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Experience four wheel drive adventures, a coral reef teeming with marine life, beautiful beaches and great camping when you travel the Pacific Coast Way between Mackay and Clairview.
This stretch of coast is largely untouched. Rugged and raw, this section of natural coastline is home to patches of ancient rainforest, remote beaches and exciting marine life.
Allow at least two days to explore this area, more if you intend to camp at the wild and remote Cape Palmerston.
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Mackay to Sarina: Drive 38 kilometres south from Mackay to Sarina, home of the award-winning Sarina Sugar Shed. This is Australia's only miniature working sugar mill and distillery, offering tours, tastes and insights into the sugar industry. Taste the distillery's own rum and watch candy floss being made.
You can find the Sarina Art and Craft Centre near the Sugar Shed at the Field of Dreams complex.
Nearby Sarina and Grasstree Beaches provide lovely coastal locations to enjoy a beachside picnic.
Cape Palmerston National Park: An off-road paradise 25 kilometres South of Sarina providing a serene place for self-sufficient camping. Open eucalypt woodland grows on the ridges; while mangrove swamps, rainforest and sand dunes are all part of the cape's rugged attraction. Traverse the oceanside cape to view abundant marine life below, including turtles, dugongs or humpback whales from June to September as they migrate north. Self-sufficient campers can bush camp at Windmill Bay, Clark Bay or Cape Creek. The camp sites can only be reached by four wheel drive and permits are required.
The undeveloped wilderness surrounding Cape Palmerston's camping areas provides access to excellent fishing locations and rugged bush walks.
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Delightful beachside communities, popular for fishing and crabbing, line the coast from Cape Palmerston to St Lawrence.
Catch a crab in Carmila: Camp near the ocean and reel in the ocean's bounty by trawling nearby creek mouths. Facilities include toilets, barbecues and picnic tables. A boat ramp is located at Carmila Creek with a playground and beach access nearby.
Flaggy Rock: Accessible by four wheel drives, it provides beautiful 360 degree views toward the ranges and across the Coral Sea. Stop at a local café and gift shop to indulge in home baking, sample some of the freshly-made fruit ice cream or purchase a precious gem to take home.
Dugongs in Clairview: 120 kilometres South of Mackay, the beachside community of Clairview is known for excellent fishing and crabbing. A dugong sanctuary was established in 1997. Visitors may catch a glimpse of these incredible creatures from the beach.
Fun Fact If you are travelling from the south, Clairview is the first place you catch a glimpse of the sea from the highway since the Gold Coast, 1,850 kilometres south.
St Lawrence: One of the most historic towns on the Queensland Coast, worth a visit to view historical buildings and relics.
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The Graph shows the difference between the apparent time indicated by a simple Sundial, only corrected for East west Time Zone effect, and the standard time for that time zone. Negative readings indicate that the Sundial is slow and that time must be added to the Sundial reading to get the standard time. Positive reading on the graph must be subtracted.
There are two contributions to this time difference. One is that the speed of the Earth in its orbit about the Sun varies. The Earth moves fastest when it is closest to the sun, the perihelion, which at present occurs about January 4th. The correction is the difference each day from the average time and this causes the Sundial to be slow in the Spring and fast in the Fall. This correction is not in step with the seasons. It is zero at the aphelion and perihelion of the Earths orbit.
The other effect is more complicated to explain and is caused by the combined effect of the rotation of the earth on its axis and the revolution of the Earth about the Sun. If the earths axis was perpendicular to the plane of its orbit about the Sun, this would just lead to an increase in the length of the day. The earth moves approximately 1 degree about the Sun each day and therefore the Earth must rotate 361 degrees between the Sun crossing the meridian one day and again the next day. The tilt of the Earths axis by approximately 23.5 degrees complicates this and causes a Sundial to be fast and slow twice a year. This correction is in step with the seasons, being zero at the equinoxes and the solstices. The sum of both contributions gives the equation of time.
A more detailed explanation with animations and equations maybe found at http://www.analemma.com/
These corrections are built in to the Swensen Sundial in the form of the analemma shaped hour lines.


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This is an indoor Kitchen Heat Only 12-18kW condensing oil boiler manufactured by Firebird. A high quality finish ensures this boiler fits into your kitchen perfectly. It has an ErP A efficiency rating. The boiler is built using premium grade steel. These boilers are a compact design and will fit under standard kitchen worktops.
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This is a really great Asteroids style game and quite polished for a version 1.0. But when you open the game the frame rate for the intro is terrible at a glacier 1 frame per minute. Once you do finally get access to the menu and can start a game it works fine. Changing the display options or switching between Mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.8.2 was of no help. I still liked the demo and would purchase this later. After the intro bug is resolved.
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While many have heard Amazon's Jeff Bezos assert that in five years drones will be used to deliver its packages, right now a Palo Alto resident is making use of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the field of real estate.
"Not all drones are created equal and certainly not all drone pilots are created equal," Manie Kohn said.
Kohn is the owner of Don't Tell Me Show Me, a Palo Alto-based startup specializing in "superior marketing strategies" for real-estate properties in the Bay Area and beyond. He recently gained national attention for his expertise in using drones to aid in real-estate marketing, an idea, he said, born out of many years in real estate and a frustration with the industry.
Kohn served as a senior trainer for the Multiple Listing Service or MLS, a system used by real-estate brokers to share information about their properties. Having "trained over 20,000 Realtors from San Mateo to Monterey" over eight years and working exclusively with a top Palo Alto agent, he started Don't Tell Me Show Me in 2007 as a way to better serve home sellers, a niche he says was missing in the industry.
"There's never been a resource for home sellers," Kohn said. "Without ever having to engage the Realtor, they can confidentially come to my third party, independent, quality-controlled company and vet a Realtor before they even start a conversation with them. Think Carfax for real estate."
Kohn presents himself as a conduit of information for home sellers, outside of their Realtors, and for Realtors who want to do their jobs better.
He developed the idea of using drones to help in the marketing of properties almost four years ago after being on countless luxury photo shoots of homes where they had to bring in helicopters to get aerial shots.
"I was wildly disappointed in the product that it was able to produce," he said. "It was problematic on several different levels," as the helicopters were loud, clunky, expensive and unable to drop below 400 or 500 feet above the house.
This left the capturing abilities of a property to a zoom lens. "I wanted something I could literally fly through the front door," he said.
Three years later, he claims to be the only factory-trained, certified and insured drone pilot in the Bay Area, and perhaps in the county -- a title he is willing to challenge any other drone pilot, and the Realtors who've used untrained, uncertified and/or uninsured pilots, to match.
"It's the reason I get the big projects, the reason celebrities and network TV come use me," he said.
Kohn has worked with Josh Flagg of Bravo TV's "Million Dollar Listing," HGTV, National Geographic and ESPN, among others. He says they come to him because of his unique set of credentials.
He has undergone training from the manufacturers of the drones he uses and received their certification, demonstrated extensive flight experience and attended ground school taught by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). These criteria allowed him to qualify for insurance that helps protect him in the event of any damages incurred while using the drone.
Very few others have any insurance, let alone factory training and certification, he said.
Another aspect that sets him apart from other pilots is his ability to produce aerial videos of real estate properties. Just providing images, Kohn says, requires very little skill, experience and creativity.
"Once you introduce video into the drones, it begins a whole other element of complexity, not only to the cinematic quality, but to the aircraft itself," he said.
As a result, Kohn wears both real-estate and cinematographer hats. Spending more than $100,000 to stabilize his drones, he maintains an "artistic license while offering safe and dramatic cinematic flights simultaneously."
As a price point, Kohn charges on average $2,000 for his services, but can do such work for as little as $800, though his competition charges between $300 and $600.
"While I am more expensive than everybody else that's out there, the most visionary of Realtors have engaged me because they understand that they're winning more listings and more business because of that offering," he said. "While other Realtors are looking at video and drones as a line item expense, the most visionary see it as an investment."
Kohn is forward thinking in terms of other areas where the drone could be used. He's worked with both the Palo Alto and Half Moon Bay police and fire departments on the ways drones can be used to assist in emergency services. He also sees potential benefits in wildlife and conservation, construction and forensics.
The challenge, he says, however "is how do we use it safely." For that, he's working with the FAA and UAV underwriters to develop public policy in this still nascent area.


