f/1.9 front one. Both cameras produce images with high quality, vibrant colors and sharp details. However, the back camera can be a little slow to focus on objects, especially in night time conditions.
Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime: a mid-range beast
Those are the reasons why we think you must get the Galaxy J7 Prime. At the time this article was written, Galaxy J7 Prime price is around $245 ~ Rs. 16700, a perfect price for a mid-range flagship from Samsung.


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Sports Report - Year 7 Rounders
10 excitable year 7's travelled to Haygrove for their very first Rounders tournament representing Chilton Trinity. The sugary sweets and singing on the bus on the way added to their hyperactivity. We arrived before any of the other schools, so of course our first game was against Haygrove. We batted first in the hope of scoring some massive rounders as we had done for the two previous weeks in practices. Nerves got the better of the girls and they failed to make contact with Haygrove's fairly slow bowling, although Jayla scored half a rounder from their misfields and 5 of our players were out by ball 10, some due to sensible fielding by Haygrove, but mostly due to silly running. Haygrove's bowler kindly gave us two half rounders to take our score to a pitiful 1.5 rounders.
Haygrove had drawn with our score by ball 7 but the Chilton girls kept battling to try to keep the score down. A few small hits from Haygrove secured them half rounders and 3 big whacks gave them the win with 6. First loss for us.
Game two was against King Alfs. Everyone scored on their first hit, whether it was a half or whole rounder. The girls were awesome in their hitting and intelligent running. Chilton 11.
King Alfs weren't too susseccful in hitting Ophelia's bowling, however, we bowled them 2 rounders worth of no balls. and they scored 4 halves for a total of 4. A win for us.
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Dr. John Nicklow was appointed President of the University of New Orleans in March of 2016. His priorities focus on enrollment growth and student success, strengthening the campus' research enterprise, and building partnerships with alumni, the community and regional business leaders. A native of western Pennsylvania, President Nicklow earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University. He began his career as an Environmental Engineering Officer with the U.S. Public Health Service. John has more than two decades of higher education experience as a faculty member and administrator with a proven track record in research, enrollment management, student success initiatives, fundraising, campus-wide collaborations, and academic program innovation. Prior to his ascent to the presidency, he spent nine months as the University's Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He previously held the position of Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Southern Illinois University, as well as earlier appointments as Assistant Provost for Enrollment Management, Associate Dean of Engineering and Professor of Civil Engineering at SIU.
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Washington, DC
I. Gorman Jewelers
Service Type
Commercial Interiors • Hickok Cole Lifestyle
Project Type
Retail / Entertainment
3,500 sf
2008 AIA Virginia Society Award of Excellence, Interiors
2008 AIA Potomac Valley Chapter Award of Merit, Interiors
2008 Instor Magazine Second Place, Small Store Category
2008 NAIOP MD/DC Award of Excellence Best First Floor Use
2008 Mid-Atlantic Construction Best of 2008 Awards Award of Merit, Interior Fit-Out
Having successfully outgrown their original store location, the Gormans decided to relocate to a new space. They hired an Architecture firm to create a design that would display twice as much inventory and complement modern jewelry. They also requested the incorporation of recurring design elements: Selective Drama, Warmth, Elegance, Hip/Cool, Inviting, and Timeless. In addition "All design details need to be original and cannot resemble anything previously seen."
The design process began with examining consistent concepts and connections displayed throughout the Gormans' jewelry collection. The designers used recurring elements such as asymmetrical compositions, tension, sensitivity to transitions and visual connections, combined with consistent forms and shapes to create a fluent architectural vocabulary.
As pedestrians rush down a fast paced street, a dramatic contrast of a crisp white backlit resin panel illuminating "I. Gorman Jewelers" can easily be spotted with a contrasting rich wenge wood form wrapping the pre-cast structure of the existing building. At a closer glance towards the large storefront window, three wood exterior display cases appear to be floating between the storefront glass panes. These cases are persuasively smaller to entice potential clients in for a closer look.
The design team visually defined the store into five areas: Entry, General Jewelry, Bridal, Men's Jewelry, and Intake. The Entry area includes the vestibule and bar area for guests to ease into the store gradually. General Jewelry showcases everyday-use jewelry and blends smoothly with the overall ambiance, where customers venture through arrangements of custom designed display cases. Bridal is intimate with sit-down cases for one-on-one consultations, sheer cream drapes cascading across the walls, and small champagne-like bubble lights suspended along the recessed cove ceiling. Men's Jewelry is defined by smooth confident forms with dark wood features that easily transition to the next defined area. Serving as the drop-off area where clients bring their repairs or purchase merchandise, Intake is located at the rear of the store and stands out with custom millwork constructed with dark wenge wood and white resin.
