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President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday defended the government's efforts to protect the rights of Aborigines and promised to facilitate the legislation of land and ocean rights.
Ma, attending the opening ceremony of the National Administrative Conference for Indigenous Peoples, said the government's Aboriginal policies aimed to promote the autonomy and independent development of Aborigines.
The government has invested NT$50 billion over the past six years to improve the lives of Aborigines, including assisting different tribes to develop local industries with tribal characteristics, and improving the education and medical services of Aboriginal communities, he said.
Ma said the government would work harder to pass related laws, including the draft aboriginal autonomy act (原住民自治法) and the draft indigenous people land and ocean act (原住民族土地暨海洋法).
"We've discussed the autonomy of Aboriginal tribes for years and preserving their traditional territories remains our goals. Although there are many challenges, we will work hard to fulfill our promises through negotiations and communication," Ma said at the ceremony, which was held at the Grand Hotel in Taipei.
Allowing Aborigines to organize autonomous communities is a promise Ma has repeatedly made since he was elected president in 2008. Yet the draft autonomy act has long been stalled in the legislature.
Outside the ceremony, a protest was held against the government's signing of the cross-strait service trade agreement in June, with a group of protestors chanting: "Oppose the cross-strait service trade agreement. Save our jobs."
Tight security measures were implemented around the hotel because of the protest, with hundreds of police officers and security guards stopping the protestors getting close to the entrance to the hotel.
At a separate event yesterday, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) honored Taiwan's Aborigines on Indigenous People's Day and said the Ma administration has had retrogressive policies on Aboriginal affairs.
"As a party which has always respected Aboriginal traditions and culture in Taiwan, the DPP would pick up where it left off on Aboriginal affairs if it was to return to power," Su told young Aborigines at a seminar in Taipei's Beitou District (北投) organized by the DPP's Department of Ethnic Affairs.
Indigenous People's Day was established by the DPP when it was in power, but it has yet to become an official national holiday, Su said.
The DPP had worked hard to improve the status of Aborigines in Taiwan, Su said, as the wording "indigenous people" was not used until the DPP was in power.
Taiwan's earliest inhabitants were called "barbarians" by the Japanese colonial regime and "mountainous peoples" by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
The boulevard in front of the Presidential Office, originally named Jieshou Road in honor of former president Chiang Kai-shek, was renamed Ketagalan Boulevard during former president Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) term to highlight the Aboriginal tradition in Taiwan, he said.
National policy on Aboriginal affairs appeared to be backsliding after the KMT returned to power in 2008, Su said, citing the example of the removal of the origin of Indigenous Peoples' Day from the Web site of the Indigenous People's Council.
Su also warned that Beijing has resorted to various economic and cultural strategies to win the support of Taiwan's Aborigines.


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(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - A low-end clothing dealer was arrested on murder charges Wednesday in the killings of three Brooklyn shopkeepers, police said.
Salvatore Perrone, 63, of Staten Island, had tried to sell clothing to the shopkeepers, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
According to CBS New York, detectives had been questioning Perrone for almost 24 hours after he turned himself in on Tuesday.
Earlier this week police said they were looking to speak to four people who possibly witnessed the most recent killing last Friday, and released video and clear images of all four. But they zeroed in on a man with a duffle bag seen in surveillance video. That man, dubbed "John Doe Duffle Bag," they now say was Perrone.
Police recovered a bag containing a sawed-off rifle believed to have been used in the killings.
Police Wednesday were outside the Midwood apartment building where Perrone's girlfriend, Russian immigrant Natasha Charova, lives. Sources said Perrone stashed the duffle bag at her place, and that they.found a .22 caliber gun inside, CBS New York reported.
The station cited sources who said the bag also contained women's stockings, black gloves, a laser scope and two knives. One of the knives had stains that appeared to be blood, 1010 WINS Radio reported.
In the most recent killing last Friday, Rahmatollah Vahidipour, an Iranian, was shot three times in the head and chest at his store, the She She Boutique.
After that killing, detectives discovered the same gun was used in the fatal shootings of two other shopkeepers when ballistics matched the .22-caliber gun shell casings on all three. On July 6, Mohamed Gebeli, an Egyptian, was found shot in the back of his shop, Valentino Fashion Inc. On Aug. 2, Isaac Kadare, also Egyptian, was shot in the head in his store, Amazing 99 Cent Deal.
There were other similarities, authorities said: The bodies were all partially obscured, by clothing or, in one case, a box. The locations of the shops form an equilateral triangle and are about 4 miles apart, with addresses that contain the number eight. Money was taken from everyone but Vahidipour, who had $171 in his pocket.
CBS New York reported that Perrone was previously arrested in 2001 in Pennsylvania, where he was accused of burglary and stalking an ex-girlfriend.


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I recently started a Talk thread asking Serious Eaters if there were dough-related tips and techniques they wanted to hear about. There were quite a few "troubleshooting" questions—not so much "how do I?" but more like "Uh oh, it's gone wrong...now what?"
So let's get answering!
If you've added too much flour to a dough, how do you add more water?
We all know that adding more flour to a dough is easy—sometimes too easy. Flour your work surface and the dough will keep picking up more and more flour as you knead. Adding water, on the other hand, seems so complicated. Try to pour even a tablespoon of water in the middle of your dough and work it in, and you've got a mess on your hands.
But think about it. When you add flour, you're not putting a scoop of flour into the middle of your dough and trying to work it in. You're adding a thin film of flour to the surface of the dough, and incorporating it slowly. Are you ahead of me yet?
The answer is to use a spray bottle and add the water just as slowly as you add flour. Mist the dough, fold, and knead. Mist again, fold, and knead. If you add too much water at once, the dough gets slippery and it's a little harder to work in the water, but if you mist it just enough, it gets tacky and the dough sticks to itself and the water incorporates easily. Once you figure out how much water to spray, it's pretty easy to add enough water in a short amount of time.
If you've covered a rising loaf of bread with cloth, and the cloth gets stuck, how do you un-stick it?
The best thing to do is thwart the sticking to begin with. White rice flour dusted on top of the loaf will keep almost anything from sticking, and unlike wheat flour, you won't have that raw flour taste if you leave it on during baking. If you don't want that much flour on top of your loaf, you can rub the rice flour into a cloth. I have a couple of cloths that I use specifically for dough, and they're pretty much impregnated with rice flour. The cloth doesn't stick, but it also doesn't leave a lot of flour residue on the loaf, either.
If it's too late for precautions and your cloth is sticking, pull out your trusty spray bottle filled with water, and spray the cloth. Give it a second or two, and it should release from the bread without tearing the skin on the dough. If it's still pulling, wet it a little more and give it another couple seconds before you try again.
My kitchen is always cold. What should I do?
Yeast likes warm room temperatures, so if your kitchen isn't warm, your dough will take a lot longer to rise. While a long slow rise is great for developing flavor, sometimes you want your dough to rise a little faster so you can have it for dinner tonight instead of breakfast tomorrow.
If your oven has a light inside, you can put the dough in the oven with the light on. But then you can't preheat the oven for baking.
You can also use your microwave: Heat a cup of water to boiling in the microwave, then put the dough in. With the door closed, the air in the microwave will stay warm for quite a while. You can leave the water in, if there's space, or take it out.
Another option is a little craftier. If you've ever been to a craft fair, you've probably seen the microwavable neck warmers that are full of some kind of seeds. Unfortunately, a lot of those are scented, and you might not want to eat potpourri scented bread. But you can use the concept. The seeds in many of those bags are millet seeds, and they seem to be quite amenable to being reheated over and over without turning into millet popcorn.
All you really need is a cloth bag and some millet seeds. Millet seeds aren't terribly expensive at health food stores. Fill the bag with millet seeds and microwave it until it's hot—my bag, with about a pound of millet, takes about two minutes to heat to maximum temperature, and the bag stays warm for quite a while. Then you can use it to warm the air around your dough.
Put the dough in a covered bowl or a plastic bag. Put the bag of millet into the bottom of your microwave, a cooler, or even a stockpot that's large enough to hold your bowl of dough, then put a few kitchen towels on top of the millet bag to insulate your dough from the direct heat. Place the bowl (or bag) of dough on top of the towels. The millet should warm the dough and the air enough to get a rise out of it. When the bag of seeds first comes out of the microwave, it will be too hot for close contact with the dough, so don't put a plastic bag of dough right on top of it. Remember, you're trying to warm the air, not precook the dough.
The millet-filled bag is also useful if you want to serve warms buns for dinner. Just put the warmed bag of millet in the bottom of your bread basket and cover it with a pretty cloth. Put the buns in, and cover them with a cloth. They'll stay nice and warm through dinner.
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From Gerris
Functions can be used in most objects which require a numerical parameter. A function can be a constant or a piece of C code taking coordinates (x,y,z), time t or any of the domain variables as arguments and returning a floating-point value. Note that the values appearing in (and returned by) a GfsFunction are always local values (i.e. the value at a given position (x,y,z) and given time t).
The syntax in parameter files is:
or a C function
{ double a = sin (x + y); double b = cos (x - z); double c = sin (M_PI*t); return a + b + c; }
or a C expression
or a GTS/CGD file
GTS files
The GTS file must be a planar (preferably Delaunay) triangulation of a set of points. The value of the function at a given (x,y) coordinate is then calculated by computing the z-coordinate of the intersection of a vertical line passing through the point at (x,y,0) with the triangulation defined by the GTS file.
Cartesian Grid Data (CGD) files
Cartesian Grid Data files can be specified as
Note that the extension must be
The CGD file contains data defined on a Cartesian grid and can be used with 1 to 4 space/time dimensions.
The first line of the file defines the structure of the grid for example :
3 x y t
3 is the number of dimensions,
y and
t define the structure of the data: 2 spatial dimensions and 1 temporal dimension.
Then the number of points for each dimension must be specified (e.g. in a 2x2x2 mesh, the number of points for each dimension is 2):
2 2 2
The following 3 lines contain the space-separated values defining the positions of each Cartesian grid line in each of the dimensions. Note that these coordinates need to be in increasing order.
The rest of the file contains the values at each grid point in "C-array order", i.e., with the rightmost dimension varying fastest.
The value of the function at a given (x,y,t) coordinate is then calculated by tri-linear interpolation on the Cartesian grid.
Computing gradients and fluxes
Gradients of variables can be computed using the
dy() and
dz() functions. For example, the z-component of the vorticity would be computed as:
(dx("V") - dy("U"))
Gradients on embedded boundaries can be computed using the
dsy() and
dsz() functions.
The flux of a given quantity "T" through the fragment of embedded boundary contained in a given cell can be computed using
To obtain the corresponding derivative of "T" normal to the boundary one could use
(S > 0. ? flux("T")/S : 0) where the C ternary operator has been used to avoid division by zero, and
S is the surface area of the fragment of embedded boundary (one of the predefined derived variables).
Other pre-defined functions
gboolean overlaps (double x1, double y1, double x2, double y2)
- returns
TRUEif a cell overlaps the box defined by its lower-left (resp. upper-right) corner
(x2,y2)). This can be used for example as a
conditionfor GfsOutputScalar.
More details on C functions
Comments should use the C syntax; i.e. opening
/* and closing
*/ not necessarily on the same line rather than the usual parameter file syntax of a line beginning with a
#. This is to allow the use of C preprocessor directives in C functions in GfsFunctions.
- Coalescence of a pair of Gaussian vortices (Gerris logo), in the InitVorticity command.


