text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Interest rates on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note have soared above 2.8% after hitting a low of less than 2% in the spring, symbolizing a rate trend many expect to continue. So, finally, it's a good time to put money into interest-bearing products such as certificates of deposit, right? Well, maybe, but not to earn interest. CD rates remain pitifully low, ranging from 0.083% for the three-month CD to 0.756% for the five-year product. That means a five-year CD with $100,000 on deposit would pay just $756 a year, and the three-month CD just $83. With inflation running around 2%, you'd be losing money on CD savings. And if you tied your money up for five years to get the higher yield, you'd be riddled with regret if newer CDs were more generous in a year or two. That's quite possible. alternatives, such as stocks, even if they pay healthy dividends, all come with the risk of loss. You could beat the CD rates with a corporate bond or a mutual fund containing them and be able to get your money out with the click of a mouse. But corporate bonds lose value if interest rates rise and newer bonds are more generous. And with corporates, bond prices are also affected by the company's health. If it starts to look shaky, bond prices will fall because investors worry they won't get paid.


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Fall 2013 Supercomputer Rankings Released; Achieving Max Efficiency With Oilby Ryan Smith on 11/22/2013 3:00 PM EST
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IanCutress - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkThe problem with oil is replacing components, a key element of large installations that might suffer a failure a day. Replacing an oily component means you smell like bad fries afterwards. Or maybe it's another sort of oil. Any info on which hydrocarbon being used and the specific heat capacity? :) Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkExxonMobil SpectraSyn Polyalphaolefins (PAO) Reply
IanCutress - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkAs far as I can tell, they're C4 to C22 alkenes that are polymerised and further hydrogenated to alkanes. Patented chemicals are sometimes the hardest to find info of, and I suspect that these are a range of PAOs rather than one single type. Reply
The Von Matrices - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkIf the oil is pure alkanes and alkenes, it shouldn't have any smell at all. The aromatics and sulfurous compounds are the ones that have an odor. I work with FT Diesel in the lab, which this basically is, and there is no odor to it either. The petroleum Diesel with sulfur compounds and aromatics is the one that has the odor.
I would think the biggest issue with replacing components is keeping the oil from spreading to everything in the room as components are moved around and replaced. Reply
IanCutress - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkYes, the smell was a small bit of comedy :) I would imagine that if any sulphurous (natch, UK spelling ;]) links were present they'd attach pretty quickly to any exposed gold (excess pins etc) due to the low binding barrier therein.
The name PAO is pretty generic, ExxonMobil have several SpectraSyn SKUs, and the datasheets on most of them had them as pretty viscous as far as I could tell. That wouldn't do much in terms of moving the oils around; I'd imagine there's a big-ass pump for each unit so push it through with fans along the way. Reply
lwatcdr - Saturday, November 30, 2013 - linkMy guess is that they remove the heat sink and keep the cooling loop intact when they swap parts. Reply
errorr - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkThe data sheet I saw claimed it was white mineral oil (your dielectric alkenes) with their own patented additive mixture (usually fluorocarbons) and I would assume some antioxidant to prevent free radical breakdown of the alkenes.
They claim there is no evaporation and that the liquid need never be topped off or raplaced. The sheet also said the liquid is pumped through a heat exchanger where it uses tap water (hot or cold) to cool the system. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkIn large scale installations the minimum size of a swap out module is much larger than in your home computer. I don't have any specific information about super computer installs; but it's probably similar to how huge internet company data centers work. Ex When MS went to containerized data centers their minimum swapout unit was an entire shipping container of computers. Individual computers failing within one were just disabled via admin tools.
This question on ServerFault was asking specifically about storage capacity; but the answers focused on the general infrastructure that the disks were part of:
http://serverfault.com/q/535049/34835 Reply
nafhan - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkJudging by the diagram above, the "swap out module" might not be much larger than a typical blade server, as it appears to be a self contained unit consisting of 2 CPU's, 4 GPU's and associated system board(s).
Also, there's a decent chance that the module itself has no moving parts which are generally the first thing to go on a system. In the facility I work in, we only have a handful of non-disk or fan (or PS, which is usually the fan) related failures a year across a couple thousand servers. Get rid of the moving part failures, and we'd probably be swapping out less than one "module" a month at a location like mine. Reply
nathanddrews - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkSo cool. Reply
marc1000 - Sunday, November 24, 2013 - linkhaha, oil-like cool! Reply
bobbozzo - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkHi, how is the oil cooled?
e.g. via air-cooled heatsinks/exchangers, or freon-cooled, or ?
Thanks! Reply
errorr - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkAnswered this elsewhere but the data sheet said heat exchanger to building water (hot or cold) hookup. So yay tap water. Reply
SuckRaven - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkMy computer needs an oil change. =) Reply
mfenn - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkKFC obviously stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Kepler Fluid Cooling is just a respectable-sounding bacronym. ;) Reply
Belegost - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkI was hoping the KFC here meant the hot oil could be used for frying poultry. I am greatly disappointed. Reply
xdrol - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkYou should check your facts.. Mineral oil has about one third heat capacity than water, just you can submerge chips into it (unlike water). Reply
errorr - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkUm, just a correction that I would only make on a site like this but oil has nowhere near the heat capacity of water. Besides pure hydrogen or helium only anhydrous ammonia exceeds the heat capacity of water.
I believe they use "white" mineral oil (baby oil, liquid parrafin) with additives of Teflon like chemicals to boost heat capacity a bit. Still the heat capacity is still probably less than 1/3 of water.
Of course there is much more mass so the heat capacity of the whole system is better than if you could somehow use distilled water in a sealed vessel.
My understanding is also that the system is cooled by using tap water and a heat exchanger to answer someone's question. Reply
Tchamber - Friday, November 22, 2013 - linkIt may have lower heat capacity than water, but what it is good at is absorbing heat...I would guess that it absorbs heat at a higher rate, much like aluminum absorbs heat faster than steal. With enough volume, it has better cooling efficiency than any closed-loop H2O system. Reply
meacupla - Saturday, November 23, 2013 - linkI doubt that, it is an oil after all and has nowhere near the same amount of bonds as water can achieve.
the advantage this system has is sheer reservoir volume, its massive heat exchange surface area and because it is devoid of air, which performs worse than oil. Reply
MrSpadge - Saturday, November 23, 2013 - linkThat's the heat conductivity you're talking about. Don't know the numbers for such oils, though. Reply
ShieTar - Monday, November 25, 2013 - linkWhy would there be more mass? Most mineral oils have a lower density than water. Its actually the heat capacity per volume that makes water the best heat storage system. Reply
ddriver - Saturday, November 23, 2013 - linkGot to love AT's eye-poking bias, I've been used to "top 5" or "top 10", but top 6? Now that is a curious choice. I bet it was intended as a top 5 chart, just like the second, but was expanded to 6 just to squeeze one more intel reference inside, god forbid AT put a "top 5" chart where intel is outmatched by ibm chips and has only one intel entry, just as much as amd. For the second chart 5 entries seem to suffice, probably because all systems are intel.
Yeah, keep calling yourself "the most trusted" ... Articles without in-your-face brutally obvious bias at AT are becoming as rare as a hen's teeth. There is not even remote subtlety... Reply
Ryan Smith - Saturday, November 23, 2013 - linkIt would have been top 5, but since the only new supercomputer in the larger top 10 was Piz Daint at #6, I stretched it by one so that we could list those numbers and talk about it. Vulcan, SuperMUC, JUQUEEN, and Stampede were all online in June. Or would you rather we ignore the most powerful supercomputer in Europe? Reply
CPU-geek - Saturday, November 23, 2013 - linkIs anandtech planning to write about Micron's new automata processor. Seems like a very interesting technology. Reply
SteelRing - Monday, November 25, 2013 - linkThey need to develop a special coolant liquid that is efficient at heat conduction yet has electrical insulation property. Most material that conducts heat does it by conducting electron, so this is super tricky. But if this is available, I can't see why all computer systems won't be submerged cooled from then on. Reply
dew111 - Monday, November 25, 2013 - link" In fact you have to go down past #11 – the Xeon + FirePro S10000 based SANAM computer – to find a system that isn't GPU powered."
