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The dismissal of a lawsuit earlier this week against University Health Care after last summer's theft of 1.5 million patient records comes at the same time the national Institute of Medicine is calling for better security regarding personal medical information.
David Entwistle, CEO of University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, told the Deseret News Wednesday that one of two lawsuits filed against the U. after patient information was stolen from a courier's car in June — putting sensitive information including billing records, medical procedure codes and some Social Security numbers at risk — has been dismissed "without prejudice," meaning if any harm from the incident is alleged in the future, the case can be re-opened.
He said the FBI's investigation of the eight recovered data tapes found "there's no way to ever definitively tell" whether information on them had been accessed because they had been "written and re-written over so many different times. But I'd say they were 99 percent sure … the data hadn't been accessed."
Though police recovered the data tapes less than a month after they were stolen, the U. was sued in two different filings on behalf of former patients whose information was compromised. A second suit is still pending, according to University Health Care spokesman Chris Nelson. Both men noted the U. is constantly updating its encryption of medical records to thwart future attempts to access them.
The lawsuit's dismissal comes the same week national health care officials are advocating a new approach to protect patient privacy.
Federal rules designed to provide greater privacy for patients' medical records don't adequately protect private health information, and limit the scope of medical research, officials said in a national report released Wednesday.
A new report released by the Institute of Medicine, which is chartered by the National Academy of Sciences, urges "all institutions conducting health research to strengthen their data protection," noting "security breaches are a growing problem for health information databases."
The report recommends either a new federal privacy and security policy to replace the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), or changes to HIPAA that would require "encryption for all laptops, flash drives and other portable media" containing medical records, as well as smoothing the way for medical research.
During a teleconference press briefing Wednesday, Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., told the Deseret News that the institute commissioned a survey by a privacy expert, who found "high levels of concern" about privacy.
A privacy study reported in 2005 found that 48 percent of American adults believe the benefits of digital patient records outweigh the risks to privacy, but about the same percentage say privacy risks outweigh potential benefits.
Entwistle was not involved in the teleconference, but said he doesn't believe HIPAA has necessarily made patient information safer, yet the policy has cost the U. "several million dollars" to implement. Medical accrediting organizations "are very strict" about privacy and security, he said, "They're probably much harder on us from a compliance standpoint," than HIPAA is.
HIPAA also poses challenges for medical researchers, who find patients less willing to participate in research studies, depriving the public of potential advances in medical research. The institute's report said HIPAA makes it too difficult for patients to give their consent, and that their consent can only be obtained for one study at a time, so researchers can't access information obtained in previous studies to further their work.
That leaves Americans without access to information that could impact their treatment for a variety of medical conditions, the report said.
The report describes the impact on a study of acute coronary syndrome at the University of Michigan, where 96 percent of patients consented to participate before HIPAA was instituted, but only 34 percent agreed to participate once the federal ruling was in place.
It also describes how HIPAA's provisions are implemented so differently among various medical providers, that large studies involving different hospitals are often thwarted because of concerns about institutional risk.
Bernard Lo, director of medical ethics at the University of California, San Francisco, said the report doesn't make specific recommendations regarding medical privacy legislation currently pending in Congress, but the timing of the report's release may help lawmakers craft better public policy.
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Interesting. I wouldn't mind going depending on where it is. Since my wife and I are planning a trip to Florida later this year (and we've already had some expenses come up this year that we weren't counting on... with more possibly on the way), I don't think I would be able to pull off flying somewhere and paying for a hotel. If it's somewhere within driving distance of the Chicago area, I might make it.
Even if I don't make it this year, this is cool, and if it becomes an annual thing, I would definately love to go to it at some point.
Just a question, though. Is the name "Power-Con" set in stone? It's not a bad name (and is obviously in reference the the phrase "I have the power"), but it's almost sounds a little too much like "Power-Morphicon", which is the Power Rangers convention.
It would be nice if the name stood out a little more and didn't sound too much like the name of another con. But, it's not a big deal.

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I am relatively new to the cake decorating scene, and am having a major problem with my fondant! I live in a fairly remote area and there is only one brand I can get from my local supermarket. I realize I am probably going to have to buy some online (Postage cost = Eek!) but in the meantime I am battling with a major stickiness problem. It is so severe that when I am rolling it out it sticks to my (supposedly non-stick) pastry mat. Is there anything I can do to improve it? Thanks!
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OSKALOOSA, Iowa -- Mount Mercy junior Madison Goodfellow was named honorable mention all-Midwest Collegiate Conference for the 2013-14 season by a vote of league coaches, the MCC announced on Friday.
Goodfellow maintained an 84.3 scoring average during 19 rounds this year. She won the Grinnell Invitational in September with her low round for the season, a 3-over-par 75. The co-captain also tied for first place with a 5-over 77 at the Knox (Ill.) Invitational in September.
Goodfellow was also honorable mention all-MCC as a freshman and sophomore. She was academic all-conference and voted the team's Most Valuable Player in 2012-13.
2013-2014 MCC Women's Golf Honors
MCC Player of the Year: Maggie Yang (William Penn)
MCC Pitcher of the Year: Angela Chemas (Grand View)
MCC Coach of the Year: Nik Rule (William Penn)
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Angela Chemas, Nicole McDonald, Kenzie Rottinghaus (Grand View); Demi Coertze, Maggie Yang (William Penn).
All-MCC Honorable Mention:
Kara Larson (AIB); Kaity Anderson (Clarke); Madison Goodfellow (Mount Mercy); Abby Frideres (St. Ambrose); Julia Callaghan, Stephanie Gerber (Viterbo); Jing Yang (William Penn).