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NEW YORK — Five days ago, the Knicks invaded Boston, pushed the Celtics around on their famed parquet, and rolled out with a no-sweat, double-digit win over a bitter division rival.
Such an embarrassing (and humbling) loss burned the Celtics, who had become accustomed to owning New York and the division title in the Doc Rivers era. The Knicks had drama and losses; the Celtics had stability. No, this loss wouldn't stand.
So, Boston wanted not just payback in a rematch Sunday at Madison Square Garden, but a chance to prove against a potential first-round playoff opponent that it didn't throw its best punches in the previous matchup, that it just had an "off night."
Well, the Celtics didn't prove much of anything as they were slapped with a 108-89 drubbing where derisive chants rained down on the visitors from the rafters at the end.
The Knicks won their eighth straight and took the season series from the Celtics for the first time since 2003-04, the season before Rivers took over in Boston.
"It's very disappointing," Paul Pierce said. "I definitely didn't expect a showing like this, coming into Madison Square Garden, especially with the way they did us in our home building, especially being a team that we may face in the playoffs."
No doubt, New York sent a powerful message, one that will resonate if these teams do, in fact, meet up in the postseason — and the Celtics know it. "If we see them in the playoffs, they'll feel like they have our number," Pierce added, "but we did it ourselves."
In their matchup Tuesday in Boston, the Knicks crushed their nemesis by scoring 50 points in the paint. But Sunday, the Knicks switched it up and did their damage from outside, hitting 14 of 27 3-pointers to suffocate the shorthanded Celtics.
"We did great job last game taking them off the three, and they drove us," Rivers said. "Tonight, the exact opposite."
Said guard Courtney Lee: "They were hitting everything."
Not everything, but close.
The Knicks made 11 3-pointers in the first half and their hot night from beyond the arc was summed up when Raymond Felton banked in a 55-footer at the halftime buzzer.
The Knicks made 6 of 8 3-pointers in the second quarter alone.
"I would say it was bad defense, clearly, because we don't like giving up the threes," Rivers said, "but give them credit, I thought they had the spirit of the pass, the entire night."
New York led by as many as 17 in the first half and the Celtics never really threatened from there, falling behind by as many as 24 in the second.
"I don't even know how to explain it," said Pierce, who scored 24 points and grabbed a season-high 15 rebounds. "They just beat us to the punch all night.
"They came off the pick-and-roll and moved the ball. By them doing that, we've got to take a [page] out of their [playbook]. That's how we've got to play.
"We've got to be able to move the ball a little bit more, come off, drive the ball, be more aggressive. I thought we isolated too much on our end."
But, at the end, the Celtics struggled on defense, an area they've struggled in night after night without Kevin Garnett, who missed his fifth straight game with a sore left ankle
"I guess the only positive [is], if we get to see them again in the playoffs, hopefully KG will be a lot healthier then," said Pierce, who turned an ankle and may sit out to rest Monday in Minnesota, according to Rivers.
"He was a big difference in the win we got against them here in the Garden," Pierce said of Garnett. "That element makes us a different team, adding him."
There's a question of how much the Celtics can criticize their defense when Garnett isn't on the floor, but Rivers said that they still can play on that end. It's on offense where the team is going to be erratic.
"We're going to have good games like the other night where we scored 118 points and we're going to have games like tonight," he said. "Your best passer is [Rajon] Rondo, and your second-best passer is Kevin Garnett, so you're going to have good and bad offensive nights.
"But defensively tonight, we were off. We gave up plays that we walked over in shootaround, which for a coach, is maddening; we'll address that."
Six Knicks scored in double figures, led by 24 points and 10 rebounds from Carmelo Anthony. Chris Copeland scored 22 off the bench for New York.
The Celtics got little from anyone not named Pierce or Jeff Green, who scored a game-high 27 points. Boston's three other starters scored a combined 6 points.
Pierce has a heavier workload with Garnett out, but he said, "I can't sit down and cry about it." Nor are the Celtics using Garnett's absence as an excuse.
"No matter who's on the floor, we have to have a defensive presence," Green said. "We have to make sure every shot for them is contested and every time down the floor we're making them work. No matter if Kevin's on the floor or not, we've got to be together, we've got to be on one page, so it's on us."
Rivers was hoarse after the game. And even that is tied to Garnett's absence. "When Kevin's out, it just hurts your defense, period," Rivers explained. "And not only just his play, but his ability of accountability. He can tell everybody the stuff that, right now with him out, I have to say it. That's why I have no voice."
But without Garnett, the rest of the Celtics had no heart in another humbling loss Sunday. The Celtics are playing it smart by resting him for the playoffs, but his return can't come soon enough.Baxter Holmes can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BaxterHolmes.