Customers are first welcomed with custom designed dramatic back-lit onyx wall, white resin beverage bar, a curved dark wood and white resin structure that supports three suspended circular display cases, and a brightly hip and abstract custom carpet filled with hot pink, a variety of reds, and orange linking circles. Two bold confident forms resting on one another create the beverage bar, accompanied by multiple floating bubble lights suspended sporadically at different heights. The luminous appearance of the onyx wall slowly transitions visually throughout the duration of a day. In the morning, the crisp white store's natural characteristics of faintly grey and red veining are visible. Around lunchtime, pockets of warm light start to appear, forming organic patterns intertwining with the more visible grey and red veining. At dusk, the entire wall glows, attracting attention from both inside and outside the store.
I. Gorman Jewelers is an elegant and inviting space with hip and memorable details that stand as a confident unified backdrop for exquisite jewelry for years to come.
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In 2012, a preteen entered the emergency department at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., with a high fever, weight loss and diarrhea. The attending pediatrician suspected a rare, travel-related infectious disease, as the child had just been in Southeast Asia.
Specialists combed through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website for health alerts from the region. They ran tests. All came back negative.
Only after two days did the hospital turn to a diagnostic decision-support software program called Isabel. Once a clinician typed in the child's symptoms, a list of potential conditions popped up within seconds.
The specialists quickly realized their initial mistake. "Biased by the patient's travel history, we didn't consider a pretty straightforward diagnosis," recalled Dr. Paul Manicone, associate chief of the hospitalists division for Children's National Health System. Isabel directed the team's attention to hypothyroidism, a condition they had overlooked.
By Joseph Conn | March 20, 2015
Electronic health-record interoperability is at the heart of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's half of a two-pronged federal rule-making effort announced Friday.
The new rule covers the next phase of the government's $28 billion EHR incentive payment program. The ONC portion deals with the technical aspects that EHR developers must meet for their systems to quality for use in the program. A tandem rule for Stage 3 meaningful use also was released Friday by the CMS covering providers' use of the technology.
The ONC portion takes dead aim on achieving interoperability, a goal set by Congress in 2009 that has been on the back burner as regulators initially focused on promoting EHR adoption.
The proposed new rule "identifies how health IT certification can support the establishment of an interoperable nationwide health information infrastructure" and also lists nine priorities.
Topping the list is a proposal to adopt "new and updated vocabulary and content standards for the structured recording and exchange of health information, including a Common Clinical Data Set composed primarily of data expressed using adopted standards."
It also specifies use of the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture, or C-CDA, an exchange standard developed by Health Level 7, a not-for-profit healthcare standards development organization.
The rule also listed as a top priority facilitating the exchange of healthcare data through "application programming interface capabilities," which would make the use of APIs a testing and certification requirement. APIs are essentially software intermediaries that allow different devices and systems to understand each other and to share data.
The shift in emphasis to interoperability was foreshadowed in January when the ONC issued a 10-year "Interoperability Roadmap" that, among other things, set as a target the selection, adoption and widespread use and exchange of a common set of electronic clinical information at the nationwide level by the end of 2017.
Using federal persuasion to move the healthcare industry toward the widespread use of APIs was a key recommendation in a 2014 report by a panel of scientist/advisors known as the JASON, which looked at interoperability problems confronting the healthcare industry under contract with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
A modified version of the JASON recommendations are being explored by a consortium of several large healthcare providers and major health IT developers known as the Argonaut initiative.
Another priority in the new rule is the required adoption of technology known as data segment for privacy, or DS4P, which uses so-called metadata tagging to earmark certain data for special handling in compliance with federal and state privacy laws.
One particularly stringent healthcare privacy law, known as 42 CFR Part 2, requires that providers obtain the consent of patients in federally funded drug and alcohol treatment programs each time their medical records are disclosed to another healthcare organization, even for treatment, payment or other healthcare operations. DS4P technology enables the attachment of those consents—or constraints—to patient's electronic records.
The ONC noted DS4P technology has moved from the drawing board into use by providers, pointing out that a Florida organization with DS4P technology "has saved some hospitals millions of dollars associated with the cost of care." That's because "the patients they treat with substance abuse or behavioral health issues were able to send an electronic referral and get a discharge performed earlier in the process," the rule makers wrote.
