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(Sioux Falls, SD) –The Sanford Diabetes Program recently received the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Education Recognition Certificate for providing a quality Diabetes Self Management Education Program.
The Sanford Diabetes Self Management Education Program has been recognized since 1987, and for the last nine years, has provided the coordination, oversight and support for 12 locations throughout the Sanford Health system to achieve recognition. Each location provides diabetes education services to people in their region. Recognized locations include:
- Sanford USD Medical Center – Sioux Falls, SD
- Sanford Hospital Canton-Inwood – Canton, SD
- Sanford Luverne Medical Center – Luverne, MN
- Sanford Sheldon Medical Center – Sheldon, IA
- Sanford Regional Hospital Worthington – Worthington, MN
- Sanford Jackson Medical Center – Jackson, MN
- Sanford Merrill Medical Center – Rock Rapids, IA
- Sanford Tracy Medical Center – Tracy, MN
- Sanford Vermillion Medical Center – Vermillion, SD
- Murray County Medical Center – Slayton, MN
- Orange City Area Health System – Orange City, IA
- Pioneer Memorial Hospital – Viborg, SD
- Windom Area Hospital – Windom, MN
Each site attends quarterly meetings at Sanford to update knowledge, remain current on the standards of care and develop best practices through innovative ideas. The Diabetes Program Coordinator visits each location yearly to review data, outcomes and documentation.
To be recognized, each program must meet the National Standards for diabetes self-management education. These standards require that programs develop a process for the delivery of diabetes education that includes a standard curriculum and structure, employ qualified professionals who have specialized knowledge in diabetes, education and behavior change and monitor outcomes to continuously strive to improve care. Application for education recognition is every three years.
The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading non-profit health organization supporting diabetes research, advocacy and information for health professionals, patients and the public. Founded in 1940, the Association has an area office in every state and conducts programs in communities nationwide.
For more information about the Sanford Diabetes Program visit www.sanfordhealth.org.
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Super Smash and Double Dash Tournament Weekend
Registration is open for Friday Night's Super Smash Bros. Melee Tournament from 6-9 PM for ages 13 and up, and Saturdays' Round 2 in the Super Smash Double Dash Championship Series! Register now to bypass long lines at the event and get right to open play. Tonight's Melee tournament will be 100% ITEM-FREE, so those of you that have no love for lady luck can relax a little, but remember that you'll have no excuse if you lose. Read on for more.
Saturday's Clan Battle will have a similar format to round 1, except for a different final game, of course, and I think we'll do kart first for 8 2-player teams for full clan participation. Also, based on your suggestions, each member of your clan that is present must participate in at least one phase of the clan battle, so keep that in mind. I've got a great surprise game lined up, so get speculating.... see you tonight and tomorrow!
a lot and are you coming i want to play you 1v1 and ive beeten pickwick a couple times and eric twice in a row
people i beat, ithink in the tourny: FJW, Doomblaze, and this super noob who i dont know his name
I'm da wiena all da time!!!!
Those tourtaments reminded me of the good old days 40 people and Eli was the only staff member their. one reason i think attendance was so low was because the thread pooped up a little too late and no items scared away some people.
Also will this tourney be on CTN
limabean beat me on Mushroon Kingdom II CAUSE HE IS SUCH AN F***ING NOOB AND DIDNT WANT TO DO FD, F***ING NOOB, you dont deserve to be alive, all that said, he just spammed dash attack with shiek, and i still almost beat him, even thought Mushroom kingdom II would be the worst IC course ever (no room to get under opponent, stupid blocks), judging by ur skill limabean (if you have any) i would 4 stock you on FD, NOOB. anyway Mdidget i lost in the semis to limabean
Derek, i heard you hid...on a cloud...with peach
I felt that you would be the peach to represent me and beat Shenron fairly
but alas, a cloud ~sigh~
EDIT: MY guesses for 1v1 melee =P:
For 2v2:
Ownerer and Lucky_Fetus
FjW and Juggleguy
Shenron and Limabean
Hmm... Well what character did this super noob play?
And I'm undecided if the super makes it better or worse to be said person.
And calling Yellow Kirby "Asian Kirby"... makes you racist ;) (referring to comments at the tourney, not on messageboard)
so who won the clan battle this time? we are hard is probably the best clan right now because they randomly got the 2 best melee players there. and monkeyman beat lucky fetus in elims becuz "sudden death is unfair". i lost to ownerer (no surprise there) in the first elim... but i killed him once! (which means little) it was funny when shenron kept on saying i suked with marth becuz we lost 2 him in team. we were 1 of the 2 teams out of the 17 that advanced who got a first and a second. we played limabean and shenron again. we shut them up. ^_^
I AM GOSU I WILL PWN U I AM L33T!!![gtlogo:SDK]
three words, We Are Hard...
we utterly dominated, totally and completely, and yeah, we won the clan battle
and Limabean, good match, im not making any excuses, all that happened was, you played a good match, and we played a bad one, and MDidget, ur predictions were pretty much what happened
you know a clan is good when 1835 pts gets you 5th place in your own clan
and those two random guys that we added arnt exactly random, plus they dont even play mario kart at all.
Our clan is #1,
Single smash: two people from our clan for 2nd and 3rd!,
Double smash: 2 out of 3 clan treams for 2nd and 3rd!
Singles cart: 1st place
doubles cart: 1 out of 3 teams into the finals
None of the above was luck
That was fun. When is October 14th?
I'd like to bring an old topic of discussion back from the graveyard: Double Dash Time Trials. In the GT Kart events, though talent no doubt plays a large part in determining the outcome, there is an irremovable element of randomness generated by items and by the lack of choice regarding vehicles or characters. As there is little that can be done to alter this state of affairs within the framework of the tournaments, it falls to "Time Trials," the only truly objective means, to measure absolute driving skill. One milestone on the path toward excellence is the overturning of the Staff Ghost times, which manifest themselves in the form of permanently-saved course ghosts representing the vehicles of the game's creators. About a year ago, I claimed to have beaten all of them, which met with disbelief on the hands of a few, a fact which rankles even to this day. And I quote:
"Beating a staff ghost is all,[sic] but impossible."
"Pickwick I can't believe you on the grounds of impossibility. I have a hard time believing that you beat one of them let alone all of them. Also it is impossible to beat the staff ghosts without the Bowser kart. Without the 5 stars you can't acheive the speed neccesary[sic] to meet let alone beat the staff ghost time. I personally saw a video of the staff ghost on Daisy's Cruiser and I don't believe that is possible for a player who didn't design the game to beat it and especially with a 1 top speed kart."
It is by no means impossible, I have done it many times with many karts, and I would like to submit some of my times as evidence of my assertion. If you beat or have beaten any of them, you win a cookie for each one!!!
Luigi Circuit: SG time: 1:26:300 My time: 1:23:441
Peach Beach: SG time: 1:20:400 My time: 1:16:595
Baby Park: SG time: 1:11:100 My time: 1:09:546
Dry Dry Desert: SG time: 1:50:750 My time: 1:46:951
That's enough to start.
Pickwick, i think it sounds like a really fun idea, but you would have to have all 40+ players have time trials on the same single course, also, also, if you generated random characters like how it is now than it would make the time trials unfair, right?
i found baby park staff ghost easy 2 beat... i got 1:08:995 on it after i got the hang of cutting my turns really close(my whole clan can vouch 4 me)and i beat peach beach the first time i tried. mario kart ds staff ghosts r all really easy 2 beat except special cup. (iv beaten 25/32)
I AM GOSU I WILL PWN U I AM L33T[gtlogo:SDK]
What up gamers?
four words:
we got boost power
Bad Driver, the Mini-Turbo is your friend, on straights and turns alike.
Doomblaze, that's a very, very good time; what kart did you use?
Swain212, I wasn't very clear about it, but I didn't mean to suggest that the library switch to Time Trials; that would make for a much less exciting, and only somewhat more fair, competition. Rather, I wanted to start a sort of ongoing contest over the forum, wherein the Kart players would compare their best times online. If nobody else is interested, that's fine, too.