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IntervalZero Inc. announced the addition of Windows 7 support for its deterministic, hard real-time software products: RTX 2009 and RTX 2009 SMP, which includes support for symmetric multiprocessing.
"With the release of Windows 7, Microsoft made advances in gesture technology and improved performance on multicore processors. These are the kinds of innovations and improvements that our customers are demanding so it was a priority for us that RTX support Windows 7 as quickly as possible. It benefits our customers and creates additional opportunities in key markets," said IntervalZero CEO Jeffrey Hibbard. IntervalZero is primarily focused on the Industrial Automation, Medical Systems, Digital Audio Workstation, and Test and Measurement markets.
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БЭББИДЖ Чарлз
Другое имя: Баббедж Чарльз
Имя латиницей: Babbage Charles
Пол: мужской
Дата рождения: 26.12.1791
Место рождения: Лондон, Англия
Дата смерти: 18.10.1871 Возраст (79)
Место смерти: Лондон, Англия
Знак зодиака: Козерог
По восточному: Свинья
География: АНГЛИЯ.
Ключевые слова: знание, изобретатель, компьютер, логик, математик, наука, экономика.
Ключевой год: 1816
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21.02.2011 Мартыненко ОльгаBioraphy and Education Charles Babbage was born in London Dec. 26, 1791, St. Stephan day, in London. He was son of Benjamin Babbage, a banking partner of the Praeds who owned the Bitton Estate in Teignmouth and Betsy Plumleigh Babbage. It was about 1808 when the Babbage family decided to move into the old Rowdens house, located in East Teignmouth, and Benjamin Babbage became a warden of the nearby church of St. Michael. The father of Charles was a rich man, so it was possible for Charles to receive instruction from several elite schools and teachers during the course of his elementary education. He was about eight when he had to move to a country school to recover from a dangerous fever. His parents sentenced that his "brain was not to be taxed too much"; Babbage wrote: "this great idleness may have led to some of my childish reasonings." Then, he joined King Edward VI Grammar School in Totnes, South Devon, a thriving comprehensive school that`s still operative today, but his fragile health status forced him back to private teaching for a period. Then, he finally joined a 30-student closed number academy managed by Reverend Stephen Freeman. The academy had a big library, where Babbage used to study mathematics by himself, and learned to love it. He had two more personal tutors after leaving the academy. One was a clergyman of Cambridge, and about him Babbage said: "I fear I did not derive from it all the advantages that I might have done.". The other one was an Oxford tutor who teached Babbage the Classics, so that he could be accepted to Cambridge. Babbage arrived at Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1810. He had a big culture - he knew Lagrange, Leibniz, Lacroix, Simpson... and he was seriously disappointed about the math programs available at Cambridge. So he, with J.Herschel, G.Peacock, and other friends, decided to form the Analytical Society. When, in 1812, Babbage transferred to Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was the best mathematician; but he failed to graduate with honours. He received an honorary degree later, without even being examinated, in 1814. In 1814, Charles Babbage married Georgiana Whitmore at St. Michael`s Church in Teignmouth, Devon. His father, for some reason, never gave his approvation. They lived in tranquility at 5 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London. Only Three of their 8 children became adult. Tragically, Charles` father, his wife and one of his sons all died in 1827. Children Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815) Charles Whitmore Babbage (1817) Georgiana Whitmore Babbage (1818) Edward Stewart Babbage (1819) Francis Moore Babbage (1821) Dugald Bromheald Babbage (1823) Henry Prevost Babbage (1824) Alexander Forbes Babbage (1827) Timothy grant Babbage (1829) Design of computers In Babbage`s times there was a really high error rate in the calculation of math tables, when Babbage planned to find a new method that could be use to make it mechanically, removing the human error factor. This idea started to tickle his brain very early, in 1812. Three different elements influenced him in this decision: he disliked untidiness and unprecision; he was very able with logarithmical tables; he was inspired from an existing work on calculating machines produced by W. Schickard, B.Pascal, and G. Leibniz. He discussed the main principles of a calculating engine in a letter he wrote to Sir H. Davy in the early 1822. Difference engine Babbage presented something that he called "difference engine" to the Royal Astronomical Society on Jun 14, 1822 and in a paper entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables." It was able to calculate polynomials by using a numerical method called the differences method. The Society approved the idea, and the government granted him ?1500 to construct it, in 1823. Charles Babbage converted one of the rooms in his home to a workshop and hired Joseph Clement to oversee construction of the engine. Every part had to be formed by hand using custom machine tools, many of which Babbage himself designed. He took extensive tours of industry to better understand manufacturing processes. Based on these trips and his experience with the difference engine, Babbage published On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture in 1832. It was the first publication on what we would now call operations research. The death of Georgiana, Babbage`s father, and an infant son interrupted construction in 1827. Work had already taxed Babbage heavily and he was on the edge of a breakdown. John Herschel and several other friends convinced Babbage to take a trip to Europe to recuperate. He passed through the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Italy visiting universities and manufacturing facilities. In Italy he learned he had been named the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He initially wanted to turn down the position but several friends convinced him to accept. He moved to 1 Dorset Street upon returning to England in 1828. The difference engine project had come under fire during Babbage`s absence. Rumours had spread that Babbage had wasted the government`s money; that the machine did not work; and that it had no practical value if it did. John Herschel and the Royal Society publicly defended the engine. The government continued its support, advancing ?1500 on April 29, 1829, ?3000 on December 3, and ?3000 on February 24, 1830. Work continued, but Babbage would have continual difficulty getting money from the treasury. Babbage`s problems with the treasury coincided with numerous disagreements with Clement. Babbage had built a two-story, 50 foot long workshop behind his house. It had a glass roof for lighting, and a fireproof, dust-free room to contain the machine. Clement refused to move his operations to the new workshop and demanded more money for the difficulty of travelling across town to oversee construction. In response, Babbage suggested that Clement draw his pay directly from the treasury. Before then, Babbage would get money from the government that he would use to pay Clement. He often had to pay Clement out of his own pocket when the bureaucracy lagged behind Clement`s pay schedule. Clement refused the request and stopped working. Clement further refused to turn over the drawings and tools used to build the difference engine. After an investment of ?23000, including ?6000 of Babbage`s own money, work on the unfinished machine ceased in 1834. Charles wrote, "The drawings and parts of the Engine are at length in a place of safety?I am almost worn out with disgust and annoyance at the whole affair." In 1842 the government officially abandoned the project. Analytical engine While he was separated from the difference engine, Babbage began to think about an improved calculating engine. Between 1833 and 1842 he tried to build a machine that would be programmable to do any kind of calculation, not just ones relating to polynomial equations. The first breakthrough came when he redirected the machine`s output to the input for further equations. He described this as the machine "eating its own tail". It did not take much longer for him to define the main points of his analytical engine. The mature analytical engine used punched cards adapted from the Jacquard loom to specify input and the calculations to perform. The engine consisted of two parts: the mill and the store. The mill, analogous to a modern computer`s CPU, executed the operations on values retrieved from the store, which we would consider memory. It was the world`s first general-purpose computer. A design for this emerged by 1835. The scale of the work was truly incredible. Babbage and a handful of assistants created 500 large design drawings, 1000 sheets of mechanical notation, and 7000 sheets of scribbles. The completed mill would measure 15 feet tall and 6 feet in diameter. The 100 digit store would stretch to 25 feet long. Babbage constructed only small test parts for his new engine; a full engine was never completed. In 1842, following repeated failures to obtain funding from the First Lord of the Treasury, Babbage approached Sir Robert Peel for funding. Peel refused, and offered Babbage a knighthood instead. Babbage refused. He would continue modifying and improving the design for many years to come. In October 1842, Federico Luigi, Conte Menabrea, an Italian general and mathematician, published a paper on the analytical engine. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, a longtime friend of Babbage, translated the paper into English. Charles suggested that she add notes to accompany the paper. In a series of letters between 1842 and 1843, the pair collaborated on seven notes, the combined length of which was three times longer than the actual paper. In one note Ada prepared a table of execution for a program that Babbage wrote to calculate the Bernoulli numbers. In another, she wrote about a generalized algebra engine that could perform operations on symbols as well as numbers. Lovelace was perhaps the first to grasp the more general goals of Babbage?s machine, and some consider her the world`s first computer programmer. She began work on a book describing the analytical engine in more detail, but it was never finished. Second Difference Engine Between October 1846 and March 1849 Babbage started designing a second difference engine using knowledge gained from the analytical engine. It used only about 8000 parts, three times fewer than the first. It was a marvel of mechanical engineering. Unlike the analytical engine that he continually tweaked and modified, he did not try to improve the second difference engine after completing the initial design. Babbage made no attempt to actually construct the machine. The 24 schematics remained in the Science Museum archives until a full-size replica was built 1985-1991 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Babbage?s birth. It measured 11 feet long, 7 feet high and 18 inches deep, and weighted 2.6 tonnes. The limits of precision were restricted to those achievable by Babbage. Babbage`s accomplishments In 1824 Babbage won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for his invention of an engine for calculating mathematical and astronomical tables". From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge. He contributed largely to several scientific periodicals, and was instrumental in founding the Astronomical Society in 1820 and the Statistical Society in 1834. In 1837, responding to the official eight Bridgewater Treatises "On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation", he published his Ninth Bridgewater Treatise putting forward the thesis that God had the omnipotence and foresight to create as a divine legislator, making laws (or programs) which then produced species at the appropriate times, rather than continually interfering with ad hoc miracles each time a new species was required. The book incorporated extracts from correspondence he had been having with John Herschel on the subject. Charles Babbage also achieved notable results in cryptography. He broke Vigen貥`s autokey cipher as well as the much weaker cipher that is called Vigen貥 cipher today. The autokey cipher was generally called "the undecipherable cipher", though owing to popular confusion, many thought that the weaker polyalphabetic cipher was the "undecipherable" one. Babbage`s discovery was used to aid English military campaigns, and was not published until several years later; as a result credit for the development was instead given to Friedrich Kasiski, who made the same discovery some years after Babbage. Babbage also invented the pilot (also called a cow-catcher), the metal frame attached to the front of locomotives that clears the tracks of obstacles in 1838. He also performed several studies on Isambard Kingdom Brunel`s Great Western Railway. He only once endeavoured to enter public life, when, in 1832, he stood unsuccessfully for the borough of Finsbury. He came in last in the polls. Parts of Babbage`s uncompleted mechanisms are available for visits in the London Science Museum. In 1991 a difference engine was completed, starting from Babbage`s original plans, and it functioned perfectly. http://charlesbabbage.net/
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Robert Spencer
August 30, 2006
The most bizarre element of the two weeks of captivity suffered by Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig at the hands of Gaza's Holy Jihad Brigade was the video that surfaced depicting their conversion to Islam. Even before the journalists revealed that their conversions had been coerced, there were disturbing indications that they were not acting freely. While reading a statement he himself had ostensibly written, Centanni stumbled over words, appeared to puzzle over the handwriting, and seemed to grimace after pronouncing the words "peace be upon him" after the name of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Their messages as new converts to Islam were predictable denunciations of the United States and Israel, combined with emphasis on Islam's universal call as the solution to the world's problems. But most jarring was the video editor's invocation of the favorite Qur'an verse of Western analysts of Islam and terrorism, "There is no compulsion in religion" (2:256). The irony of featuring this verse in a video depicting two forced conversions has been widely noted. In fact, however, the juxtaposition of this verse with the video of Centanni and Wiig was probably not simply transparent deception, as strange as that may seem, and has far-reaching implications.
Islamic law forbids forced conversion, but as Andrew Bostom documented in a FrontPage article yesterday, this is a law that throughout Islamic history has all too often been honored in the breach. Nor is this yet another case of a "twisting" or "hijacking" of Islam; in fact, Islamic law regarding the presentation of Islam to non-Muslims manifests a quite different understanding of what constitutes freedom from coercion and freedom of conscience from that which prevails among non-Muslims.
Muhammad instructed his followers to call people to Islam before waging war against them – the warfare would follow from their refusal to accept Islam or to enter the Islamic social order as inferiors, required to pay a special tax:
Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war…When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withhold yourself from doing them any harm. Invite them to (accept) Islam; if they respond to you, accept it from them and desist from fighting against them….If they refuse to accept Islam, demand from them the Jizya [the tax on non-Muslims specified in Qur'an 9:29]. If they agree to pay, accept it from them and hold off your hands. If they refuse to pay the tax, seek Allah's help and fight them. (Sahih Muslim 4294)
There is therefore an inescapable threat in this "invitation" to accept Islam. Would one who converted to Islam under the threat of war be considered to have converted under duress? By non-Muslim standards, yes, but not according to the view of this Islamic tradition. From the standpoint of the traditional schools of Islamic jurisprudence such a conversion would have resulted from "no compulsion."
Muhammad reinforced these instructions on many occasions during his prophetic career. Late in his career, he wrote to Heraclius, the Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople:
Now then, I invite you to Islam (i.e., surrender to Allah), embrace Islam and you will be safe; embrace Islam and Allah will bestow on you a double reward. But if you reject this invitation of Islam, you shall be responsible for misguiding the peasants (i.e., your nation). (Bukhari, 4.52.191).
Heraclius did not accept Islam, and soon the Byzantines would know well that the warriors of jihad indeed granted no safety to those who rejected their "invitation."
Muhammad did not get a satisfactory answer either from Chosroes, ruler of the Persians. After reading the letter of the Prophet of Islam, Chosroes contemptuously tore it to pieces. When news of this reached Muhammad, he called upon Allah to tear the Persian emperor and his followers to pieces (Bukhari, 5.59.708). He told the Muslims that they would conquer both empires: "When Khosrau [Chosroes] perishes, there will be no (more) Khosrau after him, and when Caesar perishes, there will be no more Caesar after him. By Him in Whose hands Muhammad's life is, you will spend the treasures of both of them in Allah's Cause" (Bukhari 4.53.349).
Muhammad did not limit his veiled threat only to rulers. Another hadith records that on one occasion he emerged from a mosque and told his men, "Let us go to the Jews." Upon arriving at a nearby Arabian Jewish community, Muhammad told them: "If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land. So, if anyone amongst you owns some property, he is permitted to sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle" (Bukhari, 4.53.392). In other words, if you accept Islam, you may keep your land and property, but if not, Muhammad and the Muslims would confiscate it.
Bostom notes: "Orders for conversion were decreed under all the early Islamic dynasties—Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, and Mamluks. Additional extensive examples of forced conversion were recorded under both Seljuk and Ottoman Turkish rule (the latter until its collapse in the 20th century), the Shi'ite Safavid and Qajar dynasties of Persia/Iran, and during the jihad ravages on the Indian subcontinent, beginning with the early 11th century campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni, and recurring under the Delhi Sultanate, and Moghul dynasty until the collapse of Muslim suzerainty in the 18th century following the British conquest of India." Since these Muslim rulers and armies all revered Muhammad as an "excellent example of conduct" (Qur'an 33:21), this is not surprising.
After being freed, Centanni said: "We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint. Don't get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it, but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns, and we didn't know what … was going on."
Indeed, few in the West know what's going on regarding the example of Muhammad and the stance of traditional Islam on conversion. The human rights should have the courage to recognize and denounce this conversion-or-else directive, and to recognize the plight of those who even today suffer from its scourge. Moreover, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad operating according to Muhammad's instructions, this now has geopolitical implications. In his letter to President Bush, Ahmadinejad invited him to accept Islam, and then echoed the Prophet of Islam in delivering a threat to Bush through Mike Wallace: "We are all free to choose. But please give him this message, sir: Those who refuse to accept an invitation will not have a good ending or fate."
Ahmadinejad's threat, as well as the ordeal of Centanni and Wiig, epitomizes the threat that the global jihad represents to the freedom of conscience. Analysts are increasingly beginning to note that the conflict has ideological dimensions, but these dimensions are still imperfectly understood in the public sphere. Were Western leaders courageous enough to speak forthrightly about the threat we face as an Islamic jihad, they could use the "conversions" of Centanni and Wiig to illustrate one of the elements of Western civilization that is being challenged and that we are resolved to defend. Unfortunately, mired as they are in denial about the nature of the "terror" threat itself, they have made as yet no such resolution.
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Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of six books, seven monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith and the New York Times Bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). His latest book, The Truth About Muhammad, is coming October 9 from Regnery Publishing.