Last year, a federal advisory panel recommended taking only "baby steps" toward requiring the use of DS4P technology in the EHR incentive payment program.
ONC rule makers said they are proposing only an "initial step." They're requiring qualifying developers to create EHRs that can apply privacy tags only to entire documents containing sensitive information, and that these documents can be sent and received with the tags.
The ONC will not require vendors to develop systems that can tag discreet data elements within a record, such as a specific, sensitive prescription or lab test result, even though that's technically possible to do.
The 431-page ONC rule is slated for official publication in the Federal Register March 30, which will trigger a 60-day public comment period. A final rule is expected to be issued this year.
Software in compliance with provisions of the 2015 Edition criteria won't be required for use by providers in the EHR incentive payment program until 2018, but, theoretically, the systems could be adopted as early as next year if vendors perform the upgrades and have their systems tested and certified to the new standards before then.
modernhealthcare.com | By Michael Sandler | October 5, 2015
(This story was updated at 1:30 p.m. ET.)
Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Elliot Health System and Frisbie Memorial Hospital will jointly own a new company with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care that will share clinical information and financial risk for 80,000 New Hampshire residents.
The joint venture, called Benevera Health, will bring together financial and clinical data to give the partner providers access to analytics that can help them manage care for all of the New Hampshire members in Harvard Pilgrim's fully insured plans.
The organizations' executives said Monday that they would make significant investments in technology to support the effort. Premiums for Harvard Pilgrim members will be 4% lower than they would have been without the venture, they said.
"Our new company is a game changer," Harvard Pilgrim CEO Eric Schultz said in a news release. "The goal is to vastly improve patient care in New Hampshire by injecting personnel and new technology that will provide doctors and other clinicians with the information they need to help their patients make the best choices about their healthcare. "
More providers could be joining the venture, officials said.
Harvard Pilgrim is in talks with seven other hospitals about being included in the venture, said Rick Weisblatt, chief of innovation and strategy at Harvard Pilgrim.
The ongoing discussions revolve around what the providers' capital contribution would be, what the budget would be and how governance would work. Harvard is seeking more hospitals through this calendar year, and he expects providers to decide by mid-November.
The joint venture is aiming to involve a broad coalition of hospitals for the company, Weisblatt said.
Helps alleviate the age-old question: How much is my co-pay?
September 28, 2015 10:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time
WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A visit to the doctor's office often includes the moment when the patient is asked if they have a co-pay and the amount. With numerous health plan options available to consumers and the growing popularity of tiered network plans, this question is no longer as straightforward as it once was. Sometimes neither the patient nor the health care provider knows the answer. Co-pays now vary widely based on a combination of factors that can lead to confusion. To help remedy this, Tufts Health Plan created a new tool for providers that accurately determines a patient's co-pay in real time and based on their specific plan information.
"With our new tool, the guesswork is eliminated. Providers have the confidence of knowing the correct co-pay amount to collect from their patients and our members. As a result, the overall experience is improved for the physician, their office staff and the patient."
"This tool has been extremely helpful in helping us manage patients as they enter the door," said Sabrina Latimore from Mount Auburn Hospital. Latimore manages the Pre-Admission Review Department. "It can be confusing trying to determine what the patient's cost-share is, this tool provides clear and concise information and lets us focus on what matters most: the patient's health. Tufts Health Plan has been a great partner by listening to our needs and proactively providing us with a tool that allows us to be more efficient and to better serve our patients."
Tufts Health Plan currently offers a variety of tiered plans on the market. In tiered plans, hospitals and physicians are grouped into different levels or 'tiers' and members pay different amounts for co-pays, coinsurance and deductibles based on the tier designation of their health care provider. If a provider cannot determine accurately what tier they are in relative to their patient's health plan, they may charge the wrong co-pay amount, leading to the patient overpaying or the provider being underpaid – resulting in frustration for both parties involved.
"Tiered network plans were created to reward quality and help decrease health care costs – ensuring value for members and employers. However, these types of plans are still new to market," said Marc Spooner, Tufts Health Plan's president of commercial products. "We began hearing from providers that a major pain point was determining the correct co-pay amount for their patients – and we decided to take action."