Mdidget, you weren't there.....
Alright seriously, wtf. I just came to check to see what time the tournament was this coming weekend and found out that it was last weekend. This is the second month this has happened, although last month it was a saturday/sunday thing. My whining is based off the assertation that a tournament has never been on a weekend in the middle of the month before. <_< Ian, you sit next to me in Humanities, I'm in your clan. Give me a heads up or something next time >_>
*using a sarcasm tone* Yeah, good goin' Ian. We couldv'e done better with 4 people in our clan. *end sarcasm tone*
"I'm not a geek, I'm a Level 12 Paladin!"-Kevin S.
"Snails don't go that fast, they're too ticklish!"-A Driver's Ed video
Holder of post #6000
No, really, don't flatter yourselves. It's really just because we have lives to attend to.
"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-GR... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli
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Moneymatches are awesome!!!
We should moneymatch if your name is:
Pickwick the Second
B--......whatever your name is who plays Sheik and is ProtoFalco's brother.
MDidget????if you come
I think that's it?
Also, I want to play Duck, but only in a 'friendly'. Zelda vs Zelda, haha.
AIM: sdmsaa
pwnerer, ive played you enough to know that a moneymatch with you would only mean lost money, on the other hand, if you count me killing you 2 times in a 4 stock match as a win for me, id challenge you then, cause i know you cant 3 stock me, only 2 stock
lol, monkeyman shouldnt be on that list, i 4 stocked his sheik and his falcon with my icys, but the person that is b... is actually oroachimaru and you should also add Juggleguy, a formidable marth that i now have trouble 2 stocking, usually a close match
yea... i can beat monkeyman and if i really try i can 2 or 3 stock him, he shouldnt b on your list (no offense ryan) and i can beat u FJW, so i dunno if u should be on the list either. im just glad pwnerer couldnt 2 stock me in the tourney ^_^ i wana c u lose money nishant :P
I AM GOSU I WILL PWN U I AM L33T!!! [gtlogo:SDK]
i suicided once in that match, and i need to play you agian Doomblaze, btw you need to L-cancel,
yeah oroachimaru got 2nd and 2nd on singles and doubles smash and protofalco got 3rd and 2nd on singles and doubles smash, im sure plenty of other ppl placed in at least 2 events
matt, ive 2 stocked him every time, hes never beaten my (except that one time i was using mew2, lol) ask him matt, he was lying when he said he beat me twice in a best out of 5, weve never even played a best out of five
i lost to rob after he almost ken combo'd me
it was really close, he edgehogged my parasol at a low percent
and you guys (FjW) were watching and was like "A peach that wavedashes!?!??!??! WTF?"
oh btw FjW, do not try to give advice to Arjun, he's just too stubborn
well nothing if you can do it right, if you do it wrong you basically do a ground float that immediately cancels, pretty useless, but when done correctly can actually be quite useful, but it doesnt go as far though, long WD's go to icys and luigi
i like how the clan boards, and not to mention the player leaderboards are extremely messed up. i hope this can be fixed accurately. it's..... it's freakin me out.
any captain falcon users?
and i would TOTALLY moneymatch. provided of course it's not for insane amounts. i roll cheap. haha.
Hmm. Moneymatch versus Ownerer, a player against whom I have a record of 0-5, when I've hardly played the game since last year's GT.... Maybe; I second Lain's position on the matter, though. When and where would this be?? And would you mind my effecting the turning up of my handicap to 9?
Regardless of the presence of money on the line, I would like to play you, as well as the other Melee experts new to this year.
Bad Driver, I'll describe one lap on Baby Park, and the others are pretty much the same. Get a rocket start; pull outward slightly, then Mini-Turbo (henceforth, MT) inward, then MT around the corner. MT against the inside wall, but facing outward, then do the same again; pull away from the centre and MT back in to position yourself for the turn, around which you will, of course, MT. As soon as you've made the turn, MT against the inside wall again twice, then from the outside inward once, and you should be at the end of the starting side, ready to make the first turn again. Just repeat from there. If you don't manage it perfectly on the first try... well, you can start a club with me; that's the way all the World Record times for the course were made, but, oddly enough, it seems to require some practice. I can do two per side consistently, but if I try for a third, it slows me down. World Record for Baby Park: 1:04:234.
the following are the only stages that should be allowed
2. battle field
3. mute city
4. dreamland 64
5. pokemon stadium
6. Fountain of dreams
7. big blue
8. rainbow cruise
9. yoshi's story (the one without the big clouds, only the tiny one, cant remember the exact name)
those courses are the fairest in the game, giving no significant advantage for any one character
i think final destination should b banned, because jigglypuff and kirby can get back on the edge if they get hit under it. it should b banned because if give a significant advantage to those 2 characters, and fox/falco can snipe from the edge. if you dont wana play all the stages go 2 a "real tourney" where its final destination 1v1 without time... and fjw, if your so good, u should b able 2 get somemore melee wins. I AM GOSU I WILL PWN U I AM L33T!!! [gtlogo:SDK]
my 5th slowest time is now 1:08.822, off the start I slide into the wall (all as one slide) then, let it boost me right, then left, then I slide left into the corner, just enough to make one small spark. Right after every turn I pull the control stick hard to the right to keep direction.
you shouldnt be talking arjan, i need to play you again, with like say my mewtwo (loljk) or maybe my shiek, and definitely with my icys again. and at "real" tourneys, they play like best out of something, say 5 or 7 or maybe even 11, anyway, the first match is a random stage from the 9 i listed, then after that the loser picks the stage. you should know that, and there is almost always a time limit, and yeah no items, usually 4 stock 8 time, and i do get melee wins, just not in singles, rob and i DOMINATE in team, always getting 2nd or 3rd, losing to those two black guys in our clan, anyway, i lose at singles cause icys suck in sudden death (stupid library rules, its always sudden death, 3 stock 3 time, WTF?!?!?!?) thats why im switching to sheik and mewtwo for the next smash singles when it is FFA, and yes swain212 did get like 1:08:822 on baby park, used the train kart with toad and paratroopa, i saw him do it, but the only thing is, the record is under my name, lol, his lap record is like 9:238.
I can't believe I agreed to play that black guy's Falco on FD. I was thinking about forcing the match to be played on a random stage, but I hate it when people do that to me, so I just conceded the stage selection. He ended up owning me. I gotta learn how to deal with short hop blasters and those upthrow to upair combos.
Matchups that make me happy:
Captain Falcon
Another Marth
All low tiers
Matchups that make me sad:
for the short hop blasters just SH and shield a lot, then take small WD's forward, for the u throw to uair just DI the way he is facing as soon as he throws you, add (high level icys to matchups that make me sad)
matchups that make me happy
fox (except ownerer)
C. Falc
most shieks
sad matchups
shieks that spam dash attach
and anything ownerer plays
And also, Doomblaze, you are one of the higher up Kart competitors too, so that's actually inflating your scores. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
"OK, next year we're going to change the tournament name from AADL-GT to AADL-GR... "Goat Rodeo!!!" - Eli
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i'm not too big on the double dash scene. ick.
well hey peach is one tough customer. won with her on the team event. : )
i loved how on the finals those two guys wanted us to pick final destination. (i believe those same ones that coaxed Jugglyguy to pick FD), we decided flat out no against that, and went for a random. we got yoshi's story or something and it was great. haha.
playing a shorthopping falco on a completely flat stage is like instant death. haha.
the moneymatch thing could be done at the library. wink wink. maybe a little sidebet in the tournament too huh?
doomblaze, it doesnt matter who is better at smash, and anyway, i did horrible at FFA
i got 2nd 2nd and 4th losing EVERY time sudden death, you do sudden death with you as IC and the others all shieks marths and samus on any course, and tell me ur results :P, u'll see at the next tourney (which i probably wont be going to, unless it rains that day, so everyone hope for rain, yay)
FJW brings me to my points of things that need fixed.
