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This form is used to gather preliminary schedule and cost information about your project. It will help us to determine project eligibility and a target date for providing your DWSRF loan. New York State Department of Health (DOH) staff may call you to verify this information and to develop a more detailed schedule for completion of all activities needed for a complete loan application. You should confer with your engineer and financial advisor regarding the schedule and cost estimate. If you have questions regarding the pre-application form, please call DOH at 518-402-7650 for assistance.
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If I would show someone a yellow object and ask them, "is this object yellow?"
That person would say "yes".
But I could never know if my perception of the color yellow is the same as that other person's.
Because he or she could actually be seeing, what I know to be the color green.
But then tells me that its the color yellow because that has been taught to him or her from young age.
So how can you test if people are really seeing the same color?
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Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part update on menopausal hormone care.
I know, the headline is not what your mother, doctor, TV, women's magazines, and walking buddies tell you. But, it's true. Of tsunami importance, it falls into the category of bad news travels fast, and good news dies away in a flash.
In March, the North American Menopause Society's Advisory Panel on Hormone Therapy issued new, liberalized guidelines for use of estrogen in the menopause. To disclose, I have been a medical speaker for numerous pharmaceutical companies manufacturing bioidentical estrogen.
One crucial conclusion from the menopause society's experts: The large government – funded and now infamous Women's Health Initiative showed a decrease in breast cancer in the group taking estrogen alone.
These women had undergone hysterectomies. They were given oral conjugated equine estrogen (CEE), brand-named Premarin. This data was available in 2002 – (10 years ago.) when the negative outcomes seen primarily in women taking combined CEE and a synthetic, oral progesterone (Prempro), caused a misleading media blitz that inappropriately condemned all hormone use.
A follow-up study in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. in April 2011 of the women who took only CEE showed a statistically significant reduction in breast cancer over time.
On that fateful morning in 2002 when the bad news hit the air waves, 50 patients called my office asking "Should I stop my hormones?"
This debacle sent many generations and millions of American women reeling into hot-flash hell. Other symptoms include sleeplessness, weight gain, mental fogginess, sexual dysfunction, and thinner bones that fracture.
So, what do the experts say now?
In a recent interview with me, Dr. Holly Thacker, director of Specialized Women's Health at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic, stated that hormone therapy has been shown to decrease overall mortality in women by 30%. Check out Dr. Thacker's newsletters and blog at https://www.speakingofwomenshealth.com.
Dr. Philip Sarrel, professor of gynecology and psychiatry at Yale University for decades, estimates that only 15% of post-menopausal women are using hormone therapy. In addition to the spectrum of contemporaneous symptoms noted above, he is concerned about potentially more serious, long-term effects of low hormones, namely atherosclerosis and heart disease.
Importantly, the integrity of our cardiovascular system may be the main determinant of our cognitive abilities as we age. It is estimated that one-half of people older than 85 will have some dementia. With the elderly, often obese and overweight population redounding, the public health implications of millions who will need care are staggering, to say nothing about their quality of life.
Questions linger, such as, who will pay for all of this?
The full guidelines liberalizing hormone therapy recommendations and a companion editorial by Sarrel were published in the March 2012 issue of Menopause: The Journal of the menopause society.
They include: (1) regimens must be individualized and; (2) compounded hormone therapy is not recommended unless women are allergic to government-approved products, (a rarity in my experience.) Future articles in this series will further explain the recommendations, and will discuss compounded versus pharmaceutical hormone therapy (both of which can be defined as "bioidentical," actually a marketing term.)
Check this all out on the menopause society's website, https://www.menopause.org.
As we observe some of the aged crumple from osteoporosis and dementia, think what bang-for-your-buck may come from taking low dose hormones. Many prominent experts believe that we can live longer, more alert, active, healthy, and sexually-functional lives with potentially no increase in breast cancer.
Stay tuned….
DR. JANE BENING is a board-certified gynecologist who has lived in Laguna Beach and practiced in Newport Beach for 20 years. Send questions or comments to email@example.com, or call her office at (949) 720-0206.


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Megyn Kelly Can't Name Any Black Staffers On Her Show
Kelly Downplays Her Obsessive, Race-Baiting New Black Panther Coverage As She Competes For Contracts
In an interview with The Washington Post's Erik Wemple Blog, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly -- who is reportedly competing for a new contract among networks -- downplayed her role in pushing the pseudo-scandal that the Department of Justice was covering up voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party and admitted she could not name any African-American people on her staff.
In 2010, Kelly devoted more than 3.5 hours of her then-show America Live to hyping a contrived scandal about the Justice Department. The claim was that the department engaged in racially charged "corruption" in its handling of voter-intimidation claims about two members of the New Black Panther Party who appeared in a video standing outside a Philadelphia polling station during the 2008 election, one of them holding a nightstick; the other was a registered Democratic poll watcher. No one came forward to say he or she was intimidated by the two men. The story resurfaced during the 2016 election when supporters of Donald Trump used it to defend his false "rigged election" claim.
Kelly was sharply criticized for her sensationalistic coverage of the supposed scandal, with Dave Weigel -- then of The Atlantic -- calling Kelly's coverage a "minstrel show." Kelly's focus on the Black Panthers constitutes just one part of her consistently insensitive and out-of-touch coverage on race issues.
During the interview, Wemple asked Kelly if it was a "fair reading" to use the Black Panthers incident to justify "Trump's claims of the possibility of a rigged election." Wemple, linking to Media Matters' research in the transcript, also asked Kelly if her "pushing" of the incident "is where people draw their memory from," to which Kelly responded, "next question." Kelly also conceded that her show The Kelly File may not employee any African-Americans "at the moment." Kelly's deflection on her record comes as she is reportedly competing for contracts between networks. From the December 19 article:
[ERIK WEMPLE BLOG]: I was interested to see the photographs in your book. And you have a photograph of your staff and it sprung a question for me: You do all kinds of aggressive coverage, including on race. That staffing picture looked pretty much white, although there could be a couple of minorities in there. Do you think that for as aggressive as you are on racial issues, that you could use more diversity on the staff?
[MEGYN] KELLY: Well, I don't know about the first part of your question. That's not the reason. The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately. At Fox we started — this is one of Roger's good legacies, the Ailes Apprentice Program, and that's been pretty good about getting more people of color into the TV news ranks. But we don't have enough, that's just a fact. We don't. And we can do better at that, just like most of the news networks can.
EWB: Do you have anyone who's African American on the staff at this point?
KELLY: Not at the moment. Don't hold me to that, Erik, because I'm probably forgetting somebody. Definitely we have some crew who work with me who are African American but . . . to be perfectly honest with you, I have never asked. We . . . have a couple of mixed-race people . . . I don't know if they identify as mixed race or African American, so I don't want to guess.
EWB: Obviously you know a lot about the whole New Black Panther issue, Philadelphia; you were famous for that. I didn't see much mention in the book, but now, eight years later, a couple CNN pro-Trump commentators cited that incident sort of in the context of Trump talking about a rigged election. Do you think that's a fair reading of the New Black Panther issue, sort of as grist for justifying Trump's claims of the possibility of a rigged election?
KELLY: What do you mean, that guys like those New Black Panthers [inaudible] at the polls?
EWB: I believe Kayleigh McEnany said something to the effect that Trump "doesn't want a scenario where there's New Black Panthers outside with guns, essentially like intimidating people from coming into the polls."
KELLY: That was not a widespread incident as far as we knew. That was a couple of rabble-rousers who showed up causing a bunch of nonsense at one Philadelphia polling station. I wouldn't say you could extrapolate that to a general concern, especially because I don't believe we saw it again in 2012. I believe it was these two guys trying to make a point in 2008; their point was made and I assume they understood the ramifications of it after the Department of Justice got involved.
EWB: Do you think that your pushing that incident is where people draw their memory from?
KELLY: Come on, Erik, next question.
EWB: No? I just wondered. I mean, you did scores of segments on it.
KELLY: You should take those scores of segments numbers with a huge grain of salt because that was some tabulation done by Media Matters that included teases. Teases!


