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NASHVILLE (AP) – State Treasurer David Lillard is being honored by his peers.
He received the Jesse M. Uhruh Award this week at the National Association of State Treasurers annual conference in Asheville, N.C.
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Members of the association's executive committee select the winner.
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What news is this post actually trying to tell us?
They didn't get the money sent to them so they are calling the others bad names and getting all pissy about it.
I use the proprietary systems and had attempts at open systems (there are always "shoot outs" at the medical conferences) and I can say that the proprietary systems suck much less.
It's all about workflow. The open systems fail to understand this concept.
With some extra cash, maybe the proprietary system vendors could widen that gap. Or at least hire some lobbyists to explain why they'll need more money next year. Failure seems to be our new economic engine.
Spasmodic cynicism. I'm sure none of the IT providers benefitting from this are having any trouble at all. And I doubt this will buy us a standardised, open, or interoperable system. I reckon we should just be glad they hustled this through so fast only a scant 8 billion extra went to buy local votes. The failure of which I speak is the overall system inefficiency, which seems to be designed around cash-extraction rather than service. I, for one, would like to move away from systems that have already demons
Let's just think about that. A patient EHR electronic health record system, so no one is capable of creating a open free system with 17 billion dollars. The government is not capable of putting to tender the creation of an open source system where the vendor or vendors have to surrender copyright as part of a lump sum payment for that system. So instead they are committing to a closed source, data locked up, per seat, perpetual licence fee upgrade cost.
All with no public review of patient confidentiality
He has the same rant about proprietary applications without interchangeable data formats in the medical field that people have with MS Office. Health Systems are just as bad if not worse than the other closed proprietary systems that people here constantly rail about. It's very likely that you'll have to buy a special program to read the medical information that you get from your doctor. It's a closed silo system that won't get any better based on the new funding.
If you find one, send me the link, too. We're using OpenMRS as a cross-agency TB registry, but it's sooooo not a full-featured EMR compared to the proprietary solutions. The stuff that our agency is willing to look at isn't even web-based, so you're locked into Windows (or maybe emulation; no idea if that works) for your desktop machines too. One of the systems runs only on Windows servers with MSSQL. Gack.
On top of all the other crap that certainly won't really stimulat the economy.
Here's the bottom line. The problem with the economic crisis today lies with the financial and banking system. Health care wasn't the reason for the collapse, and fixing health care isn't the core issue here.
Its funny how liberals were complaining that invading Iraq had nothing to do the GWOT. This is the liberals version of 9/11, using the crisis as a pretext to remake the US economy and set their agenda.
Of course, McCain also joined in McCain-Feingold, so clearly he's not a conservative barometer.
As I recall McCain helped with that in 2002, before opposing it while running for president in 2008. So a more accurate statement might be:
McCain joined in McCain-Feingold in 2002, before making himself a conservative barometer and opposing it in 2008
Perhpas McCain doesn't support it because some of the provisions were struck down in court as unconstitutional and it's ineffective and doesn't make sense now. Then he not even pretending to be a conservative barometer. BTW, that is what Palin was supposed to have been.
Health care is big business. Moves(washes) lots of money. Government and big business always help each other. The insurance companies are the democrats' "Halliburton".
All seriousness aside, the truth is that health care is as much part of our infrastructure as the the lights and roads are. Perfectly within the government's interests to see that everybody has access. Handing it over to private interests has proven disastrous for everybody not involved the business. Most of all the patients. But, like everyth
On top of all the other crap that certainly won't really stimulat the economy.
In the short term, paying people to hop up and down on one foot would stimulate the economy - as long as the people were going to spend the money rather than stuff it in their mattress.
Here's the bottom line. The problem with the economic crisis today lies with the financial and banking system. Health care wasn't the reason for the collapse, and fixing health care isn't the core issue here.
Ah, but why do we care about the financial crisis at all? Because some CEO might not be able to afford to buy his second mistress a third vacation home? Not so much.
Rather, because ordinary people end up out of work and can't afford basic necessities like health care. Fixing health might not help people this time around (just
Our economy is broken in more ways than just the financial system. Our Car companies have been mismanaged for years, our healthcare system is derided worldwide for being incredibly expensive and backwater, our education system is a joke.
What we need to get out of any economic downturn is higher per-capita productivity. Health Care has been a big drain on our economy for years, and a distributed automated health records system is long overdue. My Mechanic has better records of the work done on my car than My Doctor. I've seen doctors prescribe to my grandmother treatments that had serious interactions with drugs she was already taking, and treatments that she was simply allergic to.
We need growth and efficiencies, and this is one area where a little expenditure would save a lot of lives. And I hate to sound this crass, but saving lives cheaply is good for the economy.
our healthcare system is derided worldwide for being incredibly expensive and backwater
Not really. Our healthcare IS expensive, and that's annoying mostly to people who live here, but the QUALITY of US healthcare is pretty much the best in the world. Certainly not "backwater" at all. You pay through your nose for that quality (and many of the ricer people of the world will visit the US just for healthcare - ironically some of our poorer people are starting to visit places like India though simply due to the cost), but it IS quality.
Whether or not that's viable long term, or best for the pe
The problem with the economic crisis today lies with the financial and banking system.
No, the problem lies with the lack of availability of credit and the lack of consumer demand. The primary direct cause of that may have been actions in and affecting the financial services industry including the banks, but that doesn't mean that the most effective way of dealing with it is exclusively with policies directed at that industry, in the same way that bad diet and inadequate exercise may be the principal cause of a heart attack, but the best response to a heart attack may not be limited to diet and exercise changes.
Its funny how liberals were complaining that invading Iraq had nothing to do the GWOT.
Liberals, in fact, were not generally complaining about that. Liberals were complaining that Iraq (not "invading Iraq") had nothing to do with 9/11 (not "the war on terror") and that invading Iraq was directly counterproductive in (not "had nothing to do with") the war against the people who had actually attacked the United States on 9/11, and that contributed to producing more people who would be more easily recruitable by groups wanting to attack the United States through terrorism.
The first half relates to the justification, the second to utility. Confusing different parts of two distinct-though-related criticisms of the invasion of Iraq misses the point of both criticisms rather completely.
This is the liberals version of 9/11, using the crisis as a pretext to remake the US economy and set their agenda.
That doesn't make sense. The economy is broken. Liberals are proposing a particular way of fixing it that, they argue, apply both to the immediate problem and the longer-term structural problems that make problems like the immediate one both more likely to occur and more damaging to individual citizens when they occur. As you note, what they are doing is directed at the economy, which is where you admit the problem is, not at some unrelated thing. Now, you might argue that the proposals are not directed well to fix the problems in the economy, which would be a legitimate point to debate, but you fail to make that argument, instead making an argument by analogy (though, as noted, a poorly-crafted analogy that reveals poor understanding both of the immediate situation and the one to which an analogy is drawn) that seems to rely on the idea that it is not directed at principal immediate cause of the problem, rather than arguing that it is ineffective at solving the problem. But being effective at addressing a set of undesirable conditions is logically orthogonal to being directed at the events and conditions which contributed to the development of those conditions.
What nitwit modded that comment insightful?
And now, the top two reasons why healthcare spending is economic stimulus...
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What nitwit modded that comment insightful?
And now, the top two reasons why healthcare spending is economic stimulus...
Both true, and very valid.
But there's also the way in which *most* spending is economic stimulus. Yesterday, our organization (a non-profit healthcare provider with Section 330 funding, so we're a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)) learned that we'll be eligible to apply for a skosh over $400k in ARRA funding in the next couple of weeks. These funds are to be disbursed in two payments, the first of them by the end of the month. This is LIGHTNING speed for government funding; the typical RFP comes
I read the article.
The guy's central point is that corporate systems are bad, and open, federally funded systems are good, with the further implication that government is good, and corporations are bad.
Now, the reason, though, that he gives for this is that a private corporation owns his data in the present system, but if the government owned, then, somehow, he'd own it more.
That's the crazy thing. There's no such thing as "public ownership". You own as much of something that is public as you do a car by walking past a Ford factory. Ownership at its most practical is, who controls it, and you really don't have any control over the daily disposition of property managed by the government. In effect, when you argue for publicly owned health care, or publicly owned anything, what you are really arguing for is to pay your own taxes to buy something for some administrator either elected or appointed or a lifelong civil servant. In any case, its not you.
There's a lot of good reasons to adopt open source in health care. For one, the creation of a single standard document for representing a medical history would go a long way towards enabling applications across the medical spectrum to coexist.
This will be easier said than done.
A good example is that there were some efforts to do this in insuring property for catastrophic losses - a build is remarkably complex for insurance purposes, but that specification has essentially died by its own complexity. The industry largely and thankfully essentially resorted to using SQL Server copies of the leading vendor of property and casualty software for CAT. Is it proprietary? Yes. But, it allows all the insurers to exchange books in a way that is relatively practical and easy to use.
The moral here is that its not good enough to say that a standard is open for data interoperability. Ease of use and ease of transportability becomes paramount and if open source wants to drive health insurance, it stands to reason that there needs to be a pervasive application that goes along with it.
I think it was Heinlein that said something like: You only truly own that which you can carry in both arms at a dead run.
You're only half right. The problem is that HIT vendors are generally well behind the times, slow to innovate and closed and proprietary as all get out. You think MS is bad? You haven't seen highyway robbery until you've seen the shit in a box most HIT vendors push. The technical implementation is lacking and the SOLE focus, the SOLE focus of every sale is simply to further ensare the particular customer still deeper into more from the same proprietary stack. Integration is a joke, made challenging by intention rather than accident.
This is a HIGHLY lucrative market. Any given vendor has ZERO interest in open systems and will push to make sure you buy their entire stack.
Thankfully, there are exceptions to the rule and there are many CIOs and CEOs that are wising up to their antics.
This stimulus plan, unfortunately, only makes things WORSE backing proprietary vendors and closed systems over open standards - real standards, not the recommendations AKA HL7.
You're only half right. The problem is that HIT vendors are generally well behind the times, slow to innovate and closed and proprietary as all get out. You think MS is bad? You haven't seen highyway robbery until you've seen the shit in a box most HIT vendors push.
While there is certainly long history behind this statement (and some truth), it's not so black and white. Innovation works great when you are landing new client deals - flashy and shiny sells.
However, many clinicians (and dare I say physicians in particular) while normally highly intelligent, are actually very "challenged" users of technology. Changes that are straightforward in the business world are a complete no-go in HIT. Many large healthcare entities will actually draw into contractual language th
You forgot the BEST part.
YES, Your LIFE does depend on it !!
Millions of lives depend the crap software(as you say) that is being pushed. They are far too many articles describing the multitudes of failures with EMR, and hospital software. Yet the majority of dumbasses really believe this will work. Try this at home. Try to get a copy of your credit report. Is it wrong...super. Now try to FIX it!. Think a credit report applies only to getting a loan? Think again, try to get a new job.
Now think of the
And yet, EMRs also *save* lives, by reducing medical errors.
As with nearly all technology implementations, there are multiple dimensions in which things change. When examining security issues with EMRs, people get frightened about the fact that if someone just broke into the system at ONE point, they could get access to EVERYONE's records... which is true. However, that's no different from now, where someone could slip into the chart room (which is usually locked, but doors have to open sometime) and have
Now, the reason, though, that he gives for this is that a private corporation owns his data in the present system, but if the government owned, then, somehow, he'd own it more.
That's the crazy thing. There's no such thing as "public ownership".
I visited Washington DC a while back. I stood on the Mall. I stood on the Lincoln Memorial. I own a piece of it. So do you. I ran my fingers down the names on the black Wall, and I knew that my family had bought a piece of it at the cost of blood. I looked up at the top of that giant obelisk and knew that Washington had given me a piece of it. I walked through Arlington. I for damn sure own a piece of that.
Yes, if the government owns it, you absolutely own it more. You own it more because there's a huge difference between being a citizen and being a customer. I own it more because generations of my kin have stood in uniform and fought and bled for it.
If there's truly no such thing as "public ownership," then why is my family pulling on uniforms and strapping on guns to fight for it?
You don't own any of it.
If you own something then you can sell it.
Try and sell 'your share' of the Washington memorial.
You family protected the nation. The nation government used to mind its own business (courts, national defense, some infrastructure...nothing else) and mostly leave us alone.
You can say you have a stake in the commons, but that is nothing like ownership.
With businesses you can choose which company you deal with. Government pretty much always grants itself a monopoly.
If you own something then you can sell it.
This right here, ladies and gentlemen. This is the cancer that's killing
"If you own something then you can sell it."
There are lots of things you can own, but not sell. Some things you can only sell under certain very limited circumstances, other things not at all. There is an infinite variety of property arrangements, and trying to define property to be just one, simple (ideologically loaded I guess) concept is meaningless. Try reading a book about the philosophy of law and property one day. You might learn something.
I visited Washington DC a while back. I stood on the Mall. I stood on the Lincoln Memorial. I own a piece of it.
Do you? Really? Can you sell your piece of it, or give it away? Can you take your piece somewhere else, or destroy it if you feel like it? If not, you sure have a funny definition of "own".
There's a lot of good reasons to adopt open source in health care. For one, the creation of a single standard document for representing a medical history would go a long way towards enabling applications across the medical spectrum to coexist.
This is exactly right, and a bit wrong. We don't need open SOURCE code, we need STANDARDS and DATA STRUCTURES. I don't care if GE writes the database and front end using FORTRAN or Visual Basic. But we do need commonality in the record so that the GE system can ta
That's great for a data/transmission standard, but another big problem is proprietary databases. Every application has it's own "under-the-hood" storage structure. Imagine if there was a standardized database structure, don't you think that would go a long way towards better interoperability and communication?
No, I don't think a common data storage schema would promote better interoperability. I think a correct data exchange standard will promote this, and vendors will implement data storage and business logic independently.
The problem is that HL7 v 2.x is too "loose" of a standard. It's not particularly descriptive, and both vendors and healthcare organizations have had to stretch the HL7 protocol in order to make it useful.
HL7 3.0 and the RIM have gone a long way towards fixing many of the problems with 2.x. However, 3.0 is not ratified, and there is not straightforward mapping between 2.x and 3.0. This makes it a challenge for vendors and healthcare organizations to leverage 3.0.
HIT is a conservative, slow moving vertical. We'll see gradual movement towards better interop on the wire, and we'll go from there. The RDBMS (or, in some cases OODBMS) is not the place to tackle this issue.
I heard the idea of a seperate internet proposed, especially for healthcare traffic, optimized for images and wild DB queries for genes and records and disease information content and pharmacy data... a whole new cloud.
Fantasy? Maybe, but I think bigger companies have a better sense of what's working
If you buy e.g. an installation of MS Office, then you own merely th
Similar for medical software - you could direct the spending so that you'll get extra features in the short-term and keep paying for them in the long-term. Alternatively you could pay to have it created under GPL license, and in the future you could always get competing bids when it comes to add features to the software, and you could add additional installations without further licensing costs.
Exactly. For our non-profit organization, which operates six clinics and two mobile units, EMR/PM bids are coming in at half a million for the first year and $200k and up each year after. The costs scale with our size, too; if we start seeing more patients or hire more doctors, we pay more for our EMR. This means we can't even *think* about switching to electronic records until we've secured funding for at least a few years, while we build that into the budget and our indirect cost agreements.
If instead,
For one, the creation of a single standard document for representing a medical history would go a long way towards enabling applications across the medical spectrum to coexist.
This document type does exist. Please review the emerging HL7 v3 documentation. Pay particular attention to CDA/CCD.
The bottom line is that once there is convergence around interoperability, which proprietary EMR solution a Healthcare Organization utilizes matter much less less. Prior to CCHIT and changes in STARK, vendors had little incentive to develop interoperable solutions - vendor lock-in is part of the HIT business model.
For once, the government is actually driving positive change into an industry
I've seen PHR to EMR interoperability, but very little EMR to EMR. The Social Security Administration is also doing an enormous amount of work to leverage the NHIN to pass CDA content for disability eligibility, but that's a payor/eligibility type relationship, kinda sorta.
RHIOs were supposed to be the "grass roots" mechanism to get this going, but while there have been some marginally successful RHIOs, most of them are funded by grant money. Without a mechanism to monetize this data exchange, there's lit
The problem with your response is that you have no knowledge of the economic and legal concept called public goods [wikipedia.org]. Look it up. Public ownership and public property in fact exists in order to provide benefits that are non-rivaled and non-excludable.
Health services should be just that non-rivaled and non-excludable. If you turn health care, or heath insurance for that matter, into a profit-seeking growth industry you get just what you have in the United States - expensive and tremendously inefficient system
The people building health information sharing networks have taken this into consideration and have designed "translators" for all the health record formats.
I'm peripherally attached to the team working on the first state-wide health information network (in Maryland), so I can tell you a lot of these problems have already been solved long ago
Quick, what's the proper race code to send in PID-10? What about PID-17 (that was a fun one to standardize)? Not to mention the mess with PID-18, PID-2 and PID-3 across disparate systems, and every mind-boggling combination of ways that different systems treat persons, encounters, orders, results, reports, and images.
Basically, the government will have to throw out or severely limit the use of most medical software, and enforce its replacement with something standard if they want to make health informatio
So in other words, it's required in every system older than 5 years, and an error in any system newer?
Basically, the government will have to throw out or severely limit the use of most medical software, and enforce its replacement with something standard if they want to make health information electronically available to any provider.
Which is what the government has done (more than once) with existing billing software, by specifying (and then updating) standards for electronic health care claims and related transactions under the HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets rule. (These standards aren't open, but they
ie, one central standard to which all insurance companies' individual crap should be translatable by, say 2011.
And mandate that the insurance companies must handle the translation themselves.
Why do people keep talking about insurance companies? Their stuff has been computerized forever. TFA and most of the discussion is about medical records in the clinic or hospital setting.
It has to do with insurance only peripherally, in that one of the driving forces behind digitization of medical records is to ease the billing process through better coding of medical procedures and reducing after-the-fact data entry, but being able to do billing from your system in an integrated fashion is a standard fea
... I thought for a second that Slashdot had again updated its interface. Then I realized that this is a random internet rant. Really, not much different from a NYT or WSJ rant, but those at least pretend to have outside expert sources.
Yes, I would like Medical institutions to use GPL'ed software. Yes, I'm disappointed that the government still doesn't think that software freedom and dumb pipes are the keys to a networked future. But am I surprised? No, not really.
I really don't care who makes/manages the software, as long as the file format, and method's of talking to it are standardized, public, and open.
Healthcare is dominated by application vendors who each make their own megaplatform for healthcare records. Cerner, Meditech, Siemens, et al. are all trying to keep as much of their system closed as possible, and aren't particularly interested in opening it up to third party systems. They don't particularly want open interfaces, their goal is to keep their customer locked in as much as possible.
So the healthcare IT companies get what they want, i.e. a bigger push for electronic records, selling the software they already have.
The stimulas package isn't going to add an open spec for EMR because nobody in the healthcare industry is bringing it up that they want one.
Healthcare is dominated by application vendors who each make their own megaplatform for healthcare records. Cerner, Meditech, Siemens, et al. are all trying to keep as much of their system closed as possible, and aren't particularly interested in opening it up to third party systems. They don't particularly want open interfaces, their goal is to keep their customer locked in as much as possible.
So the healthcare IT companies get what they want, i.e. a bigger push for electronic records, selling the softwa
At least down here in Texas, any grant money funded through DSHS [state.tx.us] as well as HRSA [state.tx.us] at the federal level have specific sections that state that any system proposed that makes use of the VistA [va.gov] system will receive higher consideration to getting funded above any proprietary solution. Unfortunately the available solutions are still very high risk and many hospitals and other healthcare entities really don't like the look and feel when compared against proprietary browser-based systems.
Unemployment would quadruple overnight if 90% of the "Medical" staff at a hospital were no longer needed to do paperwork for the insurance companies.
Hell no, make more paperwork not less, the country needs jobs.
I know you're only half serious. But in the short term, the number of people employed by the changeover to the new records systems is going to dramatically outweigh the number of people that the new systems make unnecessary. It's only once the systems start coming online that the carnage begins.
What really pisses me off is that there's a price to pay in cash, assuming the doctor won't cut you a discount, is MORE than the insurance price! The insurer will take their sweet ass time to pay the doc (I've seen over a year!) and yet, if I pay NOW, it costs more! I tell you doctors are pretty stupid when it comes to business!
While I have no idea if the practice is universal, my mother works as an insurance coder for a doctor's office and I know for a fact that in all the practices she's ever worked in (3 over the last 15 years), the exact opposite of this has been true. If you have insurance, they'll bill at a higher rate because they know that the insurance will pay up (and sometimes they'll even bill the insurance company for what they can get and so long as they get back a reasonable amount they drop the remaining unpaid po
It sounds like you're being ignored because you're coming off as bombastic and shrill.
I have no doubt that you feel passionately about patient care, open source software, open standards, EMR and the range of other issues that come into play, but I also get the sense that you're unlikely to change your position or find a middle path, given that large healthcare companies already occupy a lot of the thought-space. As I listen to you, I get the sense that you see the pool as having already been peed in, and ma
Page 488 of the ARRA [loc.gov]:
(b) STUDY AND REPORT ON AVAILABILITY OF OPEN SOURCE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS.
(A) IN GENERAL. - The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall, in consultation with the Under Secretary for Health of the Veterans Health Administration, the Director of the Indian Health Service, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, conduct a study on -
(i) the current availability of open source health information technology systems to Federal safety net providers (including small, rural providers);
(ii) the total cost of ownership of such systems in comparison to the cost of proprietary commercial products available;
(iii) the ability of such systems to respond to the needs of, and be applied to, various populations (including children and disabled individuals); and
(iv) the capacity of such systems to facilitate interoperability.
(B) CONSIDERATIONS. - In conducting the study under subparagraph (A), the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take into account the circumstances of smaller health care providers, health care providers located in rural or other medically underserved areas, and safety net providers that deliver a significant level of health care to uninsured individuals, Medicaid beneficiaries, SCHIP beneficiaries, and other vulnerable individuals.
(2) REPORT. - Not later than October 1, 2010, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to Congress a report on the findings and the conclusions of the study conducted under paragraph (1), together with recommendations for such legislation and administrative action as the Secretary determines appropriate.
I'm planning on using this to justify why we're applying for ARHQ research funding for implementation of a non-CCHIT certified product... we're just trying to help them research open source options.
This article is not in any dialect of english that I know of. Can anyone out there translate this for us?
I recently got delayed in an airport, and sat next to a Canadian doctor.
The discussion led to what I work with and hence Open Source. He said that doctors in Canada use open source software. So I looked it up and found OSCAR [oscarcanada.org] which is indeed open source.
No proprietary lock-in for formats, no vendor lock in, and minimal costs.
All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly

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A sprawling property at Mount Kembla will go under the hammer today, severing ties with a pioneering family who have lived there for 116 years.
Master baker Henry James Graham bought the 2.3 hectare site on Cordeaux Road - just up the road from his shop - in 1896. His son Harry Graham, also a baker, became Wollongong's first mayor in 1947.
Granddaughter Coralie Barr, 80, an award-winning artist who co-owns the property with her sister, Kathleen, a retired teacher, said they had lived on the property all their lives and she was "a wreck" even thinking about the sale.
"I know it's time to go but I don't want to," she said, "I'll miss most its spirituality, its serenity and peace."
Ms Barr's house, one of four on the property, is built on the site where her grandfather lived and it still retains the original sandstone chimney.
She and her sister grew up in the second house just metres away after their mother, Kathleen Maude Graham, married William Barr. The Barr sisters never married.
Coralie is well known in art circles, winning recognition as a finalist in the 1973 Archibald Prize with a portrait of Wollongong journalist Ethel Hayton.
In the 1980s, '90s and early 2000s, she converted two rooms in her house into the Graham Gallery, one of the few in the region at the time.
Ms Barr was born in 1932, after her grandfather died, but she has vivid memories of the bakery run by her uncle and ex-Wollongong mayor Harry Graham.
"As a child I used to go down the road to get the bread each morning and I'd pick out the delicious centre by the time I arrived home - I've never tasted bread like it since," she recalled.
Also on the property are two original miner's cottages and the burnt-out remains of what was once the Windy Gully Workmen's Club, which was the second oldest licensed gambling club outside Sydney between 1895 to 1905, operating as a full casino.
Phil Donaldson, 65, who spent his first six years on the property in one of the miner's cottages his family rented, said the property was significant in Mount Kembla history.
"One of the main rites of passage for young boys back then was to ride shotgun on Harry Graham's bread cart led by old Nell the draught horse," he said.
"I remember it as an idyllic lifestyle for a kid, running wild in the bush."
What was formerly known as Soldiers Road was renamed Harry Graham Drive in 1974 in honour of the early mayor.
Raine and Horne agent Joe Casarotto declined to reveal the reserve on today's auction but said he expected four serious bidders to attend.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:01 pm
Guilty plea in US Virgin Islands corruption case
The Associated Press
Alvin Williams Jr. entered the plea to racketeering, one of nine charges he faced after he was indicted by a grand jury in November. He faces up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine as well as forfeiture penalties and restitution.
Williams, 34, acknowledged that he attempted to bribe an official to steer business to a company owned by his father and to soliciting bribes from developers in the U.S. Caribbean territory. The former politician also admitted that he demanded salary kickbacks from his legislative staff and to having staff members do his coursework for an online college degree from the University of Phoenix.
Williams, whose term in the territorial legislature expired Monday, appeared downcast as he entered his plea in federal court in St. Thomas. Defense attorney Gordon Rhea said he accepts responsibility.
"He does not offer excuses or blame others. He accepts responsibility for what he has done," Rhea said. "He has let the public down and he apologizes for it."


