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Tracy Dawn Smith has been sentenced to one day in jail and three years probation for hitting and killing motorcycle rider Janarthan Mehanthiran on Canada Day 2011.
Judge Robert Higinbotham passed the sentence on Thursday, Dec. 6 in Western Communities Courthouse after a lengthy explanation of the factors that went into his decision. Smith pleaded guilty in June to impaired driving causing death.
"I have determined that the principle of denunciation must yield in this case to the principle of rehabilitation and reformation," Higinbotham said. "In light of the clear evidence that any significant prison sentence will, at minimum, render meaningless and useless all of the progress to date, no halfway measures are fit."
Since the crash Smith has been living at VisionQuest Recovery Society in Surrey. She has been sober and free of illegal drugs since the crash and has, according to her supervisors, been an exemplary resident of the rehabilitation centre and an inspiration to the other residents there.
During pre-sentencing VisionQuest executive director Jim O'Rourke argued Smith would be better off staying at the centre, rather than spending time in prison where she would be far more likely to continue drug use. She would also not have access to the psychological counseling and treatment programs that O'Rourke said have been helping her significantly.
Higinbotham also took into account that Smith was assessed to have the cognitive functions of a nine-year-old and has had a life filled with both physical and sexual abuse during her childhood, and then later in life, with rampant addiction and mental health problems.
The judge stated he will keep a close eye on Smith during her probation and will not take any breaches lightly.
In addition to probation Smith is prohibited from driving for 10 years. As part of her probation Smith must stay at VisionQuest unless the court gives permission to leave. She is also ordered to not possess or consume alcohol or illegal drugs and she must perform an additional 200 hours of community service.
Mehanthiran's family listened to the sentence by teleconference from Ontario. Higinbotham acknowledged the suffering caused to the family by Smith's actions.
"In this case a loving husband and son needlessly lost his life, and those who survive him will carry the pain of their loss with them forever," Higinbotham said.
Smith's lawyer, Robert Jones, said he is pleased with the decision.
"What (Higinbotham) did, was show that in many cases rehabilitation can overcome denunciation," Jones said. "We can't avoid the tragedy of this unfortunate death, we know the family is suffering. However, I didn't want to see the death of another person, that being Tracy Smith herself."
Jones agreed sending her to prison would have likely destroyed any progress Smith has made since the crash and would quickly reintroduce her to drug use.
"Now she's climbing out of that abyss, she's growing, she's developing," Jones said. "It's hope that she might lead a full and protected life for some time."
Outside of the courthouse motorcyclist Bobbi Bjornholt, who knew Mahenthiran and has been following the trial closely, spoke to media. She said she was disappointed by the judge's decision.
"I think it's incredibly light. I think that after a tragedy like this Ms. Smith should have to face a lot more serious consequences," Bjornholt said. "There's a lot of us out here that still feel in danger that people like her are out driving around."
Bjornholt added the failures in the system start much higher than the court. She questions how Smith had a driver's licence in the first place given her drug addiction and mental health.
Smith was taken into custody after the sentencing. She will give a DNA sample and following her one-day sentence will be transported back to VisionQuest in Surrey.

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A dutch student has taken the bold decision to sell all his data at auction. It's a decision that should make us think about the future of our own information.
In an auction on April 12, Shawn Buckles sold his complete "data soul" – his location records, his medical records, his personal calendar, the content of his emails and all the information from his social media communications. He sold his online conversations, his consumer preferences and his internet browsing history. The lot. And for his soul he received €350.
Like Buckles, we all generate vast amounts of data on a daily basis and it is used by various companies for various purposes, such as to tailor online advertising. People don't generally understand the value of their data, which is partly what Buckles was commenting on when he sold his.
It might seem that exchanging your personal data for benefits will not feature in the near future but Buckle's auction shows us that a scenario in which we commercialise our personal information is not necessarily that distant.
As yet there is no market on which an individual can sell their personal data. While it is already to some extent clear what companies such as Google, Facebook and Tesco can get out of it, it is unknown how much a data soul is worth nor how one might use all the pieces of data that one person produces as a single package.
Perhaps luckily for Buckles, his auction is unlikely to provide any answers. The winning bidder was technology news company The Next Web, which Buckles says will use his data to highlight the issue of online privacy rather than to a more sinister end.
The sale is also probably not an accurate measure of the true market value of a person's data soul. It is plausible that in the future the value of personal data will be determined through an emergent market that can leverage it effectively.
There is demand from the health research sector, entertainment industries and insurance companies, to name but a few. If a more established market was operating to serve this demand, we could probably expect to get out of the data what it actually worth.
That said, it is also possible that a market could emerge that would see us exchanging our data for something other than money. Insurance companies might reduce insurance premiums based on lifestyle data collected through life-logging. Information from apps that monitor your sleep, activity or exercise could work for both you and the company. In fact, this type of exchange is already happening in car insurance, where premiums depend on your driving record.
Benefit doesn't have to imply direct monetary value to the person, either. We might in the future decide to use our data as a philanthropic resource. Instead of or as well as giving a monthly donation to our favourite charity, we might donate our data. A disease research charity could benefit from your health records, for example.
Buckle's auction also raises important ethical questions, of course. At what point do digital records of human behaviour stop being personal? Obviously the content of Buckle's inbox is personal but is a calculation of the average number of emails per day per country personal? Is GPS data averaged across millions of people personal?
The first ever data soul auction has certainly raised more questions than answers. Buckles is in a sense ahead of the pack. We are all growing increasingly aware that our personal data is valuable but while we continue to struggle to define what we are willing to accept in exchange for its use, companies are already basing their business models on the contents of our internet history. Would you accept €350 euros for your digital soul? You may have to decide on your price sooner than you think.


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Published on March 24th, 2015 | by Daniel Sherman Fernandez
0Lancia Stratos by Bertone, A Classic Rally Machine
Developed as a homologation special for European rallying, it became a cult car after production ceased and is now highly prized as the "modern classic" it is. The Stratos had no direct ancestors, strictly speaking, though its midships drivetrain was lifted intact from Ferrari's Dino 246 GT. In 1969, Fiat took over Lancia, then in financial trouble, and also acquired 50% of Ferrari.
European rallies had been Lancia's main motorsports venue since the early Sixties, competition that remains much faster, rougher, and tougher than most American-style rallies. The firm's standard-bearer, the front-drive Fulvia coupe, was becoming outclassed by 1970. The Stratos was developed to take over for it and make Lancia the outright world rally champ.
It all began in 1970 when Bertone presented the impractical Fulvia-powered dream car at Turin. Also called Stratos, it prompted Lancia team director Cesar Fiorio to push for a very different purpose-designed rally machine, which the new Fiat managers promptly approved.