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Kansas City, MO (KCTV) — The daughter of former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, who committed suicide on Dec. 1 after killing his girlfriend, will be financially supported by the NFL.
Three-month-old Zoey is the daughter of Belcher and Kasandra Perkins, whom Belcher shot early Saturday before killing himself at the Chiefs' practice facility. Authorities said she was at home when Belcher killed Perkins then bent over her body to apologize and kiss her on the forehead. After that, Belcher kissed Zoey as well before fleeing the house.
Belcher's mother said Perkins was barely conscious but seemed to be hearing what she was saying. The couple had argued in their bedroom when Belcher fired up to nine bullets into her body.
Belcher reportedly called Chiefs General Manager Scott Pioli and asked him to meet him so he could thank him for everything he had done for him. Belcher asked Pioli to see that both he and Chiefs owner Clark Hunt took care of his daughter, Zoey, who was born Sept. 11.
According to NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, as part of the NFL's collective bargaining agreement, Zoey's guardian or her estate will receive $9,000 per month over the next four years, which amounts to $109,000 per year. In the fifth year, she'll receive $48,000. From then on, she'll be given $52,000 per year each year until she turns 18 or 23, depending on whether she goes to college.
According to multiple media sources, the relationship between Belcher and Perkins had been strained, with constant arguments over things like money. The Chiefs were reportedly providing counseling for Belcher.
Officials released Monday audio recordings in response to requests under the Missouri Sunshine Law. The recordings show police dispatchers handling a multitude of calls and assignments in a short period of time Saturday morning after Belcher snapped. Click here to read more.
The first 911 call came about 7:50 a.m. from Belcher's distraught mother.
Belcher's infant daughter could be heard crying in the background during part of the call, which Kansas City police attorneys edited.
Zoey is currently in the custody of her grandmother, Belcher's mother.
By Chris Oberholtz
Related: Listen: Chiefs Player's Mother Screams as His Baby Cries in 911 Tapes