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There has been much talk about the alignment of SEO and social media marketing (SMM) practices within organizations. The need to integrate the two tracks was foreshadowed long before Google chairman Eric Schmidt's statement in 2013 that "within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification…The true cost of remaining anonymous might be irrelevance." And Google's recent removal of the Authorship tag from results does little to impact this. The strategy and team alignment is what matters, not changes to the algorithm.
Most major brands have come to the realization that we can't silo search marketing and social media marketing. For enterprises that house both tracks, cross-functional teams are being deployed to achieve an aligned objective. At the small to medium businesses (SMB) level, companies that outsource these functions may find it challenging to achieve complete alignment if they are dealing with separate vendors. I wanted to share some ideas and suggestions that hopefully can help your organization align these two functions.
How Do You Get These Folks on the Same Page?
Let's start with what you need to do strategically in order to align teams within your marketing unit. There is a strategic alignment process that is effective when followed:
- Start with a leadership approach that supports a shared Center of Excellence focus – each team may individually have one that overlaps with the other.
- Deploy shared/aligned agile management. Schedule sprints so both tracks support one another. Update cycles should feed off one another.
- Hire specialists who understand the shared impacts from SEO and SMM.
- Establish common key performance indicators (KPIs). Your teams have to share some KPIs in order to be focused toward common enterprise-wide objectives. These are not always apparent, so take some time on this.
- Train for cross-functionality.
- Share dashboards and analytics.
- Synergize integrated strengths. Which team members work well together? Which ones have an aligned perspective about your enterprise?
- Direct your SEO and SMM alignment toward unified enterprise goals.
Once your strategic objectives are determined, the next step is to hire or seek out internally the most suitable candidates to deploy your strategic vision.
Hire Hybrid Specialists
It's to your advantage to hire specialists who, at the very least, understand the synergy between SEO and SMM. In cases where both teams exist in-house, this may be fewer hurdles to overcome than for those who outsource SEO and SMM functions to separate vendors. In either situation, consider the following:
- Hire keyword specialists who know how social conversations run. Bring in social media gurus who know how to parse conversations for useful keywords.
- Don't overlook the importance of social media commenters who can instinctively inject keywords effectively into social conversations without appearing salesy.
- Be mindful of the effect of semantic Web search on keyword practices. Social commenters should embed keywords to account for how Google, Bing, and others are retrieving results using semantically formed algorithms.
- SEO specialists, on the other hand, should be able to tag site pages according to social analytics.
- SEO practitioners should also know best to engage and train social teams in content creation, keyword research, blog content optimization, and editorial calendars – especially focused around launch activities.
- Look for someone who is of the new breed of digital marketer in that they're very tech-savvy, data-oriented, and highly collaborative across the organization.
Now that you've targeted suitable hires to execute your alignment strategy, let's look at where the two disciplines intersect.
SEO vs. SMM: Where the Overlap Lies
As my former colleague Warren Lee mentions, SEO is informed by content, linking, and site architecture, while the new signals, as quoted by Amit Singhal of Google, are informed by relationships, content, and identity.
For SEO:
- content invokes quality copy, video, apps, etc. and on-page optimization;
- linking invokes quality external links, internal links, and PageRank status; and
- architecture invokes accessibility, crawl-ability of pages
For social marketing:
- content, as for SEO practices, invokes quality content, relevancy, and on-page optimization;
- relationships invoke connection values (popularity rank) and profile metrics
- identity invokes page relevancy and engagement graph metrics
The overlap lies primarily in the content your marketers are distributing. As you can see, quality content supports both tracks. On the social side, without distribution of quality shares, comments, video, and more, your organization will likely not achieve its digital marketing goals. On the SEO side, without keyword-relevant content on your Web properties, your domain or page authority suffers, thereby lowering page rank.
On-page optimization could also be a shared objective among SEO and social media teams. Optimization enables users to find relevant content. While traditional optimization for social channels meant to generate greater visibility within LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc., we now know the impact of social optimization has broader impact on search engine visibility. The most practical overlap of this is if your company has an active blogging program where you can reinforce shared best practices.
One last thought: Link-building is still a common practice for some SEO and SMM specialists. Despite often questionable execution, quality links enable greater social visibility and, in turn, higher search rank positioning. Aligning social and search together enables link-building practices which leverage each channel's unique capability to drive traffic to your Web properties.
Now, you've got your strategy in place and you've hired the right specialists to execute your strategy. The next step is to develop a robust keyword management program.
Keyword Management
Both teams must participate in a cohesive keyword management program. Teams must integrate campaigns using segmenting practices that feed off each other. Segment keywords into campaigns based on shared SEO and SMM objectives. Not only does the segmentation allow for more granular understanding of SEO performance, but it also makes it easier to provide relevant keywords to social marketing teams, and vice versa. Training on keyword research and deployment is a critical component to SEO and SMM alignment.
Ultimately, at a practical level, your goal is a collaborative relationship between both teams to drive what we refer to as the "Virtuous Cycle of Search and Social." By aligning teams closely, it becomes apparent when social conversations inform keyword strategy or how when search keywords lead to better social content. This process is a virtuous cycle because social engagement boosts search performance, which increases social signals and drives more social conversations. To be truly effective at leveraging SEO and social media, your organization must align its teams to support each other's objectives. I've given you some things to think about, now let me know if you have suggestions for aligning social and SEO teams.
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.— Fenimore Art Museum is pleased to announce an exhibition of classic Walker Evans images that highlight the historical importance and influence of Evans' work on the history of photography and art. Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver opens July 18 and runs through December 31, 2009.
Having emerged as one of the most talented photographers of the government sponsored Farm Security Administration, Walker Evans' detailed observations remain some of the most powerful testaments of the Great Depression. Through his passion to document even the minutest details of American life, he was able to accurately reflect the spirit of the people and places he photographed. Evans' work during his time with the FSA is widely credited with influencing the development of the history of American photography.
Walker Evans was the first photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1938. His work is in many of the most prestigious national and international museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, among others.
This exhibition presents a new perspective on Evans' iconic work by comparing his original gelatin silver prints with large-scale contemporary ink-jet prints. The precision of digital technology faithfully translates Evans's drive for clarity in presenting information rather than creating stylized fine art prints. Walker Evans: Carbon and Silver is curated by John T. Hill, who taught with Evans at the Yale School of Art and who was the executor of Evans' estate.
This exhibition is made possible in part by The Lisette Model Foundation and The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
A variety of public programs will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition and will be featured on the Museum's website at www.fenimoreartmuseum.org.
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Ward 8 Renewable Energy Co-Op (Ward 8 REC) empowers communities to gain understanding of, and equity in renewable energy and. A charter member of DC Solar United Neighborhoods (DC SUN), Ward 8 REC helps increase residential and commercial access to renewables in Ward 8 communities through awareness, fundraising, and leveraging group discounts on energy and renewable technologies for our members. We also serve as a conduit to the community for current energy, efficiency, and weatherization news and opportunities.
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The Ward 8 Renewable Energy Co-Op promotes the development and use of Renewable Energy in Ward 8.
Our many south facing exposures present excellent opportunities for realizing energy savings through installing solar panels on our roofs.
We can all purchase clean, renewable wind energy through exercising our "Energy Choice."
Our members view Weatherization, Energy Efficiency, Saving Water, Recycling, Food Gardening, and Renewable Energy Production as cornerstones for sustainable living.
Ward 8 REC is a community organization which is currently working to become a program of a local non-profit so we can benefit from 501 c3 status. We are comprised of a small but passionate group of community members, and we are currently organizing a membership drive for Fall-Winter 2011. We are working with DC SUN to propose Community Solar legislation which will lead to into wider opportunities for our non-homeowner residents to get into solar.


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Exotic Asian dishes are a popular choice with budding chefs trying out new recipes at home, and Merchant Gourmet has created a new product that'll take this cooking-style to the next level!
Merchant Gourmet's new Spiced Black Rice Vinegar is a vibrant and versatile ingredient created by blending an exotic mix of Asian spices. Slowly infused with cinnamon, aniseed, liquorice, peppercorns and orange peel, the vinegar can be used to add a unique sweet and aromatic twist to a variety of dishes. If you're looking to add the unmistakable taste of Asia to your cooking, then this is a must-have product.
Rich, tasty and satisfyingly sweet, the vinegar gives the humble stir fry stacks of flavour. It also delivers a delicious Asian kick when used as a dipping sauce or a marinade for Chinese-style pork ribs.
Merchant Gourmet's Spiced Black Rice Vinegar isn't just limited to savoury dishes. The candied tones of orange and cinnamon mean this vinegar can be used in sweet dishes too. Try it drizzled over cool, creamy vanilla ice cream for a new taste experience.
Sanjay Davda, Retail Controller at Merchant Gourmet said "Our brand new Spiced Black Rice Vinegar is all about adding exciting Southeast Asian flavours to the popular meals we eat at home. It's amazingly versatile too. Great as a dipping sauce but the aromatic flavours also add depth to simple meals like stir-fries. Or for something a little different, it works as a surprising contrast in hot desserts or drizzled over ice cream."
Merchant Gourmet's Spiced Black Rice Vinegar will be available to purchase in Waitrose (RRP £3.99). This Asian delight is suitable for both vegetarians and vegans.