As ever, there was a minimum production requirement: 500 units, an awkward figure that would necessitate funds for at least semi-permanent tooling as well as design and development. Fiorio masterminded the project, which envisioned a short, wide coupe with transverse midships drivetrain. Tonti and two consultants came to assist: former Lamborghini chief engineer Giampaolo Dallara at first; later, ex-Ferrari engineering chief Mike Parkes. Bertone was immediately contracted to style the beast and build its unit body/chassis structure.
Fiorio, having studied every possible powerteam in the Fiat/Lancia group, secured 2.4-liter V-6s and 5-speed transaxles from Ferrari an ideal choice, as they'd be installed exactly as in the Dino 246. All-independent suspension, rack-and-pinion steering, and four-wheel disc brakes were all specially designed. By November 1971, a prototype was ready for display at Turin.
Bertone's body design was chunky and stubby yet somehow wicked and predictably minimal, to hold down weight and bulk. Its most distinctive features were semi-concealed A-pillars and a door beltline sharply upswept to the top of the daylight opening. The shape of the resulting unbroken expanse of glass gave the tunnelback roof the appearance of a futuristic crash helmet.
Like the chassis, the main body structure was steel; weight-saving fiberglass was used for tilt-up nose and tail sections. Cargo space was provided by a small box above and behind the powertrain, but the spare wheel precluded any up front. Speaking of helmets, bins were molded into the interior door panels for storing them. Door windows swivelled downwards. Footwells tapered markedly inward.
Stratos prototypes took to the rally circuit in 1972, but didn't score a major victory until the Spanish Rally of April 1973. Another year passed before the road-going "production" model appeared. Then, with a rush, Bertone and Lancia built 492 cars before September. Thus homologated (for the Grand Touring class of Group 4), the Stratos went on to win the World Rally Championship three years running 1974-76. Its last major win came in 1979, when a Stratos entered by the Monaco importer won the famed Monte Carlo Rally.
With 190 horsepower in roadgoing trim, the Stratos could exceed 140 mph. As with the compact mid-engine Ferraris, however, the Stratos was addictive, and most owners fell in love with it.


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BERLIN — It's unusual when the words "bloody" and "charity" appear in the same sentence, but that's the case with the Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services (WYFCS) 2nd Annual Bloody Mary Contest at the Sunset Grille.
"Area bars and restaurants are competing for the title of best 'bloody' bar in Ocean City," said WYFCS Director of Development and Donor Relations Stefanie Gordy.
Last year, the event brought in about $1,500, a number WYFCS is trying to double this year.
"This year we think is going to be a lot bigger," Gordy said.
The event, which will be held Sunday from noon-4 p.m., will offer tailgate food, happy hour bar prices and unlimited Bloody Mary tastings all for a $10 donation at the door. Bars competing for the title will include Seacrets, Buxy's Salty Dog Saloon, Bull on the Beach, Liquid Assets, Crab Alley, the Greene Turtle and, of course, Sunset Grille, among others.
Each bar will bring its own Bloody Mary recipe, while Sunset Grille supplies the vodka. A panel of judges selected from all over the community will then award first through third place prizes with the winner receiving $300, second place is good for $200 and third place wins $100. Additionally, there will be a "People's Choice" champion, who will receive the title via popular vote from all in attendance.
"They get a basket of cheer," said Gordy of the People's Choice winner.
Money raised by the contest will go directly to WYFCS for use in the nonprofit's community outreach and youth programs. These include summer camps and after-school programs for area students as well as family counseling and Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) services for children.
"We really use the money wherever the need is greatest," said Gordy.
For its work, WYFCS was recently honored with the Richard A. Henson Award for nonprofit excellence, presented by the Community Foundation for the Eastern Shore (CFES). The award is granted annually to an agency in the tri-county area that has, according to CFES, "made an outstanding contribution to the wellbeing of residents of the Lower Eastern Shore."
The Bloody Mary contest is one of several charity events WYFCS sponsors over the course of the year. Gordy noted that it is a common misconception that her organization is public and therefore directly funded by the government. Instead, WYFCS relies on grants, private donations and events like Sunday's contest for money. While donations are needed all year, Gordy said that the holidays are an especially busy time for her agency.
"Our needs are year-round but especially during the holiday season," she said.
Gordy had nothing but praise for the bars and restaurants taking part in the contest, especially Sunset Grille.
"It's just another example of how [Sunset Grille General Manager] Buddy Trala and the staff and Sunset are extremely generous to WYFCS," she said, adding that the Sunset staff had donated all of tips to WYFCS when the event took place last year without being asked to do so.
"They're just a really great group of people," Gordy said.
At a time when, according to Gordy, youth in the area are encountering trouble at an "alarming rate," she contends that WYFCS and services like it need as much funding and community support as possible. Participating in the Bloody Mary contest, either as a crafter or a consumer, is a step in that direction, she said.
For more information, contact Gordy at 410-641-4598 or [email protected]


text: John Groves, Princeton's Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, has been selected to receive the 2010 Remsen Award, given by the Maryland section of the American Chemical Society. He was cited for his wide-ranging contributions to bioinorganic chemistry, catalysis, enzymology and understanding of molecular mechanisms. The award is named in honor of Ira Remsen, the second president of Johns Hopkins University. Groves received the award in June at the section's annual meeting in Baltimore.


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A building full of red-shirted fans sat nervously, dreading another disaster for a franchise with more than its share.
Except Chris Paul wasn't around for any of the Clippers' bad times.
While everybody else worried, he calmly shepherded his club out of another perilous spot and onto the brink of something big.
Paul scored eight of his 27 points in a dynamic overtime performance, and the Clippers moved to the verge of their second playoff series victory in 36 years with a 101-97 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night, taking a 3-1 series lead.
"It's fun, it's exciting," said Paul, who atoned for his inability to score at the regulation buzzer.
"The worst mistake I probably made in the game was not getting the shot at the end of regulation," he added. "If I was at home watching it on TV, I'd be talking so bad about me. But you've got to get through it. The [best] thing about it is that I have teammates that have confidence in me. Everything that we do is a team win."
Maybe so, but the Clippers were ever so grateful to rely on their All-Star point guard.
Griffin had 30 points and seven assists before fouling out with 2:26 left in overtime for the Clippers, who blew an 84-74 lead over the final 4½ minutes of regulation before Paul took charge in the overtime. He played with the same intensity he showed late in regulation, heedlessly flinging himself over the front row of chairs in an attempt to save a loose ball.
"He's a great player, and that's what great players do," Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said.
Game 5 is Wednesday night in Memphis, with Game 6 back at Staples Center on Friday if necessary.
After Paul hit consecutive jumpers to put the Clippers ahead 99-93 with 44 seconds left, Mike Conley's layup with 8.1 seconds left trimmed the Clippers' lead back to two points. But after Mo Williams hit two free throws with 7.2 seconds left and Rudy Gay missed a meaningless 3-pointer, Griffin and Paul embraced while another frenzied sellout crowd of long-suffering Clippers fans roared.
