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Expert Voice: Peter G. Neumann on Securing our Data Grid
Peter G. Neumann isn't your typical computer nerd. For starters, the principal scientist at SRI International's elite Computer Science Laboratory plays the bassoon, piano, French horn and a variety of other instruments. He writes poetry and music, and he's good enough at softball to have started a triple play at third base that involved movie director Spike Lee three summers ago in a pickup game on Martha's Vineyard. He's also an inveterate punster, billing himself on his Web site as an "eclectical engineer"a reference to his diverse interests and talents.
The 69-year-old Neumann is a world-renowned expert on computer security, privacy and systems who has been on various computing and Internet advisory groupsincluding one in the mid-1990s to advise the commissioner on service problems at the Internal Revenue Service. In July, he was awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help ease extensive security problems in the nation's increasingly complex, hacker-prone, bug-ridden data infrastructure.
But perhaps Neumann's most visible role beyond the rarified air of computing is as moderator of a popular Internet newsgroup he has run for the past 17 years called "The Risks Forum." His "Illustrative Risks to the Public in the Use of Computer Systems and Related Technologies" cites thousands of incidents of flawed information technology and systems, from software-triggered glitches in heart pacemakers to the recent Code Red virus, versions I and II.
What worries Neumann the most, however, isn't the smart hacker who can penetrate and plant "trapdoors" nearly anywhere then return undetected at any time, as with Code Red. "That stuff is trivial," he says. What really worries him, Neumann told Executive Editor Marcia Stepanek during a recent interview in his paper-cluttered Silicon Valley office, is "the big one that could have a major effect on everyone's lives."
CIO INSIGHT: You once referred to yourself as a Cassandraa prophet who warns about the risks to the public in the use of digital technology, only to find your warnings fall, mostly, on deaf ears. How bad is the problem?
NEUMANN: Essentially, every computer system is breakable. And that brings us to the bottom line, which is that our information infrastructure is flaky and weak, and we've got to do something dramatic to improve it. It will require intelligence on the part of developers, CIOs and customers. If none of them are demanding better quality and security, we'll never get it.
True, most attacks so far have not been devastating. But the potential is there for massive disruption of the U.S. infrastructure and the economy. The National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Air Force and many corporations have had their Web sites broken into. Is this serious? Yes, because it's symptomatic of the enormous number of vulnerabilities that exist in these systems. If all of the examples of break-ins today have been merely ankle-biting, then you have to think about the bigger picture of, say, corporate espionage, terrorism, foreign nations bringing down infrastructures in other nations.
What is chiefly responsible for the increasing vulnerability of our information infrastructure?
Stupidity. In the past four or five years I think, more than half of the security vulnerabilities reported by Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team have been due to buffer overflowsmissing bounds checks and other related flaws. We've known about them for 40-some years, and yet they persist. My point is that these events are symptomatic of the fact that the state of the art of software engineering is abysmal. Now, you'd like to think that when you're dealing with life-critical systems, mission-critical systems, military-critical systems, money-critical systems, that the software engineering would be dramatically better. It's not. There's an enormous amount of stuff that keeps happening over and over again, the same kinds of failures. We never learn.
People still install systems with the root password as delivered on the installation disk, for example. You'd be astounded at how many systems have this problem. Maintenance people use the same password on every system that they're maintaining all over the world for their own convenience. And the average CIO is told by vendors that everything is perfectly secure, which it isn't, and yet the CIO believes them. He wants to believe them because if he doesn't, he's got a problem.
The biggest problem today is that all of our infrastructure systems are increasingly dependent on one other. Transportation needs telecommunications, telecommunications need power generation and distribution, power needs energy sources, energy distribution needs telecommunications and transportation. All of these infrastructures need computers, and indeed, networked computers. It all runs now, increasingly, over some form of the Net.
We're dealing with problems where the entire enterprise, the entire corporation, the entire industry, the entire government, must be considered as a system. And you have to do some intelligent analysis of the risks in that system. And what we always discover is that there are enormous risks.
Is it possible to improve things without government regulation?
Yes and no. Regulation can work in many different dimensions. But regulation or oversight of some sort is probably necessary when dealing with life-critical systems. Regulation can discourage innovation, as it has to some extent in cryptography and security. Regulation can stimulate system interoperability, but it can also hinder it. Unfortunately, governments are not very good at long-term thinking, and more of that is needed. It also takes a lot of altruism on the part of system developers who need to build things that are really robust, rather than just good enough to be marketable. We might need some software lemon laws. Perhaps the best example of what can be done without government regulationand to some extent in spite of government regulationis the highly collaborative open-source and free software movement, which is heading in a very important direction.