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Tuesday was the one-year anniversary of one of the more perplexing events to happen in this county in a long time.
Although not without her problems, a seemingly happy and healthy Jackleen Lane was found drowned in a fairly remote and industrial area of Clear Creek 366 days ago.
The Shelbyville Police Department has closed the case, but somehow to us it feels as if we're still waiting to find out what happened to Ms. Lane.
When some Shelby County magistrates expressed dissatisfaction last week with how their new district boundaries might look after the ongoing redistricting process was complete, Shelby County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger said they were going to "roll up their shirt sleeves" and work out those problems.
And that's just what they did Tuesday night at the Stratton Center in a workshop that delivered a new district map that met everyone's satisfaction.
"I'm really happy with it," District 3 Magistrate Allen Ruble said.
Residents will get a chance next week to see if they might be getting a different magistrate or voting at a different place in 2012.
Shelby County Fiscal Court is having a workshop at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Stratton Center to review a new magisterial district proposal.
A change in the magisterial districts is required because of population shifts revealed in 2010 Census figures released earlier this spring.
Women may have been labeling men as childish for years, but they now have data to back it up.
The newest round of census data, released on Thursday, shows Kentucky's average female is 39.3 years old, which is about two-and-a-half years more mature than her male counterparts (36.7).
And that difference is only more distinct in Shelby County, where the average age for a woman is 38.9 to 37.5 for a man - although here the men aren't quite as juvenile as they are in most counties.
The U.S. Census Bureau released the national redistricting data Thursday morning, and voting districts around the county should brace for a change.
States are mandated to redistrict after a census, and work will start soon, although you won't see it at the polls until 2012.
Shelby County, with a population of 42,074, currently resides in two of the state's largest legislative districts.
As the 2010 U.S. Census numbers slowly start to trickle in, the first round of population statistics surprised no one in Shelby County: We're growing, and we're growing fast.
What the numbers did prove is that Simpsonville, Shelbyville and Shelby County are growing with purpose, and each entity has been able to take that growth in stride.
Simpsonville and Shelbyville both ranked as two of the fastest growing cities in the state.
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|Everth Cabrera from 2010. The Bunt can be an effective weapon.
For teams that struggle scoring runs though, the squeeze can be an effective weapon go bring the runner in from third. At the bottom (or sometimes, the top) of the order, NL teams typically have position players that can handle the bat well enough to make the squeeze possible. San Diego has struggled to score runs for 2 seasons now. So the Twitter question raised a larger one for me: How often does Bud Black bunt with runners on third?
Off to Baseball-Reference we go.
Since becoming the Padres manager in 2007, Black has called for 303 sacrifice bunts. Only 11 of those plays have come with a runner on third (9 with runners on first and third, 2 with a runner on third only) - 3.6% of the total. Seven of those squeeze attempts have been by pitchers, four by position players (Oscar Robles, David Eckstein, Everth Cabrera, Chris Denorfia). Here's the interesting thing - on 7 of the 11 occasions, the Padres had the lead when attempting the bunt. In fact, before 2011 Black had attempted only one sacrifice bunt with a runner on third, less than 2 out, and his team behind - 5/13/2009 - and on that occasion the run did not score from third.
This year Black recognized the difficulty his team has scoring runs. Going into Friday's game the Padres were hitting .225 with RISP (133-592, and they went 0-7 last night. In 2011 he has already called for a bunt with a runner on third three times, the most since 2008, all with his team either tied or behind. San Diego has scored the run on two of those occasions, once to tie, once to take the lead.
One other nuance. Black virtually never calls for a sac bunt with just a runner at third, when it is most obvious the bunt will be a squeeze attempt. He's made that call twice - once in 2007, and once last year.
What conclusions can we draw? Black likes to let his hitters hit regardless. He will only try a 'squeeze' play with guys hitting 8th or 9th in the order (8 of the 11 attempts have come from those two positions), and only early in the game (only twice has he called for a bunt in this situation after the fifth inning).
Giving the team's continued struggles getting runners home from second and third period, the squeeze play should be something Black considers. Granted, using it all the time significantly detracts from its usefulness. Only using it 3 times a season keeps runs off the board.