"Chris is always intense," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said. "That's what makes him special. Chris is so good, not only at making plays for himself, but making the right play. That's what makes him a star."
Conley scored a career playoff-high 25 points, and Gay had 23 on 8-of-25 shooting for the Grizzlies, who couldn't match Paul's late-game poise in another thrilling chapter of a highly entertaining series with four games decided by a total of 15 points.
"It's good TV, man, get the ratings up," Paul said. "We don't want any blowouts. There's a reason we finished 4-5 (in the Western Conference standings) with one game between us. We have a lot of competitive guys that don't give up in this series. We have two teams that are going to fight until the end."
In their breakthrough season since pairing Paul with Griffin, the Clippers need one more victory to win their second playoff series since the erstwhile Buffalo Braves moved to California. Los Angeles beat Denver in the first round in 2006 but hadn't been back to the postseason until this spring.
Caron Butler, playing with a broken bone in his left hand, scored 14 points for the Clippers, who still can't be comfortable after getting outrebounded 47-36 and giving away a big late lead.
After the Clippers rallied from big fourth-quarter deficits in their first two victories, Memphis rallied to 85-83 on Zach Randolph's jumper with 1:25 left. Gay hit the tying jumper in the final minute of regulation, and Paul drove for the go-ahead layup — his only points of the fourth quarter — before Randolph coolly hit two tying free throws with 20.4 seconds left.
Paul couldn't get a shot on the final possession of regulation, with Tony Allen and Gay swarming him — but he didn't quit.
"It's Chris Paul. He made his name off doing that," Gay said. "He's a tough guard. We can try and make it tougher on him, but still he's going to make plays and make his teammates better. That's what he's been doing."
The Clippers led 95-89 when Griffin fouled out, and the Grizzlies trimmed it to two points on jumpers by Conley and Gay. Paul went to work, shaking loose from defenders and hitting back-to-back jumpers sandwiching a turnover by Conley.
"Defensively in the overtime, we got three stops in a row, and Chris came down and hit big shot after big shot," Griffin said. "We keep telling ourselves, and we've said this all year, it starts on defense for us."
Fans filled Staples Center well before tipoff, donning their giveaway red T-shirts and standing to cheer on the majority of Los Angeles' possessions. They raised Staples Center's intensity to a level it hadn't seen since … well, Sunday, when the Los Angeles Kings' fans roared throughout their second-round NHL clincher over St. Louis.
The tone was set in the first quarter. In a scintillating 2 1/2-minute stretch, the teams combined for six 3-pointers, an alley-oop from Paul to DeAndre Jordan and a technical foul for Gay. Butler, who broke his hand in the opener and sat out Game 2 before surprisingly returning for Game 3, scored 11 points and checked out to a standing ovation in the first quarter.
Memphis kept constant pressure on Griffin, forcing the two-time All-Star to be resourceful while keeping his temper in check. Randolph got a technical foul in the second quarter when he fouled Griffin roughly on the shoulder and then chest-bumped him, but Griffin only chuckled while Randolph, the former Clippers big man, was pulled away from him.
The Grizzlies got tough, but the NBA's leaders in steals didn't get a single steal in the first half.
Game notes
Paul picked up his second technical foul of the series, a double T with Dante Cunningham. The Clippers have seven technical fouls in the series to the Grizzlies' six. … The NBA finalized the start time for Game 5 in Memphis. It will begin at 9:30 p.m. ET. … After going 13-for-30 on free throws in Game 3, the Clippers made 10 straight to open Game 4 but finished 28-of-40.


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The book, despite some drawbacks, is still a useful exam-prep tool for experienced Exchange 5.5 administrators.
The book's strongest points are its accuracy and thoroughness. Clawson and Luckett demonstrate knowledge of Exchange that comes from both detailed research and experience. For example, they avoid the common pitfall of assuming disaster recovery procedures for Exchange 2000 haven't changed from Exchange 5.5 (they have—big time). The chapters correspond to the main exam topics, and are divided into "Certification Objectives" which map each section to items in Microsoft's exam prep guide. And although the book's main goal is exam preparation, it contains a lot of useful, real-world information as well, such as which version of RAID is best for Exchange and why.
Still, the authors omit a handful of relevant facts and capabilities, such as how to create Administrative Groups before installing your first Exchange server. Still, they can be forgiven a few lapses on such a big topic; the book covers about 95 percent of what you need to know for the exam.
The folks at Osborne get high marks for the features they include in their MCSE prep books, and Clawson and Luckett make great use of them. They emphasize the importance of hands-on experience and reinforce it throughout the book with step-by-step lab exercises. The book also includes "Two-Minute Drills" at the end of each chapter—handy stuff for a quick review the night before the exam. Best of all are the "Self-Test Questions," which include not only answers but also explanations of them. I found the questions very challenging, too (and no, I'm not telling you how I did on them).
If the book has a weak point, it's the organization; it's good, but it could have been better. Chapter 1, in particular, attempts to provide an overview of Exchange 2000's new features and procedures, but the chapter confuses more than it informs. Skip it and go straight to Chapter 2. The other chapters are much better organized, but still suffer occasional lapses. For example, when the authors cover Address Lists, the "Exam Watch" tips in the section discuss mail-enabled groups: an unrelated feature, but the proximity implies they're one and the same.
Although it includes several features, the accompanying CD wouldn't be my main reason for buying the book. The best part of the CD is "ExamSim," a challenging exam simulation. ExamSim tracks your score each time you use it, helping you zero in on the topics you most need to study. Other parts of the CD are somewhat lackluster. The hypertext version of the book needs a search feature to be really useful, and the "Certcam" multimedia demos, while moderately useful, are no replacement for hands-on practice.
Overall, anyone upgrading his or her Exchange 5.5 certification to Exchange 2000 will find this book useful. Just remember to skip the first chapter, and supplement your reading—as always and as the authors themselves emphasize—by working with the product.
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Ronald Stewart, MCSE+I, MCT, is an IT consultant in Vancouver, Canada. He has more than 10 years of experience in IT. He's worked with, consulted on, and taught DNS.
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Person of the Week: Jackie Robinson
April 13, 2007 — -- As radio shock jock Don Imus apologizes to the Rutgers women's basketball team for his racist characterization of its players, the event is playing out exactly 60 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball.
When Robinson took the field, he faced racist taunts, and while much has changed since that time, it's clear that much has stayed the same.
In 1947, when Robinson walked out on the diamond as baseball's first black player, ugly abuse was spewed at him -- he met with shouts and bean balls, and received hate mail that carried threats to his life.
At the time, segregation was everywhere -- in neighborhoods, schools and the armed forces, and Major League Baseball was played only by white men. But then, Dodgers manager Branch Rickey signed Jack Roosevelt Robinson for $5,000 a year, and changed America's favorite pastime.