You're a well-known proponent of the open-source movement. Is that a solution here?
Open source by itself is not a panacea because it still requires all the discipline in software development, maintenance, administration, patching and so forth. But it gives you the opportunity to fix things. If you have any skills in-house, you can repair things that a vendor of proprietary software won't let you repair. If you have some intelligent architecture, and operation and system administration, and intelligent CIOs, there are opportunities to create systems that are substantially better than your typical off-the-shelf stuff.
If you look at the networking server marketplace, the open-source community, Linux, UNIX, whatever, is now in excess of half of the market, which is an interesting turn of events. That's certainly going to get the commercial vendors much more up in arms as to what they can do to combat it. But, unfortunately, the knee-jerk reaction is, "Well, we need proprietary stuff because that way there's somebody behind it." The real challenge for the open-source community is providing support, maintenance, integrity, assurance, security and reliability that you can't get out of some of the proprietary commercial stuff.
What can a CIO do in this instance?
In many procurements, there's a security requirement, and the vendors win the bids based on their proposals, and then they say: "Oh, by the way, we don't think we can meet the security requirement. We have to back off on it a little bit." And the organization that made this procurement says: "Well, we desperately need the system, so we'll have to back off on the security part." This has happened over and over again. After it's developed or sometimes in operation, they test it and say: "Well, gee, this is not doing what it was supposed to." And folks knew this all along.
How about contracts with real penalties in them or how about telling a vendor that they don't get paid unless this thing really works? Now, the problem there is that the requirements for those tests are usually inadequate. So the vendor builds the system to minimally meet the requirements but not to do what it ought to do. I've had several cases of that, cases where it was obvious from the beginning that the system wouldn't do what it needed to do, but it would meet specs. And there are a couple of notorious cases where the vendor knew all along that there was no way this was going to work, but the letter of the contract was such that they would win big on lawsuits and incremental contracts.
But on balance, the laws never quite make the difference in what is needed. The legal expenses of litigating are horrendous. It can drag on for years and years. The insurance companies do have a role. Organizations that impose standards have a role, but the standards tend to be minimal. And unenforceable.
You've been named to help lead a project sponsored by DARPA. What's the idea behind the effort?
People in government who get it recognize that they're not getting what they need out of mass-market operating system developments. So, they've issued 10 contracts that relate to the development of secure, open-source operating systems. This is an opportunity for quite a few folks to take advantage of the research that we have known and loved for the past many years, and take the concept of the open-source movement and develop systems that are substantially better, ideally, than what can be bought or rented or leased out of the proprietary software development community.
This is a huge challenge, and it's one that I think DARPA has addressed primarily because it cannot get the very high integrity, high reliability and high security that they really need for their mission-critical applications. And this will also, hopefully, pressure mass-market proprietary software developers to do a better job.
Do you see a solution on the horizon?
What is most frustrating is when you are trying to tell somebody they have a problem, and they insist that there's no problem. I refer back to Cassandra, to whom nobody wanted to listen, but she was usually right. You never know where it's going to hit you, but you have to assume that it will. If you accept from the beginning that you're vulnerable, then you have to think about things differently. I'm suggesting that more people have to start thinking differently or we'll never crack the security problem. The Internet is waiting for its Chernobyl, and I think we won't have to wait much longer. We're already very close to the edge.
On Neumann
In November 1952, when Peter G. Neumann was a junior at Harvard University, Albert Einstein paid a visit to the family's apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. Neumann's mother, a noted mosaic artist, had eight years earlier rendered Einstein's visage in Italian tilesa work that now hangs in the reference room of the main library at Boston University. Neumann's two-hour conversation with Einstein left an indelible mark on the young Neumann. "We talked about music and art, and also about complexity," Neumann recalls. "It had a huge impact on my subsequent approach to computer systems and my life." What stuck, in particular, was Einstein's playful admonition that "everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."
In this month's issue, Neumann, 69, the principal scientist at SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory, evokes that lesson in a passionate discussion of how the world's information infrastructure is becoming increasingly complex and fragilea catastrophe waiting to happen. "The quality of systems and of software is horrendous and the state of engineering is abysmal," says Neumann.
In July, Neumann was named by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to head up a new global project aimed at building a safer, more secure data infrastructure. But Neumanna passionate voice in the open-source software movementis also a self-described Cassandra, fairly certain of the inevitable problems that will continue to occur as a result of increasingly complex systems. "The Internet is waiting for its Chernobyl," he says, "and I don't think we'll be waiting much longer."