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Living with abundant wildlife
Despite a much-anticipated early spring being delayed by our recent winter weather, the first robins have been spotted, so it won't be long!
At any rate, here's some heady advice concerning the arrival of spring and how man can best peacefully co-exist and avoid conflict with the many creatures of wildlife.
After a long winter, wild animals are very active, hungry and a little bit desperate while foraging for food. Consequently, they are more likely to interact with humans who don't take the steps to avoid that.
With the onset of spring, wildlife experts suggest that people clean their barbecue grills or bring them inside after each use, cover compost piles, and either stop feeding birds or suspend feeders at least 10 feet above the ground.
A few don'ts to consider are: Don't leave trash outside, don't feed pets outside, and don't leave pets alone outside - especially when it's dark and many of the nocturnal animals are roaming.
We also should be particularly aware of wild animals while driving, especially near dawn and dusk. If you see one animal cross the road ahead of you, there are probably more to follow. Slowing down and paying attention may prevent a serious or costly accident.
Human and wildlife conflicts can be prevented or at least minimized by logical solutions. Some strategies include landscape changes, critter proofing, repellents, and fencing. Humane solutions like these provide long-term, cost- effective solutions and better enable us to live in harmony with wildlife.
Besides our normal wildlife critters such as deer, coyotes, opossums, raccoons, fox, squirrels, gophers, moles, weasels, ground hogs, skunks, snakes, turtles, beavers, muskrats, mice, rats, waterfowl and other birds, Iowa is now home to mountain lions, wolves, bobcats and, every once in a while, a rare bear or a loose moose.
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8-23-09 PNC Park
I hate Sunday games.
I went down to the stadium and peeked inside, and saw that the batting cage was set up. So, I entered the stadium. Had there been no cage set up, I would've turned right back around and went home.
Upon entering the stadium, I got ball #1 tossed up from the bullpen by Ross Ohlendorf. I called down and asked for the ball, and about a minute later, he tossed it up. I jumped and made the catch over a portly Cincinnati Reds fan who would go on to give me an evil glare.
The gate would not open until 11:30. Would you believe that while I was standing there, not paying attention, a player would toss up a ball that would actually bounce off of my head? Well it happened.
Later, when the gates did open, I stood behind Jason Jaramillo to try and get the ball when he was finished.
Near the end of Jaramillo and Brandon Moss' warm up session, Moss would let one sail. It went over Jaramillo's head and landed on the warning track. The ball took a large hop, which tipped off of my glove and went about ten rows behind me. Awful. I should've at least knocked that ball down.
Only the Pirates would hit today.
And this is what I had to deal with.
Game: 1 balls (1 thrown)
Season: 317 balls (166 hit, 93 thrown, 59 device)
Games: 66 games (7 of which didn't have BP)
Average: 4.80 balls per game
Career: 483 balls
Streak: 81 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
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5 Great Reasons To Stay In Taupo For The Easter School Holidays
Taupo is a brilliant place for a family holiday and the Easter school holidays is a perfect time to visit. Here are five good reasons why.
With Easter and school holidays just around the corner, it's time to book your family escape to the stunning Lake Taupo district. Unlike many holiday destinations Taupo provides both amazing summer and winter activities to keep all members of the family entertained. Here are 5 great reasons to come and stay:
1. Ice skating! This amazing outdoor activity is usually limited to Northern Hemisphere cities such as London, Paris and New York. Now you can skate on an ice rink while looking out at stunning Lake Taupo. Due to huge success over summer, the Ice Rink will be back for the Easter Holidays.
2. Trout fishing! Taupo provides some of the best trout fishing in the world, and we are lucky in this country that it is a very affordable activity for individuals and families. This activity can be a fun family day out on a boat, or a beautiful hike up one of the stunning rivers that feed into Lake Taupo. For the younger children, the National Trout Centre is a neat place to visit. Here the children can feed trout in a pond, observe the trout in an underwater viewing chamber and visit the new freshwater aquarium. There is an open day on April 11th, where they have a children's public 'fish-out' at the pond!
3. Adventure! Start the day at Aratiatia rapids and watch the narrow gorge fill with turbulent water as up to 90,000 litres per second are released from the hydro dam. Thirty minutes later when the gates are closed you will see the turbulence recede and the stream will go back to a placid stream. This is also where a scene from the new Hobbit movie was filmed. In the movie you will get to see dwarfs hiding in barrels floating down this exact stream! After the rapids head to Huka falls to view this incredible waterfall with its thundering white water. If you need a break on the way, visit the Honey Hive shop where you can view the bees in a hive, try honey ice-cream and purchase every honey product imaginable. There is also a Prawn park nearby that has prawn fishing ponds where you can catch your own lunch!
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Good luck with the plans. I think writing ebooks on Amazon is one definite future way to consider getting some passive income.
I'm guessing the boy who smells like fish will someday be an instant download movie. I hope so.


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So, what does a mommy dress up as when her daughters are Hermione and Hedwig??
How about Luna Lovegood?!
About.com has a template for the Spectrespecs - which I printed onto cardstock, cut and glued onto play glasses.
The Radish Earrings I made with fimo clay that I shaped and baked right onto an old pair of earrings so I could use the posts.
I found an image of The Quibbler magazine doing a google search, and printed it onto cardstock and glued it to cardboard.
Since I just had a baby a week ago, I figured baby could be "The Quibbler" (fitting??) :)
So, when I wear her in the wrap, the quibbler can be taped on. Whatever works, right?
Now, to make daddy Harry Potter...luckily a lightening bolt and a pair of round glasses are pretty distinct. And I made him a scarf too :)
I love that our kids let us dress up as a family theme. And thank you new baby for coming in time to let me trick or treat with my kiddos. I love Halloween!


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How and Why to Ban the Silent Treatment from Your Relationship
It's part of the demand-withdraw pattern, and both partners have to take responsibility to change it
A few years ago, Bruce and Melinda Williams had a big fight on their second wedding anniversary. Mr. Williams was on the road for work and didn't call home until evening—then forgot to mention the anniversary.
Ms. Williams let her husband ramble on during the call. When he was getting ready to hang up, she reminded him of the date and told him she was deeply hurt. Mr. Williams became defensive. Ms. Williams got mad and yelled. Both spouses hung up angry....