Isn't the FirePro S10000 a GPU? It's not nvidia, which is probably what you meant, but it is definitely a GPU. Reply
dew111 - Monday, November 25, 2013 - linkOh, I see what you mean, number 11 is GPU powered, and number 12 isn't. But that's a bit confusing, as you mention the GPU powered on and not the first non-GPU powered supercomputer. Reply

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Three Red Foods You Should Be Eatingby Victoria Phillips in Healthy Tips, February 15, 2012
February is the month to think red — and not just because of Valentine's Day. The shortest month of the year is also American Heart Month and National Cherry Month. Celebrate by adding more red foods like tart cherries, tomatoes and red cabbage to your diet. We spoke with Dr. Wendy Bazilian, MPH, RD to find out why these red foods are so important.
Tart Cherries:
To start, tart cherries (also called sour cherries) are full of powerful antioxidants with anti-inflammatory and heart-health benefits. "People have sworn by tart cherry juice for decades for gout and pain related to joints," says Dr. Wendy Bazilian, MPH, RD. Tart cherries are also a natural source of melatonin, and emerging research suggests it may help with insomnia.
Lycopene, the phytonutrient that gives tomatoes red coloring, provides great protection against heart disease. Add canned or jarred tomatoes to pizza, chili, and pasta; lycopene is known to be most effective when the tomatoes are cooked.
Red Cabbage:
A third red food that's often overlooked in heart-health is red cabbage. "Cabbage has also been associated with anti-cancer properties," Dr. Bazilian adds. Red cabbage can be eaten raw, in a salad or slaw, added to tacos (just like lettuce) or sauteed.
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This article was published 3/9/2014 (1083 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
With Manitoba's municipal and school board elections just 48 days away, cities, towns and rural municipalities throughout the province are experiencing a troubling shortage of candidates for mayor, reeve, councillor and school trustee.
If the municipal election were held today in Brandon, six of the 10 city council seats would be won by acclamation. Of the four contested wards in the city, only one has more than two candidates.
Similar scenarios are playing out in many other Westman communities. In Virden, there is just one candidate for mayor and only three candidates for the six council seats. Killarney is in slightly better shape, with four candidates for its six council seats, but just one mayoral candidate.
In the RM of Whitehead, three candidates are running for reeve, while two candidates are running in one of the RM's six wards. Two of the other five wards have one candidate each, but the remaining three wards have no candidates at all. In the RM of Elton, located north of Brandon, there is no candidate for reeve, and there is just one candidate for the RM's six council seats.
The numbers are even worse in the case of a number of school board elections. Many currently do not have enough candidates to fill the available seats.
This isn't a problem caused by a shortage of citizens who would be good candidates, nor are there obvious barriers preventing women from running. Roughly one-half of the declared candidates are female and a number of local elections officials (all of them female) told me that a "glass ceiling" no longer exists for women wishing to run at the local level.
Many Manitobans would make excellent candidates and would be effective in whatever position they were elected to. The problem is their unwillingness to put their names on election ballots, combined with their lack of desire to serve their communities in an elected capacity.
Their reasons vary, but many I have spoken to recently cite the low pay (some RMs pay just a few hundred dollars each year), the long hours, media scrutiny, the pressure of citizens' expectations, the lengthy four-year commitment, as well as the effect of electoral success on their private lives, careers and business viability.
The possibility that opponents could be sifting through family members' years-old social media postings, and that those postings could be leaked to the media, as in the Steeves' case, is reason alone for many to not seek election.
Some argue the current candidate shortage is part of a long-term trend that parallels the decline in volunteerism and community service organizations.
Others claim the growing shortage of candidates corresponds to the decline in voter turnout in elections.
Both arguments are valid. A decline in community engagement and cohesiveness almost certainly results in fewer candidates who care enough to run, and that shortage of quality candidates causes fewer citizens to vote.
The danger in arguing over cause and effect is that it ignores the greater problem that has been building in Manitoba and many other jurisdictions for the past several years -- the death of local democracy by neglect.
The democratic concept is premised on citizens having the ability to choose from a number of good candidates. When skilled, qualified residents refuse to stand for election however, citizens are denied a credible choice and thorough discussion of issues affecting them.
It opens the door for single-issue and fringe candidates, whose priorities seldom align with those of the broader community. It makes our local governments vulnerable to hijacking by slates of candidates with non-mainstream, even extremist, objectives.
It could happen this year in a number of municipalities and on a number of school boards. That danger will only worsen until we come to grips with the fact that living in a democracy comes with certain obligations, most notably the willingness to be leaders in our communities.
Too many Manitobans capable of shouldering leadership roles at the local level expect others to do democracy's heavy lifting. They are content to sit on the sidelines, yet are shocked and angered when decisions are made with which they disagree. They are oblivious to the harm their inaction is causing to their communities.
That has to stop. Leaders don't have the luxury of choosing the time to lead. Events pick them and now is one of those times.
Nominations for municipal and school board elections close soon. If those with the ability to lead do not answer the call, we won't get government we want. We will be getting the government we deserve.
Deveryn Ross is a political commentator living in Brandon.
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MBFW: Emerson Will Keep You Up All Night
What happens when horror flicks meet the runways of Lincoln Center? Prepare to be shocked –and pleasantly surprised!
-Diana Denza
It seems that Jackie Fraser-Swan and I have much in common when it comes to drawing creative inspiration from horror films. One key difference: She has some serious skill with a sewing machine. For Emerson's third Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week show, this out-of-the-box designer was inspired by '70s fright fests like Carrie, The Amityville Horror, and Burnt Offerings. A few newer movies, including House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, made the cut as well.
Textiles like rich velvet tulle, delicate silks, and soft jerseys were the standard fare of spring shows. But Fraser-Swan's Emerson stood out with its color scheme and airy, almost ominous flow of fabrics. Models glided down the runway donning shady purples, rich reds, electric blues, and brilliant oranges. Neutral black and white completed the striking color palette.
Skirts ranged from pencils to flowing maxis and everything in between. Meanwhile, babydoll dresses, printed short shorts, and peplum detailing infused springtime playfulness into the line's dark theme. But the scream queens of this collection were a gorgeous red cutout gown (it gave us the chills!) and a black and white varsity jacket emblazoned with an 'E'.
Read Fall Fashion Inspiration From Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly + More
Janell Geason for Aveda went to impressive feats to create a smoky eye look that was edgy but not nightmarish. We even spotted Paula Abdul in a show-appropriate red frock. Perhaps the only mishap during the show was a model who stumbled over her black and white striped gown. Luckily, she caught herself in the nick of time–we all know what happens to the unlucky gals who fall during slasher films!
Ladies, if you're looking to add a heavy dose of edge to your warm weather wardrobe, you'll find your happy ending with Emerson. No masked murderers included, we promise!
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5 Steps to a Safe Pedicure
Easy, expert tips to keep your feet healthy—and sexy.
-Brittany Fenning
With the arrival of spring and summer, it's time for your toes to make their seasonal debut. But although you want to make them look good as fast as possible, you've also got to think about how you can keep them safe and infection-free. Otherwise, you might end up with some surprise results, like a fungus or a bacterial infection.
"A pedicure is something I recommend to my patients who want to maintain both the health and look of their feet, but I warn them to proceed with caution when choosing a nail salon to frequent," says Dr. Oliver Zong, a New York City cosmetic podiatrist.
What's the problem? While the number of nail salons and spas are on the rise, their health regulations are not. Unlike hospitals, the cosmetics industry is not required to perform sanitary procedures such as sterilization. So, says Dr. Zong, "The biggest risk factor [in getting a pedicure] is going to be infection. Many places do not sanitize properly."