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Former NBA star Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues offered words of encouragement Wednesday at Davidson County Community College.
"The game of basketball is about positions. If you understand your position and your effectiveness, you will be able to play. People are afraid to be successful for whatever reasons. They're afraid to take that step and step outside the box. When you're faced with certain situations … fight. Never give up. "
Those words of encouragement came from former NBA star Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues on Wednesday at Davidson County Community College. As part of the Campus Speaker Series for March, Bogues talked on the theme "Succeed on Your Own Terms."
"When you stop believing, that's when it's over," Bogues, 48, told the crowd of nearly 200 in the Conference Center. "I'm so thankful and grateful. No one believed I was going to accomplish the things I accomplished. You can be whatever you want to be.
"You have to understand who you are. I encourage you to find you and be honest with yourself. Give yourself an opportunity. Believe. Dream. Visualize it. Stay on the path. You can be what you want to be. You control your own destiny. You are either a dreamer or you like to dream. I was a dreamer. My dream was to play the game of basketball. I started taking steps toward that. I saw the vision. I'm in control of my own destiny. Once I realized that, I was unstoppable."
He shared a little background information on growing up in Baltimore as the youngest of four children. He received his first basketball at the age of 3. At the age of 5, he was shot during a fight that had nothing to do with him in the alley outside of his house. Bogues said he was just being nosey and was a bystander when he was shot with a double-barrel shotgun.
He said that experience and others gave him not only a sense of confidence but a different outlook on life. He said that moment allowed him to move negativity outside of his mind.
"It seems so easy, but it wasn't," he said. "I was always this little kid. It was a challenge. I didn't know what obstacles were at that time. I was just a small kid that wanted to play basketball."
He made reference to his father living an illegal lifestyle and going to prison for 20 years when he was 12 years old. His mother worked hard as a single parent to provide for the family. Bogues noted that he grew up with tough love.
"I had to go out there and believe in myself," he said. "No matter what you're given … believe in you. I kept pushing."
Bogues, a former Wake Forest University athlete, was in the 1987 NBA draft. He played with the Washington Bullets, Charlotte Hornets, Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors during his 14-year NBA career. He retired from professional play ranking No. 16 among all-time assist leaders in the league, according to a news release.
"I had such a journey … I would not change anything. It was educational. Wake was the school for me. I could have not made a better decision. Wake Forest made me the man I am today. Everything I learned … went through … I had to go through to be who I am today. Through the grace of God, he allowed me to come in touch with so may people."
Bogues said he had to ignore critics talking about his 5-3 stature and just prove them wrong even though the odds were against him. He had discovered that basketball was his outlet where he could block out everything else going on in the world.
"I always made sure once the ball went up in the air, I got the last laugh," he said. "You have good people. You have bad people. We are equal because education is the key. The game of basketball just gave me so much. It gave me an education, a lifestyle and (taught me) how to conduct myself as a citizen."
After the NBA, Bogues has worked in the real estate business and is a partner with Underwood Specialty Advertising doing promotional advertising. He even served as the head coach of the Charlotte Sting in the Women's National Basketball Association at one time. Recently, Bogues has worked with the Charlotte Bobcats as team ambassador and radio announcer.
Bogues signed autographs and took pictures with students before leaving. For students like Dylan Beck, who is on the basketball team at DCCC, hearing Bogues was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. He said it was nice to meet Bogues after watching him play for the Hornets for years.
"It means a lot to me," he said. "He shows that as long as you believe in yourself, anything is possible. If you have a passion for something, you can definitely make it your trade. It's an honor to be in his presence."
Bogues is the men's basketball coach for United Faith Christian Academy in Charlotte. For more than 20 years, Bogues has been spreading the message that anything is possible both on and off the court.
"We all are God's gift," he said. "We have to appreciate what God has given us. I have more appreciation of where I've been and where I'm from. I'm thankful God chose me. He made me recognize what my gift was early. He gives all of us a gift. When you have an understanding of what your gift is … you can go places."
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If you've been waiting for the right time to bite on Left 4 Dead 2, your patience has paid off. Valve has just released a hefty new update, just as it puts the game on sale for 75% off. This also comes among a tease of several new L4D-related updates coming soon.
The Cold Stream update is a community created campaign in which you'll battle zombies while avoiding a watery grave. The update is free, and also includes the L4D1 campaigns Blood Harvest, Crash Course, Dead Air, and Death Toll. Meanwhile, you can also now play with all Mutations all the time. The Xbox 360 version will be updating soon as well, but will require the Passing DLC for access to the Mutations.
Other announcements include L4D2 as a Games on Demand title on Xbox 360, the impending release of the game on Linux, a Minecraft-inspired community campaign, survivor skins coming to the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, and the addition of the characters to the Source Film Maker.
If you're tempted to get the game, be advised that it's $4.99 for roughly the next 24 hours on Steam. You would be wise not to wait.