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Java programmer, you will be familiar with
synchronized blocks.
Object myObject = //some instance synchronized(myObject) { //do some thread-sensitive //work on myObject }Sometimes, you want to synchronize on a transient object - a resource that isn't going to stay in memory.
For example, there is nothing in the Servlet 2.5 MR6 specification that says a
HttpServletSession instance can't be recreated as a facade object every time it is requested. That makes the session instance a poor candidate for a
synchronized lock. There is nothing in the specification that prevents the container implementer from always serializing session attributes as soon as they are set either. That makes session attributes poor candidates for
synchronization locks. Note: existing implementations may support either of these approaches in practice, but lets say our imaginary servlet container doesn't. However, the session ID will be consistent across requests.
The following code allows you to get an object to synchronize on based on a
String ID. This allows a mutual exclusion lock (mutex).
import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
This code isn't a panacea. Any code that requests a
Mutex object will pass through the global synchronization block within the class. For trivial synchronization blocks, the cost of getting the object will outweigh locking on a global object.
WeakHashMapis used to reference the
Mutexinstances. This avoids the need to release the object - the garbage collector will get rid of it as long as you don't keep a hard reference to it.
- The
WeakHashMapvalues have hard references, so the
Mutexvalue is wrapped in a
String id = sharedObject.getId();
IdMutexProvider instance should be created per domain to avoid ID collisions. That is, you shouldn't use the same instance to lock sessions as you would to lock access to files, for example.
JUnit tests
import junit.framework.TestCase;
Java 1.5 (or Java 5 if you prefer) includes a lot of helper classes to aid concurrency. As you can probably tell by all the casts, this was written using Java(2) 1.4.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
versión On-line ISSN 2078-5135
versión impresa ISSN 0256-9574
SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.102 no.7 Cape Town jul. 2012
Discovery to tighten disclosure protocol on new device
Chris Bateman
Hundreds of doctors in the country's three main cities last month queued up for a discounted Discovery Health iPad boasting a multi-purpose application revolutionising administration and patient management - as the company moved to address misgivings by a bioethics expert.
The iPad application, called Health ID, enables doctors to instantly access their patients' full medical records (with consent), prescribe medicines, refer, order pathology tests, view medical aid benefits and educate patients - with data uploaded to an information cloud' tended by Discovery. Discovery executives Jonathan Broomberg (CEO) and Maurice Goodman (Clinical Director) claim the iPad and its application will virtually eliminate doctors' afterhours administration work and enhance doctor/ patient relationships, saving everyone precious time and money. The device brings the local private sector up to speed with international best patient information and administration 'cyber-practice' and has met with wide acclaim for breaking new ground locally.
What's missing - expert
However, Professor Keymanthri Moodley, head of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at Stellenbosch University, believes the current electronic consent form fails to meet National Health Act requirements for consent in terms of full disclosure to patients of risks, benefits, alternatives and costs. Discovery briefed the Health Professions Council of South Africa's Registrar, Dr Buyiswa Mjamba-Matshoba, on 7 June, after which a presentation was scheduled for the council's Ethics Committee. Moodley was invited as a speaker by Discovery for the multi-city launch, delivering lectures in Johannesburg and Durban on the benefits and the risks of electronic health records and focusing on informed patient consent as a critical pre-requisite. Most doctors queued for the discounted iPads instead of attending her lecture, which she cancelled for the final Cape Town product launch. Asked why, she said she chose 'not to compete with the iPad sales'. Moodley said the current consent form seemed more a disclaimer protecting Discovery from patient litigation than informing patients fully of the risks and benefits. 'Either you sign it or you don't. It doesn't give patients the option of choosing which data they want released or not. Sensitive information like sexual history, psychiatric history, HIV/AIDS results, genetic test results, and a history of domestic violence is often regarded as private by patients who may legitimately want to exercise control over the disclosure to some of their healthcare providers. The system does not allow patients to sequester (hide bits of) information. Internationally this is an issue that has been raised and addressed,' she said.
Broomberg conceded that 'at this point we cannot sequester parts of the data', saying that acquiring this ability would require 'significant additional development'. He stressed that the application was 'a constant work in progress', adding that their current advice was that the consent process and disclosures were acceptable. 'We're fully aware that confidentiality and disclosure relating to medical information is both complex and subjective, and also dynamic, with societal views evolving over time ... we will continue to engage with Professor Moodley and other top experts in this field and will consult with the HPCSA to get their input and advice shortly,' he added. Broomberg promised that by July they would have updated the consent and disclosure processes 'at least once'.
No perversity 'shadow' - Broomberg
Dr Tony Berman, Treasurer of the national Independent Practitioners Association Foundation (IPAF), expressed reservations about 'what look like perverse incentives' being offered to doctors. 'I don't know why a R1 500 discount voucher on a R7 000 iPad or an enhanced consultation fee is necessary (R15 extra per consult enabling a preferred provider doctor to ostensibly pay off the device within months) - it takes me back to the days when you only needed to send one blood per day to certain path labs in return for a computer or an actual fee from the pathologist for using them exclusively. OK, so it's not 100% the same, but you get my point,' he said.
Berman, chief executive of Qualicare, the largest IPA in the Western Cape (some 649 GPs) said patients allowing Discovery access to 'a lot of intimate data' opened up the prospect of it being accessed or cross-referred at any time. 'You just need to take a slight step to the left; say you have a health or life policy with Discovery - how do we know they will not cross share that info?' he asked. Moodley said another worrying aspect was which other Discovery-linked healthcare providers could have access to the system in future (e.g. dentists, physiotherapists, pharmacists). 'The patient must decide who should have full (or partial) release of their health data. I wouldn't want my dentist to have my full medical history nor would some men want their physiotherapist to know they are on Viagra (for example),' she quipped. She added that secondary use of the health information collected via the new electronic system could include research; any research based on it would require separate ethical consent from patients and approval by a research ethics committee. The process of informed consent was another issue; getting patients to understand the information presented in simple language was critical. 'The current form needs significant revision to include all these (above) points and the consent process needs to enable a patient to take a hard copy home, read it and digest it before signing,' she warned. Moodley emphasised that Discovery seemed to be taking most of her feedback extremely seriously and were willing to revise the informed consent form and process.
The Discovery chief said there was 'no risk at all' of members' data being shared with other doctors once a member had given initial consent to one doctor. Members had to give consent separately to 'each and every doctor' prior to that doctor being able to view their electronic health record.
'Big brother eye on wellness' - claim
Berman said that rather than a voluntary approach to wellness, the new venture smacked of 'a big brother approach to wellness' and was being launched into a regulatory vacuum where HPCSA rules on electronics dated back to 2002 and CD Roms. 'For me this is a laudable advance, well ahead of its time, but the ground rules aren't in place yet.' Asked whether he was not opening himself up to accusations of 'sour grapes, Berman said no IPA could hope to move into the Discovery 'space'. 'They are the goliaths. This is like that Hello-Doctor cyber-consult thing, i.e. ahead of its time. In our context Discovery should rather be concentrating their efforts on primary health care and getting more patient feet through more doors. This is a huge amount of money on a highly sophisticated mechanism which would be fantastic in New York, Tokyo or London. We're not increasing the mere eight million people in our medical aid pool by doing this,' he observed.
Broomberg said Berman's view 'misses the point entirely'. Discovery had 'absolutely no financial interest' in doctors using HealthID. 'Our intention is simply to improve the quality of clinical care through sharing of important health information which facilitates care coordination, and to reduce the administration load for doctors.'
'How can a modest financial incentive to encourage behaviour which has a positive outcome for doctors and patients, and from which we do not profit at all, be seen as perverse?' he asked. He cited United States and Australian government initiatives offering hundreds of thousands of randequivalent incentives to all medical practices which adopted electronic medical records. 'This has the potential to change the way medicine is practised and bring us in line with some of the most innovative health systems in the world,' he added. Berman's other concern (about information integrity within Discovery businesses) was 'inaccurate', firstly because HealthID did not involve any data that Discovery did not already have access to (via member claims and pathology results). Secondly, Discovery never shared any member information, including claims information, without explicit member consent.
Genesis of iPad innovation
In a pre-launch briefing, Broomberg and Goodman told Izindaba that their being able to take advantage of the dexterous on-line application took 12 years; transforming the complex mass of raw Discovery claims data (pharmacy, hospital, doctor and pathology) into a usable electronic record - which the advent of the iPad two years ago, plus the increased ubiquity of 3G and WiFi technology, suddenly rendered an extremely powerful tool. Said Broomberg: 'Suddenly we had a sweet spot of technological connectivity and software coming together ... we'd been ready quite a while with the ability to interpret claims data'. A few deft finger presses now enabled a specialist seeing (for example) an 85-year-old with poor memory to quickly and accurately access their full medical history, an anaesthetist or surgeon to check on all preexisting conditions or access the full medical information management system (MIMS) directory. The possibilities were endless. Discovery are so confident of success after running pilot projects, first with 10 doctors nationally in March 2010 and then with 100 doctors five months later, that they're also offering the relevant software and data at no cost to those who sign up. They believe the benefits in gluing the traditionally fragmented South African healthcare model together via one portal (co-ordinated, efficient and enhanced quality of care with reduced admin burden) are so great that they've upped their consult pay-out to doctors who 'engage'.
Broomberg told Izindaba: 'We received five main messages from our pilot project doctors. 'Help us co-ordinate care, reduce the admin burden (now almost instant access to online chronic medication cover), give us e-scripting, med lists (plus how the patient is covered, co-payments, etc.) and mitigate our risks'. Some 4 000 doctors country-wide see mostly Discovery members. The technological package stands to enhance patient care in an environment where a paucity of information sharing and co-ordination often means not only a duplication of probes but an increased risk of costly slip-ups in both prepping and treating patients.
Discovery also purchased a library of some 300 on-line patient brochures which can be printed out or e-mailed to patients detailing or explaining their condition or elective procedure. 'We're at the beginning of the journey. We've relayed a rich amount of information and functionality which we'll enhance continually to make it more efficient and user-friendly,' Broomberg says.
Apple had sold more than 55 million iPads internationally by April this year, with over 200 000 specific applications and over one million downloads on the first day of availability. As an iPad adopter globally, the healthcare sector (10.5%) follows only financial services (36.6%) and the technology sectors (11.4%). A 2010 survey of 11 000 physicians in the Manhattan area showed that 72% carried smart phones and 95% of them were used to download medical information, with prescription drugs the number one download topic. Most used the technology during consultations or between patient visits with over 60% of patients expressing increased confidence in the doctor. An international survey also showed that a quarter of all healthcare providers used cyber 'tablets' at their practice, while another 21% expected to do so within the next 12 months. Two-thirds of them said implementing or improving their use of mobile technologies was a high or mid-level priority in the next year while 10% intended to use video conferencing with patients within that time.