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Hi Everyone,
My first post here :-)
I am an MEP Consultant (mechanical engineer) with a keen professional interest in Acoustic Engineering in the context of buildings, and building design. I suppose "noise control" is probably a better term to use? I've been to a few seminars and read a few generic articles etc., but I'd like to study it through structured learning rather than trying to self teach.
I am living in Bangkok, so that really means "distance learning". Can anyone recommend a distance learning course?
I am originally form Ireland, so a UK based learning institution is probably best for me; but I am totally open, and happy to learn from any internationally recognized provider.
Many thanks in advance.


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FIRST LOOK: 2009 Kia Borrego 4x4 - Web Exclusive!
Meet the newest playa in the midsize SUV market
It wouldn't seem like a propitious moment to be launching a new V-8 SUV, and truth to tell, it isn't. But unlike pessimists like us, the folks at Kia Motors see opportunities aplenty for their new Borrego seven-seater sport-ute. And in a way, we can see their point---with GM pulling the plug on the TrailBlazer/Envoy next year (sob, sniffle), and Ford more or less abandoning the Explorer until a 2011 redesign, there's definitely room in this segment for a newcomer such as Kia to pick up new customers, and company reps informed us that they plan to market and advertise this vehicle very aggressively in the coming months. So, keep an eye on your TV screens or your dealer showroom---chances are you'll be catching a glimpse of the Borrego in the next few weeks.
Powering the Borrego is either the base 3.8L V-6 that's good for 276 hp and 267 lb-ft of torque, or the optional 4.6L V-8 sourced from the Hyundai Genesis coupe that puts out 337 hp and 323 lb-ft of torque. (The motor cranks out close to 390 hp in the car, but Kia engineers retuned it for improved low-end torque.) If we were checking options, we'd take the V-8 since you get better power to weight, as well as the outstanding ZF 6-speed automatic behind it (the V-6 gets a ZF 5-speed which is decent, if somewhat unpredictable at times).
The saints be praised, the Borrego is not---repeat, not---some AWD but an honest-to-goodness four-wheel drive that comes with a Borg-Warner 2-speed t-case with a 2.48:1 low-range. Suspension is independent double-wishbone up front, and a multilink/coilover setup in the rear. Minimum ground clearance is 8.5 inchers, and approach angle is a not-bad-for-this-class-anymore 27 degrees. Towing capacity is 7,500 pounds (yep, it's a body on frame, not a monocoque), and an integrated Class 3 hitch is standard issue. Estimated mileage is 16/21 with the V-6 and 15/20 with the V-8. Check out the November issue of Four Wheeler for all of our driving impressions. What's Hot: Excellent ZF six-speed; low base price; overall fit and finish.
What's Not: Slightly spongy suspension tuning; bad time to be launching a V-8 SUV.
Our Take: It won't be an easy sell, but it's competitively priced, and it's another big step up in overall refinement from Kia.


text: St. Andrew's School (R.I.) led by two and was 3.3 seconds away from winning the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) Class AA title against Cushing Academy (Mass.) on Sunday. But Cushing sophomore Jalen Adams took the inbounds pass, dribbled a few steps across halfcourt, and launched a desperation heave as three St. Andrew's defenders closed in on him. Adams never called "bank," but no one in the gym seemed to notice.