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MRR Movie Review: Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
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Movie Review: "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning"
-- Rating: R
Length: 114 minutes
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Directed By: John Hyams
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller
"Universal Soldier" didn't launch the career of Jean-Claude Van Damme, but it certainly helped make the actor a household name. That film, which grossed more than $36 million in the United States alone, led to three sequels: "Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms," "Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business," and "Universal Soldier: Regeneration." Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, who starred in the original, skipped the first two sequels before returning for the third, and now the duo is back together in "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning."
The original film focused on Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) and Andrew Scott (Lundgren), two Vietnam War soldiers who fought to the death before being reanimated at a top secret laboratory. In the "Universal Soldier: Regeneration," the government creates a cloned version of Scott that once again attacks Deveraux, leading to another epic battle.
"Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" introduces a few new characters, including John (Scott Adkins, "The Expendables 2"). The film opens with the man waking from a long coma to discover that someone brutally murdered his family. John suffers dark visions, which make him believe that Deveraux killed his daughter and wife. After meeting Deveraux and Scott, he begins to have different visions that make him wonder which of his memories are real.
Director John Hymas is a man who understands the world of action. His past credits include the last film in the franchise, "One Dog Day," "Dragon Eyes," and "Fight Day." He brings his experiences to this film, which will appeal to fans of the series and those new to the world of "Universal Soldier." It manages to include the action that fans really want, with the emotion and backstory missing from the previous films.
Lundgren and Van Damme are no strangers to action flicks, and the two recently teamed up for the hit film "The Expendables 2," which is slightly more entertaining than this one. Van Damme is no longer the strong and youthful thirty-something that he was when filming the first one, and time was not kind to the actor. Though he can still battle with the young guns, some viewers might wince once or twice when he tries to move as smoothly as he once did. Many fans know Van Damme for his high kicks and lower body strength, but the film expects more from him, which he sometimes fails to deliver. Lungdren, who is now in his mid-fifties, has the same problems when it comes to action scenes. He doesn't seem to move with the same grace and speed as he did in the first film.
That might be why director Hymas brought in the character of John. Adkins is a strong actor who gained fame portraying the role of Uri in the "Undisputed" franchise. The actor began studying martial arts as a teen, and he won several major competitions over the course of his career. His fact pace and bold moves are a far cry from those offered by other actors in the film. Adkins is also entertaining to watch, and he is often a better actor than Lundgren or Van Damme. It wouldn't be surprising if Adkins takes over the franchise after this one.
That is not to say that "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" lacks any value. When Van Damme lifts his leg over his head to deliver a kick into the face of a villain, his fans will remember the expertise that he showed in previous films. In "The Expendables 2," he played an almost characterized version of himself, but in this film, he gets back to what he does best. Lundgren also has his moments in the film, putting more heart and emotion into his scenes than he did in recent films.
The link between the "Universal Soldiers" films is the antagonistic relationship between Deveraux and Scott, and that continues in this one. Anyone who has ever seen the first or last film will eagerly await a showdown between the two characters. While Van Damme and Lundgren move a little slower, no one will be disappointed when they finally face each other off.
Fans looking for a classic story centering on the two main characters from the previous films might find themselves a little disappointed. Though Van Damme and Lundgren get top billing in the film, their scenes primarily occur at the beginning and the end. The director instead focuses on Adkins, but given his strength in the film, that might be a good thing. "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" serves as the perfect film to introduce a new character to the franchise while still paying respect to the characters who made the series a hit.
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'Canes hang tough early, but fall to Prout
The Warwick Vets boys' soccer team made things interesting in the first half of Thursday's showdown with Prout, but it couldn't get anything going in the second.
The 'Canes lost 4-1, as Prout got two goals from Doug Buonanno to seal the deal.
Vets' goal came off the foot of Justin Batista in the first, and the score was 1-1 at the half. But, in the second half, Prout scored three times. Besides the two goals from Buonnano, Jerry Krah and Sam Torrejon also tallied one apiece to put Prout out in front.
Mike Riccitelli made seven saves in net for Vets, which fell to 0-9-1 with the loss. It will be back in action today when it hosts Pilgrim at 7 p.m.
Warwick Beacon photo by William Geoghegan.
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WFP food assistance is helping make sure that displaced children like Shahzad can lead dignified lives until the time comes when they can go back to their lives and homes.
SWABI -- Shahzad Ali, 11, wants to be a doctor when he grows up. It's a common dream in this part of the world. Shahzad is so far-sighted, even in the sixth grade of school, that he has already decided to specialize in orthopedic medicine.
But he is now a long way from his school and his studies. Like tens of thousands of people from Buner and its neighboring Swat valley, his family has been forced to flee by the worsening security situation and military operations.
"We have had to leave Buner, where we were happy, and we are living a miserable life," said Shahzad, as he sat disconsolately on two bags of wheat at one of the humanitarian hubs established by WFP in the Swabi district south of Buner. Swabi is one of the districts where many of the displaced people (IDPs) from Swat, Buner and Dir are arriving.
Food reaching IDPs
As he waited for his father to take away the food rations they had been given, Shahzad admitted that things could be worse and that food assistance was reaching most IDPs.
But he was clearly worried, feeling his future was at stake and he should be in his classroom.
In order to meet the needs of IDPs in the immediate crisis, WFP is dispatching record amounts of wheat, wheatflour, rice, sugar and pulses for distribution through the humanitarian hubs and in the IDP camps.
Humanitarian hubs
At the Kunda Mor hub, also in Swabi, Ikram Hashmi stopped to talk for a moment as he carried his family's food rations on his shoulder. He was satisfied with the support provided to his family but complained that people have to wait in long queues to get their food.
Some 22 humanitarian hubs are dotted across the North West Frontier Province with five in the Swabi district. More points are to be opened soon in various districts of the province.
Meanwhile, a food bank has been set up in Azakhel, near Peshawar, to collect the many in-kind contributions of food that are coming from Pakistani citizens, companies and government authorities.