Robinson would go on to participate in a championship season -- he stole his first World Series base that October, helped the Dodgers win the pennant, and was named Rookie of the Year. Robinson went on to play on six All-Star teams and participate in five more World Series games.
He was soon followed onto the field by other black players, including Larry Doby, Don Newcombe, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks and dozens more to come.
Still, despite Robinson's success, there were restaurants that wouldn't serve him, hotels where he could not stay, and he had to sell appliances to make ends meet. Yet through it all, there was much more to Jackie Robinson than his exceptional skills on the diamond; he became known for his courage, dignity and passion for brotherhood and civil rights, achievements that endured long after he'd left the big leagues.
In 1957, when the Dodgers traded him to the New York Giants, he said no thanks, and retired. He was, of course, already a giant, and he is our Person of the Week.


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If you don't know what a Quant is, take time out and watch video #2 in the footer of this blog as they are not just limited to working at financial firms. As a matter of fact, hedge funds and banks can't hire enough of the and the same holds true for insurers and other healthcare entities. These are the math wizards today that are working without a net of any "proof of concept" any more and are just tossing a lot of models out there to see if they stick. I know that's a crummy way of putting it, but that's the reality of folks being soaked on models and numbers they don't question, it's the Dupes of Hazard society that exists everywhere today. What the Quant do well, is to use math to create profits, no matter if it hurts individuals or not. Look at what was recently done at Wells Fargo with the low level employees, as they didn't just decide to sell fake accounts on their own, there was a pay for performance model created by quants with a number of carrots and probably some sticks attached.
If you have not heard of the Optum 360 subsidiary, the link below will explain how it works and how the subsidiary solicits hospitals and other healthcare entities (now Quest Labs) to hand over their billing, also know as revenue cycling with the big hopes of saving money and collecting more money. Employees are usually let go by the healthcare entity and rehired as an Optum 360 employee with maybe less pay and worse benefits. I read some of the reviews from Dignity Hospital reviews on GlassDoor and they said the benefits were a lot worse once they came under the Optum umbrella. You could almost say it's an internal US H1B process as the pay and benefit results seem to follow the same pattern.
Mayo Clinic is the Latest to Outsource Revenue Cycling to Optum 360, A United Healthcare/Dignity Health Company Pursuing Hospital Contracts All Over the US For Profit…
The real deal here of course is the access to all the data as the data miners and sellers of the healthcare industry will take the data, score you and put the data into other "new" data bases and turn around and sell it. This process is called repackaging and when this occurs, most of the time as consumers we have no idea where it goes or who originated the data. As long as prescription data is not taken from a HIPAA covered entity such as a medical record, it's out there for sale to who ever has the money. Quest is also promoting their own "outsourcing" program with hospitals and just bought another hospital lab service, so that makes about 5 or more they have bought. 20-30% of the services performed for hospitals with this service end up going to their own Quest diagnostic centers to be worked.
Subsidiaries of companies are something I have told all for years to pay attention to as that's where all the data work is done and computer code is written to create big profits with running proprietary code that nobody ever gets to see or audit for accuracy.
ScriptCheck, offered by ExamOne, a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics is a big data mining firm, and so how many were not aware that Quest has been in the data mining and selling business for years? Anyone buying a life insurance policy could very well be investigated and a full data pull created to get information for underwriting. Sure we know some of this is necessary, but when do they cross the line? Any more it's all the time as the data gets repackaged and resold with data mining. They take the list of meds and try to "guess" what medical conditions you have or "might" get. That's the scary part is the "might" or what is abused today and openly called predictive analytics. In this article written in 2013, David Lazarius does a pretty job with explaining how this works.
There is an update though as ExamOne bought a bunch of Ingenix (now called Optum Insights) algorithms in 2014. We maybe all know that the former Ingenix subsidiary of United Healthcare is where current acting CMS administrator Andy Slavitt called home for a number of years and was taken to court over cheating on out of nextwork payment for MDs by using formulas beyond comprehension of most to inflate United Healthcare profits. I call it "Code Hosing" when I see this occur as you and I as a consumer have no access to either the math or the models used to create these profit centers and it ends up being a bunch of quantitated madness due to the fact that people are afraid to contest any form of math, good math or bad math.
Heres a few clips that tell you all about Quest Diagnostics ExamOne service and their purchase of the Ingenix MedPoint (OptumInsights) Algorithms in 2014 and what ScriptCheck is all about.
"LENEXA, KS, October 27, 2014 / -- ExamOne, a Quest Diagnostics company and leader in helping insurers meet their underwriting needs, is pleased to announce the acquisition of certain proprietary assets from OptumInsight that support the ability to provide rapid responses to data inquiries for use in life and health risk assessments. The acquired assets will streamline and improve the ScriptCheck® service offered through ExamOne."
Along with ExamOne's expansive suite of insurance services (also known as Policy Express) the acquired technology is designed to accelerate the underwriting process, improve risk assessment, assess the accuracy of health statements and discover undisclosed doctors or medical conditions for underwriters.
About ExamOne
ExamOne has provided a portfolio of services to the insurance industry since 1972. It has grown significantly through continuous innovation that meets the evolving needs of life, health and disability insurance providers and their customers. Laboratory testing was part of the company's original services, which over time have expanded to include paramedical examinations, fraud detection, electronic data collection, and gathering attending physician statements and motor vehicle records. ExamOne also has expanded into helping individuals learn about their own health through its Inside Look™ product.
Part of the real scary part about this agreement is that now Optum also will be able to get any biometric screenings provided by Quest as well. We have all seen the nighmare Orwelian companies like Red Brick (which was started by a one time United Healthcare young exec) that are into monitoring every move we make and this looks like an open loop hole here for United Heatlhcare/Optum to get that data, what else can you say? There's nobody in their right mind that wants their insurance company to have all types of data and information that the insurer could easily miscontrue and take out of context to avoid paying a claim! That's what this does. Actually it's not just Quest and United Healthcare/Optum deal alone, we have a huge problem of "Excess Scoring" in the US taking place with consumer using flawed data, queries and proprietary code to where we do not have the ability to even correct it.
Excess Scoring of US Consumers, US Citizens-Scored into Oblivion By Proprietary Algorithms and Formulas, Never Duplicated or Tested for Accuracy-Profits of Big Business And A White House Executive Command To Continue the Abuse..
If you get a chance to talk candidly to pharmacists today, they'll tell you all about what's going on and how you are "scored" with every prescription you fill too. There's this EQUIPP program out there that tells them what to do and how to dig in and find outliers, some of which are diabetics who are not on statins. The pharmacists who are forced to work this EQUIPP program model have to find their "outliers" or they could end up like the employees at Wells Fargo and be be out of a job if they don't play the game. In the drug industry, they couldn't get doctors to push statins and other monitoring flawed data programs, so now the boom is lowered on your retail pharmacists who need their jobs. Click on the image at the right and see what I'm talking about.