Melee put that extra minute back on most games went to sudden death i personally like FJW lost 3 times in sudden death. Also lower kart back to 2 races and maybe have 3 for co-op because co-op usually only has 2 elmination rounds.
also friday night reminded me of the good ol days 5 qualifaction rounds. Although it would have been nice to have double elmniation.
Also in the clan battle finals the other clan kept complaing cause they owned it they wanted to play a hard course and wanted to turn off handicap.
hey bad driver , you might wanna commas, but i agree with you, and sorry about being a b**** about the suprise round. i'll do the commas for you, just to make it up
FJW brings me to my points of things that need fixed.
Melee: put that extra minute back on. Most games went to sudden death, i personally, like FJW, lost 3 times in sudden death. Also lower kart back to 2 races and maybe have 3 for co-op because co-op usually only has 2 elmination rounds.
also friday night reminded me of the good ol days 5 qualifaction rounds. Although it would have been nice to have double elmniation.
Also in the clan battle finals, the other clan kept complaing cause they owned the game they wanted to play a hard course and wanted to turn off handicap.

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We are not sure if the man in this video shot outside a Montreal Best Buy is pulling an elaborate prank, is genuinely angry about something or is simply out of his flipping mind, but it provides the official "WTF" moment of the day. If you watch the video to your left you'll see a man appear in the frame suddenly go berserk with what we assume is a freshly purchased PlayStation 4. He angrily tears at the console's box, raises it over his head and slams it on to the pavement.
I am pretty sure his warranty doesn't cover THAT.
Thanks to MONTREALITY for sending this in…
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Bruiser isn't too happy when left in the car.
Tagged: bruiser
Hot Cars
Bruiser's 5K race
Good luck to all the Gathering 5K runners tomorrow in San Antonio. Make sure to stay on course unlike Bruiser.
Texas Heat
Don't make the same mistakes as Bruiser.
Smartphone troubles
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The 2006 Vail Film Festival opens today with a screening of Ambush Entertainment's "The Oh In Ohio" directed by Billy Kent. The Festival will screen 75 films from around the world, including 20 feature films, 16 world premieres, as well as 55 documentaries, short films, animated films, action sports, student films and television pilots. Closing the festival on Saturday, April 1 is Paul Weitz's "American Dreamz." For for information visit their Web Site. [Helen Silfven]
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June 1, 2013
Volume 77, Number 6
Finding the Right Job
Lars E. Helgeson, M.D. Committee on Practice Management Aparna Ananth, M.D. Committee on Practice Management
Having a job ready after graduation is a major focus for a CA-3 resident. You may have decided if you want to do a fellowship, go into private practice, stay in academia or go military. You probably have a fairly good idea about geographic preferences based on family, climate, social, financial or other factors. Perhaps you are open to going anywhere as long as you get the "right" job.
So what is the right job?
A great job for one person may be a very poor choice for another. It is essential to put some thought and effort into finding a practice that fits your personality, temperament and expectations. Put simply, the practice should be a good match for you and you need to be a good match for the practice.
Before anything else, you need to have an honest conversation with yourself:
1. What sort of practice and life do you really want?
2. Do you want to work harder and longer to have a robust income, or would you prefer a lower income with better work-life balance? Would you like to work part-time to accommodate your other commitments?
3. Do you enjoy the challenge of complex cases on a regular basis, or do you prefer less stressful cases in general?
4. Is it important for you to have access to certain types of cases, e.g., cardiac or pediatrics?
5. Do you want to be in a large group or work in a small community hospital?
6. Do you want to do your own cases or supervise CRNAs/anesthesiologist assistants or residents?
7. Are you interested in research and academic pursuits?
8. Are you interested in practice management and administration?
Other issues must also be considered.
1. Spouse considerations are central.
2. For many people, being close to family is vital.
3. For some, cultural and ethnic connections are important.
4. Do you like the big city or prefer small-town life?
5. Are you single and happy, or are you looking for a partner?
6. Climate and regional factors should be considered.
7. Recreational opportunities matter! Do you like the great outdoors, prefer rodeo and barbeque, or is Broadway and fine dining more your style?
These types of questions and issues all need to be considered and prioritized. Keep in mind that you will spend the majority of your waking hours at your workplace. Just finding a job in the perfect city may not be conducive to career satisfaction if the culture of the practice is not in alignment with your values.
When interviewing at a practice, it is a two-way street. Be sure to remember that you are the interviewer as well as the interviewee. Try to meet with different members of the group – both senior and junior members.
What questions should you ask at the interview? It is important to know your income, work hours and number of vacation weeks per year; however, these questions are usually answered without asking.
You should try to get a sense for other factors such as the group's culture and temperament.
Is it a nice place to work, and is the staff helpful and pleasant?
Is there underlying stress within the group or problems with the surgeons or hospital administration?
Is there a fair system for daily case assignments/call scheduling, or is it done by seniority?
Do all members of the group have the same contract, or is it variable and negotiable?
It is worthwhile to have the contract reviewed by an attorney who has experience with physician contracting.
If possible, obtain the contact information of someone who has recently left the practice.
Most people in the group will tell you the best things about their practice when you meet them. Change the perspective by asking what they like least about their group/practice.
Another good strategy is to ask related questions when the interviewer brings up specific points. With intelligent timing and tact, it may be appropriate to directly ask certain sensitive questions. It is important to pay attention and read between the lines. There is a difference between evasive answers and keeping certain details confidential.
A lot is changing in the way groups are structured and practice. Smaller groups are merging with others or becoming employees of the hospital system.
It is important to get a sense of the stability of the group.
Does the group encourage its physicians to get involved in hospital committees?
Are the anesthesiologists given time/compensation for administrative work?
Does the group have regular education sessions?
How well do they partner with the hospital to meet patient safety and regulatory goals?
Try to understand the "corporate" structure of the group.
Who makes the decisions?
How are leaders selected?
How frequently does the group meet and discuss issues?
Often, you may be able to get answers to more awkward (but important) questions from the surgeons, nurses and administrators whom you meet.
Are they cohesive and team players?
What does the hospital administration think of the group?
Answers to these types of questions will give you good insight into the groups' stability and viability.
Networking is often a good way to hear about job openings. It is also a good way to determine a practice's reputation. Solid networking opportunities can be found at the ASA annual meeting every October and at the ASA PRACTICE MANAGEMENT conferences held on the last weekend of every January. Both these national meetings attract anesthesiologists from a variety of practice models all over the country (and internationally). It is very likely you will have a chance to talk to people who are close to where you would like to practice.
The resident track at the ASA PRACTICE MANAGE-MENT conference can provide you with a bounty of information to help you understand how practices work and enable you to ask pertinent questions at the interview. It is also a great opportunity to get expert assistance for optimizing your CV in addition to networking with leadership-oriented anesthesiologists from all over the country.
Closer to home, attend your state and regional component society meetings and talk to attendees about their practices and get contact information for the person in charge of recruitment. The most sought-after positions frequently get filled by word of mouth. The more people you talk to, the more likely you will be considered when such opportunities open up.
On page 36 is a worksheet you can use to collect data on a practice. This will help you keep track of the details in order to compare different practices and make an informed comparison before you commit. Obviously, not all the points are relevant for all practices.
Be aware that it is fairly common for first jobs to not work out. You can lessen this possibility by approaching your job search as you would any potential long-term relationship. Be objective in looking at all the details. Avoid making an emotional decision based on one or two factors. While there are some red flags, variations between practices are often neither good nor bad; they are merely differences. Just in case, rent for a year before buying a home. Ultimately, it is all about you finding the right fit both professionally and personally.
Contact names/title:
Number of beds:
Number of ORs:
Non-OR Anesthetizing locations:
Cases Mix:
Excluded cases/Subpanels?