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HUNTLEY – An author presentation and book signing with eight-time Christy Award winner Lynn Austin will run from 10 to 11 a.m. March 9 at the Huntley Area Public Library, 11000 Ruth Road.
Austin will talk about her novel "Wonderland Creek," based on the true story of Kentucky's Pack Horse Librarians during the Great Depression.
She will read excerpts from the novel and use the story to talk about her writing process.
Registration is required and can be done by calling 847-669-5386, ext. 21.


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Med Student Heads to Clinton Global Initiative University Conference to Present Text Messaging Software
- 04-08-2013
- By Erin E Post
What if texting – the obsessive communication mode of teens and young adults – could help prompt patients to stay on track with medication for chronic conditions like high blood pressure, HIV, diabetes, or other illnesses?
University of Vermont medical student Luke Neill, Class of 2016, is working with his long-time friend, Sam Meyer, on software that will do just that – give pharmacists and other healthcare providers a way to reach patients on a device they use all of the time – their cell phones. This low-cost idea could empower patients to take charge of their health, help to avoid additional problems or potentially life-threatening complications, and reduce the public health cost of medical non-compliance, which is estimated to total about $100 to $300 billion annually in the U.S. alone.
Although smartphone and computer applications for inputting personal medication information already exist, this software allows doctors and pharmacists to set up the messages and track compliance data. Meyer is working on the programming; Neill is developing the specific functions that will be useful for providers and patients. As a service that's free to patients, this system is meant to reach populations that might not otherwise have access to such support.
"There's a large problem in the U.S. with medication adherence," Neill says. "We want to address that in a way that's cost-effective."
This month, the pair will have the chance to present their project at the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, held April 5 to 7, 2013. Social activists, celebrities, political leaders, and experts in technology, business, and other fields – including former President Bill Clinton himself – come to this meeting to learn and support innovative ideas from students. Last year, more than 1,000 students from all 50 states were invited attend.
All invitees create a "Commitment to Action" that is specific and measureable, and geared to help on any scale – from the local to the global.
"Access to basic health information and instruction is one of the primary obstacles to improving healthcare globally," Neill states in his Commitment to Action. "By leveraging the simplicity and ubiquity of text messages, I will be able to provide patients who lack the typical healthcare infrastructure with relevant and specific instruction and support."
Neill's and Meyer's HIPAA-compliant software program allows patients to enroll at the pharmacy and then begin receiving text messages that help them understand their medications and implications for their health. The messages are not simply reminders, Neill says; they are designed to monitor behavior patterns and change habits as well.
"The best part is that we can contextualize the feedback and give it to them," says Neill. Providers also benefit from aggregate data on compliance. Eventually, the goal is to make the software available in developing countries where access to other technology is limited, but cell phone use is widespread.
Neill set up a pilot to test the software with first-year students at the College of Medicine and help work out any bugs prior to the Clinton conference; next he plans to network with local pharmacists for a trial. All of these efforts come with a price tag – ultimately Neill and Meyer will be faced with applying for FDA approval, which can be a costly legal process. Neill said he's been in contact with some foundations and non-profits interested in helping support the cause.
The Clinton Global Initiative University could be beneficial on the financial front as well: More than $400,000 in seed funding is available to attendees. Neill's commitment has also been selected for recognition prior to a panel discussion on Ensuring Medication Safety, as an exemplary approach to addressing a global public health challenge.
"It'll be great to be at the conference and constantly surrounded by people with motivations I share," Neill says. "Great ideas will come out of it."
A Lake Placid, N.Y. native who attended UVM as an undergrad, Neill says he's also hoping to build a connection between UVM and the Clinton Global Initiative University for future students. "I'm really grateful to the UVM College of Medicine," Neill said. "I'm representing the College at the conference."


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Marketplace for Monday, November 5, 2012
Kai Ryssdal speaks with former Minnesota governor and former presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty about the election and his new role as the head of the Financial Services Roundtable. Estimates say a combined $6 billion has been spent on the presidential campaigns by President Obama and Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, the power outages in New York caused by Superstorm Sandy have left many that use food stamps helpless and hungry. We look at Sandy's effect on the holiday retail season. And the newest reality show on Bravo shines a light on Silicon Valley.


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Submission + - Microsoft Getting Cooler 1
jones_supa writes: Microsoft is getting hip again, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, but Google with Android still the coolest kid in school, Apple doing great as well. The polling organization asked the US's finest 18 and 29-year-olds what the coolest tech brands are, allowing them to give a 'thumb up' for brands they liked. Interestingly, for the first time in a long while around half answered Microsoft. The opinion was that Microsoft is cooler now than it was a year or two ago. 'It's more customizable, and not as rigid as an Apple phone, where you have to buy all the products from Apple. If you want a ringtone, you don't have to pay iTunes. I know Apple is the cool, hip brand right now, but if Microsoft keeps coming out with new tech I'm sure it'll be back soon.', Josh Johnson, a 24-year-old media arts student at the University of South Carolina commented. Although 'coolness' remains, at best, an amorphous concept, consumer perceptions are pivotal in determining the longevity of products, particularly in the fast-moving consumer electronics industry. The survey 'definitely shows that Microsoft's efforts are paying off, but we'll have to see how cool translates into customers,' said Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg.


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I would like to post a comment about the dice and the way the roll out comes. I dont want to sound like a cry baby about not being fair or that I am just upset because of my loses. I do realize that I am not the most strategic person on this site, but not the worse neither. But with that said, I really would like to sugguest that the dice be revamped. I have continuously called out wheather or not I would win a roll, and what the dice are before I roll them. I am with out exaggerating, about 80% correct. I called out 10 straight dice rolls and losses in more then 1 game. I do not know what the amswer. But I feel I have wasted $25.
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> I am thinking in install a new Linux Distribution in a Proventia IDS.
> I don't find any documentation, have anyone tried?
Which exact model is it?
It will probably work, the Proventia firmware is based on linux anyways
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Lovella Maxwell, 90
Lovella "Lucille" Maxwell, 90, of Osgood, passed away Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at the Waters of Clifty Falls in Madison. She was born at Delmar in Pulaski County, Ky. on Nov. 25, 1922 the daughter of Zeno and Clyda Floyd Sharp.She was married to James Dunagan on Dec. 24, 1940 and he preceded her in death on Sept. 16, 1958. In 1963, she married Harry Maxwell and he preceded her in death on March 1, 1997.Surviving relatives include six sons, Orville (Vickie) Dunagan of Madison, Hubert (Shirley) Dunagan of Whitehouse, Tenn., James (Phyllis) Dunagan of Scipio, Farris (Judy) Dunnagan and Larry (Connie) Dunagan, both of Osgood, and Kurt (Melissa) Dunagan of Benham; two daughters, Teresa (Garry) Ingram of Columbia City and Angela Dunagan of North Vernon; 22 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; 14 great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Ivan Sharp and James (Creta) Sharp, both of Miamisburg, Ohio; and two sisters-in-law, Lois Sharp of Berne and Gladys Sharp of Boswell. She was also preceded in death by her parents and her brothers Roy, Ralph, and Parker Sharp.Mrs. Maxwell grew up in southern Kentucky where she learned to love cooking and canning at an early age. She also enjoyed her family, farming, gardening and watching her hummingbirds. She retired in 1979 from the Muscatatuck State Developmental Center where she worked as a dietitian. Lovella was a member of the Osgood United Methodist Church and the Osgood-Versailles Chapter of the Eastern Star.Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Stratton-Karsteter Funeral Home in Versailles with Rev. Ginny Hizer of the Osgood United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will follow at a later date at the Mill Springs National Cemetery in Nancy, Ky. Visitation will be Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. with Eastern Star services to be conducted at 7:30 p.m. Memorials may be given to the Hospice of South Central Indiana or the Osgood United Methodist Church in care of the funeral home.