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Circus Starr to put on performance for vulnerable children at Hellesdon school
PUBLISHED: 06:30 17 January 2014
Vulnerable, disabled and disadvantaged children will have the opportunity to see jugglers and illusionists at the weekend when the Circus Starr rolls into town.
Tomorrow the circus will be welcoming hundreds of local children and their families to see the show at Hellesdon High School for free.
With the support of local businesses, the circus will be able to take even more children from the communities of Norwich to see the children's variety show.
The performance will see the comeback of Peanuts the Clown by popular demand along with some classic circus favourites including hula hoopers, jugglers and illusionists, while there will also be a human slinky.
Over the past few months, local businesses have been buying tickets to the show as part of Circus Starr's unique donated ticket programme.
The tickets have been donated to a wide range of local children's services, schools and community groups.
As well as the children who will be enjoying this year's performance, any extra funds raised will be donated to The Norfolk Hospice Tapping House, which provides care and comfort to those nearing the end of their lives.
Neville Wilson, director of Circus Starr, said: "We are always stunned by the fantastic support we receive from the Norwich businesses and the warm welcome we are given from the entire community each year.
"We are very much looking forward to hosting our variety show here in the new year."
Tickets cost £15 and the money will enable a vulnerable, sick or disabled child to enjoy the circus.
Any new business wishing to make a donation should call Circus Starr directly on 01260 288690.


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I hope someone can help me out. I want to paint my kitchen chair to dark espresso colour. I just don't know what kind of paint should I buy it.
The chairs is a factory painted (bought from Sears a few years ago), light beige color, wood. I don't want to send them, just repaint them with a very sturdy paint if I can.
Many thanks for any suggestion??
Hi Amy, About 90% of a good paint job on anything is the prep work. You need to ensure that the chairs are cleaned and most or all of the gloss is removed. This doesn't necessarily mean a full sanding down to bare wood but it does mean going over every area of the chair with a light sanding to remove any residue from hands or food. Since you are painting, you could probable use 120 or 150 grit sandpaper - available at any box store. This should provide a good enough surface to accept the paint.
You could try any good quality "paint and primer" combo but the best bet would be to go into a good paint store and ask questions about durability and application requirements. Then you just follow the instructions provided.
Sounds like a fun project!
Good luck with it.
Jim Kuzma
Kettleby Handyman Services
So, can someone help me how to achive not able to see the paint brush stroke?
Have them sprayed.
Hi amy,
As jim mentioned that you dont need to sand them to bare wood. remove any part with the fabric or leather on the chair. sand them enough to make the surface rough wipe it and let it dry. wipe it again and let it dry. Go to Benjamin Moore paint store and ask them for 'Alkyd Paint' and the primer. Alkyd paint are great for kitchen cabinets and furniture.
Then buy the good quality brush. dont try to save money on brush! it will cost you 15 -20 dollars. Apply primer and wait as mentioned on the paint can. then apply think layer of paint. dont try to cover the brush strokes in first coat. wait for 2-3 hours and apply second thin coat. It should cover all in 2 coats but it doesnt them app 3rd thin coat.
Happy Painting :-)
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Assessing URET Benefits for Airspace Users: A Quasi-Experimental Approach
Air traffic control organizations around the world are trying to develop automation tools to help controllers manage increasing workload and to enable user preferred routes. This paper focuses on such a tool: User Request Evaluation Tool (URET), which is a decision-support tool for en-route controllers. URET is a prototype of an automated conflict probe. Based on flight plans and actual radar tracks, the URET system models aircraft trajectories and predicts possible conflicts. It also enables controllers to check clearances for conflicts prior to their issuance. This tool is intended as a strategic decision-support tool for the D-side controller. When implemented in the Air traffic control system, tools like URET can affect many aspects of system performance, from controller workload, to safety, to the quality of service provided to users. The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of URET on users--more specifically on flight times experienced by users. To do so, we employ statistical methods that compare changes in flight times before and after URET implementation for two sets of flights. One set includes flights that traverse the airspace where URET is implemented; the other includes flights that do not use that airspace. Results suggest that URET reduces flight times for flights using the URET airspace. Departure delay, rather than airborne time, is the flight time component that is most strongly affected, with a decrease of 0.5-3 minutes per flight depending on the analysis approach and time period analyzed. Airborne time reductions are in the range of 0.2-0.5 minutes per flight under one analysis approach, and statistically insignificant under the other approach. These results imply that much of the benefit from URET is non-local and derives from mechanisms other than more direct routing through URET airspace, which has been the focus of most earlier benefits studies.
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This is a guest post written and contributed by Greg Harder, senior product manager at Apptio, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner. Apptio provides Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions for running IT like a business. Specifically, Apptio's free Cloud Express service allows businesses to track the usage and costs of public cloud services.
Enterprise technology leaders face significant pressure to develop new and innovative strategies for cloud adoption, whether it's private, hybrid or public. These pressures all come with a range of priorities, such as IT agility, collaboration for dispersed teams, cost reduction — the list goes on. However, IT leaders often lack the tools necessary to make data-driven decisions on which products or IT services should remain in-house, and which should be moved to the cloud.
Regardless of the delivery model, varying subscription levels and complex SLAs muddy the waters for determining how much it actually costs the business to run these cloud services. In fact, according to recent research from Gartner, "cloud contracts rarely guarantee reduced costs over time and present a range of hidden costs that can lead to adverse pricing variations."
While IT leaders are spearheading their organization's cloud strategy, there's also increasing demand from outside business units for immediate access to the services they depend on. CIOs we have talked to have stated their problem simply: if IT is unable to deliver in a timely manner, the on-demand nature of cloud services makes it easy for individual users to adopt these solutions without the proper approvals of the IT department. These shadow IT implementations often fly under the radar, and, as a result, the ability to track cloud costs and utilization is even more complex. Without clear insights into the cost of cloud services, business leaders are unable to accurately calculate their value to the organization.
While a number of cloud-costing point products exist on the market today, these tools do not provide IT executives the control and level of understanding that they require to effectively communicate value to the business. With Cloud Express by Apptio, users can view their Rackspace Cloud costs in an itemized bill format and identify and aggregate spending outside of IT's approval. They can also perform "what-if" analyses to quantify the economic impact of shifting in and out of the private cloud.
Rackspace has been at the forefront of the cloud computing movement. We're happy to partner with them to help companies get even more value out of their cloud deployments — customers that count on Rackspace to provide best-in-class public cloud solutions will find that the Apptio integration enhances their ability to track cloud spend and utilization in a scalable, simple manner. This partnership paves the way for more advanced integration between Rackspace and Apptio's Technology Business Management (TBM) solution, and we looking forward to strengthening our partnership in the months to come.