Medication Adherence Predictions Enter the World of Quantitated Justifications For Things That Are Just Not True, Members of the Proprietary "Code Hosing" Clubs Out There Destroying Your Privacy
So my guess here is that with United Healthcare/Optum having this new additional data of labs to query into the prescriptions, your lab tech could very well be the next person out there suggesting not only monitoring but also in a round about way, pushing more drugs.
This really even gets more interesting with the Quants of Optum and their models for profit as United Healthcare has a contract with LabCorp as their exclusive Lab and has had that contract since 2007. Optum and United Healthcare already get all that lab information from LabCorp and the contract continues until 2018, so that's what makes this Quest deal interesting and data rich with data selling. If patients all over the country are already being directed to LabCorp facilities, how would Optum get a chunk of this money? I suppose the answer is what just happened with the Optum 360 subsidiary now getting do most all of the billing for Quest Diagnositcs, right?
Talk about quants working over time working both models of each lab to increase revenue, right? Again watch video #2 in the footer and learn what a quant does as we have that same mentality running CMS with Andy Slavitt being both a former McKinsey consultant and a Goldman banker running everything. All he is concerned about is numbers as he's just an Algo Man who cares little about anything else. Follow him on Twitter and it's not hard to see at all.
The Rise of the Quants, Again! This Time In US Healthcare- Taming the MACRA Beast of Quantitated Madness For A Lot of Things That Are Probably Just Not True
So what happens when you get a lab test done? Depending on the result of course, you might get a prescription for a drug, we all know that by now (grin), so look at how this data mining is working today. With Optum having all the lab information will this have a tendency to push more drugs, and the drugs that are covered by pharmacy benefit managers that make the most profit for them? It is not far fetched in my book at all as I used to work with data, wrote software and it's how the mentality works. If you haven't noticed by the way, the OptumRX is the largest revenue stream that United Healthcare has now, larger than each of their insurance groups when compared.
United Healthcare Reports 1st Quarter-OptumRX (Pharmacy Benefit Manager) Produces More Revenue Than Its Health Insurance Groups
So this is adding yet another element of behaviorial scoring and data mining for profit if you will and we're not getting any breaks on cost. As a matter of fact, this is a good link to look at that explains the coupons and discount cards at the pharmacy, as they tell you how it works.
The Truth About Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Prescription Discount Cards–Created With Automated Algorithmic Processes That Enable Huge Profits-Consumers at Risk!
Again, look at the subsidiaries of these big corporations and what are doing with data for your answers as it's all there as the quants in healthcare keep modeling away to attain the best models for profit, not necessarily for better care, Moneyball as Optum calls it, which really only works well for baseball where everyone knows the rules, but with healthcare the rules change every day. BD
UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s Optum health-services arm has struck a deal to oversee billing processes for lab giant Quest Diagnostics Inc., substantially expanding its growing business of handling such transactions for health-care companies. Under the 10-year pact, Optum will take over a number of key revenue-related services for Quest, including billing health insurers and consumers, and collecting and processing payments from both. About 2.400 employees who did such work for Quest will become Optum employees, but they will generally remain physically in their current locations.


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Pakistan's Spies Tied to Slaying of a Journalist
by Jane Perlez and Eric Schmitt
July 4, 2011
The New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan's powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials.
New classified intelligence obtained before the May 29 disappearance of the journalist, Saleem Shahzad, 40, from the capital, Islamabad, and after the discovery of his mortally wounded body, showed that senior officials of the spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, directed the attack on him in an effort to silence criticism, two senior administration officials said.
The intelligence, which several administration officials said they believed was reliable and conclusive, showed that the actions of the ISI, as it is known, were "barbaric and unacceptable," one of the officials said. They would not disclose further details about the intelligence.
But the disclosure of the information in itself could further aggravate the badly fractured relationship between the United States and Pakistan, which worsened significantly with the American commando raid two months ago that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistan safehouse and deeply embarrassed the Pakistani government, military and intelligence hierarchy. Obama administration officials will deliberate in the coming days how to present the information about Mr. Shahzad to the Pakistani government, an administration official said.
The disclosure of the intelligence was made in answer to questions about the possibility of its existence, and was reluctantly confirmed by the two officials. "There is a lot of high-level concern about the murder; no one is too busy not to look at this," said one.
A third senior American official said there was enough other intelligence and indicators immediately after Mr. Shahzad's death for the Americans to conclude that the ISI had ordered him killed.
"Every indication is that this was a deliberate, targeted killing that was most likely meant to send shock waves through Pakistan's journalist community and civil society," said the official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate nature of the information.
A spokesman for the Pakistan intelligence agency said in Islamabad on Monday night that "I am not commenting on this." George Little, a spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, declined to comment.
In a statement the day after Mr. Shahzad's waterlogged body was retrieved from a canal 60 miles from Islamabad, the ISI publicly denied accusations in the Pakistani news media that it had been responsible, calling them "totally unfounded."
The ISI said the journalist's death was "unfortunate and tragic," and should not be "used to target and malign the country's security agency."
The killing of Mr. Shahzad, a contributor to the Web site Asia Times Online, aroused an immediate furor in the freewheeling news media in Pakistan.
Mr. Shahzad was the 37th journalist killed in Pakistan since the 9/11 attacks, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Pakistan's civilian government, under pressure from the media, established a commission headed by a Supreme Court justice to investigate Mr. Shahzad's death. The findings are scheduled to be released early next month.
Mr. Shahzad suffered 17 lacerated wounds delivered by a blunt instrument, a ruptured liver and two broken ribs, said Dr. Mohammed Farrukh Kamal, one of the three physicians who conducted the post-mortem.
The anger over Mr. Shahzad's death followed unprecedented questioning in the media about the professionalism of the army and the ISI, a military-controlled spy agency, in the aftermath of the Bin Laden raid.
Since that initial volley of questioning, the ISI has mounted a steady counter-campaign. Senior ISI officials have called and visited journalists, warning them to douse their criticisms and rally around the theme of a united country, according to three journalists who declined to be named for fear of reprisals.
Mr. Shahzad, who wrote articles over the last several years that illuminated the relationship between the militants and the military, was abducted from the capital three days after publication of his article that said Al Qaeda was responsible for an audacious 16-hour commando attack on Pakistan's main naval base in Karachi on May 22.
The attack was a reprisal for the navy's arresting up to 10 naval personnel who had belonged to a Qaeda cell, Mr. Shahzad said.
The article, published by Asia Times Online, detailed how the attackers were guided by maps and logistical information provided from personnel inside the base.
Particularly embarrassing for the military, Mr. Shahzad described negotiations before the raid between the navy and a Qaeda representative, Abdul Samad Mansoor. The navy refused to release the detainees, Mr. Shahzad wrote. The Pakistani military maintains that it does not negotiate with militants.