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Cristiano Ronaldo has been told that he cannot be considered one of football's 'greats' until he can emulate some of the feats achieved in the career of Zinedine Zidane.
According to Jamie Carragher, the Real Madrid superstar is a sensational player but he will have to make a defining contribution on the biggest stage before he can be considered anything else. Ronaldo was named the best player in the world for 2013 when he was awarded the FIFA Ballon d'Or, but the Liverpool legens said that wasn't enough.
Writing in his Daily Mail column, Carragher suggested that Zidane made himself one of the sport's greatest players for his heroics in major finals. He scored twice in the 1998 World Cup final against Brazil and then scored what the former England international called the best goal of the Champions League era against Bayer Leverkusen in the final at Hampden Park in 2002.
Ronaldo has won the Champions League with Manchester United, scoring in the 1-1 draw against Chelsea that the Red Devils went on to win on penalties, but Carragher claimed his actions did not define that game. Ronaldo may get a chance to make the difference this year, as Madrid have looked impressive in the competition so far, with their star man already having bagged 13 goals in the competition.
One other thing that may grate with Ronaldo is that Carragher claims the Portuguese's arch rival at Barcelona, Lionel Messi, can be considered one of the greats. He believes that Messi's goals in the Catalan club's two recent Champions League victories capped off dominant displays that secured his reputation.
Ronaldo and Messi will go face-to-face on Sunday for the second El Clasico of the season in La Liga. Madrid lead La Liga by three points ahead of city rivals Atletico, while Barcelona are four points back and will need a win at the Santiago Bernabeu if they are to have any hope of retaining their title.
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December 11, 2012 > Let's Move! to fight childhood obesity
Alameda County, on October 31, became one of the first counties in California to sign on with First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign to fight childhood obesity. Top county officials joined representatives of Oakland-based Revolution Foods at a nearby school to push the new initiative focusing on healthier food choices and exercise as the keys to wiping out the epidemic of childhood obesity."We are thrilled to be one of the first counties in the state to adopt the First Lady's Let's Move! Challenge," Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson said in a conversation with students and faculty at Oakland's Lighthouse Community Charter School. "I look forward to enlisting leaders from California's 57 other counties to develop a state-wide approach to providing children with greater access to healthy food choices."Let's Move! is a comprehensive initiative that was launched by the First Lady in 2010 and is dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and better equipped to pursue their dreams.Alameda County's Let's Move! campaign goals include:*To provide children with a healthier start by incorporating best practices for nutrition, physical activity and screen time into early care and education programs;*To provide healthy food in schools by increasing participation in the School Breakfast Program and the School Lunch Program;*To improve access to healthy, affordable foods by implementing healthy and sustainable food service guidelines in all county venues that serve food.More information about the Let's Move! campaign can be found at http://www.letsmove.gov/.


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Raspberry Cake Hearts Recipe
Come Valentine's Day, Tisha Cottman knows that this pretty dessert is the way to her family's heart. "It's such a simple way to say 'I love you'," writes the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma homemaker of her annual treat. Best of all, each fun little heart takes only minutes to assemble from purchased snack cakes and can be prepared ahead of time. "It's sure to impress those you care about," Tisha adds.
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- 2 cups fresh or frozen unsweetened raspberries, thawed
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 4 individual cream-filled sponge cakes
- 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- Mint sprigs, optional
- In a bowl, lightly toss together raspberries and sugar; set aside. Slice two sponge cakes diagonally widthwise in same direction. Slice remaining cakes diagonally in the opposite direction.
- On each of four dessert plates, place two oppositely cut sponge cake wedges together to form a heart. Garnish with whipped topping and reserved raspberry mixture. Add mint if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
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We'll keep this one brief. Mark Ellis returns to the A's lineup at second base, with Adam Kennedy moving back to third base. Travis Buck gets a start in right field w/right-hander Carl Pavano on the mound for Cleveland. No Nomar Garciaparra tonight. The A's are still being cautious w/him in the field, and Bob Geren said Garciaparra wouldn't play in the field tomorrow either. I'm thinking he'll DH tomorrow as the A's face a tough lefty in Cliff Lee.
The lineups
Kennedy 3B
Cabrera SS
Holliday LF
Giambi 1B
Suzuki C
Cust DH
Sweeney CF
Buck RF
Ellis 2B
Mazzaro RHP
A. Cabrera SS
Sizemore CF
Martinez C
Choo RF
Hafner DH
Peralta 3B
Garko 1B
Valbuena 2B
Francisco LF
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Another in a series of New England getaways on public transportation.
ROCKPORT — This little village is the end of the line for the commuter rail to Cape Ann. If it went any farther, the trains would be in the Atlantic Ocean, which surrounds Rockport on three sides. That means Rockport bathes in ocean light, an attribute that has always drawn painters to its shores.
If you missed the summertime scent of taffy and the cha-ching of cash registers on Bearskin Neck, you'll find fall is a second, better chance to see Rockport minus the press of flesh. It doesn't get any more painterly than early October when blue-dome skies and the low slant of the sun make Motif Number 1, the red fish shack on Bradley Wharf, seem to glow. Need more persuading? The Rockport Harvest Fest takes over T-Wharf on Oct. 19.
THE RIDE The trains on our weekend sojourn seemed, frankly, a little worse for wear. The vinyl-covered, pew-like bench seats won't win any prizes for comfort. But the trip takes only a little over an hour and train crew members were exceptionally genial. The first segment of the trip traverses the industrial back yards of Greater Boston, but at Beverly the views turn toward the shore. By West Gloucester, the train cruises past rich marshes where egrets dot the shallows.
LOGISTICS For a commuter line, both weekday and weekend Rockport service is very convenient for daytrippers. For a full day in town, plan on an 8:30 a.m. (8:35 weekdays) departure from North Station. With return trains as late as 7:30 or 10 p.m. weekends (7:45 and 10:45 weekdays), you can stay for dinner. If you'd rather eat at home, earlier returns are available.
WHAT TO DO From the commuter rail station, it's about a 10-minute walk down King Street to pocket-size Front Beach where you can breathe in the salt air and take a brisk stroll to work out the kinks from the train ride. For lunch, Nate's at Front Beach (18 Beach St., 978-546-0055, $3.50-$19) is a local favorite for a lobster BLT wrap or a basket of fried clams. Rockport is so compact that the walk from the beach to central Dock Square takes only about five minutes — minus stopovers at shops and galleries along the way. The White Seagull Gallery (59 Main St., 978-546-3449), for example, features paintings of beach stones and of fallen leaves by Susanne White, as well as sea-glass jewelry that she and her husband create — much of it from glass they find on Cape Ann.
For an overview of the art scene, check out the Rockport Art Association (12 Main St., 978-546-6604, www.rockportartassn.org), which was founded in 1921 and boasts about 250 exhibiting members. Through Nov. 17, an ambitious three-part exhibition, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow," features pieces from the permanent collection, work from exhibiting members, and painting, sculpture, and photography by three artists chosen to represent the future.
You'll have plenty of time to walk the length of Bearskin Neck for the view back on the harbor from the tip. The neck is lined with shops and galleries, and we found many shops offering end-of-summer discounts. Note that many also reduce their hours after summer; late week and weekends are best for shoppers. For a memento of summer, the Pewter Shop (16 Bearskin Neck, 978-546-2105) carries a line of jewelry featuring local beach sand set in sterling silver. A few docks down, you will want to snap a photo of Motif Number 1, which has been painted and photographed so often that it's been transfigured from cliché to icon. There's a viewing deck at the rear of Lula's Pantry (5 Dock Square, 978-546-0010), where you can pick up a lobster-printed apron, an octopus dish towel, or a fish-shaped cutting board or trivet.
In fact, Rockport is all about vistas. You can watch the harbor through giant windows as you eat baked haddock or lobster and fries at the Fish Shack Restaurant (21 Dock Square, 978-546-6667, $9-$23) or enjoy an equally good view to go with coffee and a brownie at Bean & Leaf Cafe (12 Bearskin Neck, 978-546-7500).
CONCLUSION Rockport is Zone 8 on the commuter rail, which costs $10 per person each way ($3 more if purchased on board). The trains were on time and, at least on a weekend, uncrowded — making Rockport a perfectly simple fall getaway to see the light. For full schedule see www.mbta.com.Patricia Harris and David Lyon can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free 51
eaglemoon writes "MIT Press has released its book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software as a free PDF download. The book is a collection of research essays covering topics such as open source motivation, economics, business models, software development process and tools, law, and community. Sort of like 'Open Sources' from academics. David Parnas, Larry Lessig, Eric von Hippel, and Clay Shirky are among the contributors."