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And that' a major problem: Experts say the biggest dangers of unsafe pedicures are fungal infections like athlete's foot, bacterial infections like staphylococcus and (most dangerous of all) viral infections including plantar warts and hepatitis B and C.
But you won't have to steer clear of pedicures if you follow Dr. Zong's tips and tricks:
Wait for cuts to get better. When dealing with bug bites, cuts, bruises or poison ivy on your feet or legs, skip the pedicure until you're healed. These abrasions can let microorganisms enter the body straight from the footbath, causing infection. And try to wait on shaving your legs, getting waxed, or using a hair removal cream before getting a pedicure. This can help prevent bacteria from entering the skin.


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Taking weeks of shrill rhetoric and threats to a fresh high on Tuesday, North Korea announced plans to restart a shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of enriched uranium. So did we just move one step closer to nuclear armageddon? Here's a reading list of comment and analysis to help gauge the hazard level.
- Our own Gideon Rachman argues that there is still "an unfortunate tendency in the west" to treat North Korea as a bit of a joke. "In reality, the Pyongyang regime is about as unfunny as it gets." He warns that the US and South Korea are responding to North Korea as if it is a rational adversary – "but the unsettling reality is that we cannot be sure."
- Writing for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos highlights the difficulty of judging the true nature of Kim Jong-eun's intentions. "The rhetoric and the stagecraft has reached such a tragicomic level that it is easy to overlook the depth of the threat beneath. It has forced people to ask: At what point do we take North Korea at its word?"
- Scott Snyder, an analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, told the LA Times he doesn't believe North Korea actually intends to start a war. "The risk is really related to miscalculation", he says. An FT editorial underlines that point: "North Korea's increasingly strident proclamations come as the US and South Korean military conduct annual drills around the peninsula. This is where accidental clashes could indeed spark grave regional conflict."
- What do North Korea's air defenses look like? Foreign Policy has the answer. (Spoiler: they look quite old, as they're largely from the 60s, 70s and 80s).


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You know how John Tortorella acknowledged that the win over Toronto at home was an important one in this stretch of five in seven nights? Well, you might throw this one into that category, too.
Because I foresee Washington being really motivated in D.C. on Monday, following that 7-0 bombing the Capitals took at MSG in December.
And I foresee a dog-tired, banged-up Rangers team coming home from the dreaded three-game trip (the first game back almost always bites them) and having a problem with Florida on Tuesday.
So a win in Atlanta would go a long, long way toward getting the Rangers to the all-star break finish line and six days off and Ryan Callahan's return. And a loss in Atlanta would be a fourth in five games and might turn this into a very, very bad streak very quickly.
In an unrelated note, our contest winner Matt has still not surfaced, which kind of makes me think it was somebody making up multiple personalties/screennames to cheat at the contest, somebody who doesn't want to come forward. So, Matt, if you're out there, you have until puck drop tonight to e-mail me at email@example.com. If I don't hear from you, then Lev will be declared the winner.
Here are tonight's pre-game notes, courtesy of the Rangers:
NEW YORK RANGERS at ATLANTA THRASHERS
Saturday, Jan. 22, 7:00 p.m.
Philips Arena • Atlanta, GA
Rangers: 27-19-3 (57 pts)
Thrashers: 23-18-8 (54 pts)
* All information through NHL games on Jan. 20
The Rangers will face-off against the Atlanta Thrashers at Philips Arena (7:00 p.m.), in the second game of their three-game road trip. The Blueshirts currently rank third in the Atlantic Division standings, and sixth in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 27-19-3 (57 pts). The Rangers enter the contest having been defeated by the Carolina Hurricanes, 4-1, on Thursday at RBC Center, to conclude their league-high, 13th back-to-back set of the season. New York has registered a point in 22 of their last 34 games (20-12-2), and are now 10-6-2 in their last 18. The Thrashers enter the contest with a 23-18-8 (54 pts) record to rank eighth in the Eastern Conference, and have lost five of their last six games. Following the contest, the Rangers will conclude their three-game road trip when they face-off against the Washington Capitals on Monday, Jan. 24, at Verizon Center (7:30 p.m.), in the first game of a back-to-back set.
- TV: MSG Plus
6:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show with Al Trautwig and Ron Duguay
7:00 p.m. – Rangers at Thrashers
Broadcasters: Sam Rosen (Play-By-Play), Joe Micheletti (Analyst), John Giannone (In-Game Reporter)
- Radio: 970 The Apple and newyorkrangers.com
6:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show
7:00 p.m. – Rangers at Thrashers
Broadcasters: Kenny Albert (Play-By-Play), Dave Maloney (Analyst)
RANGERS vs. THRASHERS:
- All-Time: 18-13-1-9 overall (7-8-1-5 at home, 11-5-0-4 on the road)
- 2010-11: Tonight is the second of four meetings this season, and first of two at Philips Arena. New York is 0-1-0 thus far, following a 6-4 loss at MSG on Oct. 27.
- Last Season: New York was 1-1-2 overall, with a 1-0-1 mark at Atlanta. Two of their four meetings were decided in the shootout.
- The Rangers rank seventh with a 15-9-1 (31 pts) record on the road; the Thrashers rank 18th with an 11-9-4 (26 pts) mark at home
- The Rangers are 3-6-2 vs. the Southeast Division; the Thrashers are 4-5-0 vs. the Atlantic Division
- Henrik Lundqvist is 6-3-6 with a 2.17 goals against average and one shutout in 16 career regular season games vs. Atlanta; Martin Biron is 6-11-0-0 with a 3.31 goals against average and three shutouts in 18 career regular season games vs. Atlanta
- Chris Drury has registered a team-high, 20 assists and 26 points in 29 career regular season contests vs. Atlanta
- New York lists one former Thrasher on their roster: Erik Christensen (2007-08 – 2008-09)
- Atlanta lists one former Ranger on their roster: Nik Antropov (2008-09)
The Blueshirts have posted a plus-five rating on special teams (PPG+SHG minus PPGA+SHGA) this season, which ranks seventh in the league.
- Power Play: The Rangers did not tally a goal in two power play opportunities (4:00) on Thursday at Carolina. New York ranks 22nd overall (28-173, 16.2%) and ranks 20th on the road (13-85, 15.3%). The Rangers are 1-5 (5:01) in five-on-three situations (last – 11/24 at TBL), and 0-2 (2:23) when four-on-three (last – 12/3 vs. NYI). Shorthanded goals allowed (4): 11/20 at MIN (Cullen); 12/5 vs. OTT (Kelly); 1/2 at FLA (Weiss); 1/16 vs. PHI (Richards).
- Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts surrendered one goal to the Hurricanes in two shorthanded situations (2:42) on Thursday at Carolina, and are now 100-115 (87.0%) over the last 37 games. New York ranks eighth overall (140-168, 83.3%) and is tied for 15th on the road (78-96, 81.2%). The Rangers are 6-8 (6:05) in three-on-five situations (last – 1/13 vs. VAN), and 4-6 (2:41) when three-on-four (last – 11/15 at PIT). Shorthanded goals for (9): 10/9 at BUF (Dubinsky); 11/5 at NJD (Dubinsky); 11/15 at PIT (Staal); 11/24 at TBL (Boyle); 11/26 at FLA (Prust); 12/5 vs. OTT (Prust); 12/12 vs. WSH (Staal); 12/16 vs. PHX (Prust); 1/7 at DAL (Fedotenko).
- Four-on-Four: New York did not skate in a four-on-four situation on Thursday at Carolina, and are now plus-three in 37, four-on-four situations (68:26). Four-on-four goals for (5): 10/18 vs. COL (Frolov); 11/11 vs. BUF (Anisimov); 11/15 at PIT (Callahan); 12/12 vs. WSH (Callahan); 1/5 vs. CAR (Zuccarello). Four-on-four goals allowed (2): 10/15 vs. TOR (Kessel); 1/1 at TBL (Thompson).