Mr. Shahzad prided himself on staying out of the mainstream press, preferring, he wrote in a preface to his recently published book, "Inside Al Qaeda and the Taliban," to challenge the "conventional wisdom."
He had submitted articles to Asia Times Online, which claims 150,000 readers, since 2001, when he was a reporter in Karachi uncovering corruption in the public utility, the editor of the Web site, Tony Allison, said.
He broke into the limelight two years ago with an interview with Ilyas Kashmiri, a highly trained Pakistani militant allied to Al Qaeda. Mr. Kashmiri is believed to have been killed in a drone attack in early June.
According to associates, Mr. Shahzad cultivated contacts inside the military and the intelligence agency and members of militant groups, some from his student days in Jamaat Islami, a religious political party.
Some of his stories were threaded with embellishments. Soon after the Bin Laden raid, Mr. Shahzad wrote that Gen. David H. Petraeus visited the chief of the Pakistani Army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and informed him, an account the White House strongly disputes. Pakistani journalists questioned the authenticity of some of Mr. Shahzad's reporting: whether those doubts arose from professional jealousy or were well founded was never clear.
But the ISI had been interested in Mr. Shahzad for some time. In an e-mail written to Ali Dayan Hasan, the head of Human Rights Watch in Pakistan, which Mr. Shahzad instructed Mr. Hasan to release if something happened to him, Mr. Shahzad gave details of an Oct. 17 meeting at ISI headquarters, where two senior officials in the press section wanted to discuss an article he had written about the release of an interrogated Afghan Taliban commander, Abdul Ghani Baradar.
At the end, Mr. Shahzad said, he had been given what Mr. Hasan said he understood to be a veiled death threat from the head of the press section, Rear Adm. Adnan Nazir. "We have recently arrested a terrorist and recovered a lot of data, diaries and other material during the interrogation," Mr. Shahzad quoted Admiral Nazir saying. "The terrorist had a list with him. If I find your name in the list, I will certainly let you know."
In its statement after the death of Mr. Shahzad, the ISI said the agency notifies "institutions and individuals alike of any threat warning received about them." There were no "veiled or unveiled threats" in the e-mail, the ISI said.
Hameed Haroon, the publisher of Dawn, an English-language newspaper and the head of the newspaper publishers' association in Pakistan, said that the journalist had confided to him that "he had received death threats from various officers of the ISI on at least three occasions in the past five years."
It was possible that Mr. Shahzad had become too cavalier, said Ayesha Siddiqa, a Pakistani columnist and author.
"The rules of the game are not completely well defined," she said. "Sometimes friendly elements cross an imaginary threshold and it is felt they must be taught a lesson."
The efforts by the ISI to constrain the Pakistani news media have, to a degree, worked in recent days. The virulent criticism after Mr. Shahzad's death has tempered a bit.
A Pakistani reporter, Waqar Kiani, who works for the British newspaper The Guardian, was beaten in the capital after Mr. Shahzad's death with wooden batons and a rubber whip, by men who said: "You want to be a hero. We'll make you a hero," the newspaper reported. Mr. Kiani had just published an account of his abduction two years earlier at the hands of intelligence agents.
Jane Perlez reported from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Eric Schmitt from Washington. Mark Mazzetti contributed reporting from Washington.
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Message from the President
Learning to Be an American
Colin Campbell
Colonial Williamsburg is the apex of a historic triangle traced by the roads and byways that wind from Duke of Gloucester Street to Jamestown and to Yorktown. Three little villages, they tell a consequential story of the beginnings of these United States, a story worth revisiting.
At Jamestown, in 1607, the English built, under harrowing conditions, their first permanent New World settlement, the birthplace of representative government in America. At Williamsburg, in 1776, Virginia patriots, defying tyranny and oppression, called their countrymen to arms, to sacrifice, and to independence. At Yorktown, in 1781, the ragtag Continentals and their resplendent allies the French, won the siege and battle that secured the victory of our Revolution. To journey from one of these hamlets to the next is to track the continuum of an adventure that deserves to be related authentically, thoughtfully, and well. It's a story that belongs to the American people.
Colonial Williamsburg, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the National Park Service, and the Commonwealth of Virginia are stewards of the settings for the narrative of an inspiring national saga. Our shared obligation is to faithfully interpret the triangle's history, to tell its story seamlessly and unforgettably. That enduring duty is spotlighted by the approach of 2007, when the nation, indeed the world, celebrates Jamestown's 400th anniversary and all that it means. We, the storytellers, are closely collaborating to present the scenes, to explain the facts, to explore the ideas, with the consummate care they deserve.
That's a difficult task, but it is important. It is, quite frankly, good business, but, most important, it is our mission, and, in the heterogeneous nation we have become since 1607, the importance of that mission only grows.
What makes us a great nation is more than our history; it is as well the principles, ideals, and values that history teaches. Historian Gordon Wood, a Colonial Williamsburg trustee, said in a television interview that America's great achievement is that "ours is a nation built of beliefs. To be an American is to believe in something, not to be someone. We have this marvelous country which is held together by ideology, by a set of beliefs that came out of the Revolution. It keeps us together. You don't have to be someone. You don't have to have a certain ancestor. You can learn to be an American by coming to believe in these things—liberty, equality, constitutionalism, and so on. You don't have to come from a certain race or ethnicity. That's not true of most of the world."
Learning to be an American means understanding the lessons of America's past, each generation embracing anew a set of common beliefs, sharing in the inheritance of ideals, whether we be the descendants of the oldest immigrant or ourselves the latest arrivals. Our diversity is a source of our strength. Jamestown's anniversary emphasizes what we have achieved by learning to accommodate our differences in ethnicity, language, religion, and culture to a common belief in the principles of liberty and freedom. It's a lesson well worth revisiting in 2007, a story well worth retelling. It is a story not just of dates and events but of an idea—the idea of America, for all people, for all time.
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These vast grasslands are situated just to the north of the Republic of Bastok. In contrast to the surrounding Bastok Mountains, the Konschtat Highlands are abundant with an array of alpine wildlife. Also, in order to harness the powerful winds called "Odin's Wrath" that constantly blow through the area, Bastok has constructed numerous windmills throughout the highlands. According to a treaty, San d'Oria provides a portion of their grain crops in exchange for the use of Bastok's windmills to produce flour.
Konschtat Highlands is home to many creatures of Vana'diel, populated by sheep, lizards, saplings, bees, Goblins, Quadavs, and the occasional Thunder Elemental. Many unprepared adventurers have been felled by roaming Tremor Rams and the Rampaging Ram. The zone is especially dangerous at night, when the undead prowl for fresh meat.
The Crag of Dem breaks the skyline near the middle of the map, providing veteran adventurers with access to Ru'Aun Gardens and Al'Taieu.