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Sweatshop Union is a Canadian hip hop collective, that came together in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2000. The members - Dirty Circus, Creative Minds, Innocent Bystanders, and solo artist Kyprios - create music with a "powerful, distinctive voice". Their music focuses on being "honest" — commenting on material ranging from the War in Iraq, the plight of the poor and working-class, to the negativity and misogyny of mainstream hip-hop.
- Natural Progression: [Us] Fuck the news, fuck the critics, and fuck their views, and if you sit and let it happen then fuck you too.
- Natural Progression: [Stolen Memories]Life is so good its like I stole the memories.
- Natural Progression: [Truman Show] We think that we see/ but we can't see the half/ we think we learn/ but we can't do the math.
- Natural Progression: [Better Days]We pave the streets/ To walk between us, we pay for these/ Lock the doors and teach our kids to be neighbourly
- United We Fall: [Broken Record] Truth is ain't much has changes /Still seems that Kraft Dinner sucks the same.
- United We Fall: [Never Enough] A funny thing about the money thing is/ You need a little bit/ Then a little more than a little bit
- United We Fall: [Never Enough] Take Love/ Any form of the word, many shapes of/ So perfect, Hollywood ending/ All you need is love, go and ask John Lennon/ Love make a man ill, make a man kill/ Make a man take a stand making mountains out of ant hills
- United We Fall: [Never Enough] Stupid mother fucker asked what do I make/ I make music that makes stupid mother fuckers think straight
- I apologize for every choice I might have made to hurt your feelings or your health or ever bothered someone else your style of living is your choice and we all want a different kind so please love all your faults I'll do the same with what we find.
- To be friends you got to be strangers first.


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IT Mission, Purpose, Goals
In support of the mission of Georgia Highlands College, the Information Technology Department may be linked directly to the following sections:
- "Be innovative in our approach to teaching, learning, and support services."
- "Use technology as a teaching and learning tool."
- "Maintain efficient and effective administrative services to support the instructional and community outreach programs of the college."
The Information Technology Department provides technological services that support the computing needs of the institutions academic and administrative functions. Furthermore, the Information Technology Department enhances the teaching and learning process for students, faculty and staff by researching, developing, implementing, and facilitating diverse and effective delivery systems through the use of new technologies.
1. Enhance Learning: To enhance and diversify the student learning process by providing opportunity and availability to access the latest information technology.
- Access to the latest tools and applications will be made available through research.
- Appropriate technology will be made available to enhance instructional technology.
- Users will have access to the institution for information, research, and other resources both internally and externally.
- New communication mediums established.
2. Foster Innovative Technology: To facilitate and support innovative use of technology in academic programs and administrative functions.
- Possess a broad range of knowledge in the area of technology.
- Provide continuous innovative solutions for technology in all areas of the institution.
- Acquire new delivery methods and tools for instruction.
3. Provide Reliable Technology: To provide reliable operation of computer equipment, support of software applications, and assessment of new technologies to increase and strengthen productivity.
- A functional, reliable, and secure infrastructure for faculty, staff and student utilization.
- A specialized Information Technology staff cross-trained to provide diverse support.
- The latest software applications available through innovative technology.
- Provide users seamless access to information that is accurate and timely.
4. Provide Effective Planning and Management of IT Operations: To ensure that the appropriate planning mechanisms are pursued, staff resources are appropriately matched to maximize potential, budgets managed efficiently, technology needs and information shared with administration, and services continually improved upon.
- Effective pursuit of planning of resources and policies surrounding technology.
- Shared exchange of information within the different units of Information Technology.
- Exchange of information with administration through groups such as: Administrative Council, the President's Cabinet, the Computer Committee, and other appropriate venues.
- Budgets carefully managed to maximize funds to balance infrastructure, equipment, staff, software, and other operating supply needs.
- Staffing levels appropriated based on changing technology needs of the institution to provide diverse support.
- IT staff training to match technological requirements of the job while providing cross-training for redundant coverage of systems.
- Continuous quality improvement of services provided to faculty, staff, and students by placing emphasis on customer satisfaction.


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Mariners end 5-game skid, beat Cardinals 4-1
Mariners end 5-game skid, beat Cardinals 4-1Seattle Mariners' Dustin Ackley (13) and James Paxton (65) celebrate after scoring on a two-run double by Franklin Gutierrez as St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, right, stands by during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The St. Louis Cardinals' offense is back in one of those rough patches. They need to be out of this rut soon.
''There's nothing wrong with us getting a couple of hits early,'' manager Mike Matheny said after the Seattle Mariners snapped a five-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory Saturday night. ''There's nothing wrong with getting a couple of runs.''
Rookie James Paxton gave up two hits in six shutout innings, quieting a near-sellout crowd of 41,374, and the Cardinals dropped into a first-place tie in the NL Central.
''I was really just kind of locked in on the catcher, I didn't really hear the crowd much,'' Paxton said. ''I kind of noticed how many people were there after they took me out of the game.
''I said to somebody, 'Wow, there's a lot of people here.'''
The Cardinals totaled 26 runs while sweeping the Pirates to regain the Central lead at the start of a nine-game homestand. They've scored three runs in two games against the Mariners and leadoff man Matt Carpenter thought the unfamiliarity has definitely been a factor.
''We've faced the Pirates 100 times and we know exactly what A.J. Burnett has, we know what Francisco Liriano has, and those kinds of guys,'' Carpenter said. ''Then we come in here and we've got these guys, and nobody knows anything about anybody.''
Now, St. Louis and Pittsburgh share the division lead once again. The Pirates topped the Cubs 2-1.
''We've got a chance to kind of control our own destiny,'' Carpenter said. ''Hopefully at the end of this thing, we'll be happy where we are.''
The Cardinals mustered only three hits, including Carpenter's league-leading 50th double in the eighth. He later scored on a wild pitch by Charlie Furbush.
Franklin Gutierrez hit a two-run double in the fifth inning that ended St. Louis rookie Michael Wacha's scoreless streak at 23 2-3 innings. Kendrys Morales hit his 22nd homer in eighth off Tyler Lyons to make it 3-0.
The St. Louis hitters have been struggling all week, and they never got going against the 24-year-old Paxton (2-0), who limited them to a pair of singles.
The first was by Wacha (3-1) in the third when Paxton came off the bag to field a tapper and then slipped and fell, losing his grip.
Paxton struck out five and walked two. He won his major league debut a week ago against Tampa Bay, allowing an earned run in six innings.
Danny Farquhar finished for his 14th save in 16 chances.
Wacha struck out five in his seventh career start, but also walked four in five innings.
Mariners pitchers were 0 for 20 with 13 strikeouts this year before Wacha walked Paxton on four pitches in the fifth to put runners on first and second with none out, setting up Gutierrez's double.
''He's trying to give me a free out, bunting the ball,'' Wacha said. ''It's not acceptable, walking the pitcher. Anybody really. I wasn't really too excited about that.''
Paxton said it was his first at-bat in more than a decade.
''I didn't really know what to do with the bat after I got walked,'' Paxton said. ''I just kind of dropped it and then told the umpire when I was at second base I hadn't run the bases in about 11 years, gave him a little chuckle.
''It was fun to be out there and do that. It was pretty cool.''
Seattle leadoff man Brad Miller was removed with a mild left hamstring strain after running out a sacrifice bunt in the fifth. Replacement Carlos Triunfel had a sacrifice fly in the ninth off Fernando Salas.
NOTES: Yadier Molina, who threw out two runners attempting to steal in the same inning Friday, was the first Cardinals C to do that since manager Mike Matheny on May 1, 2001, at Florida. Matheny said he didn't remember the occasion, but added, ''You don't normally get that many opportunities unless you're stinking, or else your pitcher's just giving you no chance.'' ... Morales has five homers in the last 10 games after going 28 games without a long ball.