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Appointments:DirectorMontefiore-Einstein Center for BioethicsCertificate and Masters Programs in Bioethics
ChiefBioethics Committee for Montefiore Medical Center
ProfessorClinical Epidemiology and Population HealthClinical Psychiatry and Behavioral MedicineAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
Education:BA, Harvard UniversityMD, Yale Medical SchoolResidency, Psychiatry, Columbia PresbyterianFellowship, Consultation-Liaison, Columbia Presbyterian
Bio:Tia Powell is recognized for her work in ethics education, end of life care, organ transplantation, ethics consultation and ethics policy, especially regarding public health disasters. She has served on several Institute of Medicine workgroups related to disaster response and planning, including becoming co-author of its 2009 report on standards of care in disasters, and co-chair of its current study on access to antibiotics in case of anthrax attack. She was also co-author of the landmark 2007 Chest series of articles on disaster preparation, and has served on the 2010 CDC workgroup assessing pediatric implications of disaster policies. She was formerly the Executive Director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, which functions as New York State's Governor-appointed bioethics commission. She founded the Ethics Consultation Service at Columbia Presbyterian in 1992, and has provided bioethics expertise to numerous groups, including the New York State Cardiac Advisory Committee, the Empire State Stem Cell Ethics Committee, and the federal Secretary's Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections (SACHRP). She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Powell is a member of the original faculty of the Certificate Program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, and has delighted in teaching bioethics for nearly twenty years.
Appointment:Assistant Professor
Epidimeology and Population Health
Associate Director
Certificate and Masters Program in BioethicsMontefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics
Education:BA, Law and Society,Oberlin CollegeMBE, Bioethics,University of PennsylvaniaJD, University of Pennsylvania
Bio:Lauren Sydney Flicker teaches Policy Writing, Reproductive Ethics & the Law, and Bioethics and Medical Humanities. Her scholarship focuses on reproductive ethics, ethical issues in end of life care, and ethics consultation. Prior to joining the Center for Bioethics, Professor Flicker was a fellow in the Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics, a multi-institutional program administered by the Cleveland Clinic. In 2010, Ms. Flicker was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics and an adjunct professor at Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University of Philadelphia. She formerly practiced law at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson in New York.
Appointment:Center and Programs ManagerMontefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics
Education:BS, Accounting, Lehman College, CUNYMS, Taxation, Baruch College, CUNY
Bio:Stacy Govan specializes in finance, tax and grant administration as well as the management of clinical services and educational programs. She has been an Associate at H & R Block for several years and has worked at Lehman College's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
Consultant for Ethics
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Senior Associate
Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics
Professor Emerita
Department of Family and Social Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Education:BA, Barnard CollegeLLB, Harvard Law School
Bio:Nancy Dubler lectures internationally on a range of bioethics issues, most particularly bioethics mediation and human subjects research. She founded and directed the Bioethics Consultation Service at Montefiore Medical Center (1978-2008) as a support for analysis of difficult clinical cases presenting ethical issues in the health care setting; this service uses mediation as its primary intervention. She also founded and directed the Certificate Program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities (1995 to 2008). She is the author of numerous articles and books on ethical issues in research with human subjects, termination of care, home care and long-term care, geriatrics, adolescent medicine, prison and jail health care, and AIDS. Her recent books are: Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, with Carol Liebman, Vanderbilt University Press (2011); Ethics for Health Care Organizations: Theory, Case Studies, and Tools, with Jeffrey Blustein and Linda Farber Post (2002); The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects, with Coleman, Menikoff and Goldner (Lexis/Nexis, 2005); and Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees, with Post and Blustein (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007). She is currently Consultant for Ethics at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the nation's largest public hospital system.
Appointments:Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Population HealthAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
Education:BS, City College of New York MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Pediatric Residency, John Hopkins Hospital Fellowship in Perinatal Physiology, National Institute of Health Royal Society of Medicine Fellowship in Perinatology, Oxford University
Bio:Alan Fleischman has published and lectured extensively in many areas of perinatal medicine and has been a pioneer in the field of bioethics and research ethics, emphasizing the rights of individual patients and the responsibilities of health care professionals and organizations. His positions have included, for Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Montefiore Medical Center Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Director of the Division of Neonatology in the Department of Pediatrics. He became Senior Vice President and Medical Director of the March of Dimes Foundation where he developed multiple clinical and research initiatives to prevent preterm birth, infant mortality and birth defects. Dr. Fleischman has been a consultant to the National Institute of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is an elected Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hastings Center and an elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He was also a founding member of the New York State Governor's Task Force on Life and the Law (Bioethics Commission) and served for 27 years.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Benjamin Cardozo School of LawClinical Instructor, Albert Einstein Colege of MedicineLecturer, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Education:BA, Political Science, University of BuffaloJD, SUNY Buffalo Law School
Bio:David N. Hoffman is a health care attorney and clinical ethicist, and is the Chief Compliance Officer for PAGNY, P.C. (the Physician Affliate Group of New York), where he supports the medical staff of six New York City Health + Hospitals facilities in ethical practice and legal compliance. David has written on a variety of healthcare subjects including use of medical imaging technology in litigation, equal protection rights of physicians, and regulatory responses to the emerging physician shortage, and has served on and advised hospital ethics committees and institutional review boards. He was a member of the faculty of the Montefiore Medical Center/N.Y.U. Pilot Certificate Program on Human Research Subject Protection. David is a volunteer member of the Surrogate Decision-making Committee of the New York State Department of Health, Commission on Quality of Care/Justice Center. He served as the Chair of the Committee on Bio-ethical Issues of the Association of teh Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY), and as a member of the Committee on Professional Ethics of the New York State Bar Association. He previously served as the Legislative Liaison for the Special Committee on Medical Malpractice at ABCNY, where he authored the Association's policy statement on the National Practitioner Databank. He also chaired the ABCNY Sub-Committee on human transplant organ procurement. Mr. Hoffman completed the pilot post-graduate program in Bio-Ethics and the Medical Humanities, of Columbia University/Montefiore Medical Center.