The Rangers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 7-0, on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden…
- Marian Gaborik (four goals, one assist) posted his third hat trick of the season, the most by a Ranger in a single season since Jaromir Jagr recorded three in 2005-06
- The last Ranger to tally four goals in a game was Radek Dvorak on Mar. 29, 2001 at Long Island, and the last Blueshirt to register five points in a single game was Mike York on Jan. 23, 2002 vs. Boston (two goals, three assists)
- The Rangers have now registered four hat tricks this season (Derek Stepan, Marian Gaborik – 3), which is the most for the team since 2005-06 (Jaromir Jagr – 3, Martin Straka)
- Henrik Lundqvist (22 saves) posted his seventh shutout of the season to pass Jon Ross Roach for third on the Rangers' all-time career regular season shutouts list (31), and moved ahead of Mike Richter for fourth on the Rangers' all-time career shutouts list (regular season + playoffs) with 34
- Lundqvist also registered his 20th win of the season to become the third goalie in NHL history to record 20 or more wins in their first six seasons (Bill Durnan, 7 seasons, 1943-1949; George Hainsworth, 6 seasons, 1926-1931), and now owns the second longest active streak of 20-plus win seasons (six), behind Roberto Luongo (eight)
- Artem Anisimov tallied a career-high, four assists, the most by a Ranger since Marian Gaborik recorded four assists on Jan. 19, 2010 in an 8-2 win vs. Tampa Bay
The Rangers completed their league-high, 13th of 18 back-to-back sets on Thursday at Carolina. New York is 7-5-1 (2-1-0 at home, 5-4-1 on the road) in the first game of back-to-backs. The Blueshirts are 10-3-0 (4-1-0 at home, 6-2-0 on the road) in the second game this season, having out-scored their opponent, 36-20, in those games. Over the last two seasons, New York is 19-5-2 in the back-end of back-to-back sets, including an 8-2-1 mark at MSG and 11-3-1 on the road over the span.
The Rangers have registered four more wins and four more points compared to last season through 49 games (23-19-7, 51 points in 2009-10), having tallied 13 more goals (140 this season, 127 last season) while allowing 12 fewer goals against (119 this season, 131 last season). New York has also shown a four-goal improvement while shorthanded compared to 2009-10 (nine this season, five last season).
The Rangers have the sixth youngest team in the league with an average age of 26 years and 210 days, and the youngest defensive corp in the league with an average age of 24 years and 328 days. *based on NHL rosters on Jan. 11
New York is currently eight games over .500 with a 27-19-3 record. New York was never more than six games over .500 last season, having last been at least eight games over on Apr. 12, 2009 (43-30-9).
The Blueshirts rank fourth in the league with a .619 winning percentage in one-goal games, posting a record of 13-5-3 in those contests. Their 13 wins are tied for fifth in the NHL.
The Rangers have had 17 different players credited with at least one game winning goal this season, which is the most in the NHL.
The Rangers lead the league in shorthanded goals (nine), are tied for second in road wins (15), sixth in goals against (119), 10th in points (58), and rank seventh in wins (27), 11th in goals for (140), and sixth with a plus-21 goal differential.
The Rangers currently lead the NHL with 1,413 hits and rank second with 772 blocked shots. Ryan Callahan ranked second in the league with 128 hits and led all NHL forwards with 40 blocked shots prior to his injury on Dec. 15, while Dan Girardi currently leads the league with 142 blocked shots and Brian Boyle ranks eighth in the NHL with 145 hits.
- Henrik Lundqvist is 13-7-2 with a 1.80 goals against average, a .938 save percentage and five shutouts in his last 22 games
- Derek Stepan has tallied 23 points (10 goals, 13 assists) in the last 33 games, including four points (one goal, three assists) in the last four
- Mats Zuccarello has recorded seven points (three goals, four assists) in the last nine games, with four points (two goals, two assists) in the last four
- Wojtek Wolski has recorded five points (two goals, three assists) in six games as a Ranger, with four points (one goal, three assists) in the last three
- Brandon Prust has registered three points (one goal, two assists) in the last four games
- Henrik Lundqvist: 3 wins from 200 NHL career
- Matt Gilroy: 100th career NHL game (1/16 vs. PHI)
- Vinny Prospal (IR on Sept. 24/knee surgery on Oct. 18) – 49
- Derek Boogaard (injured shoulder on Dec. 9) – 19
- Ryan Callahan (broken hand on Dec. 15) – 16
- Erik Christensen (sprained knee on Dec. 29) – 11
- Alex Frolov (injured knee on Jan. 8, expected to be sidelined for the remainder of the season) – 6
- Brandon Dubinsky (stress fracture in left leg, 3 – 4 weeks) – 2
- Ruslan Fedotenko (shoulder separation on Jan. 19, 2 – 4 weeks) – 1
Total Man-Games Lost: 170
- Jan. 19 – Recalled forward Chad Kolarik from Connecticut (AHL)
- Jan. 19 – Recalled forward Brodie Dupont from Connecticut (AHL)


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Missoni Spring 2013
It can't be easy to a) work for a family business (no matter how successful the endeavor or well-adjusted the relatives, there's always something), or b) take on the challenge four times a year and then, if not reinvent, at least reinterpret that family business's calling card. Angela Missoni, of course, has been charged with both as creative director of the house founded by her parents Ottavio and Rosita Missoni. And when the two of them greeted Angela backstage—ever the the line's ambassadors, he was in a navy knit cardigan, and she was in a red woven caftan—you realized just how long this clan has traded on colorful knitwear. Next year will mark Missoni's 60th anniversary, which alone is remarkable, as is the fact that its clothes can be worn by three generations, from 80-year-old Rosita to newlywed 29-year-old Margherita who, with cute shorn hair, greeted guests before the show.
But enough digression. This season Angela chose to stage the presentation in a large unoccupied space with a glass facade that allowed in a lot of natural light. (It was also about 20 minutes outside of town—surely there are more centrally located venues that are just as well lit?) She wanted to illuminate the various optical tricks she used in the clothes, and although the sky was gray, this was achieved. Taking spring's graphic theme, Angela rendered it in a way that felt pleasantly unencumbered. This was mostly because her trapeze dresses and the occasional sheath were made from layers of printed organza floating over a knit dress in the same print. When the model walked, there was a 3-D effect. "For me this was also like an aura for the girls," Missoni explained. (As New Agey as that sounds, auras too are a kind of light.) She sometimes heightened the visual illusion by tacking on printed paillettes.
Funnily enough, for a designer and label so rooted in Italy, Missoni looked to American artist James Turrell, who uses prisms to create elaborate light installations, for the accessories and embellishment. She created giant crystal chokers and applied chunky, translucent stones that adorned thin knit tanks made from a mix of various weaves.
At times the collection, with its short, flirty dresses and abundant transparency, looked more suited to Angela's 20-something daughters than it did to women of her own generation. But still, it was playful and light. And after weeks of watching leather coats and knee-high boots come down the runway, as covetable as they may be, this was one of the few instances when the clothes actually looked appropriate for spring.


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Rep Stage Announces its 2011-12 Season; Features Or, Barrymore
Producing Artistic Director Michael Stebbins announces the lineup for the 19th season of Rep Stage, the award-winning professional theatre in residence at Howard Community College (HCC), featuring rarely seen plays produced with the creative and quality staging that audiences have come to expect. The 2011-12 season includes a regional premiere of an historical and hysterical biographical farce directed by Michael Stebbins; an early Lynn Nottage play (Pulitzer Prize winner for "Ruined") set in the majestic French court of Louis XIV; playwright Dael Orlandersmith's poetic and compelling story of two childhood friends struggling with many issues, including race, in the Gullah community in South Carolina; and Helen Hayes Award-winner and Rep Stage favorite Nigel Reed takes to the boards as stage and screen idol John Barrymore. Also included is a new Salon Series featuring some of Rep Stage's favorite artists.