Other sites (office/surgi-center/ECT/radiology/GI)
Travel between different sites on same day?
OR case volume:
OB coverage:
Number of deliveries per year
High Risk
Labor epidural percentage:
C-section percentage:
OB call coverage details:
Work hours:
Usual start/end:
Number per month:
Home call/In house:
Response time:
How busy? Back-up availability? Off pre-call? Off post-call? Stipends for call? Call swapping and flexibility? Geographically distinct sites covered on call?
Practice type:
All MD CRNA AA Residents
Number of MDs:
Number of CRNA/AA/residents:
Medical Direction/supervision ratios:
Relationship with each other in Dept. (including CRNAs)
Socialize together?
Relationship with surgeons (problems?)
Relationship with OR staff/nurses
Relationship with Administration
Compensation Package
Salary/fee for service:
Pooled units? (if group)
Income Guarantee?
Employee vs. independent contractor
Partner or non-partner track – how long?
Are all partners equal or are there senior and junior partners?
Buy in
Payer mix
(insurance/HMO/ medicaid/ medicare/ self-pay/ bad debt)
Case assignments: equal vs. seniority-based
Hospital subsidy to group
Stipend for CME/ books/ licenses etc.
Relocation assistance
Retirement funding
Malpractice Insurance
(Occurrence vs. Claims made, Tail coverage)
Health and Dental
Long Term Disability insurance
Specialty specific
Type and amount of coverage
Need for supplemental policy
How many weeks per year?
How are vacation assignments prioritized?
CMEbr />
Does everyone sign the same contract or are they individualized?
Lars E. Helgeson, M.D. is Assistant
Professor, Compliance Officer,
Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Aparna Ananth, M.D. is an anesthesiologist in private practice with Pacific Anesthesia, PC, St. Joseph Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington.
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The Kona Hospital Foundation has received a generous grant from First Hawaiian Bank as part of their successful Buy-A-Bed project. Jim Higgins, foundation Chairman, announced that the Foundation had received a grant from First Hawaiian Bank in the amount of $23,355. At $7800 per bed, this grant will secure the purchase of three new patient beds for Kona Community Hospital's Med/Surg unit.
"First Hawaiian has been the Foundation's number one corporate supporter from our first days 28 years ago thus benefiting all of their employees and customers, past and present, with our many improvements to the Kona Community Hospital," Higgins said of the First Hawaiian's on-going support.
The Kona Hospital Foundation Buy-A-Bed campaign has received enough gifts and donations to purchase 24 state-of-the art patient beds. The Advanta 2 Beds are easy to operate, safe and proven to be the best. The bed features controls at the bedside, scale at point of care, digital head of bed angle display, dual locking brakes in all four corners, less patient repositioning, and battery backup. It is designed for caregivers to provide more care with less effort. In addition, it puts safety first and provides patient-friendly features to improve the patient's experience.
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Chair: Geraldine Henderson Vice Chair: Cherise Smith Chair Elect: Cherise Smith
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FUNCTION: To address the matter of recruitment and retention of minority students and to advise the Faculty Council and the president on constructive solutions to alleviate the problems of recruitment and retention.
COMPOSITION: Four members of the General Faculty, one departmental faculty minority liaison officer (appointed by the president), two University staff members (at least one of whom shall be an academic advisor or graduate coordinator), four students (student members shall be appointed by the president in the fall from a panel of names submitted by the Student Government and the Graduate Student Assembly and shall include at least one graduate student), coordinator of the UT Learning Center, and three members of the administration. In addition, every year the chair of the Faculty Council shall appoint two members of the Faculty Council for one-year terms as members of the committee. The vice president for community and school relations, the vice provost for inclusion and cross cultural effectiveness, a representative from the Black Alumni Association, and a representative from the Hispanic Alumni Association will serve as ex officio members without votes. The committee shall elect its own chair and vice chair, who shall be members of the General Faculty.
Members, 2009-10: Brown, Carolyn M. 2009-2010 professor, pharmacy Fernandez, Edward L. ex officio learning specialist IV, UT Learning Center Henderson, Geraldine 2009-2011 associate professor, advertising Longoria, Raul G. 2008-2010 professor, mechanical engineering Maxwell, Madeline 2009-2011 professor, communication studies, departmental faculty minority liaison officer Wheat, Harovel 2009-2011 associate professor, mechanical engineering
Faculty Council Appointees: Gilbert, Robert B. 2009-2010 professor, civil, architectural, and environmental engineering Smith, Cherise 2009-2010 assistant professor, art and art history
Two Staff: Charles, Robiaun L. 2009-2010 director, development Smith, Jennifer L. 2009-2011 student affairs administrator, natural sciences
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The $75-billion e-commerce giant Amazon has upped the ante once again by announcing a $2-billion investment for India as it looks to take the top position in the rapidly growing market. The company said it will cross $1 billion in revenues from India, and the country is one of its fastest growing markets globally. Amit Agarwal, vice-president and country manager, Amazon India, tells Anand J about his plans to accelerate investments in the country. Excerpts:
In what areas will you invest the $2 billion? Is there a timeline?
To put this in context, we started a little over a year ago. From day one, our ambition has been to be the most customer-centric company in the country. We have been investing very aggressively here. We won't settle for anything less than being the leader in providing the best online shopping experience.
Our three pillars are: to offer the largest portfolio of products, to make them available at the cheapest possible rates and to ensure a fast delivery experience. Our selection has grown to 17 million products and in most categories, we are the largest. Our seller base has grown by more than 85 times. Our guarantee for delivery has moved from two-day to one-day to same-day over the past 12 months.
More than three lakh products are eligible for next-day guarantee service now. We will continue to invest in these three areas and will do whatever it takes. We will not be conservative at all in achieving the leadership position. We won't put a timeline for that.
We also announced five new fulfilment centres this week. With the rapid growth we have seen, we expect to accelerate our investments.
Is the warehouse investment part of this $2 billion? How much have you invested so far?
We won't disclose that. $2 billion is a large sum of money. We have never shied away from being aggressive in the last 12 months. The reason we felt this was a good time to share this number was the phenomenal growth we have seen over the past year. That gives us the confidence that our strategy is working. This also shows our intent to be ambitious.
When do you think you will reach $1-billion sales? Flipkart did that in March.
We cannot share the timeline. It has just been 12 months and what we are seeing is never-seen-before growth rate across business. Going by the track record, India is going


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New Day getting huge push
If you're a big fan of New Day, then you are in luck. Expect to see even more of Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston and Big E Langston for the foreseeable future. Management is extremely pleased with their ability to move merchandise. They are among the best at that in WWE. The company has a long history of giving big pushes to performers who can generate revenue through their merchandise.
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The Connecticut Huskies men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball team representing the University of Connecticut located in Storrs, Connecticut. UConn plays in the American Athletic Conference. Both the men's and women's teams had very impressive seasons in 2014, with both teams winning the 2014 national title. UConn's men's team has won four NCAA Tournament Championships, seven Big East Tournaments, and ten Big East regular season titles. The Huskies have been number one seed in the NCAA Tournament five times, most recently in 2009. They have also appeared in the National Invitation Tournament 12 times. There are several notable players who began at UConn, including Ray Allen, Richard Hamilton, Kemba Walker, and Ben Gordon. The first game of the season will take places on November 14th, at the Gampel Pavilion located in Storrs, Connecticut as the Huskies take on Bryant University. The men's team is expected to do well again this season with Kevin Ollie in his third year of coaching the Huskies. Ollie is the first UConn coach other than the legendary Jim Calhoun to lead the Huskies for a Final Four. Be there this season as UConn tries to repeat as NCAA champions -- get your Huskies tickets today!
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LOL. I love listening to Euros speak English. always neat.
He's been hanging around Jens.