Appointments:Director of Bioethics Education (for medical students)Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Epidemiology and Population HealthDepartment of Medicine (Rheumatology)Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Education:BS, Tufts UniversityMD, Cornell University Medical CollegeMBE, University of Pennsylvania
Bio:Elizabeth Kitsis's research and teaching focuses on pharmaceutical ethics and conflict of interest, as well as ethical issues related to physician shadowing. Before arriving at Einstein, she was a vice president at Pfizer Inc, where she introduced a course on research ethics. As Director of Bioethics Education at the medical school, she develops and leads the bioethics curriculum for Einstein students, and also conducts research on bioethics learning. She is a member of Einstein's Bioethics Committee, the Institutional Review Board, and the Committee on Conflict of Interest. A practicing rheumatologist, she is also a member of the American College of Rheumatology Committee on Ethics and Conflict of Interest.
Appointments:Founder, Mediation ClinicDirector, Negotiation WorkshopColumbia Law School
Clinical Professor of LawColumbia Law School
Education:BA, Wellesley CollegeMA, Rutgers UniversityJD, Boston University School of Law
Bio:Carol Liebman is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer in conflict resolution, and has taught negotiation and mediation in Vietnam, Israel, Brazil and China. She has mediated cases involving medical malpractice, discrimination, family issues, public agencies, community disputes, business conflicts and educational institutions. She has designed and presented mediation training for The Certificate Program in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities; New York's First Department, Appellate Division, Attorney Disciplinary Committee; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and high school students, parents and teachers. Her positions have included membership in New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board (2003-2009) and co-principal investigator for the Demonstration Mediation and ADR Project, a part of the Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania (http:/medliabilitypa.org) funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. She is the co-principal investigator for the Mediating Suits Against Hospitals (MeSH) study and co-authored, with Nancy Dubler, Bioethics Mediation, A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions, (2004; Revised and Expanded Edition, Vanderbilt University Press, 2011).
Appointments:Director of Bioethics
Hackensack University Medical Center
Education:BA, Economics, Northwestern UniversityMD, Columbia College of Physicians and SurgeonsResidency, Internal Medicine, University of MichiganFellowship, Cardiology, Tufts Medical CenterFellowships in Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Mount Sinai
Bio:Hannah Lipman specializes in ethics consultation, bioethics education and ethics issues arising in geriatrics and cardiology. She is a graduate of the Montefiore-Einstein Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities, and as chief of the Bioethics Consultation Service leads a multidisciplinary team of professionals who help health care providers, patients and families resolve ethical dilemmas. She honed her skills in ethics education after receiving a HRSA-funded Geriatric Academic Career Award to develop geriatrics informed curricula in surrogate decision-making, and teaches bioethics to a variety of learners focusing on communication skills, conflict resolution, surrogate decision making and caring for patients without capacity who refuse treatment. She is currently piloting a multi-institutional study on the ethical implications of ICD therapy, and is also the co-chair of the system-wide work group charged with implementing the Family Health Care Decisions A
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Appointments:ProfessorDepartment of Epidemiology and Population HealthAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
Education:BA, Philosophy, Cornell UniversityPhD, Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University
Bio:Ruth Macklin is an internationally recognized expert in international bioethics and global health ethics. She has been teaching and doing research in bioethics since 1971 and has been a member of the Einstein faculty since 1980. She is author or editor of eleven books and has published more than 200 articles in scholarly and professional journals. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, and serves on two committees at the World Health Organization: the HIV Vaccine Advisory Committee and the Research Proposal Review Panel in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research. For the past ten years she has been director or co-director of an NIH Fogarty International Center training program in research ethics in Latin America. She is a past president of the International Association of Bioethics, and past chair of the Ethics Review Committee at UNAIDS and the external Ethics Committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Appointments:Department of Emergency MedicineJacobi Medical Center
ProfessorClinical Emergency MedicineClinical Epidemiology and Population HealthAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
Education:BA, Yeshiva UniversityRabbinic Ordination, Yeshiva UniversityMD, Albert Einstein College of MedicineResidency in Emergency Medicine, Jacobi/Montefiore
Bio:Ed Reichman's work is devoted to the interface of medical history and Jewish law. He writes and lectures widely in the field of Jewish medical ethics, and has combined his teaching with sustained mentorship at Yeshiva's Student Medical Ethics Society, since its inception in 2005. He is the recipient of a Kornfeld Foundation Fellowship, and has been a member of the advisory boards of the Institute for Genetics and Public Policy, the New York Organ Donor Network, the Halakhic Organ Donor Society, and the Rabbinical Council of America.
Appointments:Faculty, Columbia University Program in Narrative Medicine
Education:BA, Yale UniversityMS, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University
Bio:Danielle Spencer is a Faculty member of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, as well as the Einstein-Cardozo Master of Science in Bioethics program in New York. Spencer presents regularly at medical humanities and bioethics conferences and has been published in The Lancet, WIRED, Creative Nonfiction, Esopus and The Hungarian Review. She also worked as artist/musician David Byrne's Art Director for many years, as well as with photographer Nan Goldin, and studied literary theory in Paris. Spencer holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University.
Appointments:Vice DeanDirector, Program in Family Law, Policy and BioethicsCardozo School of Law
Professor of LawCardozo School of Law
Education:BA, Philosophy; Computer Science, Williams CollegePhD, Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJD, Yale Law School
Bio:Ed Stein specializes in family law, sexuality, gender and the law, and bioethics. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, he taught in philosophy departments at Yale University, Mount Holyoke College and New York University. In 2001-02, he clerked for Judge Dolores Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is the author of numerous articles and books on legal, philosophical and scientific topics, including The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory and Ethics of Sexual Orientation and Without Good Reason: The Rationality Debate in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, both published by Oxford University Press, as well as the editor of Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy. His current research focuses on issues at the intersection of family law and sexual orientation. He maintains a web site and a blog for the Huffington Post