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The Artist Currently Known as Prince
In American pop culture, no artistic figure is more exciting than a black man with a guitar. Yet as we've degraded from Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley to Lenny Kravitz and Darius Rucker, the single most significant voice in the wilderness has remained Minneapolis mystery man Prince. A musician of illimitable creativity and drive, an evolved presence whose grasp of the R&B and rock & roll lexicon, image and cultural role is unrivaled, he has scrupulously maintained a shrewd cloak of luxurious mystique. With tonight's Who Is Prince Really? An In-Depth Conversation, an event tied to broadcaster-journalist Touré's new bio I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon, the titular question will be addressed by a handful of impressively legitimate intimates. With such participants as the book's author; Prince co-writer, accompanist and former fiancee Susannah Melvoin; Alan Leeds, Prince's tour manager of more than a decade; and the great L.A. Reid, the musician-composer who rose from R&B journeyman to hitmaker to top banana at Epic Records, expect more insight and information on the odd purple cat than you could find anywhere on this planet. Grammy Museum, Clive Davis Theater, 800 W. Olympic Blvd., dwntwn.; Wed., Aug. 14, 7:30 p.m.; $10. (213) 765-6803, grammymuseum.org.
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Welcome to Scoil Chroí Íosa's website. Our school is a caring co-educational Catholic school catering for boys and girls from Infants to 6th Class in a safe, secure, healthy, happy and positive environment. We celebrate and cherish the individuality of every child and while we are a Catholic School, we are inclusive of all religions and of none. Our pupils are at the centre of everything we do and it is the aim of Scoil Chroí Íosa to foster the holistic development of each child to reach her/his full potential in all areas of development, nurturing self-esteem, respect and responsibility. We seek to achieve this in a climate of positive co-operation, supported by our committed, energetic and highly qualified teachers and the entire school community of pupils, support staff, parents/ guardians, the Board of Management and the Parish of Blarney.
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Suffolk predicted Shaheen over Brown +3.
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Boston Mayor General Election November 2013
UNH, UMass Lowell, UMass Amherst, Environmental League, and MassINC polls predicted Connolly +8 to +2.
Suffolk predicted Walsh +3.
Final Result: Walsh +3.5.
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Final five polls before the election predicted Angle +3.
Suffolk predicted Reid +3.
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Jul 29, 2013 at 4:45 am
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) A federal judge has refused to halt a drive to unionize thousands of Minnesota home day-care operators.
In a pair of rulings Sunday, Judge Michael Davis essentially agrees with state Solicitor General Alan Gilbert that the pair of lawsuits seeking to halt the unionization effort were filed prematurely.
Davis dismissed both cases and refused to impose a preliminary injunction on a new law allowing the drive.
Democrats who control the Legislature approved the union-organizing drive in May. The GOP has accused legislators and Governor Mark Dayton of paying back the Democrats' union allies.
The proposed union would cover some 12,700 providers who take care of children subsidized by the state.
Dayton tried to call the union vote through executive order in 2011, but opponents won a state court order invalidating the move.
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Appendix 4. Flagship Initiatives Performance Metrics
Flagship Initiative: Business Breakthrough
Partnership: Office of Small Business Utilization, White House
- GSA Strategic Goal(s): Innovation, customer intimacy, operational excellence
- GSA Draft High-Priority Performance Goal: Open government and transparency
- Business Breakthrough Performance Metrics:
- Participant feedback/usefulness of information;
- Participant future success in winning Federal contracts;
- Increases in schedule holder sales and overall success rate.
|Major Activities / Completion Timeline
|GSA will complete the first two program pilots.
|GSA will complete roll out of national Business Breakthrough program.
Table 1: Business Breakthrough Timeline
Flagship Initiative: ePubs (Google) U.S. Government Bookstore
Partnership: Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, Google Books, Government Printing Office
- GSA Strategic Goal(s): Innovation, customer intimacy, operational excellence
- GSA Draft High-Priority Performance Goal: Open government and transparency
- ePubs Performance Metrics:
- Number of ePubs distributed through external online partners.
- Number of new publications added to existing ePubs catalog.
- Number of new agency partners.
|Major Activities / Completion Timeline
|GSA will develop partnership with Google/GPO to distribute free digital consumer publications to the public.
|GSA will expand ePub distribution to additional nationally recognized online electronic retailers and book distributors.
|GSA will add a government publications section to USA.gov and determine feasibility of new publications site.
|GSA will reduce printing and distribution of a hard copy government consumer publications catalog and transition to a robust online electronic catalog.
Table 2. ePubs (Google) U.S. Government Bookstore Timeline
Flagship Initiative: Federal Buildings Personnel Training - (FMI.gov)
Partnership: Office of Government-wide Policy
- GSA Strategic Goal(s): Innovation, customer intimacy, operational excellence
- GSA Draft High-Priority Performance Goal(s): Sustainable Environment
- FMI.gov Performance Metrics:
- Improvement in building performance metrics following building facilities management personnel completion of training in the Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act core competencies.
- Website hits—represents usage.
- Constructive, actionable comments from the public, government, industry and academic stakeholders on how to improve and/enhance aspects of the website and FBPTA Program – represents usage and "buy-in and ownership".
- Number of challenge supporters.
- Requests for Facilities Management Institute (FMI) staff to present at national and international conferences on the institute's creation and operation. Represents accomplishment and a desire to replicate.
- Reduction in resource use and the associated reduction in operating expenses experienced by the Federal Government as a result of training taken through FMI or through resources provided by the institute.
|Major Activities / Completion Timeline
|Core competencies identified, recommended curriculum developed and courses, certifications, degrees, licenses and registrations representing the acquisition of knowledge, skills and abilities, published through FMI.gov.
|Federal Employee Facilities Workforce has entered FMI.innovations.gov Web tool, input baseline data, mapped career path according to position and level, completed Government Accountability Project (GAP) analysis, developed GAP closure plan, completed the mandatory core competencies for their position and level, made progress on GAP closure.
|Developed comprehensive continuing education program to maintain state-of-the-art high-performance core competencies and to continually advance skill sets through the development of next generation core competencies.
|Develop an administrator-approved method for modifying Facilities Management Service contracts to ensure performance contracting and to insert the requirements for contracted personnel to possess and demonstrate high-performance core competencies comparable to those required by Federal employees performing the same task.
Table 3. FMI.gov
Flagship Initiative: Electronics Waste Disposal
Partnership: Office of Government-wide Policy
- GSA Strategic Goal(s): Innovation, customer intimacy, operational excellence
- GSA Draft High-Priority Performance Goal: Sustainable Environment
- Citizen Engagement Platform Performance Metrics:
- Publication of Federal Management Regulation Bulletin advising agencies to use certified recyclers.
- Drafting proposed FMR regulation requiring agencies to use certified recyclers.
- Launch of enhanced reporting tool.
- Posting of expanded agency reports on Data.gov
|Major Activities / Completion Timeline
|Draft and publish a GSA FMR Bulletin providing guidance to agencies regarding electronics waste disposal. This bulletin advises agencies to dispose of unusable electronics through a certified recycler or refurbisher.
|Draft FMR revision codifying in regulations the changes to policy contained in FMR Bulletin (line above). Milestone is to have first draft finalized at end of February 2012, incorporating language as approved by the Office of General Counsel and the Office of Government-wide Policy.
|Launch enhanced reporting tool to capture agency data on disposal of electronics. Report infrastructure and tool is now in place; however, agency reporting under new policies won't be reflected until the FY '13 reports are provided as a baseline.
|Publish reporting data on Data.gov. First round of data will reflect FY '13 activity with a full year of policy in effect (baseline year).
|Publish reporting data on Data.gov. This second round of data will reflect FY '14 activity and be compared to the baseline.
Table 4. Electronics Waste Disposal