"I may not be as strong as I think I am, but I know many tricks, and I have resolution" - Santiago
Does that include Euros from England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland?Originally Posted by Dial_tone
He's being interviewed, and he says what we've all felt at that point "F*ck! You're going to win this sh*t!"
ask most people in the UK if they're european and they'll say no.........its a bit like the americans forgetting they're also north americans.Originally Posted by botto
there will come a time when there will not come a time.
if you wrote "ask most people in England if they're European..." then I'd agree with you, but you didn't, so I won't.Originally Posted by pcates
well this is true........but the scots and welsh are just as nationalist.....the whole euro thing just never caught on over thereOriginally Posted by botto
i think the scots would rather side with anyone than the british though.
there will come a time when there will not come a time.
I bet very few people here have had that feeling....on a bike at least.Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
heh, I have and I got 4th
funny, just about every scot i know consider themselves european.Originally Posted by pcates
exactly! see if the british considered themselves european then the scots wouldn't.......Originally Posted by botto
there will come a time when there will not come a time.
I feel Australian....
there you go again. british = english?Originally Posted by pcates
we all have our crosses to bear.Originally Posted by ed073
Eh? By default, we are British. You mean side with the English. Scotland is extremely close to the European sense. If Scottish devolution does go through, it'll become instantly more entrenched as a fully-fledged member of the EU than it ever was as part of the United Kingdom.Originally Posted by pcates
yea bad habit on my part (and i'm english as well).......Originally Posted by botto
there will come a time when there will not come a time.
hey can't you see i'm trying to back peddle here!! .........Originally Posted by MacMan
there will come a time when there will not come a time.
I love it when those Euros try to speak English!
Originally Posted by shakeNbake
Try? He speaks better English than 1/2 of the English speaking world. I used to race with a lot of Northern Europeans. Those guys had a better grasp and spoke clearer English than the damn Scots. How many shows do we have to sub title here in the states because we can't understand those north of England? Love it.
you got that right.. the first race I won I didn't even know what to do.. cool video!Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
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Babymouse, Monster Mash
by Jennifer L. Holm
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Babymouse: Monster Mash by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm is the ninth book in the series. It's also the first of two books to break with the bubble gum pink color scheme. As it's a Halloween book, it goes with pumpkin orange. The other one, a Christmas book, goes with green and red.
Babymouse apparently loves Halloween for all the scary elements. Although I've now read five Babymouse books, I still don't understand the main character. Her personality seems to fit whatever the theme of the current issue is. In this case, it means she's nuts about Halloween, including making her own scary costume from scratch (even though we've seen her go through bouts of extreme laziness, such as in Babymouse Burns Rubber).
Now since Halloween is all about scary costumes and getting the most candy ever, that's, of course, what Babymouse is into. So of course, her nemesis tells her that girls have dress in pretty costumes because it's a rule. I guess this is the kid's version of the "sexy ____" costumes hocked at twenty something women in those obnoxious fly by night Halloween stores. So of course, because the plot calls for it, Babymouse decides to do everything the popular girl tells her.
While I liked the stylistic change from the Pepto pink, I wanted more from Babymouse. Mostly I want a consistent personality. She's too much a pawn of narrative conventions. I guess all the creative umph for this issue was spent on breaking free of pink.
I really like that this was orange instead of pink. I like the art and the humor is fun, but I don't know that I could really handle another pink volume. (I say this knowing the next one will probably be pink again, but it's nice to have a break.) We're not breaking a lot of new ground in this volume--Babymouse still bows to what Felicia Furrypaws says until she reaches her breaking point, and then goes back to being herself again. But it's cute and funny, so it gets points for that.
Another awesome babymouse book. I the babymouse books and the crazy antics. A great tool to teach the difference between right and wrong. Right to be yourself, wrong to steal baby brother's candy
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Babymouses spookiest special yet!! Her halloween will truly be something to remember
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However, on weekends and evenings (after 6pm) we have access to the car park of the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital. The entrance is off Tyndall's Park Road and the car park is to the left. Steps lead down from the car park directly onto Woodland Road.
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Missouri announced that the jumping jack is their official state exercise this week. The inventor of the exercise, General John J. Pershing, grew up in the state. Maryland, the first state to name an official exercise, has claimed walking as theirs. Now, who wants burpees?
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No Flash, All Pan
The Modern Cafe
337 13th Avenue NE
There've been a lot of flashes in the pan around here lately, what with all the coast-dwelling chef-kings setting up local shops, and all the new million-dollar restaurants where they fling around calamari bowls the size of sinks. As flashes will, they have tended to distract from things that really matter—like, for instance, what it means to be a real Minnesota chef. A real, hard-working, nobody-notices, 16,000-burgers-behind-you, 16,000-burgers-ahead-of-you lifer with love in your heart for the recipient of burger 16,001.
Phillip Becht is just such a chef. He took over the kitchen at northeast Minneapolis's Modern Cafe three years ago, and for three years I've been meaning to write about him. And for three years it never happened. Did he care? Not really.
"I get beet-red when I do an interview," he says. "My natural insecurity about my work kicks in, and I get really nervous." Also, Becht is a true Minnesota chef, and so is used to critics with the attention span of magpies among crystal. Besides, he had burgers to flip.
I care though, especially after a recent series of visits to the Modern that left me dazzled with the kitchen's laid-back excellence, its flawless good-soldier competence, its great simple work. At dinner I had a pan-roasted chicken ($18.25) that was washed with clarified butter and dark beer until the skin was as dark as mahogany, the flesh as tender as tears. This excellent bird came beside a winter-spiced wild rice pilaf with apples that was fluffy, nutty, and deliciously simple in the way that only wild rice cooked all day can be. One nightly special offered a perfect, beauty-and-the-beast dance between sweet and tender Prince Edward Island mussels and bold, gutsy, smoked-paprika-and-chorizo broth. The mussels arrived beside a drinking glass filled with French fries and a little bowl of garlic-touched aioli, prompting my date to pay the dish a high compliment: "It's like we're on vacation."
A beet salad ($8.75) was smartly constructed, the warm beets dressed in a forthright mustard-and-caraway vinaigrette, with bits of gorgonzola melting alongside them in their steamy little home. Meanwhile, above the beets and cheese, a pouf of bristly frisée acted as an edible tea-cozy, keeping the beets from cooling and also adding texture and snap to the composition. A side dish of roasted brussels sprouts ($6.25) nestled in a taleggio fondue was so rich and intense, I hereby crown it the chocolate truffle of the cruciferous vegetable world.
The Modern's legendary pot roast ($16.50) has never been better, the meat as soft as nostalgia, and as real as the future, the garlic mashed potatoes silky, the roast carrots made almost fudge-like through the concentrating effects of long cooking. Come to think of it, I'd rather have more of those carrots than the desserts, the Modern's only current weak spot. I tried both a lackluster apple crumble and a not-quite-right chocolate crème brûlée, each costing $6.50 and sized to share. I recommend, instead, marshalling your dollars for further exploration of the excellent wine list, which is particularly strong in uncommon wines priced in the $20 and $30 range. Better still, on Tuesdays all bottles are half price.
At brunch one day I showed up with a proper horde of out-of-town guests and kiddies, and was delighted not just with the quality of the grown-up food but also with the way a pre-emptive order of pancakes ($4) for the babies practically flew onto the table. At that brunch I sampled a delightful, thick sausage gravy which ennobled a pair of moist brown biscuits and eggs ($7.50), and also a lush version of pampered eggs made with bacon, well-browned mushrooms, and lots of cream cheese ($7.75).
In sum, all is better than ever at the Modern, which has been doing its neighborhood retro thing since 1994. Is this news? Not really. The dining room has been more or less packed at the Modern since around about 1997.
What is news, at least to this critic, is how much the life and current work of chef Phillip Becht says about the state of pan-wielding in this town, flashy and otherwise.