Tufts Health Plan proactively created this new provider co-pay tool to meet the needs of providers and their patients. The Plan held focus groups and surveys of providers to hear their feedback on the program and continue to make modifications and improvements based on ongoing feedback from providers. Some of the positive feedback included providers saying:
The new Provider Co-pay Tool, available for providers through the Tufts Health Plan Provider Portal and through a standard eligibility and benefits EDI transaction, supports providers in Tufts Health Plan's commercial products network and is in line with its overall goal of providing more cost and quality transparency for members, employers and providers. The plan is achieving this through the creation of innovative Cost & Quality tools including the introduction of EmpowerMe, an online cost estimator that allows members to more effectively manage their health care costs by providing highly personalized cost information on their medical treatments and out-of-pocket expenses. Additionally, Tufts Health Plan recently enhanced its existing 'Find a Doctor' search tool to include quality and cost information that can be accessed by members.
Sep 25, 2015 |Jessica Bartlett Reporter Boston Business Journal
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is backing a medical imaging company, with the insurer announcing a $5 million investment in LifeImage.
The six-year-old Newton company specializes in sharing medical images with multiple providers, with the goal of reducing duplicative procedures, reducing radiation exposure, and improving care coordination within a health system.
Zaffre Investments, which is the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and spearheaded the investment, said the LifeImage technology had the potential to improve care delivery and patient outcomes in Massachusetts and beyond.
"LifeImage represents technology that we believe enables these goals and makes it easier for patients to navigate the health system," said Tuoyo Louis, managing director of Zaffre Investments, in a release.
In addition to the funding, Zaffre Vice President Steven Fox will serve as board observer at LifeImage to make connections between the technology and providers in the Blue Cross network.
Already, LifeImage is being used by more than 120 multi-site health systems in the country, including in Massachusetts.
"We continue to build out and enhance this intelligent, interoperable health data network and are excited to expand our strategic partnerships with industry leaders who share in our vision," said Hamid Tabatabaie, LifeImage CEO and co-founder, in a release.
The investment follows a $17.5 million financing round the Newton company received in May. That funding was led by Cambia Health Solutions, with participation from existing investors Cardinal Partners, Galen Partners and Long River Ventures.
To date, the company has raised $62.3 million.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) announced today the collective commitment of all 36 independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) companies to contribute comprehensive data on healthcare quality and costs to Blue Cross Blue Shield Axis SM (BCBS Axis SM), an industry-leading data capability that is unprecedented in scope and scale. BCBS Axis powers the transformation of healthcare by providing insights and solutions for employers, consumers and physicians to improve the quality and affordability of care.
This commitment vastly expands the volume of data included in BCBS Axis, which reflects more than $350 billion in annual claims along with 36 million provider records and more than 700,000 BCBS patient reviews. The breadth of the data makes BCBS Axis the healthcare industry's largest aggregated data resource and the only one that includes information from every ZIP code in the United States.
The data include more than 2.3 billion procedures conducted annually from more than 20,000 healthcare facilities and 540,000 physicians. It allows Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies to equip employers, consumers and physicians with accurate and actionable information based on their vast data resources. Covering 1 in 3 Americans, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System is uniquely positioned to provide insights and intelligence on healthcare quality and cost at the local, regional and national levels by drawing on data from a network that includes more than 92 percent of physicians and 96 percent of hospitals nationwide.
"The depth, breadth and scope of the data in BCBS Axis are unprecedented," said Scott Serota, president and CEO of BCBSA. "Through our actionable data, and the speed at which it is available, we are leading a transformation of the healthcare system to improve the quality and affordability of care."
BCBS Axis gives employers a deeper understanding of their workers' care needs and utilization. Employers can quickly and accurately benchmark their organization's performance to deliver better outcomes for patients and more affordable pricing. By leveraging the data, BCBS companies also help consumers gain access to reliable and accurate information on more doctors, hospitals and procedures. This enables them to locate the right doctor at the best value and make better informed, personalized healthcare decisions. The unmatched breadth of data in BCBS Axis also powers solutions for healthcare professionals by benchmarking care delivery patterns and driving more coordinated, patient-focused care that improves health outcomes for patients.
To learn more about BCBS Axis, visit http://www.bcbs.com/axis.
About the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is a national federation of 36 independent, community-based and locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies that collectively provide healthcare coverage for more than 105 million members – one in three Americans. For more information on the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and its member companies, please visit www.BCBS.com.