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Houston fire chief to step down
Updated 9:57 pm, Thursday, November 14, 2013
Houston Fire Chief Terry Garrison announced Thursday that he is stepping down to tend to family issues.
Garrison, 56, will return to Phoenix to help with the care of his ailing 20-month-old grandson. He will stay until his replacement is found, Mayor Annise Parker said.
"It's a great city, a great fire department and the mayor's one of the best bosses I ever had - I just got to go back home," Garrison said.
Weekend trips to Arizona, where his wife remained since his hiring in September 2010, are no longer sufficient, he said.
At the time of his hiring, Parker applauded Garrison's willingness to "re-think why we do things, how we do things, and if there's a way to do better."
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He made good on that effort and also was able to cut $5 million from the department's budget, Parker said.
"It is my intent to hire a new fire chief who will continue the initiatives and progress Chief Garrison has made," Parker wrote in a letter to the City Council, adding that she expects the new chief to come from within the Houston Fire Department.
The department's deadliest day occurred during Garrison's short tenure, when four firefighters died charging into a five-alarm motel fire May 31. An investigation of that fire is ongoing.
Bryan Sky-Eagle, president of the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association, called the announcement sudden but understandable, given Garrison's family situation.
He said he doubts the decision is tied to the investigation.
"I am sad to see him go. He's done some great work," Sky-Eagle said.
Garrison established a recovery committee that helped the department move forward after the deadly fire, he added.
"It's been most helpful," he said.
Garrison began his firefighting career in 1977 with the Phoenix Fire Department, rising to assistant chief before leaving in 2007. Garrison served as fire chief for a small community in California from 2007 to 2009 and then served a brief stint as interim chief of a small department near Phoenix.
His family remained in the Phoenix area with unrealized plans to relocate to Houston.


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Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays or particles to kill cancer cells. Mesotheliomas are often hard to treat with radiation therapy. They are not usually contained as single, discrete tumors, so aiming radiation at them while avoiding nearby normal tissues is difficult. But new radiation therapy techniques may make this form of treatment more useful.
Uses of radiation therapy
Radiation therapy may be used in different ways to treat mesothelioma:
- It can be used after surgery to try to kill any small areas of cancer that could not be seen and removed during surgery. This is called adjuvant radiation therapy.
- It can be used as a palliative procedure to ease symptoms of mesothelioma such as shortness of breath, pain, bleeding, and trouble swallowing.
Types of radiation therapy
Two main types of radiation therapy can be used to treat mesothelioma:
External beam radiation therapy (EBRT): This type of radiation therapy uses x-rays from a machine outside the patient's body to kill cancer cells. It is the most common form of radiation therapy for mesothelioma.
The treatment is much like getting an x-ray, but the radiation is more intense. The procedure itself is painless. Before your treatments start, the medical team will take careful measurements to find the correct angles for aiming the radiation beams and the proper dose of radiation. Each treatment lasts only a few minutes, although the setup time -- getting you into place for treatment -- usually takes longer. Most often, radiation treatments are given 5 days a week for several weeks.
With newer techniques, doctors can treat mesotheliomas more accurately while reducing the radiation reaching nearby healthy tissues such as the lungs. This may offer a better chance of increasing the success rate and reducing side effects.
For example, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is an advanced form of 3-dimensional radiation therapy. It uses a computer-driven machine that moves around the patient as it delivers radiation. It shapes the radiation beams to fit the tumor and aims them at the tumor from several angles, as well as adjusting the intensity (strength) of the beams to limit the dose reaching nearby normal tissues.
Brachytherapy: For this type of radiation therapy, a radiation source is placed inside the body, in or near the cancer. The radiation given off travels only a very short distance, which limits the possible damage to nearby healthy tissues. Brachytherapy is seldom used for this type of cancer.
Possible side effects
Side effects of external radiation therapy may include fatigue and sunburn-like skin problems and hair loss where the radiation enters the body. These usually go away once treatment is finished. Chest radiation therapy may cause lung damage and lead to trouble breathing and shortness of breath. Abdominal radiation therapy may cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and a loss of appetite.
If radiation therapy is used together with chemotherapy, the side effects are often worse.
If you are having any side effects from radiation therapy, talk with your doctor. There are often ways to help control these symptoms.


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The Art of Work
";If you cannot be strong and you cannot be weak then you will be defeated";. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Working on a project in Oregon many years ago I was reading Jim McCarthy's book Dynamics of Software Development and came across the term ";Don't Flip the Bozo Bit";. When the bozo bit is flipped on a person it means that their ideas aren't worth listening to. (We changed it to ";don't bite the flip bozo";, which is weird but not important.) Flipping the bozo bit on a person is the school yard bully equivalency of pushing a smaller kid or a dork off the slide. Not a nice thing to do but geeks do it all the time. If your bozo bit has been flipped then it can be a hard thing to unflip.
I was reading Dan Tocchini's In the Twinkle of an ";I";: There is Something New Under the Son. Tocchini is (or was) a police chaplain and runs special counseling sessions. The work is a masterpiece on human nature, suffering, and perspective. Tocchini reminded me of the bozo bit, bit.
In one part of the Tocchini recounts how a close, respected friend offered some criticism. Like people are capable of doing Tocchini's initial response was defensiveness. He felt criticized and unjustly so. Friends and non-friends may criticize at any moment, but it is how one responds to the criticism that makes the difference. If you are open to the criticism, listen to it, examine it, and think about the message without becoming defensive then it is more likely that useful, valuable information may be gleaned from the criticism. If the immediate response is self-defense then there will most likely be a break down with one or all parties flipping bozo bits like crazy. The key is not to internalize all criticism. Some of it comes from bozos. But listening to criticism actively, seeing if there is actionable elements and then deciding what to do can be very constructive and may help build relationships. The alternative is anarchy, a group of bozos, and a stagnant environment. It takes some maturity to listen actively without preparing your counter defenses while the other person is talking and then deciding what to do and maybe accepting the consequences, good or bad.
Unfortnuately ";how to survive the work place without going insane"; is not a course taught in college. Fortunately, I have been lucky enough to have friends that point out instructive books like Tocchini's and have picked up some useful information along the way. I am also fortunate enough to work with a lot of people that don't have an agenda. They act in ways that are constructive and the only agenda is to improve everyone's lot just a bit more.Surviving the workplace is as much about being managing relationships and listening to and accepting criticism as it is your skill level.