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(CBS News) For the second time in three weeks, President Obama on Tuesday faced an obscure Democratic primary challenger -- and lost a big chunk of votes to him.
Mr. Obama, who has already clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, scored his expected primary wins in Arkansas and Kentucky last night. But in Arkansas, the president lost 42 percent of the vote to a Tennessee attorney named John Wolfe. In Kentucky, where Mr. Obama faced no challenger, he lost 42 percent to "uncommitted."
Tuesday's contests mark the third time in less than a month that the president has seen his primary victories diminished by a virtually unknown -- or nonexistent -- competitor. In West Virginia's May 9 primary, four in 10 Democrats voted for a convicted felon currently serving time in prison over Mr. Obama.
"This means two of every five Democrats in West Virginia, Arkansas and Kentucky have voted 'uncommitted' -- or [for another candidate] -- rather than for President Obama," said Larry Sabato, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "There's no way to present it as anything but an embarrassment."
The Obama campaign pointed out that the president received more primary votes than his presumptive Republican rival Mitt Romney in Kentucky. Mr. Obama earned 119,277 votes in the state to Romney's 177,599 votes, according to CBS News and the Associated Press. Romney, however, earned 67 percent of Republican votes, while Mr. Obama earned 58 percent.
"In a solid Republican state, the total Democratic turnout was higher than Republican turnout," an Obama campaign official told CBS News with regard to the Kentucky primary. "This must concern Republicans, since voters continue to let out one big collective yawn when it comes to Mitt Romney's candidacy."
In Arkansas, Romney won more votes and a higher percentage of his party's support than Mr. Obama. Romney won 103,164 votes and 68 percent of the vote, according to CBS News estimates, while AP projections showed Mr. Obama with 94,852 votes and 58 percent support. Wolfe earned 67,491 votes, or 42 percent support.
Candace Martin, communications director of the Arkansas Democratic Party, attributed Wolfe's success to the fact that he had been actively campaigning in the state for weeks. Mr. Obama, on the other hand, did not actively campaign for the primary, although Martin said that his campaign had opened a state office and "they have been working toward goals that will benefit the president in the fall."
She also noted that because Arkansas has an open primary system, anyone -- with any motive -- could vote in either primary. But she acknowledged that there had been no reports that Republicans voted in significant numbers for Wolfe on Tuesday.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) was quick to mock Mr. Obama's performance, selling buttons Wednesday bearing a likeness to Obama campaign's logo that say: "Fired up! Ready to go! Uncommitted!"
"President Obama had a run for his money last night against 'uncommitted' in the Kentucky primary," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement. "After three and a half years of failed policies and broken promises, it's no wonder nearly 40 percent of Democrats looked at the ballot and voted against Barack Obama. After a tough primary in West Virginia recently against a convict, the president's reelection support among his own party is looking dire."
Despite the ostensible embarrassment attached to Mr. Obama's lackluster victories in Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia, Sabato said that the president's performance is merely reflective of the fact that "in blue states Romney is disliked intensely and in red states Obama is disliked intensely."
"The race is over in 35 to 40 states. The nation is polarized," he said. "This is just more evidence of that. That's what it really means."
Mr. Obama's poor performance among Democrats in these three states nothing new. In 2008, Hillary Clinton beat him in the primaries in all three states, and Republican nominee John McCain took all three in the general election. In Kentucky, 30 percent of the state's Democrats crossed over to McCain, much higher than the national rate of 10 percent. In West Virginia, 28 percent of Democrats crossed over to McCain, as did 21 percent in Arkansas.
"They're deeply red states. President Obama was blown out of the water in 2008 and obviously hasn't gained a bit of popularity since," said Sabato. "I think [Democrats] can safely write those states off."


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Online Dating: Is the Stigma Gone?
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(NEW YORK) — Romance and dating has gone digital; It's the second most-popular way of connecting, surpassed only by meeting people through friends. But, researchers caution, Internet dating is not scientific, and singles should not waste their time on websites that charge for their services.
A review of 400 psychology studies and public interest surveys was commissioned by the Association for Psychological Science and will be published in the February edition of its journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
"Online dating has entered the mainstream, and it is fast shedding any lingering social stigma," said researchers from the University of Rochester, Northwestern, Texas A&M, UCLA and Illinois State.
Dating sites don't have "published, peer-reviewed papers" to explain their methodology, and they do not explain in sufficient detail how people are matched, said the researchers.
"There is no particular reason for people to use sites that charge a lot of money to offer something they cannot deliver," said co-author Harry Reis, a nationally known relationship expert and professor of psychology at the University of Rochester.
However, he said online dating does provide wider opportunities to meet people.
"The Internet holds great promise for helping adults form healthy and supportive romantic partnerships, and those relationships are one of the best predictors of emotional and physical health," he said.
When dating online, it's fine to rule out those who have unsuitable habits, such as smoking, or belong to a different religion, but beyond that, making a check list, "leaves out the magic another person can bring to you," said Reiss.
"We suggest they try not to have the shopping mentality and not view alternative people the same way they do a pair of pants," he said.
Instead of checking off the different qualities to look for in a mate, imagine talking to the person or going on a vacation with them, he said.
And don't look at more than a "handful" of profiles in a given city. "With 250 profiles to go through in 20 minutes, you can't have a check list," said Reiss.
As for what makes a good match, "You can't quantify it," Reiss said. "You can define it, but we do not know how it occurs and where it comes from. … Science isn't there yet."
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S.1766 - Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007110th Congress (2007-2008)
|Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] (Introduced 07/11/2007)
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Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007 - Requires specified regulated entities (including certain fuel distributors and owners and operators of coal facilities or nonfuel regulated entities) to submit to the President: (1) the number of allowances or credits equal to the entity's covered greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; or (2) a payment equal to the amount of the technology accelerator payment (TAP) price in lieu of submission of required allowances. Requires the President to establish a trading system for such allowances and credits.
Requires TAP payments to be deposited into the Energy Technology Deployment Fund.
Requires the Secretary of Energy to: (1) report on next generation technologies that can reduce and use methane emissions; and (2) use a portion of the Fund to carry out a methane research and development program.
Provides for: (1) allowances to industry, carbon-intensive manufacturing facilities, and states; (2) agricultural sequestration allowances; (3) allowances for early reduction projects; (4) bonus allowances to entities that implement geological sequestration projects; and (5) allowances for technology, adaptation, and low-income household assistance.
Provides for credits for: (1) activities that take specified GHG precursors (specified fuel, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, or nitrous oxide) out of commerce in the United States; (2) carbon dioxide sequestration; and (3) specified offset projects.
Establishes: (1) the Energy Technology Deployment Fund for the zero- or low-carbon energy technologies program, the advanced coal and sequestration technologies program, the cellulosic biomass ethanol and municipal solid waste technology deployment programs, and the advanced technology vehicles manufacturing incentive program; (2) the Climate Adaptation Fund for adaptation programs to address climate change impacts and for fish and wildlife conservation programs; and (3) the Energy Assistance Fund for the low-income home energy assistance program, the Weatherization Assistance Program for Low-Income Persons, and the rural energy assistance program.
Requires the President to establish an interagency group to review comparable action by foreign countries with respect to GHG emissions and to make recommendations with respect to foreign credits and international offset projects.
Authorizes the President to establish a program to distribute credits for the GHG mitigation benefits of offset projects outside the United States. Requires any U.S. importer of certain covered goods, as a condition of importation, to make a written declaration that the goods are accompanied by a sufficient number of international reserve allowances. Authorizes the President to establish a trading system of international reserve allowances for imported goods.


text: There are innumerable artists out there, filled with talent, who are frittering away in obscurity because they don't have exposure. This is not Xoe Wise's story. The singer-songwriter was plucked from the teeming masses of Chicago artists by none other than Microsoft to perform at the company's Illinois store opening. Things went so well there that the technology giant then funded Wise's 25-date U.S. tour. It may not be a breakthrough, but it's definitely a push in the right direction for someone who deserves the attention. Wise's music provides the soundtrack for sleepyheaded romance and quiet reverie. The pitter-patter of percussion, yawing violins, soft piano, and Wise's gauzy vocals combine for dulcet melodies like Silent Rain and All You Gave. She even weaves a little Auto-Tune in on My Heart as her voices tiptoes up the scales. Wise's songs are sweet panaceas for life's pricklier moments. Let's face it, we can all use more of those.