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Powell proud of historic Paralympics haul
PUBLISHED: 08:33 17 March 2014 | UPDATED: 08:33 17 March 2014
Former Coopers pupil returns with four medals
Caroline Powell insists her Winter Paralympic debut has proved to her and Jade Etherington that they are now a world-class pair capable of threatening the very best.
Former Coopers pupil Powell, 19, was unable to compete on the final day of the Sochi 2014 Games yesterday as Etherington was too unwell to start the women's visually impaired giant slalom.
Despite that disappointment, guide Powell and Etherington can reflect on a record-breaking Games that saw them pick up four medals in as many events.
Downhill silver on day one was followed by super-G bronze and further silvers in the super combined and slalom, which made Etherington the first Brit to gain four medals from a single Winter Paralympics.
And, reflecting on their stellar performances on the Sochi slopes, Powell admits their expectations were well and truly exceeded.
"The night before [the giant slalom] Jade felt unwell and we made a call in the morning that it was best to pull out," said Powell.
"She would not have been 100 per cent and, while it would have been nice to finish off with another race, at that level you can't risk the danger of her getting hurt.
"We woke up and definitely realised it has been a very successful week and we were both so happy with how it all went and the performance we put in.
"We were so consistent and we just couldn't get to the top of the podium, but we showed even against the best we can match them.
"Our expectations definitely changed throughout. We never expected to get silver in the downhill because there was no final training run and we didn't know the course as well as everyone else.
"We were then able to keep our level up and we can only be happy with what we achieved. As a whole it has been very surreal and tiring and there have been times where you wanted to give up, but we pushed on and treated things as a normal race and that helped."
Despite being unable to compete on the final day, the pair did round off their Games in style as Etherington was able to lead Powell out as the flag bearer during the closing ceremony.
And Powell admitted it was nice to be led for a change by Etherington, who was fully deserving of the honour having seen the Union Jack raised four times during the Games.
"Jade got to lead me for once with the flag and I was really happy she got the chance to lift it," added Powell.
"We can all be very proud of what ParalympicsGB have achieved.
"It was great that Jade got to lift the flag after it had been raised four times for us throughout the week."
*Sainsbury's is a proud long-term supporter of the British Paralympic Association and a champion of inclusive sport for all.
For more information on Sainsbury's commitment to inclusive sport visit: www.Sainsburys.co.uk/activekids.
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nexB OpenAssets is a tool for inventorying, managing, and monitoring applications, software, hardware, networks, and generally any IT asset.
It is designed so that system administrators, IT, and finance can determine what they have, how it is configured, what it is used for, and how much it is being used, so that informed decisions can be made. It complements existing network management software, integrates with a growing number of protocols and tools, and features no-agent discovery and inventory, configuration management including dependencies and correlation, monitoring, and reporting. It makes extensive and innovative use of XML, Xpath, and Xquery.


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Spicks & Specks returns for its eighth season with new host Host Josh Earl and new team captains Ella Hooper and Adam Richard.
Each week two celebrities, usually one comedian and one person from the world of music, join each team captain and the teams face off in a battle of music knowledge.
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New aggregation and filtering to improve public health
Just stumbled across this fascinating use of RSS aggregation and text-filtering algorithms to track potentially impaction human biological events. "The BioCaster system has two major components: a web/database server and a backend cluster computer equipped with a variety of text mining algorithms which continuously scan hundreds of RSS newsfeeds from local and national news providers." Very cool!
- The 5 best tech blogs you should be reading every day (thetechreporter.com)Tech Reporter Launch
- Curate Content [INFOGRAPHIC] (socialmediatoday.com)
Curate Content and Get Tons of Traffic [INFOGRAPHIC]
- NY Times: The Trouble with Curation (nytimes.com)
RE: Pinterest, Tumblr, etc. : "Web sites like these to escape, destress, perk up, calm down, feel something, not feel something, distract themselves and ... modulate pleasure and arousal." Well-written and spot-on in my experience. Also: "... collecting online is a form of self-expression for people who don't create." Not everyone who curates can't create but it can be a substitute.
- Online deal curation (specialdeck.com)
Interesting to look at and a nice front-end. Curating online tech deals with a search function.
- The age of curation | Vivi's startup blog (okvivi.com)
"I feel that nowadays we are in the age of curation, where more and more users are participating into this giant experiment, like never before, discovering that they can express themselves and whom their are through curating the internet for others."
- ReplaceReader (replacereader.com)
So, Google Reader is going away, one of the key content curation tools out there. What to do? ReplaceReader.com thinks they can help you find a solution.
- Penguin 2.0 rolled out today (mattcutts.com)
"About 2.3% of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice."
- WordPress Plugins > PROPER Contact Form (wordpress.org)
- WordPress Plugins > PROPER Widgets (wordpress.org)
- The Content Curator's Toolbox (socialmediatoday.com)
- Chute Photo Aggregation Tools In Real-World Locations (techcrunch.com)
- A VC on Curation (avc.com)
Fred Wilson: "I'm a big fan of curation in these services. Twitter has lists. Etsy has favorites. Tumblr has tag pages. These are all variations of curation in services that have a lot of noise in them." Great comment: "Art stored randomly in a room is a warehouse. That same art curated and distilled becomes a gallery."
- Did Google kill RSS? (socialmediatoday.com)
The loss of Google Reader is unfortunate. For new junkies, this was a priceless tool that made consumption of a large amount of information much easier. Even Mike says: "I was using Google Reader when I found out Google Reader was going to be shut down."
- The Difference Between Content Curation and Link Spraying | Social Media Today (socialmediatoday.com)
Content curation is not just sharing links. As such, Twitter isn't curation. Erica explains the difference between just distributing links and thoughtful curation.
- Why Curate? Why Create? Why Do Anything? (blog.swayy.co)
First 2 paragraphs are garbage but I liked the comparison of creation and curation.


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Staff Attorney Gwen Jordan
Gwen Jordan joined the UIS faculty in 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies. She joined the Illinois Innocence Project as a staff attorney in January 2012. Dr. Jordan was promoted to Associate Professor and elected Chair of the Department of Legal Studies in 2015. Professor Jordan earned her J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law and spent five years as a Deputy District Attorney in Colorado. She earned her M.A. in Criminal Justice and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was the Legal History Fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin Law School.


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I've been wanting to make an investment in some Kickstarter program for a while. A friend of mine got involved in the early pre-alpha stage, but I couldn't find a project that I got that passionate about until now. I love Kiva and the idea behind it, but the idea behind something that could radically change social networks is pretty sweet too. These guys could easily steal my percentage of the $70K that they raised and go buy beer too, which is cool too and I'm happy to support them for having the chutzpah for doing that. I've never really been able to get behind Facebook. I post all of my updates via Twitter and respond to email from about 4 people on it. I find it a bit mundane in terms of what is being shared and I, no offense, only have a few friends that add interest and value to my life. The rest is just kind of nice to see. I like these people, but I don't need the updates about their lunches and they don't need mine. Frankly, if I lost 90% of my friends (who aren't really friends but mostly distant acquaintances), I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep over it. Throw on all of the headache behind the privacy stuff and I start to think about dropping the whole program. I don't know if I'll go so far as to completely pull the plug on FB, but I find myself, in my old age, caring less and less about what other people happen to like nor do I feel so compelled to share what I like. Odds are, you don't like what I like. Jason's post really swayed me this morning. Not so much to quit FB, which I think is coming for me, but to also start exploring other alternatives. In the words of Archers of Loaf, the underground is over crowded.Diaspora was getting a lot of traction today. I loved the video and really like what these guys are trying to do. I think that old people are going to have a tough time getting it, but if you think about bitorrent for social networks, that sums the premise up nicely. It is obviously still a long ways away from going primetime and having grandma hit you up for a friend request, but I don't think that it is as far away as others are saying. $70K buys a lot of coding time from 4-talented devs living on raman and Coke. If I can launch an open source version of FB for free in 15-minutes (terrible video), these guys can do it in 3-months.Of course, the Diaspora video also seems like this is the kind of scam that was concocted over large amounts of cheap beer and bad coffee, so who knows.UPDATE – TechCrunch, of course, has a another post on Diaspora.
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- The Beginning of the End of Facebook (broadstuff.com)