This article was originally published on 09-01-2001


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An encouraging U.S. jobs report was not enough to give the markets a lift on Friday as worries about Greece's debt crisis continued to weigh on sentiment.
The number of U.S. jobs rose by 80,000 in October while the unemployment rate was little changed at 9% versus 9.1% in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Economists had expected an increase of 95,000 jobs, and the consensus was for an unchanged unemployment rate.
In a bright spot of news, figures for August and September were revised to show 102,000 more jobs than reported earlier. The BLS revised its September jobs number higher to 158,000 from 103,000, as well as the number of new jobs in August to 104,000 from 57,000. However, the country's number of unemployed persons, 13.9 million, changed little, the bureau said in its employment situation release.
"Today's report shows that the labor market is healing, but only slowly, leaving the economic recovery on a sluggish trajectory," wrote the North America economics group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research.
The revised figures were not enough to counter investors' worries about a Friday confidence vote for Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. Even though a proposed popular vote in Greece over the European debt deal was abandoned on Thursday, uncertainty remains about the future of Greece's debt deal with the eurozone.
Stocks were lower in early afternoon trading, with the Dow Jones industrial average down 141 points, 1.3% lower, at 11,903. The S&P 500 was down 15 points, 1.2% lower, at 1,246. The Nasdaq index was down 324 points, 0.89% lower, at 2,673.
Still, the October jobs report was a relatively positive note for the U.S. economy, said Anthony Karydakis, adjunct professor of economics at the Stern School of Business of New York University and senior economist at Commerzbank, in an analyst vote.
"The key message from today's employment data is that labor markets remain in appreciably better shape than it had appeared in the previous couple of months," Karydakis said. "Not only did private payrolls, still the better gauge of demand for labor in the economy, rise by 104,000 in October, but the prior two months were revised sharply higher by a total of 84,000 (the upward revision to headline payrolls was 102,000). The bottom line is that the pace of hiring in recent months has not suffered nearly as much as had initially appeared based on the preliminary data for the summer months."
Looking more closely at the October jobs figures, Karydakis noted that manufacturing turned out a small gain, with 5,000 new jobs, while retail trade, education/health care, and leisure/hospitality all posted solid gains. State and local governments continued to shed jobs, down 26,000, at pace similar to the one that has prevailed all year.
"All in all, the report confirms the premise that the economic recovery has enough momentum to continue forward at a moderate to relatively respectable pace of 2.5% to 3.0% and shows no signs of fizzling," Karydakis said. "The main risk ahead to the recovery remains the possibility of exogenous shock waves stemming from the eurozone debt crisis, an outcome impossible to handicap sensibly at this point."
Read about last month's U.S. jobs report at AdvisorOne.com

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What is Coaxial Cable?
Coaxial cable is a two conductor electrical cable consisting of a center conductor and an outer conductor with an insulating spacer between the two.
How is Coaxial Cable used?
Primarily, coaxial cables are used for the transmission of Radio Frequency energy. The system offers tight control over electrical impedance. This yields excellent performance at high frequencies and superior EMI control/shielding.
Where is Coaxial Cable used?
A broad range of applications exist for coaxial cabling. The two primary impedance values of 50 and 75 Ohms determine specific applications with 50 Ohms primarily used in data signal applications and 75 Ohms used in video signal applications.
Coaxial Cable Terms
Attenuation (Insertion Loss): Loss of power. Attenuation is usually measured in dB loss per length of cable (ex. 31.0 dB/100Ft.). Attenuation increases as frequency increases.
Bend Radius: The amount of radius a cable can bend without any adverse effects.
Center Conductor: The solid or stranded wire in the middle of the coaxial cable. The conductor diameter is measured by the American Wire Gauge (AWG).
Coaxial Adapter: A device used to change one connector type to another or one gender to another (ex. BNC to SMA Adapter).
Coaxial Cable: A two conductor cylindrical transmission line typically comprised of a center conductor, an insulating dielectric material and an outer conductor (shielding). Coaxial cable can be flexible (typical of L-com assemblies), semi-rigid or rigid in nature.
Coaxial Connector: The interconnection device found at each end of a coaxial cable assembly. There are many common types of coaxial connectors such as: BNC, SMA, SMB, F, etc.
Dielectric: The insulating material that separates the center conductor and the shielding.
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI): Electrical or electro-magnetic energy that disrupts electrical signals.
Frequency: The number of times a periodic action occurs in one second. Measured in Hertz.
Impedance: In simple terms, impedance, in a coaxial product, is the measurement of resistance to the flow of current. The unit of measurement is Ohms.