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Economics offers a unique way of examining individual and social behavior. This unique way of looking at the world around us, often called the "economic way of thinking," provides powerful and surprising insights into many social issues such as discrimination, crime, poverty, welfare, education, income inequality, and environmental degradation. In addition to examining these societal problems, economists study how markets work and analyze the behavior of business organizations. They also investigate the forces and trends that influence our standard of living, the fraction of the population that cannot find work, and the rate at which prices are rising.
The Department of Business, Accounting and Economics offers both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. The economics degree prepares you to pursue many excellent and rewarding employment opportunities in private, as well as public and nonprofit sectors of the economy. Additionally, a bachelor's degree in economics offers a solid preparation for graduate education not only in economics, but also in law, political science, all areas of business, and disciplines with an international focus.
The economics major at Otterbein balances theory and application. Real-life applications are well integrated in all courses and come from local, national, and international scenes. In addition, if you complete a study abroad course, you are uniquely qualified for future opportunities.


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As the only victim of an atomic bombing, Japan has always reacted ambivalently at best toward nuclear power. This is the country of the hibakusha the survivors of the American attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, victims of both long-term radiation and social discrimination. It's the nation that gave us Godzilla and countless other fictional manifestations of nuclear shock and awe. But it is also a country that was able to rise from the atomic ashes stronger than it had ever been, building a world-class industrial economy that was powered in part by nuclear energy. By the beginning of 2011, Japan had 54 operational nuclear reactors providing almost 30% of the country's electricity, with government plans on the books to build more than 14 new reactors and raise nuclear's share of the electricity mix to 53% by 2030.
We all know what happened next. The Fukushima meltdown forced the exodus of more than 100,000 people from their homes, overshadowed even the tsunami that had caused it and had killed more than 20,000 people, and spurred fears that Tokyo itself would need to be evacuated. Though it appears now that the disaster wasn't as serious as many experts first believed with even the Fukushima emergency workers spared dangerous exposure to radiation the meltdown did reveal a certain rot in Japan's state-sponsored nuclear power industry. One by one, Japan's nuclear reactors were shut down, ostensibly to toughen safety standards, but just as much to reassure a skittish public that no longer trusted nuclear power. Finally, over the weekend, Tomari Nuclear Power Plant's reactor 3 in the northern island of Hokkaido was shut down for maintenance, and for the first time since 1970, Japan was without nuclear power.
Whether the country will stay nuclear-free is up for debate. Most of the plants that have been closed are scheduled to reopen eventually, but in many cities, there's strong local pressure to keep the reactors shuttered for good. Nor is Japan the only country turning away from nuclear power in the wake of Fukushima. Germany responded to the meltdown by announcing plans to phase out nuclear power by 2022, with most of it set to be replaced in theory, at least by renewables like wind and solar. Globally, nuclear power is stumbling; the U.S. hasn't built a new atomic plant in decades, despite lavish subsidies, and in 2010 nuclear power provided just 13% of the world's electricity, down from 18% in 1996. Although large developing countries like China and India still have plans to build new atomic plants, nuclear power increasingly looks, as the Economist put it in a recent cover story, like "the god that failed."
You can expect many environmental groups to cheer that news, along with the thousands of protesters who marched through the streets of Tokyo on May 5 to celebrate the shutdown of the last reactor. Mainstream green groups like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club remain avowedly antinuclear. But we know this: the early closing of nuclear plants in countries like Japan and Germany is bad news for the climate, at least in the short run. Nuclear power remains the only carbon-free, base-load source of electricity, producing far more clean power than wind and solar. (In 2009 nonhydroelectric sources of renewable power supplied considerably less than 1% of global electricity.) Take existing nuclear plants off-line, and at the very least you make the very difficult goal of reducing carbon emissions that much harder.
In Japan, hard-pressed utilities have tried to replace nuclear energy with record amounts of liquefied natural gas and petroleum, which last year hit its highest level of electrical output in 10 years. The populace has pitched in as well, with extreme setsuden or energy-saving measures. But even so, Japan's business community and its government have warned that the country could face serious energy shortages this summer without nuclear power, which could dent the world's third largest economy as it struggles to bounce back from the tsunami. Without nuclear power, Japan is projected to produce an additional 180 million to 210 million tons of carbon emissions this fiscal year compared with 1990, wiping out much of the improvements the country made over the past few years as it worked to meet its carbon-cutting commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. "We must think ahead to the impact on Japan's economy and people's lives if all nuclear reactors stopped," said Yoshito Sengoku, the deputy policy chief of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. "Japan, could, in some sense, be committing mass suicide."
Getting by nuke-free is possible. Germany has already built up a world-leading renewable energy sector, so that country is better prepared for a future without atoms. And even though it's been replacing some of its nuclear energy with natural gas a fossil fuel, albeit a relatively clean one last year Germany saw its greenhouse-gas emissions fall 2% compared with 2010. But even as Germany closes its nuclear plants early, it's still building new coal plants, some of which will go to replace that carbon-free atomic power. Supporters say those coal plants were already in the pipeline and are just a speed bump on the way to a 100% green grid, but in the short term, trading nuclear power for coal is a loss for the climate and for the most wicked policy problem in the world: decarbonizing energy.
I'm not writing this to defend nuclear power. We appear to have been really lucky with Fukushima, and the fact that a meltdown could happen in a technologically advanced country like Japan is a chilling thought, especially as new atomic plants spring up in developing countries. More to the point, the citizens of a free country should be able to choose where their electricity comes from, and if the public decides that nuclear power isn't worth the risks as they have in Germany and perhaps Japan as well so be it. The antinuclear movement in Japan, in particular, is a triumph of citizen activism in a county in which industry and government have generally been allowed to do whatever they want. But it's telling that it was the often hyped fear of nuclear power more than global warming that energized the public. Because if climate change really was perceived as the biggest environmental threat in the world, people in Tokyo and Berlin would be marching through the streets to keep those nuclear plants open and end coal power immediately.


text: Splinter Cell Agent Sam Fisher faces his most challenging mission yet - the first that requires him to be a double agent. Working for the U.S. government, Fisher's up against a terrorist group that's gained a foothold on American soil. Go deep undercover to infiltrate the ring and bring it down from inside. Earn the terrorists' trust to reach objectives using tactics of real-life double agents. Balance the patience needed to stay undercover and the urgency to act before innocent people die. At every turn in the branching storyline, you'll face high-stakes decisions about whose orders to follow - your government, or those of the group you're trying to infiltrate.


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We absolutely adore this gorgeous short film titled "Lost in Indonesia" by Nhi Dang. The film is completely wordless and takes place over a ten day period in Bali, Ijen Crater, Mount Bromo and Nusa Lembongan. It will definitely ignite a desire to travel, learn and explore. If you like this video check out her similar film, "Dreams of Myanmar".
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text: Erotic yoga instructor Philip Deal is committed to helping men masturbate better. For the last six years, Philip has been video taping his erotic practice sessions. In this demonstration he offers guidance for men who wish to thrust better. If you are a man whose hips are frozen, this workout could give you somatic guidance to becoming a better lover. Watching Philip is inspiring, but you will learn almost nothing from watching. The learning comes from conscious practice over time. Parts 2 and 3 of this session will be available to study on June 14 and 21. Several hours of Philip Deal's teaching will be available this fall through The Orgasmic Yoga Institute.You must enroll to view this clip