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Trainer Doug O'Neill is taking an unconventional path to a Triple Crown bid by using a series of strong gallops rather than formal workouts to prepare I'll Have Another for the Belmont Stakes on June 9.
"There will be a lot of days when I'll Have Another, strictly galloping, will pass a lot of workers," O'Neill said Sunday morning after taking a red-eye flight from his West Coast base and being reunited with his Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner.
The last three Triple Crown champions, Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977) and Affirmed (1978), all drilled at least one mile in preparation for the 1 ½-mile "Test of the Champion." The Belmont is the longest of the Triple Crown races.
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O'Neill said his plan has everything to do with the vigor the colt brings to his daily morning regimen.
"If anyone got a chance to see him, he stretches and puts a lot of effort into his morning gallops," he said.
I'll Have Another was shipped to Belmont Park the morning after little-known Mario Gutierrez, 25, he ran down Bodemeister by a neck in the Preakness on May 19. His trainer was encouraged by everything he observed.
"His appetite is strong, his stride is great and his coat is there," he said.
O'Neill added, "We have all the confidence in the world in I'll Have Another. As long as he stays healthy and injury-free, we think he'll be very tough."
His pre-race handling of the colt is likely to spark discussion and debate. Seattle Slew, for instance, was given three workouts to fortify him for the Belmont marathon. He went three furlongs in a sizzling 35 4/5 seconds the day before he beat Run Dusty Run by four lengths.
O'Neill appears to be as confident and carefree as he was through the opening two legs of the three-races-in-five-weeks grind that comprise the Triple Crown. He opened what are expected to be daily briefings by saying, "How cool is this to be part of such an historical event?"
I'll Have Another appears to be well prepared for the challenge ahead from a freshness standpoint. Shin problems sidelined him after he ran sixth in the Hopeful last Sept. 5, ending his 2-year-old season with three starts. He was the fifth consecutive Derby winner to compete in two prep races, pulling an upset at 43-1 in the Robert Lewis on Feb. 4 before edging Creative Cause by a nose in the Santa Anita Derby on April 7.
O'Neill, 44, gained a major victory last Thursday when a hearing officer determined that he was not guilty of "milkshaking" in a case involving one of his horses, Argenta. The horse was found to have an elevated carbon dioxide level after finishing eighth in a race at Del Mar on Aug. 25, 2010. The California Horse Racing Board reduced his original suspension of 180 days to 45 days and a $15,000 fine. The remainder of the suspension will be stayed as long as he does not have any Class 1, 2 or 3 medical violations in the next 18 months.
"I was thrilled that they said what I have been saying all along, that there had been no wrongdoing," he said. The suspension won't begin before July 1.
Trainers who "milkshake" horses in an attempt to combat fatigue give them a mix of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and electrolytes. O'Neill has had four carbon dioxide violations in his career.
"I run so many horses, and horses can naturally test high," O'Neill said of a history that is sure to be scrutinized as I'll Have Another attempts to become the 12th Triple Crown champion.


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Press Releases
Fungi Fans Melt for New Hardee's Thickburger
Nov 23, 2009
Portobello Mushroom Melt Thickburger Pairs Portobellos with the Classic Patty Melt
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – November 23, 2009 – Fine dining and fast-food fare come together in the new Portobello Mushroom Melt Thickburger® at Hardee's®. The chain put a new spin on the patty melt by adding sliced Portobello mushrooms sautéed in a rich garlic butter sauce to the mix.
"Mushrooms on hamburgers have been a classic pairing for many years, and the patty melt has been a diner staple for even longer, "said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. "So, we knew we were on to something when we combined the two to create a new burger that was even yummier than either one alone. Portobello mushrooms are considered the steak of the mushroom world, so they were the ideal choice to top this delicious new 100% Black Angus beef Thickburger."
The Portobello Mushroom Melt Thickburger features a third-pound of charbroiled 100% Black Angus beef, topped with Portobello mushrooms sautéed in a garlic-butter sauce, caramelized grilled onions and two slices of Swiss cheese, melted all together between toasted sourdough bread.
"Mushroom lovers can get their fix with the Portobello Mushroom Melt," said Bart Minor, president of the Mushroom Council. "Portobello mushrooms are versatile, delicious and part of a nutritional diet, especially for young, hungry, fun guys. Or fungis…get it?"
The Portobello Mushroom Melt Thickburger will be sold at participating Hardee's restaurants for $3.79 and is also available in a small combo for $5.79 including Natural Cut Fries and a beverage. Prices may vary by location.
A new commercial titled "Grandpa" will begin airing next week to support the Portobello Mushroom Melt Thickburger. In it a young, hungry guy shares a meal with his grandfather, who doesn't think anything could possibly improve on a traditional patty melt. That is, until he tries the latest Hardee's limited time offer. Subscribers to the Hardee's YouTube channel will get a sneak peak of the latest ad. The commercial was created by longtime agency Mendelsohn/Zien Advertising of Los Angeles.
Hardee's will also broadcast mushroom facts and tidbits so fans can learn more about the fun fungi and the new burger through their Facebook page and Twitter handle.
About Hardee's
Celebrating over 45 years in the quick-service industry, Hardee's Food Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the end of its fiscal 2010 second quarter, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,140 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,212 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,915 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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Jun 1, 2020
Black Lives Matter
In the aftermath of a hate crime, Junior High pariah Goon befriends one of the victims, Carly, the only black girl in school. While the town plans a rally "to destroy racism forever," a youthful romance blossoms and the two must navigate the pitfalls of falling in love while dealing with the town's prying eyes, especially those of Wikipedia Jones, the crime-solving son of the Chief of Police. Passive-aggressive antics, bad parental advice, and ill-informed gestures of kindness create a "White Guilt Perfect Storm" that threatens to make the course of true love a rocky road indeed.