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ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The Montgomery County Board of Education has voted to bar nonprofit groups from distributing fliers to middle and high school students after protests over leaflets sent home with students.
The Washington Post reports the 6-1 vote Monday will ban the distribution of leaflets from any outside group except government agencies or PTAs.
The distribution of fliers drew protests in February after many students and educators considered some leaflets sent home to be anti-gay. The fliers were sent by the group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays, saying homosexuality is not innate and can be changed.
Schools Superintendent Joshua Starr called the message intolerant. He says it was important to rethink the flier policy.
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Quinney College of Natural Resources Honors Top Scholars
Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013
New York native Chelsea DeMarco is the 2013 Quinney College of Natural Resources Valedictorian and Scholar of the Year.
Clayton Handy, an Idaho native, is the Quinney College of Natural Resources' nominee for the university's Legacy of Utah State Award. He is also the college's Undergraduate Teaching Fellow of the Year.
Utah State University's S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources recognized outstanding students, faculty and staff at a March 23, 2013, awards banquet in the Stevenson Ballroom of the Taggart Student Center on campus.
"We're proud of these outstanding scholars and applaud their achievements," said Chris Luecke, professor and dean of the college.
Chelsea DeMarco is valedictorian and the college's Scholar of the Year. Konrad Hafen was recognized as the college's Peak Prize Undergraduate Researcher of the Year.
Hesper Kohler was named College of Natural Resources Outstanding Senior and Department of Environment and Society Outstanding Senior. Chance Broderius was honored as Outstanding Senior for the Department of Watershed Sciences.
George Fawson is Outstanding Senior for the Department of Wildland Resources. Fawson was also chosen by his classmates to receive the Jardine Juniper Award, an honor given to the student who has made the biggest impact on the college through student organization involvement.
Clayton Handy is the college's nominee for the university's Legacy of Utah State Award. Handy was also honored as the college's Undergraduate Teaching Fellow of the Year.
Elizabeth Kirkham was honored as College of Natural Resources Student Senator for the 2012-13 academic year and served as master of ceremonies for the event.
Rodrigo Ferreira was named Graduate Research Assistant of the Year and Jonathan Meyer was honored as Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year.
Among the college's faculty and staff, David Koons was honored as both Researcher of the Year and Teacher of the Year. Mark Brunson was named Advisor of the Year and Zhao Ma was honored as Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year. Marsha Bailey was named Employee of the Year.
Current Quinney Scholars are undergraduates Patrick Adams, Amanda Cox, Mark Devey, Katherine Fisher, Stephanie Hall, Konrad Hafen, Kourtney Blanc Harding, Nicholas Kaczmarczyk, Shane Kitchen, Hesper Kohler, Quinn Larson, Denton Nielson, Kari Norman, Benjamin Poulsen, Amy Rohman, Kirsten Schiel, Olivia Schwanda, Heather Shipp, Molly Van Engelenhoven, Audree Van Valkenburg and Sarah Woodbury. Current Quinney Fellows are graduate students Aldo Compagnoni, Kelly Goonan, Bryan Kluever, Daniel Kinka, Michel Kohl and Tony Roberts. The students are recipients of scholarship and fellowship programs established by the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation.
Numerous other scholarships and fellowships, many established by the college's alumni, donors, faculty and staff, were awarded at the campus gathering. Recipients include David Baird, Lette Benson, Chloe Bickmore, Kara Bolander, Colin Brady, Justin Brimhall, Jason Brown, DaShell Burnham, Jordan Burningham, Amberly Burrows, Cody Butler, Hadyn Carson, Shanalee Chugg, Andrew Coonan, Ethan DeVilbiss, Cody Edwards, Adam Fisher, Brandon Flack, Joshua Gilbert, Elizabeth Goss, Konrad Hafen, Abigail Hancock, Kourtney Harding, Molly Hocanson, Christopher Holmes, Justin Hanton, Morgan Hughes, Rachael Hunsaker, Kory Ingersoll, Patrick Jackson, Aerika Jepperson, Trenton Knutson, Michel Kohl, Rian Lawrence, Spencer Leavitt, Jordan Lofthouse, Kaylee Lofthouse, McKenna Maxwell, Eric Miller, Lindsey Mortensen, Hannah Nadeau, Gaia Nafzinger, Wesley Newman, Adam Peterson, Dustin Ranglack, Jed Reeder, Bryce Roholt, Natalie Schvaneveldt, Sara Simmons, Jordan Smith, Konnon Smith, Megan Squire, John Steffan, Sarah Stringham, Michaela Stuver, Brad Trauntvine, Bethany Unger, Camille Waters, Heather Winegar and Jason Wood.
The Quinney College of Natural Resources includes the academic departments Environment and Society, Watershed Sciences and Wildland Resources.
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Bringing New Security Features To Docker 29
Czech37 writes SELinux lead Dan Walsh wrote last month that Docker "containers do not contain" and that the host system isn't completely protected. Today, Walsh details the steps that Docker, Red Hat, and the open source community are taking to make Docker more secure: "Basically, we want to put in as many security barriers to break out as possible. If a privileged process can break out of one containment tool, we want to block them with the next. With Docker, we are want to take advantage of as many security components of Linux as possible. If "Docker" isn't a familiar word, the project's website is informative; the very short version is that it's a Linux-based "open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications"; Wikipedia has a good explanation, too.


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'Glee' Reality Show Confirmed
Glee fanatics rejoice. It appears that you'll be getting even more Glee, in the form of a series of reality specials where wanna-Glees will compete for a spot on the popular FOX show. The reality shows are slated to air on the Oxygen network. Stay tuned for info on how to be a competitor.