Rep Stage's 2011-12 season includes:
A regional premiere by Liz Duffy Adams
Directed by Michael Stebbins
August 31 to September 18, 2011
Liz Duffy Adams' 2009 Off-Broadway sleeper hit touches on the free love of the 60's - the 1660s - and is based on real life playwright Aphra Behn and her romantic spy romps through Restoration England while trying to break into the boys' playwrighting club. "Or," features Jason Odell Williams ("Two by J. M. Barrie: The New Word and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals"), Christine Demuth ("Two by J. M. Barrie: The New Word and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," "A Dickens of a Carol," "The Glass Menagerie") and Broadway alum Charlotte Cohn in her Rep Stage debut.
By William Luce
Directed by Steven Carpenter
October 26 to November 13, 2011
William Luce's "Barrymore" reunites director Steven Carpenter with Helen Hayes Award-winning actor Nigel Reed following their successful pairing on Rep's production of "Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted." The play finds actor John Barrymore renting a Broadway theatre in 1942 - one month prior to his death - as he prepares to make a comeback to the stage. Haunted by ghosts, ex-wives, family, fellow thespians, and the follies of his past, he attempts to bring himself back to life through the aid of memories and a helpful stage manager.
By Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by Kasi Campbell
February 8 to February 26, 2012
Directed by Helen Hayes Award-winner Kasi Campbell, Dael Orlandersmith's 2002 Off-Broadway hit is called an "unsparing...hard and piercing drama" by The New York Times. "Yellowman" details the relationship between Eugene, a fair-skinned black man, and Alma, a dark-skinned black woman, as they struggle with issues of intraracial prejudice, domestic violence, and young love. "Yellowman" was a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama.
"Las Meninas"
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Eve Muson
April 18 to May 6, 2012
Rep Stage closes the 2011-12 season with Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's "Las Meninas." Set in the court of France's Louis XIV, it is an irreverent and incisive reconsideration of the historical scandal involving Queen Marie-Therese and a unique gift from Africa. Eve Muson, director of Rep's recent production of "Speech & Debate," helms the season closer.
Subscription Information
Season subscriptions and tickets go on sale July 1 online at www.repstage.org or by calling the Box Office at 443-518-1500.
Rep Stage's 2011-12 Salon Series will include:
"The Guys"
By Anne Nelson
September 9 to 11, 2011
Based on a true story, "The Guys" focuses on an NYC fire captain who lost eight men in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and the editor who helps him write the eulogies he must deliver.
"The Poe Show"
October 21 to 24, 2011
Tony Tsendeas, nationally recognized interpreter of Edgar Allan Poe's writings, returns to Rep Stage to share words and works by the master of the macabre.
"Holidays on Ice"
By David Sedaris
December 16 to 19, 2011
Rep Stage's producing artistic director, Michael Stebbins, brings Sedaris' caustic holiday essays to life and adds a dash(er) of pessimism to the season.
"Rep Stage Revue: Spotlighting YOU!"
March 30 to April 1, 2012
Have a special talent that you'd love to share on the stage? Rep Stage invites aspiring entertainers to sign up for an audition date and time, where they will have three minutes to showcase their talents before a panel of judges and theatre professionals. Selected acts will appear in "Rep Stage Revue: Spotlighting YOU!" Prepare today to become a star tomorrow!
The Rep Stage 2011-2012 season continues to provide theatre lovers with free events such as the Rep Stage Reading Series, pre-show lectures, post-show discussions, and Wednesday Pay-What-You-Can performances.
Please note that all titles, prices, and schedules are subject to change.
For more information on the 2011-12 season, visit www.repstage.org or call the Box Office at 443-518-1500.
About Rep Stage
Rep Stage, a professional Equity theatre in residence at Howard Community College, celebrates its 19th year with the 2011-12 season. Rep Stage is a member of TCG and League of Washington Theatres. Performances are made possible by the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and National Endowment for the Arts, and generous individual contributions. Howard Bank is Rep Stage's 2011-12 season partner.


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John Hughlings Jackson, FRS (4 March 1835 - 7 October 1911), was an English neurologist; born at Providence Green, Green Hammerton, near Harrogate, Yorkshire.
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He was the son of Samuel Jackson, a yeoman who owned and farmed his land, and the former Sarah Hughlings, the daughter of a Welsh revenue collector. His mother died just over a year after giving birth to him. He had three brothers and a sister; his brothers emigrated to New Zealand and his sister married a physician.
He was physician to the London Hospital and later to the then National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy located in Queen Square, London (now the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878.
Jackson died in London on 7 October 1911.
Science and research Edit
Jackson was an innovative thinker and a prolific and lucid, if sometimes repetitive, writer. Though his range of interests was wide, he is best remembered for his seminal contributions to the diagnosis and understanding of epilepsy in all its forms and complexities. His name is attached eponymously to the characteristic "march" of symptoms in focal motor seizures and to the so-called "dreamy state" of psychomotor seizures of temporal lobe origin. His papers on the latter variety of epilepsy have seldom been bettered in their descriptive clinical detail or in their analysis of the relationship of psychomotor epilepsy to various patterns of pathological automatism and other mental and behavioural disorders.
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Jackson could not use modern sophisticated neuro-investigative technology (it had not been invented), but had to rely upon his own powers of clinical observation and deductive logic. Some of his eminent successors in the field of British neurology have been critical of many of his theories and concepts; but as Sir Francis Walshe remarked of his work in 1943, " ... when all that is obsolete or irrelevant is discarded there remains a rich treasure of physiological insight we cannot afford to ignore."
In Otfrid Foerster's research on the motor cortex, he cites exclusively Hughlings Jackson for the initial discovery (although without evidence) of the brain as the spring of neurological motor signaling[1].
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Together with his friends Sir David Ferrier and Sir James Crichton-Browne, two eminent neurologists of his time, Jackson was one of the founders of the important Brain journal, which was dedicated to the interaction between experimental and clinical neurology (still being published today). Its inaugural issue came to light in 1878.
In 1892, Jackson was one of the founding members of the National Society for the Employment of Epileptics (now the National Society for Epilepsy), along with Sir William Gowers and Sir David Ferrier.
Oliver Sacks has repeatedly cited Jackson as an inspiration in his neurologic work.
- ↑ Foerster, O., "The motor cortex in man in light of Hughlings Jackson's doctrine." Brain, June 1963, part 2, vol. 59, 135-159.
External linksEdit
- Biography
- 100 Years of Brain Journal
- John Jackson on Find-A-Grave
- Photo from Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TORONTO -- Since the Winnipeg Jets really jumped into the fray about 10 days ago, the race in the NHL's Eastern Conference has taken on new intrigue.
You aren't imagining this -- the latest plot twist sees the Jets as the third seed this morning.
Their wild 5-4 shootout win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night at Air Canada Centre vaulted them over the Carolina Hurricanes and into the lead of the Southeast Division with 32 points.
The Jets coughed up a 4-1 second-period lead and eventually took the game on a goal by Zach Bogosian in the 10th-round of the shootout, the longest of the NHL season.
"A good game for Hockey Night in Canada, exciting from that standpoint but a little bit too exciting for our liking," said Jets coach Claude Noel, his team 10-3-1 in its last 14 games.
"But we're happy we got the win. The shootout was a little nerve-racking."
Winnipeg, Toronto and New Jersey are all at 32 points.
The Leafs and Devils share sixth today, while Carolina is now eighth in the standings after losing to Tampa Bay on Saturday.
First period
-- Joffrey Lupul's early goal for Toronto -- he's just back from missing 25 games with a broken arm -- pushed the Leafs to the lead after just 1:32, then the rowdiness began again.