I've long been peripherally aware of Phillip Becht, though mostly as Steven Brown's second in command—Brown, of course, being the renowned chef of, most recently, Restaurant Levain; and before that of odd, doomed, kind of wonderful Rockstar; and, even further in the mists of time, of the dear, departed original Loring Bar and Cafe. It turns out that Becht, now 40, got his start at that selfsame Loring when he was 18. He was fresh to Minneapolis back then, after a childhood spent as a nomadic Air Force brat, and a high school career spent in Rapid City, South Dakota.
"I was just the kid who swept up at night," Becht told me when I interviewed him by phone for this story. "I'd sweep up real slowly and watch the bigwigs: J.P. [Samuelson, now of jP American Bistro] was the chef, before he went off to New York. But just seeing how he did things, how fast he moved, how everyone revered him, blew me away. I knew I wanted to do what the bigwigs were doing, and my big in was that when they were done I would make the artichoke ramekin.
"Then I met Steven Brown. We had a lot of things in common—he came from the Black Hills—and for many, many moons I worked with him. He's my best friend in the world. I also worked at the Loring with Doug Flicker [now of Auriga], another true genius and a beautiful human. I always viewed myself as a student of those guys. I always felt very proud of being able to ask them questions. They could always have said, Get away from me kid, I'm busy, but they never did."
Thirteen years of being a "student" ticked by: Becht went to Rockstar with Brown, then quit cooking for a spell in order to work as a food runner and bartender at the Minneapolis Aquavit. "But that didn't take," Becht explains. "I was so impressed by the kitchen and the cooks at Aquavit, I started having dreams about cooking. That's when I knew I had to get back to the stove."
Soon enough, which is to say, nearly 20 years after picking up that fateful broom in the Loring, Becht landed his first job as top chef in his own kitchen.
In these Food Network and glossy cookbook days, the idea of what a chef is seems to have evolved in the popular consciousness into one of a celebrity who gets to yell at people and be beloved at the same time. But that's not what it means at the Modern. At the Modern it means someone who, for lack of a more delicate phrase, hauls ass in pursuit of hospitality, art, and brussels sprouts for all.
There are usually only three people in the kitchen at the Modern at any given time—including the dishwasher—and they put out 100 to 150 dinners a night. Most fine-dining restaurants serve the same number of meals with two to five times as many people in the kitchen. At the Modern they have just a single, six-burner stove, two burners of which keep the pot roast warm, and one of which keeps water boiling for pasta. So Becht basically feeds the assembled throngs from three burners, an oven, and a grill.
"At first I couldn't believe how busy it could be, how many souls could be in here," Becht told me. "I was frightened. I thought I was not going to make it. The physical limitations are staggering—with the staff as well as the equipment. If one person's sick, one person works a double, that one person being me. In the end, I got the hang of it. A lot of it just comes down to moving really fast—what I saw J.P. doing all those years ago, just being organized and good. You figure out how to do—if you don't there's nowhere to hide."
At the end of his shift, Becht goes home, checks in with the love of his life, Sarah, who waits tables at the Modern and also at Lucia's, peeks at his three-year-old son Hugo, and unwinds while watching some PETA videos on public access television. These, he feels, spur him to remember not to take lightly his role as a buyer of meats and vegetables. To that end, Becht has developed a network of ethically minded local farmers who provide the Modern's meats, and, in summer, almost all of its produce. (This summer the Modern hopes to host a farmers' market in its parking lot.)
Does a double shift feeding 150 souls with the help of a single cook and a dishwasher, ending in a PETA video, sound like the stuff of Food Network dreams?
"If I had this same situation with other ownership, I'd probably have been long gone," Becht says. "But it's actually [Modern owner] Jim Grell that makes it all work. The number one thing that keeps all of us at the Modern is something that nobody ever talks about: We're all paid essentially living wages. We have a health plan and access to health care. If someone falls down the stairs or gets thrown out of their apartment, we pass around a hat, and Jim's always got a few bob to throw in.
"Jim could probably just drive here once a week from Minnetonka and throw a bag of money into the back of a Porsche, but he's not like that. He lives in the neighborhood and rides a bike here most of the time.
"I'm also sure everyone who eats here could get a pot roast at Applebee's for a lot less. But I like to think they think it's worth it to pay a few dollars more and support a place where the workers can afford to have children. Me, I'm willing to work more and not have every material thing I might want because I have respect for this place and what it means in our lives."
That respect that is expressed in various ways: through health insurance, sure, but also in a worker who keeps service flowing by fixing a malfunctioning appliance with duct tape instead of calling in the owner, or going to Target on his day off to replace a broken spice grinder.
"I don't think a lot of kids who watch the Food Network get what it really means to be a cook," Becht concludes. "There's this attitude like: I finished school, so when do I become Bobby Flay? Let me tell you: about 16,000 hamburgers from today."
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We decided our Min Pin Ginger girl needed a playmate. We both work 2nd shift and she was alone 10 hours a day. We looked all over and just could not find a doggie that stood out, and then I saw a little face sticking out form under a couch, he had such a scared look in his eye and expression that moved me.
I contacted AARF they let us fill out the application and then they brought him out to our home. Bear arrived on a cold February day with the name of Georgie. we decided he looked like a little bear boy and promptly started calling him Bear. He had the worst case of diaper rash I have ever seen, his ears were all bit up, and he had no hair on his butt, legs or nose, he was very unsure of his new life.
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Akimasa is now a high-school student lives alone with his older sister who he obviously has feelings for "Mao-neechan". Aki's sister, for her part was pretty popular and well loved and responsible in school and is now a successful office lady... on the surface... but in reality she is much more troubled over Aki than what he will ever be over her... Can something possible develop between the two of them?
...Meanwhile Aki's Otaku childhood friend Rio and Aki's delinquent childhood friend Asami suddenly realize that they want to be much closer to Aki to what they are now.
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I saw someone crush up their potato chips and put them on their sandwich at lunch today. I thought 'oh thank god I'm not the only one'. I like the extra salt and crunch doing that one.
I also will buy a box of croutons just to eat as a snack not for salads. And I guy those French's french fried onions and just eat them plain in one sitting. I must love sodium.
I'm obsessed with astronaut freeze dried ice cream and have to keep at least 10 packs on hand at all times.
i put pringles on sandwiches. i also use sour cream as a dipping sauce for just about anything.
2015 CF Avatar of the Year winner.
Neither of them are odd really. My son loves croutons and those french onions plain. And I put chips on subs all the time.
I love putting honey on pizza. Not just the crust, but on the whole slice.
Plus being a farm kid, rocky mountain oysters never bothered me. Not that I have them all the time, but if the KC hall back home was having an event with them I would go.
Bellzisu is aka Chris Bellcock. Just so I'm not anonymous anymore.
Mayonnaise and grape jelly sammiches.
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Sandwiches absolutely need chips for texture. Texture is huge. Get some weird looks at Panera, but I don't care.
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I got 99 problems but angie isn't one.
If it were better for me, I would eat straight PB all day (I have before). I put cinnamon on most things that I eat. I once made Tuna salad with a lot of cinnamon and it was the best tuna salad sandwich I have ever had.
Conversation from last weekend:
GF opens freezer - "Why do you have grapes in your freezer?"
Me - "I wasn't going to eat the whole bunch before they went bad so I froze them."
GF - "Do you just eat them frozen then?"
Me - "Yes. Sometimes with peanut butter."
GF - "Grapes and peanut butter sounds like an odd combination."
Me - "Does peanut butter and jelly sound odd to you to?"
Cottage cheese with peaches in it.
Originally Posted by Angie
Sandwiches absolutely need chips for texture. Texture is huge. Get some weird looks at Panera, but I don't care.
the only thing a sandwich needs is bread, everything else are options.
Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. I can't think of anyone outside of my family that has admited to trying it.
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Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. I can't think of anyone outside of my family that has admited to trying it.
Love these sandwiches! I had a friend growing up that always ate them, so one day I tried it and loved them!
One of my favorite sandwiches has to be mayo, dill pickles and Doritos.
Sauerkraut on my baked potato.
I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
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One of my favorite sandwiches has to be mayo, dill pickles and Doritos.