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In my January update on Meaningful Use Stage 2 readiness, I painted a dismal picture of a large IDN's journey towards attestation, and expressed concern for patient safety resulting from the rush to implement and adopt what equates to, at best, beta-release health IT. Given the resounding cries for help from the healthcare provider community, including this February 2014 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, I know my experience isn't unique. So, when rumors ran rampant at HIMSS 2014 that CMS and the ONC would make a Meaningful Use announcement, I was hopeful that relief may be in sight.
Like AHA , I was disappointed in CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner's announcement. The new Stage 2 hardship exemptions will now include an explicit criteria for "difficulty implementing 2014-certified EHR technology" – a claim which will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and may result in a delay of the penalty phase of the Stage 2 mandate. But it does nothing to extend the incentive phase of Stage 2 – without which, many healthcare providers would not have budgeted for participation in the program, at all, including the IDN profiled in this series. So how does this help providers like mine?
Quick update on my IDN's progress towards Stage 2 attestation, with $MM in target incentive dollars at stake. We must meet ALL measures; there is no opportunity to defer one. The Transition of Care (both populating it appropriately, and transmitting it via Direct) is the primary point of concern.
The hospital EHR is ready to generate and transmit both Inpatient Summary and Transition of Care C-CDAs. The workflow to populate the ToC required data elements adds more than 4 minutes to the depart process, which will cause operational impacts. None of the ambulatory providers in the IDN have Direct, yet; there is no one available to receive an electronic ToC. Skilled resources to implement Direct with the EHR upgrades are not available until 6-12 weeks after each upgrade is complete.
None of the 3 remaining in-scope ambulatory EHRs have successfully completed their 2014 software upgrades. 2 of the 3 haven't started their upgrades. 1 has not provided a DATE for the upgrade.
None of the ambulatory EHRs comes with a Clinical Summary C-CDA configured out-of-the-box. 1 creates a provider-facing Transition of Care C-CDA, but does not produce the patient-facing Clinical Summary. (How did this product become CEHRT for 2014 measures?) Once the C-CDA is configured, each EHR requires its own systems integrator to develop the interface to send the clinical document to an external system.
Consultant costs continue to mount, as each new wrinkle arises. And with each wrinkle, the ability to meet the incentive program deadlines, safely, diminishes.
Playing devil's advocate, I'd say the IDN should have negotiated its vendor contracts to include penalty clauses sufficient to cover the losses of a missed incentive program deadline – or, worst case scenario, to cover the cost of a rip-and-replace should the EHR vendor not acquire certification, or have certification revoked. The terms and conditions should have covered every nuance of the functionality required for Stage 2 measures.
But wait, CMS is still clarifying its Stage 2 measures via FAQs. Can't expect a vendor to build software to specifications that weren't explicitly defined, or to sign a contract that requires adherence to unknown criteria.
So, what COULD CMS and the ONC do about it? How about finalizing your requirements BEFORE issuing measures and certification criteria? Since that ship's already sailed, change the CEHRT certification process.
1. Require vendors to submit heuristics on both initial implementation and upgrades, indicating the typical timeline from kick-off to go-live, number of internal and external resources (i.e., third-party systems integrators), and cost.
2. Require vendors to submit customer-base profile detailing known customers planning to implement and/or upgrade within calendar year. AND require implementation/upgrade planning to incorporate 3 months of QA time post-implementation/upgrade, prior to go-live with real patients.
3. Require vendors to submit human resource strategy, and hiring and training program explicitly defined to support the customer-base profile submitted, with the typical timeframes and project resource/cost profiles submitted.
4. Require vendor products to be self-contained to achieve certification – meaning, no additional third-party purchase (software or professional services) would be necessary in order to implement and/or upgrade to the certified version and have all CMS-required functionality.
5. Require vendor products to prove the CEHRT-baseline functionality is available as configurable OOTB, not only available via customization. SHOW ME THE C-CDA, with all required data elements populated via workflow in the UI, not via some developer on the back-end in a carefully-orchestrated test patient demo script.
6. Require vendor products adhere to an SLA for max number of clicks required to execute the task. It is not Meaningful Use if it's prohibitively challenging to access and use in a clinical setting.
Finally, CMS could redefine the incentive program parameters to include scenarios like mine. Despite the heroic efforts being made across the enterprise, this IDN is not likely to make it, with the fault squarely on the CEHRT vendors' inability to deliver fully-functional products in a timely manner with skilled resources available to support the installation, configuration, and deployment. Morale will significantly decline, next year's budget will be short the $MM that was slated for further health IT improvements, and the likelihood that it will continue with Stage 3 becomes negligible. Vendor lawsuits may ensue, and the incentive dollar targets may be recouped, but the cost incurred by the organization, its clinicians, and its patients is irrecoverable.
Consider applying the hardship exemption deadline extension to the incentive program participants.


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The San Jose City Council will consider an open data project that starts with permit-tracking software in order to bring transparency and accountability to an inefficient process.
In San Jose, Calif., the City Council and the CIO are working towards opening up city data. On Aug. 13, the City Council will discuss the creation of an open data platform, which includes a "chess clock" software program intended to create accountability and transparency in the city permitting process.
Led by City Council members Sam Liccardo and Johnny Khamis, the city would team up with community partners Code for America, Hackers & Founders San Jose and SVG Partners on the effort. The group hopes an open data platform will will help make the permitting process more efficient, but that's just the first step.
"I think this is a small investment for a very large gain," Liccardo said. "My ambition is that this is just the first step in what will become a more robust open data platform to leverage the creativity of the technologically-savvy community in which we reside to make City Hall more effective and responsive."
Liccardo's office receives regular complaints from small businesses about delays with their permit applications. But approving and denying permits isn't just the city's job, he explained. It's also to the city's benefit to see local businesses succeed and not get held up by administrative processing delays.
"When you file a permit application, it just disappears into a black hole and if you don't get any response, you don't know who to call, where it is in the process or when it's likely to emerge," he said. "So the first part is very simple. We just need to track where every document is going, every application is going, and be able to identify at which desk it's set and for how long."
Seeing where things are getting stuck is the first step toward speeding up the process, Liccardo said. "Step two is an open data platform and the notion is that once we gather all this data, we release it to the public," he said.
Open data has been embraced by government entities around the country. Engaging local startups and developers has allowed cities to benefit from their talent, using pubilc data sources. In the process, agencies can provide the public with new services, while incubating local tech businesses. An open data platform, Liccardo said, could allow developers to create smartphone apps the public can use or harness city data in other useful ways.
"They may in fact find ways to automate the process so people don't have to come down to City Hall at all and simply get things done online. All of that is possible if we make this data available to the public and engage folks, whether it's through a hackathon or through any other process to leverage the creativity of the community that's all around us," he said.
This is not a new concept, Liccardo said, and he's been trying to get something like this started for five years. But this time, it looks like open data in San Jose has the support it needs to become a reality. In the past, some have objected to an open data platform and process-tracking software because the city didn't have the resources to complete such a project.
"We don't have enough resources to continue to do business as we're doing it today," he said, pointing to the staff hours wasted across departments trying to pinpoint status information on permits for constituents. "We can be much, much more efficient and this is an effort to leverage technology to improve our efficiency," he said.
It's not just the City Council and the Planning and Building department's IT staff that have an eye on open data, San Jose CIO Vijay Sammeta said, but the whole city. "It's a high priority. I think it helps us be accountable to the public. Also, it's the next generation of civic transparency," he said. "Our goal is to, much like the federal government, not just put out something that's one-time in nature, but really manage that data feed so that it's sustainable."
Sammeta's office is looking to focus on areas where open data can be used for quality of life improvements and economic development. Starting next January, the city plans to begin releasing its first data sets as they work with departments to find ways to make sharing data a natural part of the work process.
"From the IT perspective, once we deep-dive into their system and look at not only the technology but the business process around those workflows, I think we'll have a better handle around that," Sammeta said.