The teams had a physical battle Tuesday in Winnipeg and it resumed when Toronto's Colton Orr and Winnipeg's Chris Thorburn squared off again. Four minutes later, Jets defenceman Zach Bogosian was jumping in to scrap with Korbinian Holzer, who had wanted to fight with Evander Kane.
"I thought it was good," Noel said. "I think the fact that he didn't think it was a fair trade-off with Evander Kane, he thought we're not going to take liberties like this."
Second period
-- The Jets jumped to the attack almost from the faceoff to start the period. It took them five minutes to cash a goal, and within a 10-minute span, they had four.
James Wright had the first, converting a rush pass from Kyle Wellwood, then Antti Miettinen scored for the second game in a row, batting a puck out of the air near the net. Blake Wheeler added two more, 3:26 apart, and the Jets were ahead by three goals and ACC fans were starting to jeer.
-- Toronto rallied late, getting a faceoff win goal by Nikolai Kulemin and turnover conversion by Lupul within 25 seconds to get it within one by the intermission.
"The only real disappointing thing was how in control we had that game," Wheeler said. "But that's hockey, it's a game of momentum and they made a couple of nice plays going into the third."
Third period
-- Phil Kessel scored on a wide rush at 5:50. It took the Jets nearly 10 minutes to get a shot in the period.
-- The overtime produced chances both ways, the best for Toronto's Nazem Kadri and Winnipeg's Kane.
-- The shootout saw Wheeler score with Winnipeg's first shot, Tyler Bozak with Toronto's second then Jets' Ondrej Pavelec and Toronto reliever James Reimer shut the door. Winnipeg, shooting second in each round, had eight straight shots to win the game and finally did it with Bogosian's glove-side snapper.
After the buzzer
-- Winners of three straight, the Jets are right back it in Ottawa today (4 p.m., TSNJets, TSN1290). Ottawa has 34 points, the Jets 32.
"Now the goal is to move onto the next game," Wheeler said after the long shootout.
"Tomorrow's two points are just as important, probably more important. It's less about where we are now and more where we want to go. You've got to scratch and claw your way to be higher up in those standings, so that you're not just teetering on the edge every game."


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AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- In July 1898, F.A. Seiberling hired Ed Hippensteal to start cleaning up an old strawboard factory in Akron to turn it into the first home for the still unincorporated Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Hippensteal and 12 others, including Seiberling, are memorialized in a plaque on the Goodyear clock tower off East Market Street as one of the "Old Guard" -- the original 13 employees of Goodyear, all hired before 1900.
Fast-forward 114 years: On Dec. 31, Hippensteal's great-grandson, Ed Rueschman, is taking a buyout and will retire from Goodyear after more than 46 years with the Akron tire maker.
Rueschman, like his father, grandfather and namesake great-grandfather, all worked for Goodyear. You could say Goodyear, through its first hired employee, Hippensteal, has been a four-generation family business ever since that day in 1898.
The four men have 163 years of combined service, said Rueschman, 65, who lives in Uniontown.
"I'm amazed I was able to be a part of that," said Rueschman. The Steelworker drives trucks, picking up and delivering parts as part of his responsibilities in maintenance.
He started in 1965, just three weeks after graduating from Ellet High School. His father had suggested he take a job with Goodyear.
"I was thinking of more of a truck driving career" at the time, Rueschman said. But he agreed to apply at Goodyear and soon started working a midnight factory shift. His work at Goodyear was interrupted in 1967, when he entered the Army and served in the infantry in Vietnam, returning to civilian life in Akron about two years later.
Rueschman did not know about his family's connection to Goodyear's founding until much later in life.
"I just knew my dad and my grandpa worked here," he said.
But in the 1980s his great-aunt told him that his great-grandfather, on his mother's side, was the very first person hired at Goodyear.
"She brought out all these pictures," Rueschman said. "I had no idea. ... As time went on, I learned the history. I thought, wow, it's going to be something if I can stay, complete the cycle."
His great-grandfather worked for Goodyear from 1898 to the year he died, 1946, for 48 years of service. The book The Goodyear Story mentions Hippensteal and includes pictures of his great-grandfather. Rueschman was born the year after his great-grandfather died.
His grandfather, John F. Rueschman, worked at Goodyear from 1915 to 1948, and his father, John L., started at Goodyear in 1941. All four men worked factory jobs.
Goodyear noted Rueschman's family history in 1998 when it rededicated the clock tower with the original "Old Guard" plaque that had been lost for years, likely removed after a fire in 1984. The plaque was found inside a remote section of Goodyear's Plant One building in time for the ceremony that year.
Rueschman said he and his father worked the same factory shift and went to and from work together for years.
"My dad retired in 1977. Been carrying it on since then," Rueschman said.
All told, he will have 46 years and five months of service with Goodyear, he said.
"I've had 10 different jobs at Goodyear since I started in '65," he said.
His family plans to host a retirement party for him.
Rueschman said his retirement plans include traveling as well as catching up on the "honey do" list at home. His vacation travels in years past have taken him to Alaska, Oregon and Arizona and as far as Australia.
Rueschman noted that his family's generational streak at Goodyear ends with him. Neither his son nor his stepsons plan to work at the tire company, he said. He called it the end of a personal era.
It's too bad his father, grandfather and great-grandfather won't be able to see him retire, he said.
"I just wish they could see where history led to," Rueschman said. "I was able to complete it, continue it. A very enjoyable trip."


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There's just one problem with the current crusade: It misdiagnoses the problem and misprescribes the cure. While it's easy to point to horror stories, there are no data, in the Inspector General's report or elsewhere, which suggest that raw fraud is a quantitatively important cause of rising Medicare expenditures. The current furor will not solve Medicare's cost crisis -- and may even prove counterproductive if, by covering up the real causes, it leads the public to expect painless reform.
A Tiny Fraction
What exactly does the Inspector General's report say? Simply this: Of $167 billion in total payments to fee-for-service providers in 1996, $23 billion (or 14 percent) "did not comply with Medicare laws and regulations." These improper payments count any claim auditors construed as out of line with Medicare rules, including "inadvertent mistakes." The report makes no attempt to determine how many claims were actually fraudulent. As Inspector General June Gibbs Brown herself explained to Congress, "We cannot quantify what portion of the error rate is attributable to fraud."
Indeed, we can't. But if by "fraud" we mean blatant schemes to bilk Medicare, it's safe to say we're talking about just a tiny fraction of total expenditures. According to the Inspector General's report, 47 percent of all improper payments were so classified because they lacked full documentation. (Full documentation? By that standard, countless millions of personal income tax returns would be fraudulent.) Another 37 percent were for services deemed to be "medically unnecessary" -- which means no more than that a bureaucrat and a physician disagreed about best medical practice. All told, just 5 percent of improper payments, or under 1 percent of total Medicare expenditures, were for "noncovered or unallowable" services-the category most clearly encompassing what most of us would call fraud. (See chart below.)
One might suppose that the anti-fraud crusaders have more persuasive data to fall back on. But they don't. Although a 10 percent estimate for fraud is sometimes cited in expert testimony, the number turns out to be an unsubstantiated guess. Like the Inspector General's figure, moreover, it includes large gray areas that may or may not be fraud at all.
That leaves the stacks of anecdotal evidence. From the infamous "rolling labs" scheme, involving over 200 physicians, to the case of the enterprising psychologist who billed for over 24 hours of consultations in a single day, fraud-fighters have uncovered hundreds of shocking (and often costly) Medicare scams. But in a program with a budget four-fifths the size of the Pentagon's, processing 800 million claims a year for nearly 40 million beneficiaries, it's hardly surprising to discover fraud. The relevant question is what it all adds up to.
An Underlying Malady
The only answer the data allow is that, relative to total expenditures, Medicare fraud is small if we take a strict definition -- but large if we broaden the definition to include any infraction of the rules. Our inability to be more precise points to an underlying malady of the system that the current furor over fraud ignores.