Speaking of Doritos, I used to dip nacho cheese Doritos in cream cheese. Now that was gooood.
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One of the constant source of grief over at MO is that although the close/reopen works perfectly well in non-controversial settings, it's really poorly designed for controversial settings and leads to much unhappiness. The system is strongly biased towards controversial questions being closed at least once, and given people's emotional responses to question-closing this is a bad bias. There are lots of ways one might imagine dealing with this (tweaking how many votes to close you need, allowing moderators to cast normal votes to close/reopen, allowing pre-emptive votes to stay open), and at MO we're seriously discussing various complicated systems to implement them ourselves. Several of these have been suggested here at meta.SO (e.g.) and the SE team's point of view seems to be that they don't see any problem here and don't intend to fix it (scroll all the way down to the bottom, the reply has a lot of downvotes).
My question isn't to reopen the discussion on these particular points, but rather to ask whether SE2.0 sites will be allowed to customize the way that voting to close/reopen works if the community on that site wants to change how it works or whether say the unpopular decision not to implement pre-emptive voting to re-open is final on all SE2.0 sites no matter what the people on that site want.
I think this is an important question because one of the main advantages of sticking SE2.0 over moving to something like OQSA is that SE has a group of excellent programmers who can implement requests. But if we're going to have to implement pre-emptive voting to re-open ourselves (or worse yet, if we won't be allowed to implement it at all because we're no longer allowed access to enough of the backend, or because the SE 2.0 people want consistency across sites) then SE2.0 sounds much less appealing.


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Can someone flip back to their VeloNews issue, 2009 Race & Ride Guide (Vol.38/No.6 )? This issues has an article about current airline bicycle luggage rules and costs, etc.
Velonews gave a recommendation for a manufacture of custom bike luggage for airline travel. Can someone please tell me who that is? I moved out of my old place and tossed that issue.
I have scowered the web and velonews.com, no luck.
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Two women who recently faced off on "Judge Judy" are still battling in real life … all over a dog … with allegations of violent threats and pet-napping … our sources has learned.
The dogfight involves Kari Whitman — who runs the Ace of Hearts pet adoption agency in L.A. The other woman is Teresa Gardenhire … a former doggy foster parent.
The two squared off on an episode of "Judy" that was taped May 23 — after Gardenhire claimed Whitman owed her money for taking care of an Ace of Hearts dog while the org. searched for a permanent owner.
Judy ruled for Ace of Hearts … but after the show, Whitman claims Gardenhire began a campaign of harassment … and even made violent threats.
According to legal docs obtained by our sources, Whitman claims Gardenhire warned her, "Watch your back bitch" and threatened to steal Whitman"s dogs in retaliation.
Whitman was so frightened, she filed a request for a restraining order — claiming "[I am] afraid the threats will become real actions."
Gardenhire tells our sources she"s the real victim — claiming she thought she had adopted the dog she had been fostering … and claims Ace of Hearts stole it. Gardenhire even filed a police report.
A hearing on the restraining order is set for June 28. As for the dog in question, we"re told it has already been adopted by another family.


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EMTC brings home awards
The Endless Mountains Theatre Company garnered two awards at the annual Northeast Pennsylvania Theatrical Alliance (NEPTA) awards ceremony held Saturday, April 13 in Ehrhardt's Water Front Restaurant on Lake Wallenpaupack.
Reese Allen took home the "Best Child Actress" award for her role as the young Morella in "Tales of Dark Imagination III."
David Schmidt, who served as both writer and director of "Tales of Dark Imagination III" was honored for Best Original Prodiuction, as was "The Messenger" by the Worthington Players, of Monroe County.
In addition to EMTC and Worthington, the Alliance is comprised of four other performing groups: Diva Production Company, Lackawanna Co.; Kaleidoscope Players, Monroe Co.; Lakeside Players, Wayne and Pike counties; and Pennsylvania Theatre of Performing Arts, Luzerne Co.
Productions by EMTC in 2012 included a murder-mystery dinner theater, "Murder Me Always;" a one-act Mother's Day performance of "He's Having a Baby;" the summer musical, "Into the Woods;" and the drama, "Tales of Dark Imagination III."
The local company has already kicked off its 2013 season with two sold-out murder-mystery dinner performances of "Death of a Doornail" in Harford and in Great Bend.
Plans for a third performance are in the works.
EMTC plans to stage "The Music Man" as this year's summer musical. Performances will be held July 26 and 27 at the Montrose High School.
For more information about EMTC or ways you can become involved in this award-winning company, visit www.4emtc.org.


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I turn 27 today. My dad says he always feels older on the odd number birthdays. I'm not sure I get that vibe. I will say it's strange to think I'm entering my late twenties. I think I've reached the age when well-meaning individuals feel well within their right to question why I haven't done this or that with my life yet. I'm not looking forward to those conversations.
My nonsensical cynicism aside, I can honestly say I'm excited about the coming year. And I think what surprises me the most is that my excitement doesn't have to do with some big milestone or event that's on the horizon. In fact, I thought I'd be traveling overseas again this summer, but the trip I planned to go on was called off. In a way it makes my outlook on the coming year even more unexpected.
I'm excited because, for the first time in a long time, I have a strong sense that I'm a part of real community. In the birthday essay I wrote a year ago I talked about how much I wanted to live a great story with my life, to strive for great things even in the face of adversity, and I still want that. But as I reread that essay I notice a sad lack of emphasis on the people who would live that great story with me. I don't want to have a bunch of great adventures with an ever-changing sea of extras or, worse yet, with no one else at all. I want great costars in my story.
It's not like I've been a hermit until now. I've been a member of Wildwood Church since '08. I've been on staff with The Navigators at FSU since '07 (and part of that ministry in one form or another since '02). And let's not forget that I've always had roommates. All of these are communities, so I don't mean to offend when I imply that my sense of community is newfound. To borrow a cliché, it's not them, it's me. Somehow I'd forgotten, but true community isn't formed through mere attendance. It takes both consistency and vulnerability.
And not selective vulnerability, but real, authentic vulnerability. Let's be honest, we all know how to fake it to some degree. We all have some junk we're okay with airing out. I can deceive others into thinking I'm trying to make a genuine connection, but I can't trick myself. My soul knows the difference, and my soul yearns to be known.
I've always been quite an introvert, to the point where sometimes I think I'm a bit of a misanthrope. Despite this, over the past year I began to use the bulk of my discretionary time to build relationships with other people. I'll highlight a few examples.
This past fall some other 20-somethings in my church started a small group for "young professionals" (the way my church identifies post-college singles by something they have rather than by something they lack). Now, for the first time in over two years, I am studying the Bible with peers. I can't tell you how much this group has meant to me. We're such an eclectic bunch of people; the group wouldn't be the same had any one person who's a part of it not decided to join in. Thursday night is often the high point of my week. I'm around people who I've let know me and who have let me know them. I've not had something like this often enough.
With Navs, instead of leading a Bible study I began to meet one-on-one with a senior student named Josh. It turned out to be an especially good match when God led Josh to apply to join Nav staff for the coming fall semester. You can't mentor or disciple someone and keep your distance relationally. It requires a willingness to open up early and often. But Josh makes this pretty easy for me because, frankly, he's often setting the pace when it comes to vulnerability. When it comes time for me to share he asks a ton of great questions. It's humbling and a real gift. He's going to make a great campus minister.
I also got two new roommates, Tyler and Zack. We had several months when they first moved in when none of us were dating anyone, which meant the three of us spent a good amount of time together. Of course, our house wouldn't really be complete without the handful of undergrad students who began making regular, unscheduled appearances to our home. Bryan, Rob, Jermaine, and Rodney have made themselves at home. (In a good way. Except Bryan. Okay, sometimes Bryan.) I don't ever want to become selfish with my personal living space, and they're not leaving me that option. All of them provide me with so much encouragement and support.