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Healthcare Informatics | September 23, 2015 | By Mark Hagland
Accountable care organization (ACO) work continues to move forward at the Springfield, Massachusetts-based Baystate Health, a six-hospital health system serving large swaths of western Massachusetts. Anchored by flagship facility Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, the health system encompasses six hospitals, 80 medical groups, and its own health plan, Health New England, which has 200,000 members. Baystate Health serves 900,000 patients across four counties.
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Life as a Healthcare CIO | John Halamka, MD | September 22, 2015
The September 2015 HIT Standards Committee was notable for the naming of new members and for the incorporation of the NwHIN Power Team (Dixie Baker) Standards Maturity model in all of ONC's planning.
MobiHealthNews | Aditi Pai | Sep 23, 2015
Pharma company AstraZeneca has publicly released preclinical data from more than 50 of its medicines in order to find new drug combinations for cancer treatments. The data AstraZeneca released will be used in a competition it created in partnership with the DREAM Challenge, a non-profit, collaborative community that runs crowdsourcing efforts for biology.
People who participate in the challenge will develop computer models that identify the properties of drugs that make them powerful when combined. Anyone who has the training or expertise to work with these models is invited to participate. The winners of AstraZeneca's challenge will be able to submit their prediction for publication in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Other organizations that partnered with AstraZeneca for the challenge, which is called AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge, include the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the European Bioinformatic Institute, and Sage Bionetworks.
"AstraZeneca has a deep and broad oncology development program assessing combinations of immunotherapies and small molecules to address the significant unmet need across a wide range of cancers," Susan Galbraith, head of the Oncology Innovative Medicines Unit at AstraZeneca, said in a statement. "This open innovation research initiative complements our own efforts brilliantly and we are delighted that the findings could be published for the benefit of the global scientific community."
Combining cancer therapies can often be more effective than monotherapy, AstraZeneca explained, and this increases the possibility that a patient will overcome drug resistance.
AstraZeneca has released approximately 10,000 tested combinations that measure whether a drug can destroy cancer cell lines from different tumors, like colon, lung, and breast cancer tumors. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is making genomic data available to DREAM Challenge participants for all of these cell lines as well.
This isn't the first time AstraZeneca has invested in crowdsourcing for its medicines. In April, Boston-based patient network PatientsLikeMe announced a five-year research collaboration deal with AstraZeneca. As part of the deal, AstraZeneca will have full access to PatientsLikeMe's global network, and the company will use the data to shape future medicine development and work to improve outcomes in different therapeutic areas, with an initial focus on respiratory disease, lupus, diabetes and oncology.
Health IT Security |Elizabeth Snell on September 21, 2015
Strong health IT security measures are essential for healthcare organizations of all sizes, especially with cybersecurity threats on the rise. Covered entities need to ensure that their systems are current with the latest security options, and also conform with federal, state, and local standards.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has a set of standards for handling IT security, and Tufts Health Plan recently conformed to the ISO 27001:2013 Standard Security Program. Everything from physical and electronic security must be considered before the health IT security audit is performed, as well as access control to human resources security and regulatory compliance.
Tufts Chief Information Security Officer Deb Stevens discussed the preparation process with HealthITSecurity.com, and said that working toward complete health IT security is critical for all healthcare organizations.
HEALTHITSECURITY.COM: Tell me about what the ISO certification means to Tufts Health Plan.
DEB STEVENS: To Tufts Health Plan, the ISO 27001:2013 certification allows us to convey to all of our constituents, and therefore our competitors, that we pay a great deal of attention to security, that we have an ongoing cyber security program, and that we care about security: we invest in it. The cyber security program is recertified every year to ensure we continuously meet the requirements.
HITS.com: What went into the preparation process to get ready for that?
DS: The preparation process for us started years ago when we built our cyber security program off the ISO 27001: 2005 standard, as well as NIST's standards. At that time, all of the industry and all of the security regulations for privacy and security were coming out, both at federal and state levels. All of those states have unique notification and privacy laws as well. Rather than waiting for new laws and regulations to come out and then reacting, we chose to be proactive and map out our program based on the ISO 27001: 2013, or the earlier standards, and conduct a quick map and gap as new regulations came out.
This process took a number of years to build out the program, and then four years ago, we started mapping out the framework and preparing to get certified.
HITS.com: What advice would you give to other healthcare organizations that are maybe working toward their own certification?
DS: Start by mapping their current practices against ISO 27001:2013 to get a baseline of where your cyber security program is and start the process based on risk. This way, you have a better understanding of the data, programs, processes, and documents that are already in place and can then make thoughtful investments based on risk, budgets, etc. to become certified.