Within Medicare's fee-for-service payment structure, no one directly involved in treatment decisions -- provider or patient -- has much incentive to care about cost. Absent that incentive, government has no choice but to try to cap spending by micro-managing care. Inevitably, some providers game the system-for example, by "upcoding" diagnoses and "unbundling" treat-ments-which in turn leads to more regulation.
In such an environment, fraud defies practical definition. Was a particular medical problem of "high severity" (in which case the physician gets reimbursed more), or was it only of "moderate severity"? Was a particular lab test ordered to confirm a suspected diagnosis (in which case it's allowable), or did it merely constitute preventive screening (in which case it's not)? In such instances, how can anyone know whether the decision justified the cost? Clearly, regulation cannot ensure that Medicare makes the right trade-offs so long as doctors have a financial interest in providing more services to patients who have no financial interest in refusing them, and who indeed may value them greatly.
This brings us to one of the great myths about Medicare "fraud" -- namely, that patients are the unwitting victims. In truth, they are usually the beneficiaries. In congressional testimony last spring, former HCFA Administrator Bruce Vladeck decried the "profiteers" who "prey" on the frail elderly by enrolling them in home health services for which they are not quite sick enough to qualify. This is absurd: The only obvious victim is the taxpayer. It's no wonder that the types of Medicare services most subject to abuse are the very services which many beneficiaries desire in limitless quantities (diagnostic testing and home care). It's also no wonder that recent federal efforts to get beneficiaries to blow the whistle on providers have attracted little response.
In the end, today's Medicare system pleases no one. With the foot simultaneously on the gas and the brakes, it writes blank checks from an open-ended budget while subjecting patients and providers to more interference in day-to-day treatment decisions than any other health system on earth. Wherever medical guidelines are hazy and judgment calls are required, it tries to ration claims through arbitrary rules, creating a feast-or-famine reimbursement policy. It imposes huge compliance costs and produces capricious results. Worst of all, despite the estimated 45,000 pages of regulations, the system careens toward bankruptcy as costs keep rising.
A New Paradigm
Significantly, the Inspector General's audit of "improper" payments was limited to traditional fee-for-service Medicare. Fraud is generally not an issue in "capitated" plans like HMOs, where government prospectively agrees to pay a fixed premium per beneficiary-and providers make more by doing less.
Why then are the politicians most exercised about Medicare fraud usually the same politicians who are most hostile to capitation? One concern is that, by reversing the incentives, prospective payment creates the opposite problem: not keeping costs down, but keeping quality up. This might indeed be a big problem if beneficiaries had no options. But when quality ratings become widely available and beneficiaries can vote with their feet by switching plans, it's not.
The advantage of the capitated model is not just that it eliminates fraudulent billing. Decades of open-ended payments have encouraged a lavish approach to medical technology and treatment that admits no trade-offs-and this in turn is a primary force behind rising costs. Over the long run, capitation promises to reorient the entire health system (including basic research and preventive care) around a cost-effective approach.
It would also allow for more patient choice. Capitation need not mean HMOs -- or even "managed care." A system of capitated vouchers, for instance, could allow people to opt for any type of health coverage, including traditional fee for service. Once upon a time, one-size-fits-all institutions like Medicare may have helped bring us together as a nation. But the old paradigm is breaking down -- not just because it's too expensive, but also because it no longer appeals to a public increasingly drawn to diverse styles of health care.
With the enactment of Medicare Plus Choice, we're already moving in this direction. Moving much further poses real dangers -- including widening divisions by health (adverse risk selection) and income (two-tiering). But these problems are solvable. Edmund Burke wrote that even our most treasured institutions sometimes must change in order to survive. On its current course, Medicare is at grave risk. Those who staunchly defend government health benefits should be eager to change Medicare so that it does survive. Perhaps it's time for a new paradigm.
FACING FACTS AUTHORS: Neil Howe and Richard Jackson CONCORD COALITION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Martha Phillips


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Where Sleeping Birds Lie
de Aine Scannell
Acerca del libro
This is a monograph of the artist/printmaker Aine Scannell. The pieces featured are mainly from 2005 - the present. Some of the works have been especially created for this book. Her pieces are mainly "one offs", as creating editions is of no interest. The momentum is rather, in seeking expression to what it is, to be human. Finding the graphical means, to somehow express those fleeting moments, our affinities with other beings and our relationship with ourselves.
Aine is originally from Ireland and spent her formative years as a fine artist in London. She is an International award winning artist - and has widely exhibited internationally - most recently in Krakow, China and Lithuania.
Características y detalles
- Categoría Bellas artes
Cuadrado pequeño, 18×18 cm
60 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación sep. 25, 2012
- Etiquetas contemporary art, graphic art, tradigital art, combined printmaking techniques, chine colle, printmaking, drawing, figurative, human, etching, intaglio, collagraph
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PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team performed gamely for much of Wednesday night's game at Temple, but the Owls made the plays down the stretch to overcome the Quakers, 76-69.
The Quakers (3-15) led by as much as nine in the second half, but the Owls (13-5) -- led by Khalif Wyatt -- used an 11-0 run over a four-minute span late in the game to turn a three-point deficit into an eight-point lead.
Wyatt scored 21 of his game-high 26 points after the intermission, and his three-pointer with 5:25 gave Temple a lead it would not relinquish, at 66-64. After a Penn turnover, Wyatt was fouled and hit a pair of foul shots to make it a four-point game.
Darien Nelson-Henry had a chance to halve the lead at the foul line, but missed the front end of a 1-and-1 with 4:52 to play (the Quakers' only missed free throw of the night). At the other end, Anthony Lee was fouled and he made both foul shots. The Quakers then had a pair of empty possessions, and Jake O'Brien made them pay with another jumper that made the score 72-64.
Dau Jok hit a pair of foul shots to make it a six-point game with 2:49 left, but then arguably the possession of the game occurred as Temple got four shots at the basket in a possession that lasted more than a minute. The final one of those rebounds was a wide-open tip-in for Scottie Randall, andthat made itan eight-point game with only 1:22 left. Penn had nothing left.
Penn scored the first points of the night, Greg Louis hitting a jumper, but Temple responded with the next eight to take an 8-2 lead. However, Penn showed fight on this night, and when Patrick Lucas-Perry hit a three-pointer with 7:52 to play -- his second of the game -- it was 22-22.
Lee and Randall sandwiched baskets around another Louis jumper,before Lucas-Perry and Miles Cartwright drained treys to push the Quakers in front, 30-26. That lead opened up to as much as six, after Lucas-Perry was fouled on another trey attempt and hit all three foul shots, and the Quakers went into the break up, 33-31.
How dominant was Wyatt to start the second half? He figured in all of Temple's first 23 points of the second half, scoring 16 of them and assisting on the other three buckets (all scored by Lee). Penn was up, 45-36, and Wyatt sandwiched a pair of three-pointers around his own free throw to make it a two-point game.
Penn answered. Henry Brooks and Lee traded points, and then Nelson-Henry scored a layup off a Camryn Crocker feedbefore Cartwright scored an old-fashioned three-point play. That put the Quakers back on top by seven, 52-45.
Wyatt again strapped Temple on his back. He hit a jumper, then scored a layup after a Brooks miss. Penn turned it over on the next possession, and Wyatt tied the game with a trey as the half reached the midway point. Nelson-Henry pushed Penn back in front, only for Wyatt to knock down two more foul shots. (At that point, Wyatt had scored 16 of Temple's last 18 points.)
Cartwright hit two foul shots to put Penn up, 56-54, but then T.J. DiLeo ended Wyatt's personal run with his first points of the night, a three-pointer that gave Temple its first lead since 26-24 in the first half.
Penn was not done. Lucas-Perry again got free, took a feed from Nelson-Henry out of the block, and coolly hit a three from the top of the key that made it 59-57. DiLeo missed another trey attempt, and Cartwright was fouled on the rebound and made both free throws to make it a four-point game.