The following is a more technically correct definition:Transmission line impedance, also known as characteristic impedance, is the ratio of the amplitudes of a single pair of voltage and current waves propagating along an infinitely long transmission line with absence of any reflections. Characteristic impedance measures like resistance when dealing coaxial cable types. Characteristic impedance is a relationship between the capacitance per unit length and the inductance per unit length. The inner and outer coaxial diameter ratios and the dielectric constant in the cable define the parameters involved in determining characteristic impedance.
Insertion Loss: A measurement of attenuation determined by the system output before and after the connection of a cable and/or device.
Jack: The female connector usually containing a center socket.
Microwave Frequencies: Microwave frequencies range from Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) .3-3GHz, Super High Frequency (SHF) 3-30GHz to Extremely High Frequency (EHF) 30-300GHz.
MIL-C-17: MIL-C-17 is a specification document that has been used since the 1940s to standardize the physical and electrical characteristics of coaxial cables. There is no longer any control of RG specifications so cables may perform differently than the cables that adhere to MIL-C-17.
Plug: The male connector usually containing a center pin.
RF (Radio Frequency): A frequency band from 3 MHz to 3 GHz. Primarily used for transmission of radio and television signals.
RG/U: Symbols used to represent coaxial cable that is built to U.S. government specifications (R=Radio Frequency, G=Government, U=Universal Specification)
Shielding: Conductive envelope made of wires or metal foil that covers the dielectric and the center conductor
Twinaxial: An offshoot from coaxial cabling. Two center conductors with one dielectric and braided shielding.
Velocity of Propagation (VP): Usually expressed as a percentage, VP is the transmission speed of electrical energy in a determined length of cable compared to the speed of light.
VSWR (Voltage Standing Wave Ratio): The ratio of the maximum effective voltage to the minimum effective voltage measured along a RF transmission line. This value generally increases with frequency and higher values are not desirable.
Common Applications for Coax Cable Assemblies
Frequency Band Data
Coaxial products are generally intended for use in the RF frequency band.
|Typical Coaxial Cable
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|Typical Coaxial Connector
(BNC Exploded View):
Understanding Coaxial Cable
Shielding Effectiveness is the relative ability of a shield to screen out undesirable interference. In the case of a coaxial cable, the outer conductor provides a shield to keep interfering signals from getting in and to keep signal from leaking out to become undesirable interference for nearby devices. Shielding Effectiveness is measured in dB with higher values indicating better shielding properties.
The table below illustrates the relative shielding properties of various shielding types. Notice as the shielding density increases there is a correlated increase in the shielding effectiveness value. The best shielding effectiveness value can be found in a rigid coaxial cable due to the solid tube construction of the outer jacket. In this type of cable the limiting factor for shielding effectiveness is the quality of the connector attachment.


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Feature on Tribe Called Quest written by Chris Wilder in The Source, november 1991.
A Tribe Called Quest : Georgie Porgie featuring Brand Nubian (demo) (DivShare)
Feature on Tribe Called Quest written by Chris Wilder in The Source, november 1991.
A Tribe Called Quest : Georgie Porgie featuring Brand Nubian (demo) (DivShare)
A little background story Moe Dee's most famous battle, as told to Chris Wilder in the 50th issue of The Source. Since I already upload the Busy B battle yesterday, here is a part of Kool Moe Dee's other famous battle, on wax this time, with LL Cool J.
Kool Moe Dee : Death Blow (DivShare)
Review Of BDP's live album from The Source, in may 1991, written by Chris Wilder.
Boogie Down Productions : Ya Know The Rule (live) (DivShare)
Categories : Bronx, Live, Review, Chris Wilder.
Chris Wilder followed Chris Wallace when he wasn't the King Of New-York yet, from The Source, october 1994. The mp3 is a dope demo with an awful sound.
Notorious Big : Biggie Got The Hype Shit (demo) (DivShare)
the Mayor of ST. JAMES
YO,THEY NOT FRISKIN'. Get down here right now!" The Notorious BIG. is talking into a cellu-lar phone. He's rolling about 12 or 13 deep, but with Craig Mack's crew, the posse's at least 20 strong and everybody's outside the Brooklyn Academy of Music smoking blunts and drinking an Olde English and Guineas Stout mix. The show tonight is actually a pre-Jones Beach Greek thing, so while this scene goes on outside, the Kappas or some-body is stepping inside.
'They gonna flip when we drop "R&B Bitch' on 'em," says an anonymous voice out of the blunt haze. The voice is talking about "Dreams," a fantasy song about Big sexing several of the ladies of B&B. The only problem is they can't decide whether to do "Dreams" or "Juicy," which is pretty much Big rhyming over the old Mtume jam.