HITS.com: What was the greatest challenge for Tufts Health Plan in working toward the ISO certification?
DS: ISO 27001:2013 certification requires that you have an internal audit performed by a third party and while we were successful in identifying the best partner for Tufts Health Plan, we also had to work internally to identify the right team members to assist and respond during the internal audit phase. Finding that appropriate third party partner could be a challenge for other organizations.
HITS.com: What do you think are top issues right now for healthcare organizations in terms of their data security?
DS: Advanced persistent threats, or APTs, on end points, such as your desktop is a top issue. So often today, people – end users or anyone who has access to a computer – become an unwitting part of an attack. You get an email that looks like it's from your friend, your bank, or a company you're buying something from, and when you open it, your machine is being infected by malware that intends to steal data. This is similar to many of the attacks that have been in the news as of late, which is really part of a daily news cycle: who got hacked today?
So, advanced persistent threats and end users not knowing the role they play are both key issues.
HITS.com: What are key takeaways for healthcare organizations following large-scale data breaches, such as Anthem?
DS: It depends on the breach itself. If it's a breach where something has gone wrong, for example, that could be a result of not investing in security. If someone has a laptop or other mobile device that is not encrypted and they lose it, then there's a breach, and that's a poor demonstration of due diligence, which could have been avoided by simply spending $50 to encrypt it. That's one end.
On the larger end, and I think it's highlighted every time a major breach occurs, there are entire groups of "soldiers" who do nothing but try and hack into companies, like with Sony, and the same can happen to healthcare organizations. When those types of people want to invest in the resources needed to access your data, that's difficult to combat and plan against. Managing risk while enabling business and proactively monitoring, is key to any cyber security program.
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What steps are you taking to ensure that your clients are providing a safe work environment for your temp workers?
If one of your temp workers gets injured – or worse – on the job, you may be held liable. Joon LLC (dba Ajin USA), an auto supplier in Cusseta, Ala., along with two staffing firms – Alliance Total Solutions and Joynus Staffing Corp., collectively face $2,565,621 in penalties for federal safety and health violations.
Like most manufacturers, Ajin, which stamps metal parts for Hyundai and Kia vehicles, takes advantage of robotic machines. On June 18, 2016, 20-year-old Regina Allen Elsea, who was employed as a temporary worker, was crushed to death in a robotic machine. Apparently, the auto assembly line halted, as a sensor on a robot appeared to be malfunctioning. Elsea and three coworkers entered the robotic station to fix the faulty sensor. Suddenly, the robot restarted, crushing Elsea and knocking her unconscious.
She died the following day at University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital, two weeks before her wedding day.
An investigation of the accident by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration led the agency to issue citations to Joon for 23 willful, serious and other-than-serious violations, including 19 egregious instance-by-instance violations. The two staffing agencies were also cited $24,924 each for two serious safety violations – failing to utilize specific safety procedures to control potentially hazardous stored energy during maintenance and servicing and not providing or ensuring employees had locks to properly shutdown machinery.
According to Dr. David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor for OSHA, "Kia and Hyundai's on-demand production targets are so high that workers at their suppliers are often required to work six and sometimes seven days a week to meet those targets. It appears that – to reduce its own costs in meeting these targets – this supplier cut corners on safety, at the expense of workers' lives and limbs."
Alliance and Joynus provide approximately 250 temporary employees to Ajin. Elsea was hired to work at Ajin through Alliance.
According to a Payday Report article, the National Employment Law Project Senior Fellow, Deborah Berkowitz, who served as chief of staff of OSHA from 2009 to 2013, says the $2.5 million fine is larger than any fine OSHA issued throughout 2015.
While the article mentions that OSHA's Regional Emphasis Program was designed to crack down on safety violations in the auto industry in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, Southern lawmakers believe the program is a disguise to target Southern auto plants with inspection in order to help union drives.
But aren't these lawmakers missing the point? Why aren't they stressing the importance of safety on the plant floor?
OSHA has since placed Ajin in its Severe Violators Enforcement Program that focuses on recalcitrant or disobedient employers that endanger workers by committing willful, repeat or failure-to-abate violations.
Knowing this, would your staffing agency continue to support companies like Ajin with temp workers? What about your other clients? Do they observe and enforce OSHA's safety regulations?
This may be a good time to add workplace safety to your criteria for the type of employers you partner with and assist by placing temp workers in their plants or factories. Then maybe Elsea's death won't be in vain.


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