Temple tied it with at 61-61, but Cartwright knocked down a three-pointer to make it 64-61 with seven minutes to play. However, at that point the Owls went on their decisive run.
Cartwright scored 21 points and had six rebounds to lead Penn in both categories, while Nelson-Henry scored 17 points for the third time in five games. Lucas-Perry had 15 points, going 4-of-5 on three-pointers, while Brooks finished with 10.
For Temple, Lee complemented Wyatt's efforts on Wednesday night with a near double-double (16 points, nine rebounds), while O'Brien scored 14.
Penn is now off until the weekend of February 1-2, when the Quakers dive into Ivy League play with Columbia (Friday at 7 p.m.) and Cornell (Saturday at 7 p.m.) at The Palestra.
Game Notes: Penn scored 69 points, its second-best output in a game in its last 16 games (bested only by the 83 scored against Lafayette on Jan. 8) ... Penn shot 45.3 percent from the field, its second-best performance in the last 13 games (bested only by the Quakers' 59.6 performance against Lafayette on Jan. 8) ... One game after shooting a season low at the foul line, Penn was a season-best .938 (15-of-16) at the free-throw line Wednesday night ... Penn had more assists (16) than turnovers (13) for the second straight game, the third time in five games, and the fourth time this season ... Penn had fewer turnovers (13) than its opponent (15) for the second straight game and the seventh time this season ... Penn had six steals, giving the Quakers six or more thefts in each of the last eight games ... Junior Miles Cartwright tied a season high with 21 points, his team-leading 11th double-figure scoring game this season and team-high fourth 20-point game of 2012-13 ... It was the first 20-point game by a Penn player since both Cartwright and junior Fran Dougherty had 20 against Fordham, a span of 13 games ... Cartwright led Penn with six rebounds, the first time this season he has led the team outright in boards in a game ... Freshman Darien Nelson-Henry tied his season/career high with 17 points, the second straight game and third time in five games he has hit that mark ... Nelson-Henry has scored in double figures in five straight games (14.8 ppg) and has shot 64.0 percent from the field in that span (32-of-50) ... Nelson-Henry also set a season/career high with three assists ... Sophomore Patrick Lucas-Perry tied a season/career high with 15 points, and set a career best with four three-point baskets ... Sophomore Henry Brooks scored 10 points, his second double-figure scoring game this season and fifth at Penn ... Junior Steve Rennard tied a season/career high with three assists ... Sophomore Camryn Crocker had four assists and one turnover; in the last six games, he has 19 assists and 6 turnovers (3.17 ratio) ... Penn played for the eighth straight game without Dougherty; he is expected to be back in the lineup for Penn's next games, against Columbia and Cornell.
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Spanish Conversation Group
Allyson Gotsell | October 10, 2012 | 10:02 pm | Uncategorized
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Tags: conversation group, public health, social, spanish
Looking to practice your Spanish speaking skills? Ally Barnes, a first year HCOM student, is looking to put a group together to work on speaking Spanish, particularly within a healthcare/public health context. The plan is to meet once a week, or once every two weeks, for an hour to speak only in Spanish and to discuss issues related to public health in the Latino community here in the US, as well as Latin America. There would also be some social activities, such as going out for tapas, seeing Spanish films, etc. If you would be interested in joining the group, or would like more information, please contact Ally at email@example.com. Native speakers are especially encouraged to join!


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Preheat oven to 400°. Place dulse on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes until crispy. Remove and crumble the dulse into a blender. Add the pumpkin seeds to the blender. Pulse several times, mix with a spoon, and pulse again until powdered. This low sodium, nutritious condiment is delicious sprinkled on cooked whole grains, pasta, vegetables, and salads.
Yield: approximately 1 cup
Per serving - 49 calories, 3 gram fat (68% calories from fat), 3 gram protein, 1 gram carbohydrate, 2 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 61 milligram sodium


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Immigrants are likely to be a steady source of demand for homes in the next decade, according to a new report sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association's Research Institute for Housing America. While foreign investors have been grabbing all the headlines for their role in the housing recovery over the past year, immigrants long settled in the U.S. have, in fact, played a significant role in the growth in housing over the last few decades. The number of immigrant homeowners has increased from 800,000 in the eighties, to 2.4 million between 2000 and 2010 and is projected to rise further to 2.8 million by 2020.
Immigrants accounted for 82.2 percent and 65.1 percent, respectively, of the growth in homeowners in the states of California and New York between 2000 and 2010. The study makes no distinction between immigrants based on their legal status. Housing analysts have cited favorable trends in household formation as one reason to be optimistic about future home prices. As the economy recovers, young adults hurt by the recession are expected to finally move out of their parents homes. Then there is the 80-million strong echo boom generation- the sons and daughters of baby boomers- that will also contribute to household formation.
But immigrants are also expected to be strong contributors to household formation. Between 2010-2020, immigrants nationwide are projected to account for 32.2 percent of the growth in all households, including 35.7 percent growth in homeowners and 26.4 percent growth in renter households, according to the report. Foreign-born ownership demand is projected to remain a majority of the growth in six states: California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Michigan. The longer they are settled, the more likely they are to buy homes. For example, among the cohort of Hispanics who arrived in the U.S. during the 1980s, homeownership rose from above 15% in 1990 to nearly 53% in 2010 and is projected to rise above 61% in 2020. -- Written by Shanthi Bharatwaj in New York. >To contact the writer of this article, click here: Shanthi Bharatwaj. >To follow the writer on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/shavenk. >To submit a news tip, send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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On Monday the Obama administration has promised to spell out its thinking on long-term deficit reduction. Something to read while you're waiting: "What we hope to see from the Super Committee," courtesy of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "Go big" sums it up. Might support for that actually be building? A news conference with Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles from earlier in the week is worth watching.
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the error message quickly pops up. The funny thing is when I copy the codes for the class above directly from the ebook, I could assign the object, but when I typed it myself the codes just don't run. What I understand from the error message is that the object doesn't need parameter. Please help me.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo junior Michael Cozzi has been given a nod on the CollegeSwimming.com's Counsilman-Hunsaker Swimmer of the week list, announced by site officials, Tuesday.
Cozzi had three wins to help his team to a dual-meet sweep as the Lions defeated Sunshine State Conference opponents Rollins and Florida Tech by scores of 98-15, and 100-13, respectively. The East Hampton, Conn. native posted an NCAA "B" time in the 200-Yard Freestyle with a time of 1:43.28. Cozzi went on to post another NCAA "B" time with a mark of 46.37 in the 100-Yard Free, and earned a top spot finish in the 500-Free, touching with a time of 4:54.80. He concluded the dual-meet by helping the 200-Yard Freestyle Relay team to a first place touch with a time of 1:26.80.
Cozzi, and the 22nd-ranked Lions now set their sights on the Sunshine State Conference Championships, which will kick off on Wednesday, February 15. For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's swim team, visit saintleolions.com.


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Always in the market for a new television show, I was instructed to check out ABC's "Happy Endings." I was told it was in the mold of "How I Met Your Mother" and that I'd like it. So I queued up On Demand episodes. Not bad. Some laughs, some misses. But I couldn't help but think the Brad character had a striking resemblance to Damon Wayans. Not just in looks, but in comedic mannerisms as well. I was like, "That dude is totally jocking D. Wayans' style." Then as the second episode popped on, a name flashed across the credits: Damon Wayans Jr. It all made sense. It's always nice to see a son follow in his father's footsteps. It's obviously the father's intention, you know with the whole, "just throw Jr. at the end of my name, dammit!" Sport has given plenty of father-son combos, but I wanted to narrow our father-son combos to same name pairings. You know, Juniors only. So, in ascending order, I give you The Top 10 Father-Son Sports Combos: Juniors Only. (The rankings are
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