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The president and chief executive officer of a medical equipment company invoked the Fifth Amendment at Senate hearing Wednesday, declining to answer questions about aggressive marketing tactics used to sell scooters, sleep apnea machines and other home medical supplies to Medicare recipients who may not need or want them.
Jon Letko of U.S. Healthcare Supply LLC, based in Milford, N.J., exercised his constitutional right not to incriminate himself at the hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight.
Before dismissing Letko, the subcommittee's chairwoman, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., expressed hope that he might be more forthcoming with senators in the future.
"We know that your company has been speaking to the press about this issue and we're hopeful that at some point in time your company will be in a position that you can speak to the committee under oath in the same manner that you were willing to speak to the press," McCaskill said.
McClatchy wrote about the subcommittee's probe into Medicare billing and marketing practices by medical equipment companies earlier this month, and the story quoted a statement from U.S. Healthcare that questioned the panel's findings that more than 60 percent of Medicare payments for durable medical equipment – such as back braces, diabetic testing kits, and power scooters – may be improper. The high error rate cost Medicare an estimated $27 billion over the past four years, according to the investigation.
U.S. Healthcare and a second company – Med-Care Diabetic and Medical Supplies Inc., based in Boca Raton, Fla. – had declined invitations to testify at a hearing in April that focused on Medicare waste and fraud. Both companies were compelled by subpoenas to appear before the Senate panel Wednesday.
Although U.S. Healthcare declined to testify, Steve Silverman, a representative from Med-Care, agreed to answer senators' questions. He was accompanied by an attorney.
Silverman acknowledged that his company pays incentives to employees based on how many people they call and the number of orders they place, but he said he and his staff did their best to follow all rules and regulations.
"I want to play by the rules," he said.
The medical equipment industry has come under fire in Washington since a Missouri doctor, Charlotte Kennedy, wrote a letter to McCaskill that said U.S. Healthcare and Med-Care had been sending her faxes requesting approval for expensive supplies such as back braces and sleep apnea machines. When Kennedy spoke to her patients, her letter said, they told her they were being harassed by telemarketers and hadn't requested any of the equipment.
Kennedy's letter prompted the senator to open a congressional investigation into sales strategies used by some companies to target senior citizens enrolled in Medicare.
Medical equipment suppliers are prohibited from contacting anyone enrolled in Medicare by telephone unless the patient has given written permission or the supplier has provided equipment to the patient in the past.
More than 5,600 of 6,100 U.S. Healthcare claims reviewed by Medicare auditors were improper, according to a recent report by subcommittee staffers. The report said auditors had demanded that U.S. Healthcare return more than $100,000 in overpayments.
Applying the same 92 percent error rate to the rest of U.S. Healthcare's claims suggests that the company might owe up to $50 million to Medicare, according to the report.
In a statement to a McClatchy reporter earlier this month, U.S. Healthcare questioned the report's findings, saying the data doesn't match information it provided to the subcommittee.
At the hearing Wednesday, U.S. Healthcare distributed a letter from Letko's attorneys to reporters. Addressed to McCaskill, the letter decried the subcommittee's report as "harmful and prejudicial," and complained that the congressional investigation was conducted unfairly.
The report "is replete with cherry-picked data, selective and misleading terms and conclusions, and unexamined assertions by third parties," the letter said.
Subcommittee staffers refused to explain the basis for findings in the report, according to the letter. "Of course, if this information could be verified USHS would take steps to repay money owed to Medicare," the letter said.
U.S. Healthcare also said in the letter that the company had provided the subcommittee with an audio recording and documents to show that Kennedy's patients had in fact requested equipment from U.S. Healthcare, which had "complied with applicable laws and regulations."
Silverman, the representative for Med-Care, told McCaskill during the hearing that his company also had evidence that Kennedy's patients had given written consent to be contacted by telephone or had been customers in the past. He said the patients had requested the equipment listed in the faxes to Kennedy.
McCaskill asked to see the evidence, and Silverman said he'd have to consult his lawyer to make sure he didn't violate patient privacy laws.
Silverman added that he hadn't been aware of allegations in the subcommittee's report that more than 400 Med-Care claims in a sample of 590 were improper, or 68 percent, for a total of $146,689 in overpayments.
"To my knowledge we haven't been demanded repayment for anything," Silverman said.
He said the company's error rates were between 3 percent and 7.8 percent from 2010 to 2012.


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Partial veto of Forest Code not enough to protect Amazon or Dilma's reputation
Despite the massive national and international social mobilization in favour of a full veto, the president opted to reject 12 of 84 articles in the bill. This attempt to parse elements of an already complicated piece of legislation will make the new Forest Code extraordinarily difficult to implement.
The president's decision comes just weeks before Brazil hosts the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20. Today's actions send a murky message about Brazil's commitment to environmental protection.
"For the last decade, Brazil has been on a path of economic and environmental progress. President Rousseff's statement today creates an uncertain future for Brazilian forests, considering the Congress could still cut forest protections even further," said Jim Leape, WWF International Director General.
The revised legislation was backed by powerful agribusiness interests, but loudly condemned by Brazilian society and social and environmental organizations worldwide. President Rousseff's unfortunate decision will make it difficult for her to speak credibly about sustainable development when heads of state gather in Rio next month.
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Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is the fifth largest for-profit hospital operator in America and the country's largest publicly-traded psychiatric and substance abuse facility operator.[1] Increased competition in the hospital industry have pressured margins in the company's hospital business from,[2] but UHS has compensated for this with strong earnings in its behavioral health segment.[3]
Because UHS receives the majority of its revenues from its hospitals, the company has been significantly impacted by a shift in the hospital industry towards physician-owned healthcare facilities, which has increased competition for the company's hospitals in urban markets.[4] Another drag on UHS's financial performance is bad debt expense resulting from rising numbers of uninsured patients nationwide.[5] UHS's behavioral health services segment, however, lets the firm benefit from a more favorable market environment and higher profit margins at psychiatric and substance abuse facilities (almost 20%, compared to about 7% in UHS's hospitals).[6]
UHS owns, operates or has under construction 25 hospitals (including a new facility being constructed) and 102 behavioral health centers located in 32 states. [7] Many of the company's facilities are located in suburban areas, but it also has a presence in urban markets, most significantly Las Vegas, Memphis, and Austin. UHS's facilities provide healthcare services, including general and specialty surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, diagnostic care, and behavioral health services. The firm receives revenue from private insurers, including managed care plans, the federal government (under the Medicare program), state governments (under their respective Medicaid programs), and directly from patients. Over the past few years, the company's growth has been fueled by both acquisitions and the establishment of new operations in mid-size markets with above-average population growth rates. As a result, its acute care facilities are highly concentrated in three key geographies: Las Vegas, McAllen-Edinburg, Texas and San Bernadino, California.[8]
In 2009, UHS generated a net income of $260.4 million on total revenues of $5.20 billion. This represents a 30.6% increase in net income on a 3.6% increase in total revenues from 2008, when the company earned $199.4 million on revenues of $5.02 billion.
UHS receives the majority of its revenues from its hospital facilities, while its behavioral health services segment accounts for most of the remainder.
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The number of uninsured patients has been rising throughout the nation.[12] Since hospitals are legally required to provide care to anyone who needs it, whether they are insured or not, UHS faces high expenses (specifically bad debt expense) from this trend.[13] Because uninsured patients make up 18% of the firm's revenues, higher than many competitors, UHS stands to lose more than its peers from this trend. At the same time, the percentage of uninsured patients has fallen in the past few years, which mitigates the potential negative impact of increasing bad debt expense on the firm.[14]
In order to increase or even maintain the breadth of specialized services available to its patients, UHS has to hire qualified physicians and nurses. This has become an industry-wide challenge as the nation faces a shortage in both professions. American physicians are getting older - in the last twenty years, the percentage of doctors over 55 years old has risen from 27% to 34%, meaning that many of them will be retiring in the coming years. In rural areas, where less than 10,000 of 212,000 physicians are surgeons, specialists are especially scarce. Rural doctors generally receive smaller salaries than their urban counterparts, adding to the challenges faced by UHS in recruiting for many of its locations.[15] UHS has attempted to attract physicians by offering them technologically advanced equipment and facilities as well as adequate support staff. Additionally, a nationwide shortage of skilled nurses has affected UHS, eroding profitability as salaries and benefits rise to recruit the necessary numbers of staff. Furthermore, some of UHS's markets have laws that require healthcare providers to employ a certain number of nurses in order to offer various services; if the company fails to meet these levels, revenues will fall. [16]
Unlike many peer firms, whose rural hospitals are virtual monopolies in their markets, all of UHS's facilities are located in geographical areas where other hospitals provide comparable services, creating a highly competitive market environment. In addition to other for-profit facilities, UHS has to compete with nonprofit hospitals, which benefit from government support and tax exemptions. The number of independent and physician-owned facilities in UHS's markets, ranging from inpatient facilities to outpatient surgical and diagnostic centers, has also grown rapidly over the last few years. [17]
UHS's diversified business model is a primary competitive advantage for the firm - it is unique among national hospital operators in maintaining a portfolio of behavioral health facilities. In fact, as competition among hospitals has increased over the past few years and profit margins have decreased, UHS's psychiatric and substance abuse facilities have actually become more profitable, since they receive more favorable Medicare reimbursement and face smaller risks of bad debt expense from uninsured patients than traditional acute care hospitals. Furthermore, UHS has has followed a much more conservative acquisition strategy than peer firms, boasting an organic growth rate above the industry average.[18] Industry operating metrics show that UHS, despite owning fewer hospitals than comparable peers, extracts higher profits from them; for instance, while UHS has fewer beds than larger peers, it boasts a significantly higher occupancy rate.


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A Better Way To Make Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Limbs 28
They're testing their systems on epilepsy patients, who have these ECoG systems inserted anyway while they're waiting for surgery (the electrodes record the source of their seizures). The researchers are capturing these patients' movement commands from their brains, and using them to control robotic limbs. Someday such a system could be used by amputees to control their prosthetic limbs.