Fortune seekers dig for riches in Gusgen Mines to the east of the Crag. The Bastokian path to Jeuno goes through Pashhow Marshlands to the northeast.
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Most of the time, at least from our perspective here on the ground, Terra firma seems to be just that: solid. Yet the Earth beneath our feet is actually in constant motion. It moves through time and space, of course, along with the other objects in the universe, but it moves internally as well.
The powerful forces of wind, water and ice constantly erode its surface, redistributing Earth's mass in the process. Within Earth's solid crust, faulting literally creates and then moves mountains. Hydrological changes, such as the pumping of groundwater for use by humans, cause the ground beneath us to undulate. Volcanic processes deform our planet and create new land. Landslides morph and scar the terrain. Entire continents can even rise up, rebounding from the weight of massive glaciers that blanketed the land thousands of years ago.
Indeed, the outermost layers of the celestial blue onion that is Earth-its crust and upper mantle-aren't very solid at all. But what happens if we peel back the layers and examine what's going on deep within Earth, at its very core? Obviously, Earth's core is too deep for humans to observe directly. But scientists can use indirect methods to deduce what's going on down there.
A new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, by Jean Dickey of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. and co-author Olivier deViron of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, University Paris Diderot, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, has confirmed previous theoretical predictions that the churning cauldron of molten metals that make up Earth's liquid outer core is slowly being stirred by a very complex but predictable series of periodic oscillations. The findings give scientists unique insights into Earth's internal structure, the strength of the mechanisms responsible for generating Earth's magnetic field and its geology.
Peeling Back the Onion
In order to better understand what's going on inside our planet, it helps to first get a lay of the land, so to speak.
Earth has several distinct layers, each with its own properties. At the outermost layer of our planet is the crust, which comprises the continents and ocean basins. Earth's crust varies in thickness from 35 to 70 kilometers (22 to 44 miles) in the continents and 5 to 10 kilometers (3 to 6 miles) in the ocean basins. The crust is mainly composed of alumino-silicates.
Next comes the mantle. The mantle is roughly solid, though very slow motion can be observed inside of it. It is about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) thick, and is separated into an upper and lower mantle. It is here where most of Earth's internal heat is located. Large convective cells in the mantle circulate heat and drive the movements of Earth's tectonic plates, upon which our continents ride. The mantle is mainly composed of ferro-magnesium silicates.
Earth's innermost layer is the core, which is separated into a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. The outer core is 2,300 kilometers (1,429 miles) thick, while the inner core is 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) thick. The outer core is mainly composed of a nickel-iron alloy (liquid iron), while the inner core is almost entirely composed of a pure solid iron body.
Earth's "Magnetic" Personality
Scientists believe Earth's magnetic field results from movements of molten iron and nickel within its liquid outer core. These flows, which are caused by interactions between Earth's core and its mantle, are neither even, nor evenly distributed. The electrical currents generated by these flows result in a magnetic field, which is similarly uneven, moves around in location and varies in strength over time. Earth's magnetic field is also slightly tilted with respect to Earth's axis. This causes Earth's geographic north and south poles to not line up with its magnetic north and south poles--they currently differ by about 11 degrees.
In just the last 200 million years alone, Earth's magnetic poles have actually reversed hundreds of times, with the most recent reversal taking place about 790,000 years ago. Scientists are able to reconstruct the chronology of these magnetic pole reversals by studying data on the spreading of the seafloor at Earth's mid-oceanic ridges. Unlike the doomsday scenario popularized by Hollywood in the movie "2012," however, such reversals don't occur over days, but rather on geologic timescales spanning hundreds to thousands of years-very short in geologic time but comparatively long in human time. The time span between pole reversals is even longer, ranging from 100,000 to several million years.
Earth's magnetic field is essential for life on Earth. Extending thousands of kilometers into space, it serves as a shield, deflecting the constant bombardment of charged particles and radiation known as the solar wind away from Earth. These solar winds would otherwise be fatal to life on Earth. At Earth's poles, the perpendicular angle of the magnetic field to Earth there allows some of these particles to make it into our atmosphere. This results in the Northern Lights in the northern hemisphere and the Southern Lights in the southern hemisphere.
Here on the ground, Earth's magnetic field has many practical applications to our everyday lives. It allows people to successfully navigate on land and at sea, making it a critical tool for commerce. Hikers use it to find their way. Archaeologists use it to deduce the age of ancient artifacts such as pottery, which, when fired, assumes the magnetic field properties that were present at the time of its creation. Similarly, the field of paleomagnetism uses magnetism to give scientists glimpses into Earth's remote past. In addition, geophysicists and geologists use geomagnetism as a tool to investigate Earth's structure and changes taking place in the Earth.
Getting to the Core of the Matter
Since Earth's liquid core is the primary source of Earth's magnetic field, scientists can use observations of the magnetic field at Earth's surface and its variability over time to mathematically calculate and isolate the approximate motions taking place within the core.
That's what Dickey and deViron did. They combined measurements of Earth's magnetic field taken by observatory stations on land and ships at sea dating back to 1840 with those of the Danish Oersted and German CHAMP geomagnetic satellite missions, both of which were supported by NASA investments. These measurements were then used as inputs for a complex model that employs statistical time series analyses to determine how fast liquid iron is flowing within Earth's core.
"Although we do not observe the core directly, it's amazing how much we can learn about Earth's interior using magnetic field observations," said Dickey.
In order to approximate the flow of liquid in the core, the scientists visualized its motion as a set of 20 rigid cylinders, each rotating about a common point that represents Earth's axis. "Imagine that each cylinder is slowly rotating at a different speed, and you'll get a sense of the complex churning that's taking place within Earth's core," Dickey said.
The scientists analyzed the data to identify common patterns of movement among the different cylinders. These patterns represent how momentum and energy are transferred from the liquid core-mantle interface inward through the liquid core toward the inner core with diminishing amplitudes.
Their analyses isolated six slow-moving oscillations, or waves of motion, occurring within the liquid core. The oscillations originated at the boundary between Earth's core and its mantle and traveled inward toward the inner core with decreasing strength. Four of these oscillations were robust, occurring at periods of 85, 50, 35 and 28 years. Since the scientist's data set goes back to 1840, the recurrence period of the longest oscillation (85 years) is less well determined than the other oscillations. The last two oscillations identified were weaker and will require further study.
The 85- and 50-year oscillations are consistent with a 1997 study by researchers Stephen Zatman and Jeremy Bloxham of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., who used a different analysis technique. A later purely theoretical study by Harvard researcher Jon Mound and Bruce Buffett of the University of Chicago in 2006 showed that there should be several oscillations of this type; their predicted periods agree with the first four modes identified in Dickey and deViron's study.