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Lionsgate has debuted the trailer for their upcoming Texas Chainsaw 3D and you can check it out in the player below, courtesy of iTunes Trailers.
Directed by John Luessenhop and starring Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde, Trey Songz, Gunnar Hansen and many more, the horror project continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hoopers 1974 horror classic left off in Newt, Texas, where for decades people went missing without a trace. The townspeople long suspected the Sawyer family, owners of a local barbeque pit, were somehow responsible. Their suspicions were finally confirmed one hot summer day when a young woman escaped the Sawyer house following the brutal murders of her four friends. Word around the small town quickly spread, and a vigilante mob of enraged locals surrounded the Sawyer stronghold, burning it to the ground and killing every last member of the family or so they thought.
Decades later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young woman named Heather learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansions dank cellars
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What do you call a sheep with no legs?
A cloud.
Doctor! I have a serious problem, I can never remember what i just said.
When did you first notice this problem?
What problem?
Sam: Would you punish me for some thing i didn't do?
Teacher: no, of course not.
Sam: good, because i didn't do my homework
Why won't sharks attack lawyers?
Professional courtesy.
What do you have when a lawyer is buried up to his neck in sand?
Not enough sand.
How many economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. If the light bulb really needed changing, market forces would have already caused it to happen.
Why don't oysters give to charity?
Because they're shellfish.
How can you tell if a redneck is married?
There is tobacco spit stains on BOTH sides of his pickup truck.
A man and a woman were driving down the road arguing about his deplorable fidelity practices when suddenly, the woman reaches over and slices off the mans penis and angrily tosses it out the window of the car.
Driving behind the car is a pickup truck with a man and his 10 year old daughter chatting away beside him. All of the sudden, the penis smacks the pickup in the windshield and flies off.
Surprised, the daughter asks her daddy, "Daddy what in the heck was that ?!?"
Not wanting to expose his 10 year old daughter to sex at such a tender age, the father replies, "It was only a bug, honey."
The daughter gets a confused look on her face, and after a minute, she says. "Sure had a big dick
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Appeals Court (July 13, 2006)
A respondent's due process rights are not violated by a delay between the commencement of the respondent's temporary commitment and the finding of probable cause where the respondent was substantially responsible for the delay.
DYS is an "agency with jurisdiction" under c. 123A, §12(a), and the respondent's juvenile records are admissible in an SDP proceeding.
The respondent was adjudicated delinquent when he was 14 years old for committing rape. While on probation, the respondent committed additional sex offenses and was committed to DYS. The Commonwealth filed an SDP petition. Twenty-nine months after the respondent was temporarily committed, probable cause was found. Four months later, a jury found the respondent SDP.
The respondent appealed, arguing three main issues:
1. Delay
The respondent argued that the 29-month delay violated his due process rights, warranting dismissal of the petition. The Court found that the respondent caused most of the delay by filing repetitive motions to dismiss the petition, requests for changes of counsel, and for continuances. The Court also noted that even if there was undue delay attributable to the Commonwealth, the appropriate remedy would have been release pending the outcome of the probable cause hearing, not dismissal of the petitions. Section 12(e) of the statute does not contemplate dismissal of the petition as a remedy for delay.
2. "Agency with jurisdiction" pursuant to c. 123, §12(a)
The respondent argued that DYS' detention was unlawful and therefore DYS was not an "agency with jurisdiction" pursuant to §12(a). The Court found that DYS is an "agency with jurisdiction." Chapter 123A, §1 defines the term as "the agency with the authority to direct the release of a person presently incarcerated, confined or committed to the department of youth services." The definition refers to the actual fact of incarceration and not the lawfulness of the detention, which is a collateral issue to the SDP proceeding.
3. Juvenile records
The respondent argued that the disclosure and admissibility of the respondent's juvenile records was improper. The Court held that pursuant to c. 123A, §14 (c), juvenile records are admissible at trial. It is implicit in the statute that the district attorney will have access to the juvenile's records in order to make the threshold determination whether to file a petition, and if so, such records are also necessary to conduct the probable cause hearing. The Court also held that to the extent that c. 119, §60 (confidentiality of juvenile records) conflicts with c. 123A, the matter is resolved in favor of disclosure since c. 123A is the newer and more specific statute.


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Please spread to other countries...
There was an article a while back... They applied to be a party in Canada, and they have been approved (don't know if they've actually formed a party yet or not).
I imagine if its a big hit there, and it spreads over here... Well I mean we manage to slip past some of the more Draconian IP laws of the States by putting taxes on blank media and such - I wonder if offering this service to Canada would cause a stir...
Except that with no logs, it's impossible to match an IP to a MAC
(and yes, I know MACs can be spoofed)
That The **AA's are just going to love this idea.
I suspect that they'll just set up bulk mailers to send DMCA notices to this ISP's abuse@ address, every time a new movie, album or anything is released a mail gets sent to firstname.lastname@example.com because no doubt a copy of said work is bound to exist somewhere on their network.
and I bet the Pirate Party and the network engineers and system administrators that they hire will be at least smart enough to straight filter, either at the packet level at the border, or application level on the mail servers, any traffic coming from IP ranges known to belong to the RIAA, MPAA, or constituent organizations. That's what I'd do. Or segment abuse@ off on its own area, let it take the hammering, and spit all the addresses back via feedback loops and get their email black listed. Or... run the mail server on OpenBSD, where spamd is linked to pf, and accept the incoming connections from their mass-mailer at 1bps, thus backlogging the sender and screwing them over (disk i/o issues, etc). Fun stuff like that.
any traffic coming from IP ranges known to belong to the RIAA, MPAA, or constituent organizations.
IMHO, that would be doing exactly what their enemies are doing. Their purpose is to let users access the internet without restrictions. Not to wall-off those things they find evil.
Blocking incoming traffic that isn't in a TCP session already associated with an egress port is not the same thing as filtering internet access for their customers. It's responsible security administration. Besides, how many of their customers do you think even want to have any communication with the RIAA anyway? I'd wager not a lot.
http://thepiratebay.org/legal [thepiratebay.org]
Yes, because the ** Association of America will send DMCA (an American law) notices to a Swedish ISP. You know what the Pirate Bay does with those letters now? They post them up on a page and laugh at them.
Yeah but that does not really stop the **AA's does it?
But isn't it better to trust people with freedom than to treat everyone like criminals?
I'm not sure if you're trolling or trying to be funny but that's just fucking scary.
That's a false dichotomy. You can be allowed freedom to speak while still being able to be found when you use that freedom to engage in criminal activities or to organize acts of terrorist destruction.
If you can be found and punished for that then you can be found and punished when you want to speak out against your government, when you want to say unpopular things, support unpopular positions or organize acts of civil protest.
I'm not going to make assumptions about how long you've been on the internet and what not, but in case you weren't here in the early days, an open and free network is what it was. The sad fact is is that there are enough people who abused the system such that what you have today is the end result.
If you want to make analogies, do it right. There is no "just in case" recording of everything I do in my home so that cops can get a warrant and watch what I did. Even for "live" investigations, there's a high legal barrier before a cop can enter my home. If someone just accuses me of stealing something, it is not sufficient for a warrant. On the internet, with most ISPs, not only is there a record which ties my online activities to my identity, there's also almost no barrier if someone wants to access that information.
logging every site that every user visits through an ISP just in case law enforcement want to check up on it later to see if they're viewing illegal material is like putting a camera in every bedroom just in case law enforcement want to check up on it later to see if you've been raping victims in the room.
an equivalent to a warrant to search your house would be a warrant to search your computer not having your ISP recording everything you view for future inspection.
... people start using it for child pornography transfer and other things that SHOULD be illegal.
This is precisely why these things shouldn't be illegal. At least, possession and transfer of information (including child pornography) shouldn't be illegal. (Of course, abusing children to make child pornography should be illegal, and child pornography itself could very well be evidence of a crime.) The problem is, as soon as you make certain kinds of information illegal, then it would be impossible for ISPs to provide the kind of anonymity many of us would desire. Child pornography makes a wonderful excuse to impose strict data retention laws that affect a wide variety of users.
How much will it be per month? How much can I transfer per month? Is there a time when downloading is unlimited (such as weekends or between 10pm and 8am). Will they throttle the line during peak hours? What speed can I expect?
Logging my BT transfers is the least of my concerns when choosing an ISP.
Swedish ISP's as a rule don't have limits and tend to cost something along the line of $10 to $40 depending on bandwidth and extra services.
We currently pay about 300kr a month for a 30Mb connection. I think that's about 30euro / 25pounds / $40. We don't get throttled and there are no limits as far as I know. BT tends to max out at 3MB/s on popular torrents, lower than that if the swarm isn't big enough to saturate the line.
There are cheaper packages available, and our ISP goes up to 100Mb/s symmetric.
That's going to be fun for the admins when the server falls over and they need to figure out why.
The stupid pirate party and the stupid Swedish government have just handed a huge propaganda victory to the RIAA. Within a week the entire swedish economy will have ground to a halt and terrorists will be overrunning sweden and building WMDs! Then the RIAA will say "We told you so! Look what happens when ordinary people are allowed freedom!"
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Dr. Lee was nominated by the WHO Executive Board for the post of Director-General in January of this year. "The Global Health Council congratulates Dr. J.W. Lee on his nomination, especially in light of his successes in leading the WHO's global efforts to combat tuberculosis and to provide all the world's children with essential immunizations," Dr. Nils Daulaire, President and CEO of the Global Health Council, stated after Dr. Lee's nomination.
In his 19 years in technical, managerial and policy positions at WHO, Dr. Lee has achieved several goals, most notably his fight against two of the greatest challenges to health and development: tuberculosis and vaccine preventable diseases in children. Lee also served as head of the WHO Global Program for Vaccines and Immunizations. In 2000, Lee was appointed director of the Stop TB program, a coalition of more than 250 international partners including WHO member states, donors, non-governmental organizations, industry and foundations.
Born in Seoul, Republic of Korea, Dr. Lee received a Medical Doctor degree (M.D.) from Seoul National University and a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology from UH. He speaks English, Korean and Japanese, and reads French and Chinese. His nomination will be submitted for approval to the 56th World Health Assembly scheduled to meet in May 2003 in Geneva. The new Director-General will take office and start his five-year term in July 2003.