I have real community in each of these settings. It didn't happen right away, and it took longer in some of these groups than in others. And there are still some days when I don't want to let people in. But when I look at what I have now and compare it to what I had even just a year ago, I can't fathom how I was surviving.
Ironically enough, my favorite band Jars of Clay released a new album during the past year that's all about community. The title of the album is derived from an old Irish proverb that says, "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." Dan Haseltine, the band's lead singer, had this to say about that proverb.
I think what I like about the image of a shelter is that it is not something that is apart from the storm, but is something that is placed in the storm. And yet, it is something that keeps us from harm's way. But it's not so far away that we lose sight of it.
I think the more I contend with the world, the flesh, and the devil the more I find that I need a shelter from the storm. I'm fortunate enough to have numerous shelters. I think I was really onto something last year with my desire to live a meaningful life on purpose and I want to continue that pursuit. This year that idea has taken sharper focus. It's these people with whom I share my days who will help provide the depth and beauty to that life, and it makes the pursuit of authentic community all the more important. Here's to an excellent twenty-eighth year.
This post is part of an ongoing series of birthday essays. Each year since I began blogging I have written a reflective personal essay on April 3.


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The Human Concerns Committee of St. Columbkill Church, Boyertown is sponsoring a trip to Washington, DC on Friday, Jan. 25, to participate in the 40th March for Life.
Rev. Martin Kern, Pastor of St. Columbkill will lead the group on their journey by beginning the day with Mass for the unborn at 6:30 a.m. at the church before boarding the motorcoach.
Participants are asked to bring a bag lunch, as they will arrive in Washington before lunchtime and attend the rally on the Mall, then walk to the Supreme Court building in peaceful witness to God�s precious gift of life. Cost for the trip is $40, which includes morning refreshments, transportation and dinner at Cactus Willie�s Steak Buffet on the return trip.
A limited number of seats are still available on a first come basis. Contact the church office at 610-367-2371 to reserve a seat for the trip.


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HBO has found its Bristol Palin.
Melissa Farman has been cast to play the pregnant teenage daughter of 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the HBO original film "Game Change," based on the book by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. "Game Change" chronicles the 2008 Presidential election, with special focus on and insider secrets from the doomed campaign of Republican nominee John McCain.
A relative newcomer, Farman has had a number of TV guest spots, including in "Lost" and "NCIS." She has a history with HBO, starring in its Emmy Award-winning original movie "Temple Grandin" in 2010. She joins a cast that already features Ed Harris as John McCain and Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, amongst others.
It was also announced on Tuesday that Larry Sullivan, of "CSI" fame, will play Palin aide Chris Edwards, while Jamey Sheridan, of "Trauma, will play McCain speechwriter Mark Salter.
Those involved in the real life campaign are less than pleased about the movie. Writing for The Daily Beast that the book relied on interviews from misinformed, disgruntled former staffers, Meghan McCain said that, "I expect my family and Sarah Palin to be nothing short of crucified."
In an earlier interview with Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin herself said, "I think I'll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes what may with that movie."
HBO will soon be airing "Too Big To Fail," a film based on the financial crisis that exploded near the end of the 2008 campaign.
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Director Sir Jonathan Miller's 'Don Pasquale' Delivers and Delights
London: With budget cuts looming, both the Royal Opera and English National Opera are relying this season on their one sure-fire hit director, Sir Jonathan Miller. From October to January, the ENO will give no fewer than 13 performances of his 1930s-Paris "La Boheme." The ROH opened its season with his "Cosí Fan Tutte" and a couple of days later, revived his rollicking "Don Pasquale."
Staged in Isabella Bywater's gasp-provoking, fullsize, three-storey set based on a mid-19th century doll's house, the current production has the inestimable advantage of a wonderful cast and conductor. Evelino Pido is completely at home with Donizetti's demanding score, and apart from the brass section needing a little warming-up, his orchestra gave its considerable all.
Sir Jonathan uses Ms. Bywater's cut-away house to show business going on, for example, in the kitchen, while the principal singers are in the bedroom or salon; and this is occasionally distracting. But the wisp of a plot needs to be attached to something to keep our attention—and this is as good a solution as any I've seen.
And it works brilliantly for the superb Paolo Gavanelli in the rapid-fire patter arias that make up so much of the title role. His physical presence is so commanding that it makes no difference what floor he is on; and, though he's much slimmer, the same is true of the other baritone role, Doctor Malatesta, sung warmly and acted hilariously by rising South African star Jacques Imbrailo.
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The soprano who conspires with Malatesta to defraud Don Pasquale (so that she can marry his feckless nephew, sung by Barry Banks) is winningly and accurately sung by Costa Rican Íride Martínez, who has no difficulty with her showy coloratura passages. But the evening belongs to the director and designer.
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Etta James Gone At 73
By Joseph Giannone 4 years ago
R&B legend Etta James died today from complications related to Leukemia. She was seventy-three years old, and would have been seventy-four next Wednesday. James was known for her definitive voice, timeless songs and eventful life. The singers memorable career offered the world beautiful songs like At Last and Something's Got a Hold on Me, not a surprise given how hard she worked for so long. Unfortunately, James was diagnosed with Leukemia back in 2010, only a couple of months after she was hospitalized for a blood infection.
CNN reports that Etta passed away at a hospital in Riverside, California early this morning with her husband and children by her side. Long time friend and manager Lupe De Leon said, this is a tremendous loss for the family, her friends and fans around the world She was a true original who could sing it all -- her music defied category. The singer began to top the charts with her number one hit Work With Me, Annie in 1955. In 1960, James joined Chess Records and continued to find success with hits like The Wallflower (Roll With Me, Henry) and Miss Peaches before fading away in the late 60s. When she came back into the limelight, her music changed for a more soulful, powerful sound which helped her top the charts yet again.
Like her career, James personal life has had plenty of ups and downs. She dealt with a variety of addictions to drugs and alcohol, and suffered from several health issues including Hepatitis C. The amazing thing about her though, was that even in her darkest times, she still created work that thrilled audiences. The pop singer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and also received six Grammys throughout her lifetime. Etta James will be missed. To commemorate her passing, here's my favorite song...


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SAP Business Suite on HANA could be a 'game changer,' says Ovum
The availability of SAP Business Suite on HANA could be a "game changer" by making SAP more relevant to enterprise customers, judged Ovum analysts.
At the same time, enterprises might be reluctant to change their data and enterprise resource planning investments in order to achieve the "transformative" benefits of SAP Business Suite on HANA, wrote Ovum analysts Tony Baer, Madan Sheina, Nicole Engelbert, Carter Lusher and Warren Wilson.
"Companies don't swap out their database and ERP investments overnight," they added.
Last week, SAP (NYSE: SAP) announced the launch of SAP Business Suite on HANA, which enables enterprises to capture and analyze transactional data in real time on a single in-memory platform.
In launching SAP Business Suite on HANA, SAP said the integration will remove the need for redundant data and systems, improving efficiency and reducing costs. The integrated platform will provide enterprises with market analysis, financial close, receivables management, material resource planning and consumer opinion analysis, SAP explained.
"We can now eliminate the traditional trade-offs between cost and performance and reinvent real-time business while dramatically simplifying our customers' landscapes, together with a strong open ecosystem of partners. And SAP Business Suite continues to fully support and optimize for all major databases in the industry, further demonstrating our commitment to openness and innovation without disruption," said Vishal Sikka, a member of the SAP Executive Board.
The Ovum analysts agreed that the SAP Business Suite on HANA has a number of benefits for enterprises. One benefit is accelerated reporting functions.
"The in-memory architecture allows data views to be generated on-the-fly, a benefit that not only reduces database footprint and storage requirements, but also potentially simplifies the modeling and deployment of data and the design of analytics or other complementary applications that run atop Business Suite. HANA's in-memory architecture also allows analytics to be embedded with transaction processing, enabling companies to become more agile," the analysts related.
For more:
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