"Our satellite-based results are in excellent agreement with the previous theoretical and other studies in this field, providing a strong confirmation of the existence of these oscillations," said Dickey. "These results will give scientists confidence in using satellite measurements in the future to deduce long-term changes taking place deep within our restless planet."
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Western Digital has faced up to the deepening recession by announcing the loss of up to 2,500 jobs, executive pay cuts and the closure of manufacturing plants in Malaysia and Thailand.
These actions are the result of a sudden and dramatic fall in demand for hard drives, particularly OEM demand for desktop, notebook and enterprise-SATA drives, which started in October and significantly accelerated through November. It affects all geographies with Russia, Korea and Latin America most affected through restricted customer credit access and weakening of local currencies against the dollar.
Tight credit markets worldwide have led customers in all channels to reduce inventories. WD expects the reduced demand run-rates to last well into 2009.
It says that revenue guidance of $2.025bn - $2.150bn, issued on October 23, no longer applies. Industry pricing is significantly more competitive than it expected and WD now expects revenue for the quarter to be $1.7bn - $1.8bn.
In total the company is halting all manufacturing operations from December 20 until January 2 2009. Pay for all its executives, board-level directors and other senior management is being cut. One of the three hard drive manufacturing plants in Navanakorn, Thailand will close as will one of its two media substrate facilities in Sarawak, Malaysia.
There will be a reduction in the number of temporary workers and a reduction in shift overtime, and workers who leave will not be replaced. This is intended to reduce manufacturing work hours by up to 20 per cent. The capital spending budget for fiscal 2009 will be cut from $750m to approximately $500m.
These actions should be complete by the end of March, 2009 and will result in total charges of approximately $150m but will save $150m a year.
CEO John Coyne's base salary is cut 33 per cent. Chief Financial Officer Tim Leyden receives a 25 per cent base salary cut; the general counsel and chief technology officer both get a 15 per cent cut, as do the board directors.
Coyne said: "We are taking these actions in order to strengthen our financial position and enhance the ability of our business to withstand an extended period of depressed demand while continuing to invest in the technologies, products and processes required to assure the continued success of our business."
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The stage (or level) of a spring is the elevation (or height) of the water surface, either in the spring pool or the spring run. This is commonly measured in feet above mean sea level (MSL) and is determined by referencing a datum. Two datums that are widely used across the United States are the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD29) and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88).
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The latest $300 billion reauthorization of the Farm Bill made history when it was passed into law on May 22, 2008, by nearly quadrupling government spending on organic agriculture, research, and certification programs. In total, more than $100 million will be dedicated to organics during the next five years, with research funding representing a $78 million piece of the pie. "We've made significant progress relative to where we were on the policy map before this bill," says Mark Lipson, policy program director for the Organic Farming Research Foundation, a nonprofit based in Santa Cruz, California.
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- Organic represents 3.5 percent of the U.S. retail market share but only 1 percent of the Farm Bill budget.
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Exploring Ghana Exploring Ghana | Africa Homepage | Geographia Home Location, Geography & Climate Much of the attraction of Ghana is based upon its legacy as the center of the gold, ivory, and slave trade during the 17th and 18th centuries, when the mighty Ashanti empire held sway here. However, Ghana also possesses one of the best game reserves in West Africa, a multitude of good beaches, and plenty of hospitality.
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey KG (1516 or 1517 – January 19 1547) was an English courtier, soldier and poet. He invented blank verse, and along with Thomas Wyatt he introduced the sonnet to English poetry.
Quotations are cited from The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (London: Bell and Daldy, 1866). [1]
- The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings,
With green hath clad the hill, and eke the vale:
The nightingale with feathers new she sings;
The turtle to her make hath told her tale;
Summer is come, for every spray now springs.- "Description of Spring", line 1
- And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!- "Description of Spring", line 13
- Love, that liveth and reigneth in my thought,
That built his seat within my captive breast;
Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought,
Oft in my face he doth his banner rest.- "Complaint of a Lover Rebuked", line 1
- Brittle beauty, that Nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season;
Flowering to-day, to-morrow apt to fail;
Tickle treasure, abhorred of reason:
Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail;
Costly in keeping, past not worth two peason.- "The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty", line 1
- But by and by, the cause of my disease
Gives me a pang, that inwardly doth sting,
When that I think what grief it is again
To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.- "A Complaint by Night of the Lover Not Beloved", line 11.
- When raging love with extreme pain
Most cruelly distrains my heart;
When that my tears, as floods of rain,
Bear witness of my woful smart;
When sighs have wasted so my breath
That I lie at the point of death:
I call to mind the navy great
That the Greeks brought to Troyè town:
And how the boisterous winds did beat
Their ships, and rent their sails adown;
Till Agamemnon's daughter's blood
Appeased the gods that them withstood.- "The Lover Comforteth Himself with the Worthiness of his Love", line 1.
- Then think I thus: "Sith such repair,
So long time war of valiant men,
Was all to win a lady fair,
Shall I not learn to suffer then?
And think my life well spent to be,
Serving a worthier wight than she?"- "The Lover Comforteth Himself with the Worthiness of his Love", line 19
- O happy dames! that may embrace
The fruit of your delight;
Help to bewail the woful case,
And eke the heavy plight
Of me, that wonted to rejoice
The fortune of my pleasant choice:
Good ladies! help to fill my mourning voice.- "Complaint of the Absence of her Lover Being upon the Sea", line 1
- I know she swore with raging mind,
Her kingdom only set apart,
There was no loss, by law of kind,
That could have gone so near her heart;
And this was chiefly all her pain:
"She could not make the like again".- "A Praise of his Love", line 19
- Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest:
Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain;
And virtue sank the deeper in his breast:
Such profit he by envy could obtain.- "Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest", line 1
- London! hast thou accused me
Of breach of laws? the root of strife!
Within whose breast did boil to see,
So fervent hot, thy dissolute life.- "A Satire Against the Citizens of London", line 1
Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth his Pleasure there Passed[edit]
- So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
As proud Windsor? where I, in lust and joy,
With a King's son, my childish years did pass,
In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy.
Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour.- Line 1
- With silver drops the mead yet spread for ruth,
In active games of nimbleness and strength,
Where we did strain, trained with swarms of youth,
Our tender limbs that yet shot up in length.
The secret groves, which oft we made resound
Of pleasant plaint, and of our ladies' praise;
Recording oft what grace each one had found,
What hope of speed, what dread of long delays.- Line 21
- Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine, with bondage and restraint:
And with remembrance of the greater grief,
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.- Line 51.
- Surrey, the Granville of a former age:
Matchless his pen, victorious was his lance;
Bold in the lists, and graceful in the dance.- Alexander Pope "Windsor-Forest" (1713), line 292
- Surrey, for his justness of thought, correctness of style, and purity of expression, may justly be pronounced the first English classical poet.
- Thomas Warton The History of English Poetry (1774-81) vol. 3, p. 27.