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GenGAME writes: "Zelda fans saw in Ocarina 3D the promise for the series as a whole to live on in future generations of hardware and to be passed down to future generations of gamers. The Operation Moonfall movement for a 3DS follow-up that rebuilds Majora's Mask proves it: Zelda fans want Nintendo to take steps to ensure that the best games of the series are given the same timeless treatment.
"With Wii U, Nintendo has the opportunity to give fans one of the greatest gifts of all: an HD collection assembling all of the best Zelda games together in one convenient up-to-date package."
If anything, remake the 2D gameboy games or Majora's Mask, but don't make Nintendo waste their time in HD collections, Zelda Games from the GC and Wii can hold on their own.
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The Post 20 Twins defeated West 18-8 on Sunday in the American Legion AA State Tournament at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage.
The Twins bounced back from a tourney-opening, 6-0 loss to Eagle River on Saturday. Post 20, the top seed, continues play in the loser's bracket today with a 12:15 p.m. contest against No. 7 seed Service at Mulcahy. The Twins split with Service in league play this year.
"They were disgusted with the way things went yesterday," Twins head coach Gary Oliver said of his team. "They were shut out, I think, for the first time all year.
"They weren't ready to give up and go home. They wanted to make a statement and they did that today."
After getting just five hits Saturday, the Twins got 16 hits in just seven innings Sunday. Post 20 also drew 11 walks. The game was shortened to seven innings because the Twins went up by 10 runs.
With a potentially long trip through the loser's bracket ahead, Oliver said it was nice to keep his pitchers from having to throw a few extra innings.
"We did save an inning or two, at least," Oliver said. "It would have been nice to put it away earlier, but we'll be OK."
Three Twins had three hits. Jake Darrow was 3 for 4 with four runs, Josiah Covey was 3 for 5 with three runs and three RBI, and Max Hegge was 3 for 4 with a run and two RBI.
AJ Hull also filled up the stat column, going 2 for 4 with three runs and two RBI.
Also for the Twins, Hector Rivera had three runs, Shayne Miller had three RBI and Ethan Oliver had two RBI.
"Even today, we had one or two slip-ups we don't normally make on defense," Oliver said. "In baseball, teams can go into lulls. This would be a terrible time to go into a lull, and I hope we shook it off today."
Tay Harling gave the Twins a solid start on the mound. He pitched the first four innings and gave up just two hits and no runs. He walked six and struck out three.
Dallas Pierren gave up eight runs — seven earned — in 2 1-3 innings. Miles Jones pitched the last two-thirds of an inning and gave up no runs and no hits.
"Tay came in and did what he needed to do," Oliver said. "Since we lost the first game, we have a longer row to hoe. We're going to need everybody to contribute on the mound."


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'PlayStation predator' arrested for luring CA teen to Tampa | News
Tampa, Florida - Imagine your child goes missing, then you find out they're on a plane heading to the other side of the country.
It happened to a 14-year-old California boy who Escondido Police say was enticed by a Tampa man who contacted him through a Playstation online game.
Detectives say 36-year-old Tony McLeod boarded a plane to pick up a boy who lives in Escondido, California. The two then grabbed a flight from Los Angeles, and headed back to Tampa where McLeod was apprehended Tuesday morning shortly after 6.
Tampa Police have charged him with kidnapping, interfering with custody, traveling to meet a minor and transmission of harmful material to a minor.
"This case originally came to our attention because of the family monitoring the young man's phone, and even then this happened, which just goes as a warning that you cannot monitor your children close enough when it comes to the internet," said an officer with Escondido Police Department. "When it comes to the phone, they literally have the world available to them."
Investigators say McLeod first met the child through PlayStation online video games, and eventually sent the boy sexually explicit text messages with photos back in May.
The parents called McLeod themselves and warned him to stay away from their son. They also alerted Escondido Police, but when their son didn't come home from school on Monday, that's when they started to expect the worst and reported him missing.
Police in Escondido were already investigating the case and focused their attention on McLeod. They said he cut off his old cell phone and learned, "[He] had gotten a new cell phone and was in the Long Beach area"- leading them to believe McLeod was involved in the boy's disappearance.
Investigators contacted the U.S. Marshals and Tampa Police- who tracked McLeod down to a flight back to Tampa International Airport Tuesday morning- and Major Brian Dugan with the Tampa Police Department says they were there waiting.
Dugan said, "I think when you go to a different state and you bring a 14-year-old boy back - and you're an adult and the cops are waiting for you on the runway...I think the jig is up."
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Neighbors, not sure what to think, said "He seemed like a nice guy. It's messed up; people are messed up."
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Mass Effect was one of the most action-packed space odysseys we've ever experienced, and it has at least two sequels that look to up that ante in nearly every way. Whether you are new to the universe or an experienced explorer, feel free to pull up a chair
Since ME3 has been released there has been quite an uproar online about the endings. However this past week theories about the final scene, from Harbingers' beam to the gasp of air, being an effect of indoctrination on Shepard.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/9727423/1 ongoning discussion about the theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYgr1rqEec the theory on a nutshell
Personally this theory makes a lot sense to me after I got the "perfect" ending from the Destroy option. I immediatly thought something was up.
What are your thoughs?
I don't know. I've heard that this has been debunked before. It might make the ending slightly more tolerable if it was, but who knows? I prefer to remain optimistic.
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I was actually okay with the ending. But...this has really made me question it. I did notice that the Illusive Man looked blue like the Paragon choice and Anderson looked red like Renegade, though. I also noticed that there was no investigate option. After all the planning and questions, Shepard is actually talking to the Catalyst and she decides not to ask any questions. The biggest thing for me is why Shepard and Anderson don't appear at the same place, but Anderson just appears one room over. That made no sense to me. Especially since that second room where Anderson appeared had no bodies in it. The Reapers were sending humans up to be harvested so why would Anderson be transported to a room that no other body has been sent to?
If this is true then that might be really cool if Bioware did that, but I can already hear the mad fans that they may have to purchase more DLC...but if it's not and the end is just the end, well it was one hell of a ride through three games that kept me on the edge of my seat for a very long time.
Actually, most fans don't mind paying money for another DLC or an update even. Not even ten percent, according to polls on BSN, are completely opposed to paying.
Yeah but this is a little different. To tell people to pay money to get the "real" ending isn't like downloading an extra level that you want. Most people will...need (for lack of a better word) to see this real ending. So to make you pay for something you actually need to complete a game is on a different level. I'll still buy it, but I know it'll be controversial just like their day one DLC.
I dont really agree with this, I mean I LIKE the ending.
If you're referring to the indoctrination theory, it's legitimate. Given the fact that Shepard encountered and was effected by Reaper tech from the very beginning and in very obvious scenes from the, From Ashes DLC, gives causes for unexplained events. For example: Indoctrination causes hallucinations of ghostly presences and feelings of being watched. Although this is cause for complaint on my part, it does explain the child that no one ever seems to notice except Shepard.
On the other hand I'm not one to argue, because I absolutely hated the ending. Given the fact that this "Catalyst" God Child, entity is telling me that all synthetic life will turn against their creators is ***. the Quarian's fault with their Geth research and reactivation is a brush off the shoulder. They can be reverted and made a war asset. If it were the Shepard that Bioware had me play as throughout the entire series, a renegade option would've been in order.
And it comes down to the basic problem at hand, they don't give you anymore options, other than jump down a hole and blow up the Mass Relays, which was explained before in previous literary titles and previous games, that the destruction of one Mass Relay could destroy an entire solar system. So do the math Bioware.