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Hotel Gulf Stream, Kazan
- Free WiFi
Main amenities
- 42 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Indoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Fitness center
- Self parking
- Massage/treatment rooms
- 24-hour business center
- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Free WiFi
For families
- Private bathroom
- Television
- Free toiletries
- Daily housekeeping
- Laundry facilities
- Hair dryer
What's around
- Kazan Arena (42-minute walk)
- Exaltation of the Holy Cross (2.5 mi / 4 km)
- WWII Monument and the Eternal Flame (2.8 mi / 4.6 km)
- Church of St. Barbara (3.1 mi / 5 km)
- State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (3.6 mi / 5.8 km)
- Literary Memorial Museum of A.M. Gorky (3.8 mi / 6.2 km)
- Kazan Town Hall (3.9 mi / 6.2 km)
- Lenin Monument (3.9 mi / 6.2 km)
- Saidashev Concert Hall (3.9 mi / 6.3 km)
- Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers Building (3.9 mi / 6.3 km)
- Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (3.9 mi / 6.3 km)
Hotel Gulf Stream, Kazan
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- This hotel has 42 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 10 floors
- Check-in time starts at 1:00 PM
- Check-out time is noon
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- Children (6 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- Train station pickup *
- Self parking *
- Area shuttle *
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- Smoke-free property
- No alcohol allowed onsite
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- Breakfast daily (surcharge)
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- Room service (during limited hours)
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Indoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Spa tub
- Fitness classes on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Sauna
- Billiards or pool table
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
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- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 2007
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Accessible bathroom
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- Air conditioning
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- Coffee/tea maker
- Slippers
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Premium bedding
- Tempur-Pedic mattress
- Private bathroom
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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DiningGulf Stream Halal - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Reservations are required.
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- Gulf Stream Hotel
- Gulf Stream Kazan
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Cash deposit: RUB 1000 per stay
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Self parking costs RUB 100 per night
Breakfast is offered for an extra charge of RUB 350 per person (approximately)
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Rockwood Color and Pigment Services announced plans to construct a new facility in Augusta earlier this month, but the company had its first appearance in the community Tuesday at a lunch held by the Augusta Economic Development Authority.
"We are delighted to welcome Rockwood as an example of expansion in a tough economy," said Henry Ingram, the chairman of the EDA.
Andrew Ross, the president of Rockwood Performance Additives, said this will be the first new iron oxide pigment production plant built in the U.S. in nearly 35 years. Rockwood has grown by acquisition, Ross said, and this is one of the first steps in "organic" expansion for the company.
"In Rockwood terms, this is a first," he said. "We're trying to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., and I think that's a theme that doesn't get enough playtime."
The plant is expected to bring 80-100 jobs to the Augusta area, and Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver thanked Ross and Rockwood for what those jobs will mean to the community.
"Thank you for your belief in our local community, and for believing in the strength of our local workforce," Copenhaver said.
The facility will be located at Doug Barnard Parkway and Dixon Airline Road. Plans are still being finalized, so the exact size of the buildings are not known. The plant will take about 18 months to build and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2013.
Rockwood plans to close its St. Louis manufacturing facility and parts of its Beltsville, Md., operation when Augusta opens. The plant will produce synthetic iron oxide pigments used in construction, coatings and plastics.


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Yesterday, we received the sad news that Gordon Bradley had passed away at the age of 74 years. The Englishman had been involved in soccer in the U.S. in some fashion for the last 35 years and was unquestionably one of the most influential soccer figures in both the U.S. and D.C. area. In the 70's, he served as the head coach for the New York Cosmos during the Pele years and then the Washington Dips when Johan Cruyff was on the team. Following, he served as George Mason Men's Head Soccer coach from 1985-2000 and was also a color commentator for United. He was inducted into the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame in 1996.
His impact on U.S. soccer was profound and many have mentioned to us their memories and impressions of a man who was often described as a gentlemen. A few members of the United family have expressed their desire to honor Gordon Bradley. We'll be using Behind the Badge as a forum for those memories. Today, Tony Limarzi - the radio voice of our club - shares his thoughts.
Gordon Bradley – Rest in Peace
The first time I was a part of a live, on-air soccer broadcast was the Men's Soccer Qualifying for the 2000 Olympics in Hershey, Pennsylvania. I was a sideline reporter for the CONCACAF tournament, and Dave Johnson and Gordon Bradley were calling the action from up in the broadcast booth. It was a pleasure to work with Gordon, and I was fortunate to share my debut with someone so knowledgeable and generous.
We drove back and forth from D.C. to Hershey every day of the week-long tournament, and we talked about soccer the entire time. His knowledge and passion for the game were obvious throughout our conversations, and his analytical mind showed how seriously he took his craft as a color man. Even though Gordon had about 40 more years of experience than I did, he never made me feel like I was a rookie or that my ideas were inferior to his. I never knew first-hand, but that's the way Gordon must have been as a teammate or a coach. I remember one conversation we had about his playing days. He said, "I don't know why it was, but I always seemed to be the team captain, or sort of the coach on the field." He didn't exactly say it, but my interpretation of his very humble message was the following. Gordon was a leader his entire life; when he spoke, people listened.
It was an honor to be a part of those broadcasts, but my favorite memory of Gordon Bradley comes from years earlier as a D.C. United fan in 1996. Everybody remembers the match United played in the hurricane at R.F.K. Stadium against the Tampa Bay Mutiny. I was at the game, so I didn't listen to his TV broadcast on HTS, but the game was on the following day. At that time I listened to the opening segment when Dave and Gordon were highlighting Marco Etcheverry. They went through the normal points- he's a great assist man, so dangerous in the box, magical left foot, etc. The final thought that Gordon had at that time was something that for some reason I have never forgotten. About the upcoming game he said, "Marco Etcheverry will not disappoint." True enough. The game-winning goal late in the second half was possibly the turning point in the history of D.C. United. Maybe Gordon saw it coming all along.
Gordon was a pioneer of soccer broadcasting in Washington D.C. He and Dave Johnson set the bar very high in 1996. It's fitting that the best franchise in MLS has always had the best broadcasters in MLS. As for the rest of us who follow in his footsteps, we know we have big boots to fill. Gordon will live on forever at R.F.K. Stadium as a member of the Washington Hall of Stars, and whenever D.C. United moves into their new stadium, his presence will be felt there too.
In association with George Mason, the family has created the Gordon Bradley Scholarship Endowment. To contribute, call 703-993-3215. Feel free to share your memories or thoughts about Gordon Bradley in the comments.