Later inside, the decision is made. "R&B Bitch." Let's do this. It was a little hard to get the a cappella "Dreams of fuckin' an R&B bitch" hook over on the mostly female, collegiate crowd. For a crew of ruffneck B-boys, sure. But in this setting, no way. Women run New York.
The show takes a lot out of Big because after the show, instead of going to Hot 97 for an on-air interview that had been scheduled for days, he opts to stay around the way and chill. Chances are he's out on his block or around the corner or hanging on Fulton Street—known to the locals simply as "The Ave."
Biggie is the mayor of his block of St. lames. Not St. James between Gates and Greene, the block that Chubb Rock propped up on wax, but St lizzy between Fulton and Gates, the next block down. "Chubb had a little honey that lived on St. lames between Gates and Greene. I guess he thought the kids in the neighborhood was sweatin' him," recounts Big.
He's a big, Black celebrity checking in at about 63″, 280. He can't stand on the block without people speaking to him. "I've lived here my whole life, from the first day," he explains. "I'm the mayor."
He was the mayor of the block when he was hustling, he was the mayor when he seas making demo tapes, and he was mayor each time he came home from jail. If you've ever been to jail, even if it's only for one night, you know the feeling when you get back around the way, it's like getting back with family. The block is always there for you. But that's exactly why Biggie didn't trust it when his peeps would tell him that his demo tapes were dope 'Your family will always support you," he says. "But when niggas wanted to sign me. I knew' I had something."
But it was actually his fam that hooked him up. His tape made its way to Kane's DJ, Mr. Cee, who brought it up to THE SOURCE, where he won Unsigned Hype in March '92. Puffy, Uptown's A&R director at the time, quickly signed him and put him out there on a couple of things—a Mary J. Bilge remix, a Supercat remix and video. But when they had him do a song for the Who's The Man? soundtrack, Big turned in "Party and Bullshit", the fattest underground piece New York had put out in a long time.
When Puffy left to held up his own label and management company. Bad Boy Entertainment, Uptown let Biggie go with him. "This is what we always wanted: insists Biggie. I wanted to go to Puffs shit because I knew if I went to that niggs shit it'd be 100 percent correct."
No argument from Uptown. "We just felt like Puffy could allow Biggie to grow the way he needed to grow," claims senior marketing director Brett Wright
One day kickin' it in front of the mayor's crib, I wanted to hear the album since we were talking about it. I didn't have a copy, and Big didn't either. "Don't worry," he says. "We'll get it."
A couple of minutes later. here comes his man down the street. Big asks if he has the tape on him. He does, but there's still the problem of where to listen to it. Even that problem only lasts a few minutes because here comes another kid walking up the block with a box. It's on. For Big, anything is possible on St. James.
Funny. Biggie Smalls's debut album, Ready to Die, starts off with a birth. With Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it Up," a record released around the time Biggie was born, playing in the background, loud enough to be the foreground, a baby is born lorries of "Yeah, you did it, baby." Then "Rapper's Delight"—parents arguing—"You can't control that boy!? What's wrong with you!" Next is Audio Two's 'Top Billin" and a plot to rob a train, presumably the subway. Obviously the train robbery didn't work out because next, with a Snoop track playing, we hear Biggie getting out of jail and telling the CO he won't be back, "I got big plans."
Now that we've been brought up to date with Biggie's life, the rest of the album is a series of intricately detailed post-jail stories. The first song is about how the streets have changed since he's been away. On the next, he plans a robbery along with his "alter ego," and so on. All these stories are told via Big's loud, fat-guy voice, first made famous by Big Bank Hank and carried on by the likes of Kool Rock Ski, The Chubbster and any other fat guy with rhyme skills you can think of.
But still, you need to understand just how clear and thorough his lyrics are. At the end of every track you're left with a Kodak moment—an exact pic-ture of everything that happened over the last three minutes and change, right down to the smallest detail.
There's one detail Big forgot about, though. And that was copyrighting his name. We call him Biggie Smalls, but offi-cially it's The Notorious BIG. What hap-pened was, some Jesse Jaymes-looking kid came out with a record early last year, "I Like Black Girls, Too." He was out first. He had the name.
"Yeah, that's my name," Biggie sighs. "But it don't matter. Niggas know me."