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I'm a business guy. I focus on the bottom line, I can't sleep without balanced budgets, and fiscal issues need to make sense or I don't sign off. I've employed many Alaskans, and I know what makes the economy work. We not only need a low-tax, pro-business climate with minimal government involvement, but good-paying local jobs so money is reinvested in the local economy. My opponent has scolded those who push for Alaska Hire. Alaska preference for qualified workers? I say, Hell, yes!
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I've lived, worked, and enjoyed the outdoors across our district for most of my life. I love our district, and the people in it. I will always be available to you, and give this district a long-needed voice at the table.
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I've never been a guy who toots his own horn so to speak, but oh hell yea !
I made number seven this week with no major controversy to boost ratings. Best part is, I did it without living on or even near the east or west coast, and with a team that's not even making a playoff run. All that against me and I still made it.
Who knows? I could drop off the list next week, but for now I'm going to attribute it to good blogging and leave it at that.
I've had eleven guesses so far today on my Baseball Card Trivia question. People have been guessing through comments and through email. Nobody is even warm yet. So here are a few hints..
1. As of 2007 this player was still a scout for the Philidelphia Phillies.
2. This player had a 15 season career and was and retired a .234 hitter with 106 home runs and 501 RBI in 1384 games.
If you think you know, post your answer in a comment or email it to: email@example.com .
I have one more hint and I'll give it out tomorrow if nobody gets this today.
Right now I'm working on an entry from the Rockies/Giants game last night…D
The winner is:
DAN SAUVAGEAU (red hat). 1st row season ticket holder for the Colorado Rockies and one hell of a baseball snagger.
He got the correct answer of Ron Hansen.
Ron Hansen was the 8th player to get an unassisted triple play. He was also the first of the bigger shortshops.
Ron never made it to a World Series in fifteen seasons. Thanks for playing. Wonder who I could pick next…D


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Ivy League Teaming With NeuLion To Launch Digital Network In August
The Ivy League will launch its own digital network in August, and NeuLion will handle the video platform for the eight school channels plus a conference channel. The subscription model will offer fans the opportunity to buy an individual school channel or a conference package that includes programming for all of the schools. Pricing has not been established yet, but monthly and annual packages will be available. "Each of the schools has been streaming content on their own platforms, which meant that you could watch your team play if they're at home, but if you wanted to see them play on the road, you had to buy that other school's package too," said Ivy League Exec Dir Robin Harris. "The digital network will be a huge step forward because now we'll be able to offer all of the digital content on one platform." NeuLion, which handles the digital and mobile programming technology for the Pac-12 and Big Ten, as well as close to 200 individual school sites, will make the Ivy League content available through online, mobile and tablets. The digital network will be accessed online through IvyLeagueSports.tv. The TV Everywhere model is critical these days, as NeuLion co-Founder and Exec VP/Marketplace Strategy Chris Wagner said the company is seeing that 30-40% of its content is being consumed on mobile devices and tablets.
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I enrolled in First Coast Technical College's School of Culinary Arts in August 2012 because I love to cook and hope to make my passion into a life-long career.
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10-12 servings
3/4 cup sugar, divided
1/3 cup flour
Dash salt
3 eggs, separated
2 cups milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
45 vanilla wafers, divided
5 bananas, sliced
1/2 cup chocolate chip, semi-sweet
Mix 1/2 cup sugar, flour and salt on top of double boiler. Blend in 3 egg yolks and milk. Cook, uncovered, over boiling water 10 to 12 minutes or until thickened, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
Reserve 12 vanilla wafers for garnish. Spread small amount of custard onto bottom of a baking dish. Cover with layers of 1/3 each of the remaining wafers, bananas, chocolate chips, and remaining custard. Repeat layers two times.
Beat egg whites on high speed of mixer until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in remaining sugar until stiff peaks form. Spread over custard, sealing well to edge of dish.
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During a routine traffic stop, police officers are justified in conducting a pat down search of a passenger they think might be armed, even if they have no suspicion that the passenger has committed a crime.
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The trial court denied the defendant's motion to suppress the evidence, concluding that the stop was lawful, and that the officer had cause to suspect the defendant was armed and dangerous. The defendant was convicted. The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed. While recognizing that the defendant was lawfully seized, the court found that, prior to the pat down, the detention had evolved into a consensual conversation. The court concluded that the officer had no right to pat frisk the defendant, even if she had reason to suspect he was armed and dangerous. The Arizona Supreme Court denied review. The case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court's decision, ruling the lawful stop of the car was a seizure under the 4th amendment. The Court did not find that the gang affiliation questioning was a consensual conversation. A stop and frisk may be conducted without violating an individual's amendment rights if two conditions are met: 1) the stop must be lawful; and 2) the officer reasonably suspects the person is armed and dangerous. Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968). The stop of a vehicle is a seizure on all people involved. Brendlin v. California, 551 U.S. 249 (2007). Thus, an officer who conducts a routine traffic stop may perform a pat down of a driver and any passengers upon reasonable suspicion that they might be armed and dangerous.
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Despite your best efforts and making well-researched financial choices, market volatility can abscond with the returns you were hoping to have at the end of the year, leaving you with a thinner coffer. What do you do? You might sell a losing security, incurring a capital loss. Often individual investors file their tax returns claiming the loss for the lesser of $3,000 (or $1,500 if filing jointly); if it exceeds that amount, losses can be carried forward to future years.
Some individuals attempt to game the system by dumping losing securities on December 31, claiming the deductible and repurchasing the security immediately afterward at a reduced price, while enjoying the lighten tax burden. It seems like a neat strategy, but the IRS calls it by another name – a wash sale – and it comes with some restrictions that make it a little tougher to deploy. Market regulators have also coined a corresponding term for financial firms – wash trading – which has recently put the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) under the spotlight. Wash trading shares some similarities to wash selling, in that it aims to take advantage of tax benefits; however, there are a few differences, with one being markedly big - it's illegal.
The Allegations
On April 2, U.S. regulators accused RBC, specifically key executives, of operating a wash trading scheme. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) claims that subsidiaries of RBC allegedly conducted transactions worth millions of dollars utilizing wash trades, whereby through the purchase of both narrow-based stock index futures and single-stock futures, the bank was able to hedge its positions resulting in a gain/loss of zero. What does that have to do with wash sales? In Canada, you can receive tax credits for dividend payments.
According to the Canadian newspaper The National Post, in this alleged wash scheme RBC purchased American dividend-paying stocks and afterward sold futures to subsidiaries, which have been claimed by the CFTC to be located in the Cayman Islands, allowing the risk in the stock to "wash" away. Thus, a company that does this can dramatically reduce volatility in those positions while reaping the rewards of tax credits.
What prompted U.S. regulators to take action against RBC are claims of collusion between various arms of the bank, distorting the price of the securities and demonstrating non-competitive behavior in the futures market. Since the announcement of the lawsuit, Royal Bank of Canada has denied any wrong doing.
SEE: Can IRA Transactions Trigger The Wash-Sale Rule?
Wash Trading
What exactly is wash trading? Well, it falls under the category of market manipulation and exists in the company of other foul-play tactics such as churning, ghosting and bear raids. Generally, as mentioned before, the name is derived from the act of cleaning detritus (which in the context of investing, would be risk) from a stock, using methods that can be seen as undermining free and fair operations espoused by the market. Moreover, wash trading can also make a stock's volume appear to have a lot of activity resulting from the repeated buying and selling done by an individual or firm when the shares have never changed owners to begin with.
Why Should You Care?
If the charges being thrown at RBC hold any water, it will be the largest wash trading scheme that the CFTC has ever levied prosecutions for. In the wake of the MF Global Holdings collapse, the regulator has been the target of much criticism by officials for its perceived mishandling of the situation, where the loss of nearly $1.2 billion of client funds graced the pages of media outlets everywhere.
The swift legal action taken against RBC can be seen as a demonstration of the CFTC's revitalized fervor of tackling dishonest behavior before deeper consequences are realized. That, and this past January's new set of rules regarding swaps, and a proposal of their own version of the Volcker Rule, show that the regulator is stepping up its game in the derivatives market. Time will only tell whether this change will be effective.
SEE: Bank Regulations: Good Or Bad?
The Bottom Line
The Royal Bank of Canada has stated that they will defend against the allegations of wash trading, insisting that it has been compliant with the rules set out by the CFTC and did so legally and with steady oversight by regulators. However, despite this, shares of the bank on both the TSX and NYSE dipped a few points this week as investors reacted to the poor press. Whether or not the alleged wash trades are in fact what they are, the fact remains that the CFTC is posing for a fight and will hopefully relinquish whatever credibility it may have lost in the past year.
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