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The Seven Lucky Gods or Shichifukujin are an mixed bag of lucky demi-gods frequently seen in temples all over Japan.
The eclectic band of deities consists of Benzaiten, Bishamonten, Daikokuten, Ebisu, Fukurokuju, Hotei and Jurojin.
Only Ebisu is native to Japan, whereas Benzaiten, Bishamonten and Daikokuten originate in India and Fukurokuju, Hotei and Jurojin originally came to Japan via China.
Benzaiten, or Benten, is a goddess of music and art and is the only female member of the group usually depicted carrying a lute (biwa).
Bishamonten is a deity for warriors and war and is often seen with a fierce countenance to ward off evil and carrying weapons or clad in armor. Bishamonten's messenger is a pigeon.
Ebisu is a deity for fishermen, good luck and business and is seen with a fish (tai, sea bream) and a fishing rod.
Daikokuten is the deity of wealth and prosperity and the guardian of good harvests and is often paired with Ebisu in Japanese folklore.
Fukurokuju is the archetypal, venerable Chinese sage of longevity and wisdom depicted with a long, white beard and learned scroll.
Hotei or the "Laughing Buddha" with his bulging paunch and ready smile is the embodiment of earthly contentment, fulfillment and happiness.
Jurojin, like Fukurokuju, represents longevity and wisdom and is also seen with a beard and literary scroll.
The grouping of the gods in a group of seven is no accident as the number seven has long been associated with good fortune all over the world. The seven gods ride together in a treasure boat (takarabune) loaded with treasures (takarazukushi), which is distributed to the worthy and deserving at New Year - a motif that originated in China.
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Toyota Prius (1997 – Present)
The Toyota Prius is the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle. The Prius is a full hybrid electric mid-size hatchback, and is sold in more than 70 countries and regions. Its largest markets are Japan and North America, where the EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) rate the Prius as More >
Hummer H2 (2003-2009)
Built under contract by AM General in the US, the Hummer H2 is an SUV and SUT that was marketed by General Motors under the Hummer brand.
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Cadillac Escalade (1999 – Present)
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Mazda RX-8 (2003-2011)
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Honda CR-X (1983-1991)
With just enough room for 2 passengers, the front-wheel drive CR-X was marketed as an economy sport fastback. The CR-X nearly had the two-seat field to its own at one time. In addition, its great performance, handling and fuel economy made it a popular purchase.
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Nissan Cube (2009 – Present)
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Lamborghini Countach (1974 – 1990)
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BMW 1 Series (2004 – Present)
German automaker BMW introduced the 1 Series as an entry level small family car in 2004. In the United States and Canada, the 1 Series coupe and convertible went on sale in model year 2008. The 1 Series shares many components with the larger 3 Series. The model was More >
Fiat 500 (2007 – Present)
The new Fiat 500 has been built by Italian automaker Fiat since 2007. The car is currently produced in Tychy, Poland by Fiat Auto Poland S.A. and in Toluca, Mexico, by Chrysler Group LLC. Touted as a city car, the four-seater, three-door hatchback 500 is almost identical to the More >
Acura RDX (2006 – Present)
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We're finally getting more adapted to life with Rain Dragon--we have learned how to function on 3 hour sleep spans! So, this means the Sasquatch has had time to do a little more experimenting in the kitchen. With the last strawberries of June, he made Pac-man strawberry shortcake:
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CHICAGO ( TheStreet) -- In the past week, three airlines have announced ambitious new routes for the Boeing ( BA)787, a signal that the aircraft is finally starting to realize its potential to break new ground in commercial aviation. On Aug. 25, United ( UAL) said it would fly a 787 from San Francisco to Chengdu, China, starting in June. On Sept. 3, British Airways said it would fly London-Austin starting in March, and Norwegian Air Shuttle said it would fly from Stockholm to Los Angeles in March, from Copenhagen to Los Angeles in April, from Oslo to Los Angeles in June, from Stockholm to Oakland in May and from Oslo to Oakland and Orlando in May. "People are gaining confidence in the aircraft and as they do so, they are able to make new route announcements and open new markets," said Richard Aboulafia, vice president of consulting firm Teal Group. The carriers are each using the airplane in different ways, all of them ambitious. United wants to open new routes in China -- it will begin the first-ever non-stop service between the U.S. and China's fourth-largest city. British Airways will fly non-stop from London Heathrow to a medium-sized U.S. city. Norwegian will be breaking the mold for European and U.S. low-fare carriers, which historically have flown only domestic and close-in international routes. Aboulafia said the variety of new routes shows the 787's versatility. The United and British Airways efforts are similar, he said, in that they involve "long, thin routes" that could not be well-served with predecessor aircraft. Before the 787, no long-range aircraft was small enough to develop routes that have "thin" or limited traffic. "The challenge was always to combine range, small size and good economics," he said. "The goal was to get range to migrate downward" to a smaller aircraft. For Boeing, the 767 began the process, he said. An extended range 767 typically has 181 to 245 seats and a range of 5,625 to 6,600 miles. By contrast, the current version 787-8 typically has 210 to 250 seats and a range of 7,650 to 8,200 miles.
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How does hospital CEO pay affect care?
Nonprofit hospitals have to disclose what they pay their top administrators and surgeons as part of reporting requirements to maintain tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.
The Sentinel's Dennis Webb looked at the IRS forms area hospitals have filed in recent years to provide a snapshot of what hospitals in Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs pay their chief executive officers.
We were surprised that Valley View Hospital's CEO Gary Brewer earned nearly twice as much as St. Mary's CEO Michael McBride. Brewer's total compensation in 2012 was $1,010,889.
McBride runs a Level II trauma center and a 348-bed hospital with 2,000 employees. It's the biggest medical facility between Denver and Salt Lake City. Brewer oversees 1,000 employees at his 80-bed hospital in Glenwood Springs.
Members of Valley View Hospital's board of directors defend Brewer's pay as the cost of having top-flight medical services in a small town.
"You're not going to find another hospital in a town of 9,000 that can provide the access, the quality of care at the competitive price we do and that has the leadership that has attracted the quality of medical staff, physicians and support staff," said board member Jeff Carlson.
CEO compensation is a thorny issue across the board. Even on Wall Street, there's no correlation between CEO pay and how well a company performs. Many companies that have folded or needed a government bailout had highly paid CEOs.
The Atlantic Monthly's Richard Gunderman wrote about the disconnect between CEO pay and hospital performance based on the conclusions of a Harvard School of Public Health study published last year in the "Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine."
The boards of the country's 4,000 nonprofit hospitals lack the firsthand health-care expertise needed to assess the quality of care, Gunderman observed. They may measure performance based on new equipment or new service lines, instead of quality indicators like mortality rates or readmission rates.
"Board members need to deepen their understanding of what quality and value in health care really mean, and then hire, fire and reward their CEOs accordingly," Gunderman wrote.
We agree. Boards have many factors to consider in setting CEO pay: market surveys, the size of operations, the scope of responsibility, fiscal performance and patient satisfaction, just to name a few. But they must also guard against public perceptions that CEO compensation is inflating costs to patients or affecting a community's quality of care.
Valley View's board needs to ask itself if the health outcomes of the community it serves are twice those of Grand Junction's. Because they're paying a premium for them in administrative costs.