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Three years ago there was a dearth of tools for cocos2d development. It's a lot better now. This is not a comprehensive list of all the tools out there but covers the ones I've tried and found useful. If you're … Continue reading
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Diagnosis is the key
There are not many articles in the Health Services Journal that set Dr Grumble alight. Management is pretty boring. But management is important which is why Dr Grumble keeps an eye on the HSJ just as they keep an eye on him. Managers often seem to get hold of the wrong end of the stick. Putting them right is a challenge. They come from a culture of suspicion - especially about doctors - so sometimes they just won't listen. Doctors who go into management are not always a solution to this problem. Doctors who choose to head for management are not necessarily the best individuals we have on offer and they tend to go native. Patients and quality of care quickly get forgotten. Spreadsheets and targets rule their day. And thinking goes out of the window. Too many managers, medical or otherwise, are like puppets on strings.
Perhaps that is why managers, medical and otherwise, want to turn clinical care into puppetry. Issue doctors with protocols and patient pathways, give them a few boxes to tick and problems will just disappear. That anyway is how managers think it should be done. But it is not as easy as that. Protocols may require, say, the correct interpretation of an X-ray and junior doctors required to follow the protocol may not be able to read the relevant radiograph accurately. Managers fail to grasp this. To them a broken bone is a broken bone. If a doctor can't see a fracture managers see that as odd. They will rectify the problem by sending the relevant staff on a half-day course to put right what is really a lack of experiential learning. But you cannot make up for lack of experience by going on a course. You can't tell a manager that. A broken bone is a broken bone. You can see it on an X-ray. They know that. The concept that it might actually be quite difficult and need a lot of practice escapes managers. They will tell you that practising medicine is like flying a plane. All you need is the right simulator.
Dr Grumble has often seen the wrong pathway followed because the diagnosis was wrong in the first place. This happens because diagnosis is not easy. If you have, say, a pain in the knee and the X-ray shows something wrong in the knee it may seem as if you are home and dry but it could be that the pain is actually a result of pathology in the hip. Even orthopaedics may not be straightforward. You don't want your knee replaced if the problem is in your hip.
On more that one occasion Dr Grumble has been asked by publishers to write a book - not on particular diseases but on symptoms. Instead of there being chapters on heart attacks or pulmonary embolism, there would be chapters on chest pain and breathlessness. Even publishers seem to understand that patients do not arrive at the GPs' surgery with pulmonary emboli - they come with breathlessness or some other symptom. Yet, if you look at standard textbooks, you will find plenty of good articles on pulmonary embolism or myocardial infarction and rather few on how to diagnose chest pain or breathlessness.
Goaded by his would-be publishers, Dr G has learned that surprisingly little is known about how doctors make diagnoses. Many of Dr Grumble's colleagues think that today's junior doctors are not as good as they were. Even the juniors themselves, worn down by MTAS and MMC, are beginning to believe this. It is nonsense. It is very difficult to recall what you once did not know. Experiential learning sinks in slowly. You carry it with you for ever and it is the key to diagnosis. Unlike some of his more arrogant colleagues, Dr Grumble can remember when as a junior doctor he would struggle to get to the nub of a patient's problem when the consultant seemed to be able to score a hole in one without even trying. Dr Grumble did this himself the other day with a case of mitral stenosis. A few seconds auscultation and, despite the near-by vacuum cleaner, Dr G was able to describe the tell-tale murmur and even made a few comments about the pre-systolic accentuation. You can't do this unless you have had experience. Few of Dr Grumble's junior doctors have heard such a murmur before. Often diagnosis is more subtle than a single physical sign but Dr Grumble can still, sometimes, find it easy to get there despite red herrings fed his way. Surprisingly, it seems that rather little is known about how experienced doctors are able to do this. The books say it is something to do with heuristics which seems to Dr Grumble to be a way of saying we don't know quite how it is done.
Given the importance of diagnosis, it is odd that there has not been more research on how it is we reach or fail to reach this crucial bottom line. Dr Grumble thinks it is for the same reason that Dr Grumble has, mostly, avoided writing book chapters focussing on symptoms rather than disease. He has done it and some lectures too but it is not easy if your audience is senior. Like most, Dr Grumble has tended put the topic of diagnosis into the too-difficult basket. The relative lack of research in this area probably has the same cause. It's just too difficult.
On the other hand Dr Grumble spends a long time with medical students trying to teach them how to reach a diagnosis or, better, a differential diagnosis. Diagnosis is what most of Dr Grumble's bedside teaching is about. An old lady falls over. The notes read 'impression: mechanical fall' because she tripped over a rug. There is no thinking here. No differential diagnosis. Dr Grumble has rugs at home. He has never fallen as a result. So when an old lady falls what could it be that has caused it? How do we find out? What things should we consider? Students don't always appreciate such teaching because you have to make them work. You have to get them to think on their feet. Any thinking will do. There are no right or wrong answers - though the students tend to think there are. The old lady could have fallen because she lost her glasses or because of postural hypotension or very many other things. The problem is considering all these possibilities and working out which it is.