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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc passed the 1 billion user mark in September, a level of global penetration that is a remarkable achievement for an 8-year-old social network and a heightened challenge to its quest for sustained growth.
Facebook, which has endured a bruising four months in the stock market since a haphazard May 18 initial public offering, has acknowledged that a slowdown in new-user acquisition is inevitable as its worldwide reach expands.
But doubts over whether the company can squeeze more and more dollars out of each network member - given well-publicized struggles to monetize the growing ranks of users who access Facebook from mobile devices - have shaved more than 40 percent off Facebook's value since its IPO, although shares still trade at a lofty 45 times projected 2012 earnings.
Thursday's announcement that Facebook crossed the billion threshold on September 14 confirmed expectations on Wall Street that growth is actually trailing off.
The latest quarter's growth appeared likely to come in lower in raw numbers, let alone by percentage, than the April-June quarter's 54 million new users. About 45 million joined from the start of July, when it had 955 million users, through September 14.
And the previous quarter was way down from the 102 million who joined during the first three months of 2012.
In an interview on NBC's "Today" show broadcast on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked by co-anchor Matt Lauer how, with a billion users, the company wasn't "killing it" by making money.
"It depends on your definition of 'killing it.' I mean, we are making billions of dollars," Zuckerberg fired back.
In its last earnings report, Facebook said revenue increased by 32 percent to $1.18 billion in the second quarter. But that marked the slowest pace of quarterly revenue growth since the first quarter of 2011 - the earliest data available.
Founded by Zuckerberg in a Harvard dorm in 2004, Facebook took three years to reach 50 million users. By 2010, that hit 500 million. But with Google Inc launching its own social network and other services from Twitter to YouTube vying for Web surfers' time, the social network is keen to keep rolling out new products to keep its members engaged.
"The key, of course, is monetization of those users," Hudson Square analyst Dan Ernst said.
Facebook, stung by criticism over the efficacy of its ads, concerns about its mobile business and questions over growth, turned on the charm in the past month.
Zuckerberg went on the offensive to soothe investors, making his first public appearance since the May IPO on September 11, confidently talking up the company's mobile prospects and hinting at new initiatives in search and e-commerce. It appeared to work, stemming the share price's slide below $18. The stock now trades above $21 - still well below its IPO price of $38.
Zuckerberg said his company's new mobile ads were delivering better results for advertisers than its traditional ads on personal computers.
In addition, this week, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and board member Marc Andreessen have appeared on the CNBC business channel and panels at a high-profile advertising conference in New York.
The company said on its website it now has 600 million mobile users, up from 543 million at the end of June.
"There's 5 billion people in the world who have phones, so we should be able to serve many more people and grow the user base there," Zuckerberg said.
As for his own phone habits, he said he owns several devices, and called an iPhone 5 he received personally from Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook "a wonderful device."
Facebook's share price and persistent, skeptical scrutiny of the company have taken a toll on its employees, many of whom had counted on a big post-IPO payday. Zuckerberg acknowledged that morale at the company could be better but said its 4,000 employees remained focused on building and improving Facebook's products.
"We are obviously in a tough cycle now," he said. "That doesn't help morale."
Facebook has rolled out a spate of initiatives to spur more growth, including a new advertising platform and measurement methods to show marketers they are getting bang for their buck.
The company also said on Thursday it has seen 1.13 trillion "likes," or endorsements by users, since it launched the feature in February 2009. Many advertising campaigns that companies conduct on Facebook are designed to garner "likes."
But it is also exploring options beyond advertising, which accounted for roughly 84 percent of the total revenue in the second quarter. On Wednesday, the company also said it was letting U.S. users pay a fee to boost the visibility of their posting.
Last week, Facebook unveiled a feature that lets U.S. users buy and send gifts such as glasses, pastries and gift cards to friends - signaling its intent to play a bigger role in e-commerce.
On Thursday, Zuckerberg focused on what he called an historic milestone: connecting about one in seven people on the planet across both the developed and developing world.
Facebook's number of users is larger than other social media services such as Twitter, which has 140 million monthly active users, and Google+, the Internet search company's year-old social network, which has 100 million monthly active users.
Google's overall Internet properties, including video website YouTube, garnered 1.16 billion unique visitors in August, according to data analytics firm comScore.
Facebook was the world's No.3 most visited Internet property, behind Microsoft online properties, with 821.5 million monthly unique visitors in August, according to comScore's figures, which do not include users accessing websites on mobile devices.
The median age of Facebook's users is 22. The five largest user countries, which the company listed alphabetically, are Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States.
"Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life," Zuckerberg said in his blog post.
Additional reporting by Jennifer Saba and Phil Wahba in New York and by Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; Editing by Edwin Chan, Gary Hill


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Congratulations to Bob Riedinger who walked away with $100 in cash & the win on Saturday in our BBQ rib contest. Bob used a "UDS – Ugly Drum Smoker" and Kingsford Competition Briquettes to win. His sauce was a "doctored" over the counter variety – that's all we could get from him.
John Ruloff representing, "The Big Green Egg" for providing an Egg-cellent demonstration of several types of ribs, sausage and pork loin. John, a KCBS certified judge, coordinated and judged with the panel to determine the winning contestant…We couldn't have done it without you.
Thanks to David Brown and Dave Avila our other contestants. Also, judges Merve and Barabra King. Special thanks to Village Fresh Market, in Turlock for providing the venue and all meats in support of our event. Thanks also for the support of veteran Village Fresh Market meat cutter Mark Hamblin, both in assistance to the contestants and as a judge.
Photography supported by Carrie Brunelle, and Kara Tornquist.
We'll be posting more pictures of the event as the days unfold – look for us in November for another BBQ Competition.
Saturday August 1st, We present a Backyard style BBQ competition. Anyone interested in late sign-ups, call (209) 668-2452 and get more info. Also, please visit our website at www.greenleafbbq.com
The contest will feature pork ribs – you decide how best to season and BBQ them. Set up begins at 7:30 am and judging begins at 4:00pm. Join us if you can!
Ask us about our drop-off barbecue catering services….coming soon.


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Demand for financial products linked to China is on the rise and efforts by the world's second largest economy to further open its capital markets will add to their lure, said Mark Makepeace, CEO of global index provider FTSE Group.
"It [China] is a huge, huge trade. We've got the promise of the QFII [Qualified Institutional Investor Program] allocations [being] multiplied by something like 10 times - that makes it a substantial market," Makepeace told CNBC on Wednesday.
Foreign investors require a license under the qualified foreign institutional investor program, known as QFII, to invest in the country's financial markets. In recent months, China has been taking steps to broaden market access to foreign investors. In January, the head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission said the country could raise the investment quotas for foreign investors by up to 10 times.
This came shortly after a move in mid-December by the country's foreign exchange regulator to raise the limit for foreign sovereign wealth funds and central banks buying Chinese assets through the QFII program.
(Read More: Forget China Leaders—Watch This Man for Reforms )
Demand for China ETFs (exchange traded funds) has been on the rise in recent months, driven by a turnaround in the domestic stock markets, which began in December 2012.
In January, FTSE reported that the combined assets of its ETFs benchmarked to the group's FTSE China A50 Index surpassed $10 billion for the first time. These included the Hong Kong-listed iShares FTSE A50 China ETF and CSOP FTSE China A50 ETF.
(Read More: Time to Get Off the China Stocks Train? )
Makepeace said FTSE is in talks with regulatory bodies and exchanges in China to include A-shares - yuan-denominated shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges - in the group's global benchmark, the FTSE All-World Index.
"We have got to manage the transition for global investors to invest in the A-share market, it will take 5-10 years but it's a process that we are just beginning," he said.


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The PIMFA Website, built over UseFull, HUB's membership management platform, wins Website of the Year at the Trade Association Forum Awards.
HUB is a business application development company. We build applications, software, apps, interactive experiences and websites.
We are constantly looking for talented technologists to join the team. If you are a developer or a designer, content manager or marketeer, drop us a line.
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Baby One More TimeIdol Light
Illuminated Icons of Salvation: Baby One More Time
This 15 oz white ceramic mug is perfect when filled with coffee, tea, wine, whiskey, margaritas or pens. It's microwave & dishwasher safe. Plus everyone loves that your WHOLE ENTIRE hand can fit on the handle- no squished fingers here. Nuh-uh.
Because we believe people of all hands deserve the right to flash a cute mug, artwork is printed on both sides. Ain't nobody got time for the blank side of a mug!
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▴ 3.25 inches diameter x 4.75 inches tall
▴ Hand pressed in Nashville at Harlan Ruby
▴ Hand wash to keep art vibrant
▴ Comes packaged in box ready for gifting
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Supporting Youth Resilience
Ikeda, J., Hubley, N., and Liebenberg, L. (2013). Pathways to Resilience: Supporting Youth Resilience [Video file]. Retrieved from http://youtu.be/od5a20mXDw4
The concept of supporting youth resilience is demonstrated in the video and both handouts above. If you would like to know more about the research behind this, read the article 'Patterns of Psychosocial Service Use: Individual and Contextual Risk factors, and Resilience among Adolescents Using Multiple Services' by Michael Ungar and colleagues, published in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect (2013, issue 37, page 150).