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New Israeli Cabinet member urges 'ethnic partitioning;' Gay pride parade OK'd and Jerusalem protests
Israeli Official Urges Ethnic Partitioning
An Israeli Cabinet minister called for the Jewish state and the West Bank to be partitioned according to ethnicity. Avigdor Lieberman of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu Party said in an interview that rather than evacuating Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Israel should keep them, while ceding Israeli Arab communities to a future Palestinian state.
"I think separation between two nations is the best solution," Lieberman told Britain's Sunday Times. "I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country." He invoked as a model the forcible 1974 separation of ethnic Turks and Greeks in Cyprus.
Lieberman recently joined Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Cabinet as minister for strategic threats. A Lieberman aide told the Sunday Telegraph that under the partition vision, Israeli Arabs would have the option of remaining in the Jewish state on condition that they pledged allegiance to it.
Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Gets OK
Israel's attorney general turned down a request by Jerusalem police to call off this week's gay pride parade. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz ruled Sunday that the parade, which has drawn threats of violence from ultra-Orthodox protesters, could go ahead Friday Nov. 10, but he ordered organizers to confer with police on changing the route in order to reduce friction with Jerusalem's religious communities.
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Mea She'arim rioted at the news that the parade was to proceed, blocking the city's Shabbat Square with burning trash cans and blocking road access Monday to Mount Herzl. Police said Monday that 12,000 police and border police would be called in to protect the marchers.
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Cancels Agunah Meeting
Jewish women's rights leaders are reeling after Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi canceled a conference of prominent rabbis that was to deal with the issue of women who become agunah, or "chained" women, when their husbands refuse to give them a get.
The closed-door conference, which was set for Nov. 7-8 in Jerusalem would have been the first such forum for a large number of heads of beit dins. On Thursday, 27 of 56 invited rabbis were notified of its cancellation via fax from Rabbi Eliahu Ben-Dahan, director of Israel's rabbinical courts, that said Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar had decided to cancel the conference "due to petitions that came to him both from Israel and outside of Israel requesting its cancellation."
Blu Greenberg, a founding president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, said a few random meetings in lieu of a conference with the chief rabbi would "not be satisfactory," but added that the cancellation could prove to be a blessing in disguise.
Although much of the community was not even aware of the conference, "they'll be aware now," she said.
Hospital Moves Sharon Out of Intensive Care
Ariel Sharon was moved out of intensive care and back to an Israeli coma ward. Sheba Medical Center announced Monday that the former prime minister, who was taken for emergency surveillance over the weekend after developing an infection, had been returned to his bed.
"His heart function has improved after being treated for an infection, and his overall condition has stabilized," a hospital statement said.
Sharon, 78, has been in a coma since suffering a stroke in January.
Pope Deplores Gaza Violence
Pope Benedict XVI deplored the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the Gaza Strip."It is with deep worry that I am following the news about the grave deterioration of the situation in Gaza, and I want to express my closeness to the civilian populations who are suffering the consequences of acts of violence," the pope said Sunday in his weekly sermon at the Vatican.
The pope called for the "enlightenment" of Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as well as for other Middle Eastern nations which might have a role in brokering peace.
Israel Readies for Possible New War in '07
Israel reportedly is preparing for the possibility of another war with Hezbollah, this time joined by Syria. Citing assessments among top military brass, Ha'aretz reported Monday that Israeli forces are on alert for a fresh fight initiated by the Lebanese terrorists and its Syrian patrons in the summer of 2007. According to the report, Hezbollah is believed to have come out of its recent war with Israel with more than 5,000 ground-to-ground missiles intact. In case of such a conflict next year, Iran would likely provide Hezbollah and Syria with backing but not get directly involved, Ha'aretz reported. Military officials declined comment on the report.
Technion Receives $30 Million Gift
A $30 million grant from the founder of QUALCOMM will allow the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to expand its graduate programs. Irwin and Joan Jacobs of San Diego announced recently at the American Technion Society's annual meeting that they would make the donation to the Haifa school. The philanthropists previously had established a research center at the Technion for communication and information technologies. QUALCOMM established operations near the Technion campus in 1993 and has hired many Technion graduates.
Italian Jews Co-Sponsor Islamic Art Show
An exhibition of Islamic art is under way in an Italian synagogue. Called "SalamAleikum," the show opened Oct. 29 in the historic synagogue in Casale Monferrato in northern Italy's Piedmont region. Organized by the Casale Monferrato Jewish community and the Ibn Sina Center for European Studies, the show includes works by 14 artists from Algeria, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Italy and elsewhere. The exhibition runs until Nov. 23.
Geller Claims Psychic Aided Saddam Capture
Israeli psychic Uri Geller said a clairvoyant helped U.S. forces capture Saddam Hussein in 2003. Geller, who is in Israel to tape a reality television show for aspiring psychics, made the claim in an interview Monday. "You remember when they found Saddam Hussein in Iraq? A soldier walked over to a rock, lifted it and then found a trapdoor and found him in there," he told Reuters. "Well, I know that that soldier walked over to that rock because he got information from a ' remote viewer' from the United States." Geller said he got the information from a high-level American source. The U.S. military had no immediate comment.
Briefs courtesy of Jewish Telegraphic Agency.


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William Safire calls The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus his "favorite new word-finder" and lists it as one of his "books on language" gift books for 2005. He goes on to say it is "chockablock with useful advice: "Novel manages to pack into five positive letters that 'unusual,' 'unfamiliar,' 'unconventional,' 'untested,' 'untried,' 'unknown' and 'unorthodox' have to signal with unwieldy and negative un- prefixes.""
The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, in addition to more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms, also includes word notes from celebrated writers — David Auburn, Michael Dirda, David Lehman, Stephin Merritt, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Jean Strouse, David Foster Wallace, and Simon Winchester. Each has contributed frank, funny, thoughtful, and, most of all, word-wise mini-essays on words that they particularly love, hate, admire, or are just plain puzzled by.
Here are three of my favorites:
from David Auburn:
Traipse: No other synonym for walk conveys a value judgment. Amble, stroll, saunter, mosey all refer, more or less neutrally, to velocity (or, in a stretch, rhythm). Only traipse is morally loaded: it hints at disapproval, even contempt for the ambler's lazy, aimless ways. Superficially innocent words that let you get in a dig below the radar should be treasured.
from Michael Dirda:
Limn: This is the phoniest word in the critic's vocabulary, aside from luminous to describe a writer's prose (and usually rather gushy prose at that). People are unsure of limn's pronunciation, uncertain of its actual meaning, and generally pretentious when they use it. Most of the time journalists resort to limn because they want something fancier than describe. Yet while describe slips smoothly by without calling much attention to itself, limn jumps off the page to strut about and show off. It's one of those words that want to be urbane and debonair, but are somehow really ugly, pushy, nouveau riche. But maybe I'm going out on a limb by saying that. So let's just call limn fundamentally, almost viscerally rebarbative.
from David Foster Wallace
Impossibly: This is one of those adverbs that's formed from an adjective and can modify only modifiers, never verbs. Using these sorts of adverbs-impossibly fast, extraordinarily yummy, irreducibly complex-is an upscale educated speech tic that translates well to writing. Not only can the adverbs be as colorful/funny/snarky as you like, but the device is a neat way to up the formality of your prose without sacrificing personality; it makes the writer sound like an actual person, albeit a classy one. The big caveat is that you can't use these special-adverb-plus-adjective constructions more than once every few sentences or your prose starts to look like it's trying too hard.


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