So what is all this to do with the HSJ? It is that the HSJ has actually got a rather good article addressing the issue of diagnosis. The managers have at last realised how crucial this is. They have discovered that:
...... of 840 emergency admissions, revealed five (0.6 per cent) had been diagnosed incorrectly - all by junior doctors.
Dr Grumble would like to know more about this study because he doesn't think he performs anything like as well that. And it seems particularly surprising given that even in intensive care we are told:
.....one study found major diagnostic discrepancies at post-mortem in one in five patients who died on an intensive care unit.
Probably what this discrepancy shows is just how little we know about this topic. Dr Grumble has some awareness of his own deficiencies but he comes from an era when we did many more post mortems. Our bosses insisted on it because they knew that their diagnoses were often wrong and that they needed to know when they were wrong. These days we never find out just how wrong we were.
Anyway, the HSJ article is a good one and well worth a read.


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Blessed John Paul II is one of my favorite thinkers. He said quite a few things which I think are worth pondering. I've listed some of them below for your prayerful reflection.
Have a blessed Saturday.
Following Christ in Daily Life
"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."
"True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement."
"The evil of our times consists in the first place in a kind of degradation, indeed in a pulverization, of the fundamental uniqueness of each human person."
"Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil."
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I feel a little sick to my stomach when I hear about someone getting off on a technicality. Illegal search, improper handling, failure of the arresting officer to read the suspect their rights. The list of possible screw-ups is endless.
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I'll be honest, just like all of you, I have no idea whether or not Ryan Braun is guilty. He claims he's innocent, MLB implies he's guilty and the fan is left to wonder what the real story is. But whether he's an innocent charged with a crime he didn't commit or a ne'er-do-well who got off on a technicality, the fact of the matter is that Braun has been cleared and this story never should have been in the press in the first place. More than that, if Braun was guilty of using PEDs, MLB has no one to blame but itself for his exoneration.
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"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them" – Romans 1:18-19
The "love of God" is a theme which dominates pulpits across our land. Without doubt, the Gospel reveals to man exactly what true love is (1 John 4:9). How incredible, really, that a Holy and Righteous God would send His Son to die for sinners! Certainly, the "love of God" is a wonderful theme. Yet, without understanding something of the "wrath of God", we lose some understanding of His love.
God is infinitely holy and righteous. There is no sin in God as He cannot sin. Being a just and righteous Judge, as He is, sin cannot simply be overlooked. Our Creator has a standard and it is strict. A holy and righteous God can only give a standard which reflects His holy and righteous nature. So, God's requirement of mankind is that we too be holy and righteous. Yet, the Law quickly reveals to us how impossible this is.
Our text verse says that "the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men". This is a warning, plain and simple. There is coming a time that God will judge mankind. Those that are still "dead in trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1) must give an account to a righteous God that cannot overlook sin and remain righteous. This should be terrifying to those outside of Christ. But, from the looks of the daily news, it isn't.
On July 8, 1741, Jonathan Edwards preached a famous sermon entitled, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". His theme was simple – sinners will ultimately be judged. They will be found guilty. God is omnipotent and therefore able to carry out this judgment. And, it is certain that this time is quickly approaching. It would serve every reader of this article well to read that sermon as it is readily available (and needful) today.
Knowing and understanding that "God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day"(Psalms 7:11), we ought to be that much more thankful for the work of Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:30 says, "But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption". In ourselves, we remain "by nature children of wrath, just as the others"(Ephesians 2:3). Yet, Christ became sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21). Though we are guilty of sin and deserving of punishment, Jesus willingly laid down His life for His sheep. He bore the penalty of our sins (John 10:11; 28). In Christ, we will never face the wrath of God.
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Adding sources to your individual entries in a genealogical database can be time consuming and tedious. Some of the online family tree type programs are trying to streamline the task by automating parts of the process. This seems to be spreading rapidly throughout the genealogical online community.
The first site I noticed with a semi-automatic sourcing capability was WeRelate.org. This wiki program for genealogy files incorporated a separate wiki page for every resource in the Family History Library Catalog. The results was that to add a source to your online file, all you had to do was add a link to that resource's wiki page. Unfortunately, it sounds a lot simpler than it was in practice, but the convenience of having the entire Family History Library catalog available to attach to your individual ancestors was impressive.