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06-09-2008, 12:13 PMIn another disturbing sign that Sen. John McCain has little interest in reaching out to his conservative base, including evangelical Christian voters, his campaign has declined an offer to meet with the Rev. Billy Graham
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I am a Democrat and a born again Christian. I would drive up to Montreat to meet him. He avoids politics in his sermons. His sermons surround how important it is to know Jesus.
The only place I have seen this is Newsmax.
I want more proof - I bet there's a lot more to the story.
However, we will keep your event in mind should an opportunity present itself in the future.
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06-10-2008, 12:24 AMNewsmax.com reports of a rejection by John McCain to meeting with Dr. Billy Graham have been refuted by representative of both the McCain Campaign and the Billy Graham Association.
"The piece in Newsmax is false. Our campaign has been working directly with Reverend Franklin Graham's office to facilitate an important meeting between John McCain and Reverend Billy Graham. The report's implication that we have 'declined to meet with Billy Graham' is blatantly false, because our campaign has already been working directly with Franklin Graham's office and politely declined Mr. Jacobs' offer to help facilitate a meeting. John McCain has the highest respect for Reverend Billy Graham and looks forward to meeting with him in the future."
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Depends how long your list of "Elite" Quarterbacks is, Flacco is certainly top half of the league and possibly Top 10.
I would only say there's about 4 "Elite" Quarterbacks though and he's not cracking that list.
Depends how long your list of "Elite" Quarterbacks is, Flacco is certainly top half of the league and possibly Top 10.
I would only say there's about 4 "Elite" Quarterbacks though and he's not cracking that list.
Notice how much better Flacco got when Harbaugh made adjustments to the Oline mid-season and they started playing better. All of a sudden Flacco is elite.
Doesn't hurt that he's playing for a contract as well. Players typically perform better in a contract year
No he is not elite.
If he beats SF, yes.
Not elite, but very good and perfectly capable of winning the Super Bowl.
No, and most likely never will be.
Elite? No. Proven himself to be pretty solid in the clutch, absolutely.
Didn't play division I football, didn't play in a pro style offense, wasn't able to beat out journeyman starter at Pitt . Didnt put up the yards or stats that Glennon did either... Honestly a lot more question marks with Flacco.
I feel like the word "elite" is thrown around too easily. Elite is being amongst the best ever, not just because you've won a couple SB's or have played very well for a short period of time. Tom Brady is elite. Payton Manning is elite. Drew Brees is probably elite. Aaron Rodgers is not elite.....yet. Eli Manning is not elite. Joe Flacco is not elite. Matt Ryan is not elite. There are guys who are very good QB's right now, but nobody is elite until their entire body of work is proven over a career.
There's that word again. Elite? Really? Omg, I just watched an ELITE video on youtube while drinking an ELITE glass of root beer.
Kill the word 'elite'. Forever.
There is a difference between playing at an elite level for a couple of games and being an elite quarterback. Flacco has played at an elite level during these playoffs. That does not make him an elite quarterback.
Elite does mean above average it means best of the best. At no time is there more then 3 QBs you can call elite in the league IMO. It varies year to year with injuries and aging. Flacco, Eli, Ryan, and Big Ben are very good starter but not elite. Rodgers and Brady yes Brees or Manning is the 3rd. I'd say Brees but I just like him more.


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- Oh Kil-nam defected from North Korea 25 years ago, but his wife and two daughters remain behind
- South Korean and Swedish governments have tried to intercede on his behalf
- First and only communication from family was in 1991; believed held in notorious prison camp
- "I made such a foolish decision which has caused my family to suffer such hardship"
Oh Kil-nam refuses to keep a single photo of his family in his home. He says it's just too painful.
For more than 25 years, Oh has lived with the guilt of knowing his wife and two daughters are being held against their will in North Korea because of a choice he made.
"I made such a foolish decision," Oh says, "which has caused my family to suffer such hardship in the hands of an outrageous criminal organization. It doesn't help even if I repent, my heart is torn with sorrow."
Oh, a native of South Korea, moved his family to Pyongyang in 1985 despite his wife's reservations on the promise of a good job and free medical treatment for his wife's hepatitis, but when they arrived he realized he had been tricked.
He says there was not a job nor medical help for his wife, just three months of what he calls, "lectures from day to night on North Korea ideology, history and brainwashing." He was then forced to work in a radio station broadcasting propaganda.
Oh was sent to Denmark the following year to lure more South Koreans to the communist state. But when he arrived at customs, Oh handed them a piece of paper asking to defect. Held for two months in detention in Germany, he was questioned by different intelligence agencies, including he says the CIA. He was then freed and moved to South Korea.
But his nightmare had only just begun.
Oh learned his wife and daughters, only aged 6 and 9 when they first moved to North Korea, were sent to a concentration camp as punishment for his defection. In 1991, he received the first and last message from them.
Three black and white photos and recorded messages from his family. Oh and the human rights workers believe they were recorded by North Korean officials as a trap to lure him back.
His youngest daughter says, "I miss you dad, I don't know you and I need to grow up fast so I can help mum and I feel regret but now I can lift water buckets and wood very well." Studying the photos, some defectors have told Oh they believe they were taken in the notorious Yodok concentration camp.
His eldest daughter tells him, "Hi dad, it's Haewon, I dreamt the other day that I was celebrating my birthday with you. I miss you. It's been a while since I said the word father and my tears are falling."
On the tape, his wife wonders when she will see him again.
Oh looks at the photos of his family. Thinking back to when he first received them he shakes his head. "I am ... psychologically and physically, totally destroyed," he says. "I have literally no feeling."
He says he feels helpless and all his hopes now rest with the United Nations and the South Korean President. The UN body on arbitrary detention has petitioned North Korea to release the family, saying their detention is "arbitrary," but the response has not been positive.
Pyongyang claims Oh's wife has already died from her hepatitis and his daughters want nothing to do with him as they say he deserted them. Oh refuses to believe either claim.
South Korea has increased diplomatic pressure on Pyongyang. President Lee Myung bak asked the Swedish King, Carl Gustav for assistance. Sweden has an embassy in Pyongyang and has, in the past, acted as a neutral broker for countries with no presence there.
All Oh can do now is wait -- as he has for the past quarter of a century. And hope he will live to see his daughters freed.
"Every night I have nightmares,' he says. "I'm more than 70 years old now and exhausted but I will stay alive until I can hold my two daughters again."


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:thumbsup: Today's race course turned out to be much better than anticipated after all
the rain that fell last night. Cool, mostly sunny, and not as muddy as my short pre-ride
lead me to believe. I did a quick little spin pre-ride and must have collected about 6lbs
of mud in just the first 1/2 mile. My Panaracer XC Pro USTs, which worked well enough at Sea Otter last week, were a bad choice. So I took off with my fellow Clydes, and our group of about15 quickly seperated into two groups. I was able to hang for most of the first 10 miles at the back of the first group and settled into "no man's land." Since my tires weren't shedding much of the mud I collected early on, I was doing alot of sliding on some of the short downhill sections. Guessing to be about midpack, I tried to just hammer away, and keep ahead of the guys behind me. The first part of the course was awesome, fast, and not too much mud. My fear became the poison oak, and there seemed to be tons of it. I was fine until I hit "heartbreak hill," or should I say it hit me. I joined most of the other hikers and pushed, and pushed, and slowly the thoughts of "way did I do this race?" filled my head (my head is usually good for at least a few on these thoughts each race). My legs felt like stumps, and as several women, a few fellow clydes, and kids started to pass me, I realized I needed to work at longer training rides. Last week,
at Sea Otter, I was running just inside top ten, and had about seven guys pass me on the final climb to finish 17th midpack. Heartbreak Hill came at about 1:30 into the race and sure enough, I had nothing left. I sucked it up and finished. That course is awesome, but
for the 2nd year in a row, that final climb kicked my arse:madman: I can only guess that if I'm blowing up 1:30 into the last two races, I need to adjust my training. Before and after the race, I met several of my fellow Clydes and all in all it was a great day:)


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Akamai seizes Cotendo for US$268m
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Posted in Business, 28th December 2011 21:02 GMT
Akamai Technologies is set to buy cloud based technology provider Cotendo for $US268 million, with the transaction expected to be closed in the first half of 2012.
Akamai's tenth acquisition since it was founded in 1998, Cotendo specialises in web and mobile acceleration services from a network of 30 global distributed points of presence (POPs) including Australia. The latest deal is its second largest since it bought InterVU in 2000, which was estimated to be worth $US2.8 billion.
Cotendo is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California but has a technology center in Israel. With around 150 employees, 50 of which are based in Israel, the company anticipates that there will be no change to staffing levels after the transaction
"By combining our innovative technology and employees with Akamai, we expect our customers and partners will gain access to a comprehensive, global platform and wider portfolio of leading-edge services supported by some of the most experienced providers in the industry," said Ronni Zehavi, chief executive officer and co-founder of Cotendo.
Akamai said that Cotendo's technology, partnerships and people were strong complements to the company.
The companies have had a history of slightly too much complementary behaviour with Akamai filing a patent infringement lawsuit against Cotendo less than a year ago.
Akamai also had a patent suit launched against Speedera Networks before buying the company for $US130 million in 2005. ®