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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Pagano's got the title, but Arians coached the wins.
Reggie Wayne joined Query and Schultz on WNDE in Indianapolis to discuss last Sunday's win over the Texans, the return of head coach Chuck Pagano, the constant roster turnover and Bruce Arians' impact on this team. And with Black Monday in mind, he also spent some time reflecting on the end of the Jim Mora era years ago.
On giving Peyton Manning the No. 1 seed by beating the Texans in Week 17:
"That's our Christmas gift. We appreciate everything you've done for us."
On what Chuck Pagano said to them before the game:
"What didn't he say, man? He said everything. We were almost late for the game. He's gotten long-winded, I'll tell you that. But he just was - it was emotional. He was just excited to have that opportunity to go back out there and coach a game. And not only that, against a division opponent and being at home, that was real big to him. … He had a big speech for us the night before at the hotel and he just wanted us to go out there and play Colts football."
On the turnover of the roster and new players seemingly emerging every week:
"I've seen something this year that I haven't seen in 11 years. Seems like every week they're working somebody out, trying out guys and bringing in new guys. It's kinda the nature of the beast - you see guys in and out each week and Ryan [Grigson] has done a great job. … He's hot, man. He's finding all the diamonds in the rough and they're coming to play.
"To be totally honest with you, if you asked me to name everybody on the team I probably would fail."
On why he thinks Bruce Arians should be the NFL's coach of the year:
"I think he did a great job of just keeping everybody intact. It could have been so easy for us to just fall off the wagon when Chuck got diagnosed with Leukemia. Everybody kind of just hang their heads down; we're missing our coach, things are gonna go haywire. But Coach Arians has come in, kept everything the same, kept everybody into it, kept everybody enthused and understanding the system and kept us on pace to just focus on the task at hand. … Not everybody's gonna be able to reach out to a team and get that accomplished, and I think he did a great job of doing that."
On playing out a season with a head coach likely to be fired:
"I was here one year with Jim Mora. 'Playoffs?' I think we knew what was gonna happen with him, but by that time we were so bad it really didn't even matter. But as a player you still want to play hard and put good film out there. You don't want to put any bad film out there because the new coach is gonna watch all those games, and if you look like you're not playing right then he might make a decision on you. So you still wanna play hard, and I guess that's a time for you to kind of freelance a little bit."
On Jim Mora criticizing Peyton Manning publicly:
"Once he did that, as a team, we knew he was out of there. We were like, 'Ah, he messed up now.'"
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Tug in Cooperstown?
Always welcome comments to Phillies Insider. Thanks to Brian Slattery for his comment last week:
"Speaking of Hall of Fame and veterans and all….
"What would it take to get enough fans from both Philadelphia and New York to push for the Tugger (Tug McGraw) to be inducted to Cooperstown by the veterans committee?
"I know that he didn't make the cuts when he was on the regular Hall of Fame ballots 20+ years ago, but you can't avoid the fact that Tug is one of the few players who remains beloved in both Philly and New York. He was part of World Series champion teams for both teams. I also make the argument that one of the reasons that players are inducted to Cooperstown is for bringing character to the game. C'mon…Frank Edwin McGraw was undeniably one of THE GREAT characters in baseball!!!"
Brian, you are correct in that Tug was one of the great characters. Whether he is a Hall of Famer, I don't know, and he was a good friend. Appreciate your beating the drum for him.
Checked out the Hall of Fame voting and Tug was eliminated after receiving only six votes in his first year on the HOF ballot, 1990.
Then, there's Larry Bowa, who was also eliminated in his first year on the ballot, 1991. He had 11 votes. I'm not saying he's a Hall of Famer but when you compare his numbers with HOF shortstop, Phil Rizzuto, well, you be the judge:
Bowa: 16 years, 2,247 games, 2,191 hits, .260 average, 10,382 total chances on defense, 211 errors.
Rizzuto: 13 years, 1,661 games, 1,588 hits, .273 average, 8,148 total chances, 263 errors.
The Veterans Committee no longer exists. Did check with Brad Horn, Senior Director of Communication and Education, at the Hall of Fame and received the following information:
"Both players (Tug and Larry) remain eligible in perpetuity for the Expansion era ballot. In order to be considered, one must emerge on the final ballot of 12, which is set by the 11-member Historical Overview Committee of the BBWAA. Then, if they make the ballot, they would have to earn 75% of the 16-member voting committee. The expansion era next meets at the winter meetings of 2013."
It will be interesting to see how the BBWAA 11-member committee views Tug and Larry.
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the numbers by Bowa are better! he should be in if Rizzuto is! the diff. Rizzuto is a stinkin yankee. If Bowa was a yank he'd be in!
"The Veterans Committee no longer exists". – Well yes and no, Larry.
The Historical Overview Committees are in effect a form of the old Veterans Committee. The chief difference is now instead of yearly elections trying to cover everyone who has ever played who is not in the Hall Of Fame, they've split that enormous time period into three eras and each timeperiod gets voted on only once every three years.(1. beginning of major league baseball (1871-1946). 2. Post World War Two & Post Racial Integration Era (1947-1972) and 3. the Modern Era (Beginning 1973 ). The Last election for the latter group for the Class of 2011 covered candidates who excelled between 1973 and 1989, and the next election for the modern group for Class of 2014 will cover those who excelled from 1973-1992) To qualify for this last group, a player must have retired and not played at all in the last 21 full seasons prior to election.
It's not that the Veterans Committee no longer exists, it's that it has morphed into something different and hopefully something that is fairer to the candidates..


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John R. Quinn, 73, died peacefully on May 25, 2012, at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA after a long battle with lung cancer.
John was born on July 17, 1938 in Teaneck, NJ, the son of Raymond and Mary (Dempsey) Quinn. He grew up in Ridgefield Park, NJ and spent much of his childhood exploring the shimmering, hazy Meadowlands nestled in the lee of the New York City skyline. His youthful experiences formed an abiding love of the natural world that would shape his entire life. In 1959, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design.
John was widely respected as a naturalist and a uniquely gifted artist and author, whose countless works were often evocative portrayals of the natural areas he so loved. He wrote and illustrated eleven books, including Nature's World Records, The Winter Woods, and Fields of Sun and Grass: An Artist's Journal of the New Jersey Meadowlands. John also contributed to a host of publications, writing articles for Tropical Fish Hobbyist, Aquarium, Oceans, and many others. His career bridged several decades and included work at the Philadelphia Museum of Natural History, Squam Lake's Science Center, and as a freelance artist and owner of Quinn Life Studios in Plymouth, NH.
John enthusiastically shared his time, talents, and his love of nature with his children, nieces, and nephews. He was once aptly described as "a larger-than-life guy who could put pencil to paper and bring something to life." John inspired family and friends alike to see nature the way he saw it: as something to be protected and cherished. Whether it was nursing an oil-soaked ocean bird back to health in his family's bathroom sink or retrieving a disoriented bat from a neighbor's attic, everyone knew injured wildlife in his care stood an excellent chance of being returned to the wild.
He retired to Gonic, NH in 2004, where he enjoyed spending time in the wooded areas surrounding his home. John's creative spirit continued to flourish despite his illness, and he spent many hours building detailed models and sketching for his grandchildren.
A devout Roman Catholic, he lived his faith simply and with dignity every day.
John was predeceased by his beloved wife, Lucille Quinn. He is survived by three daughters, Denise, Erika, and Meredithe, who all live in the Pacific Northwest; two step daughters, Cynthia and Jennifer, who both live in New England; six grandchildren, Ben, Molly, Griffin, Afton, Monique, and Alec; four siblings, Richard, Mary Lou, Eileen, and Stephen; and many nieces and nephews.
A Mass will be celebrated at St. Francis of Assisi in Ridgefield Park, NJ, on June 11 at 9:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to St. Charles Children's Home, 19 Grant Street, Rochester, NH 03867 or to the Meadowlands Conservation Trust, 1 Dekorte Park Plaza, Lyndhurst, NJ 07071