I then realized that Family Tree Maker, the program from Ancestry.com, had developed the ability to link to your Family Tree on Ancestry.com. The Family Trees on Ancestry.com had added a "leaf" connection to possible sources. This automatic lookup system was remarkably good at finding related documents in their collections. With the link between Family Tree Maker and by adding your entire file to Family Tree on Ancestry.com, you could essentially automate a huge portion of the task of adding sources to your file. If for any reason you did not want to keep all your information online, you could use Family Tree Maker to look up the sources directly and add them to your local database. You could also export your file via GEDCOM to another database, if you wished. Over time, I have found this feature of Ancestry.com/Family Tree Maker to be more and more valuable.
Recently, with the introduction of FamilySearch.org's Family Tree, they added a feature called Sourebox, that allows you to add links to sources from FamilySearch.org's Historical Record Collections almost automatically by adding them to a temporary holding list called the Sourcebox. The individual sources can then be attached to the ancestors in your file by simply clicking on a link. Once the sources are attached, they can be deleted from the Sourcebox. FamilySearch.org's Family Tree may also add the ability to link to sources outside of their own databases.
Now, MyHeritage.com has added the ability, through 1000Memories's app Shoebox, to add scanned documents directly to your Shoebox and ultimately directly to your online MyHeritage.com family tree.
I think there is a now a definite pattern here of the integration of online sources with genealogical databases. But the serious question all this raises is whether or not you data, including all your sources, will be locked up in one company's format? If you stop paying Ancestry.com or MyHeritage.com, what happens to your collection of scanned images or sources?
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- AnonymousAugust 12, 2012 at 10:31 AM
seems to me like this "talks to" having your own personal family history database as "the master" and then you choose to share information from your personal data to family tree databases online as you desire.ReplyDelete
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This is the device in question: http://pcsensor.com/index.php?_a=product&product_id=178 (note that I buy my devices via ebay where the prices are apparently always the campaign ones -- I paid AUD25 , not USD80)
It didn't come in a box so I have no scans or shots to show.
[See here for the regular TEMPer USB device (0c45:7401), and here for the TEMPer 1K4 (0c45:7403) USB thermocouple reader. Note that since the temper-usb code is in a lot of flux you can't use the line numbers in those posts directly -- you'll have to read and understand the code before pasting it in. Luckily, it's quite simple -- even I managed to sort it out!]
I couldn't get temper-usb to work even when making (what I consider) the necessary edits, but instead got lots of errors (including " usb.USBError: could not detach kernel driver from interface 1: No data available"). So I finally gave up.
Instead, web searching led me to http://edorfaus.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/new-library-examples-and-features/ -- one of the replies by eg1l spelled out the solution -- I'll grant myself the liberty to repost it here, but please remember where it originally came from and link to the original article (exclusively or in addition).
mkdir ~/tmp cd ~/tmp/ sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0.0-dev libfox-1.6-dev autoconf cmake git clone git://github.com/signal11/hidapi.git cd hidapi/ ./bootstrap ./configure cd libusb/ make sudo make install cd ../../ git clone git://github.com/edorfaus/TEMPered.git cd TEMPered/ mkdir build cd build/ cmake .. make cd utils/ sudo ./tempered cd ../ sudo make install sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtempered.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libtempered.so.0 sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtempered-util.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libtempered-util.so.0 sudo ldconfig
sudo tempered0006:000e:01 0: temperature 21.75 °C, relative humidity 49.1%, dew point 10.6 °C
Create an 80-temper.rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0c45", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7401", GROUP="users", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0c45", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7402", GROUP="users", MODE="0666" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0c45", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7403", GROUP="users", MODE="0666"
Then do
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Unplug and re-plug your device, then open a new terminal and you're set (type group to make sure that users show up).
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The Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship has early commitments from some of the biggest names on the Champions Tour, including Pennsylvania native Rocco Mediate, who won his first-ever start on the Champions Tour at the Allianz Championship last February, tournament officials announced today. Mediate will be joined in Pittsburgh by fellow winners on the Champions Tour this season, John Cook, Bernhard Langer, David Frost and Michael Allen.
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Mediate won six times and almost $17 million dollars during his 28-year PGA TOUR career but he's mostly remembered for his epic battle with Tiger Woods at the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines when Woods won following a Monday playoff. With his Allianz Championship victory, Mediate became the 16th player in Champions Tour history to win on his debut, which included a second-round 61.


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Fireworks expected in Parliament in banking fees bill debate
Members of the House of Representatives will today make a critical decision on whether to pass or reject the Banking Services Bill, which seeks to regulate bank fees in Jamaica.
The Lower House will have its final sitting today for the 2017-2018 legislative year, as the prorogation of Parliament takes effect tomorrow.
Last week, tempers flared when acting leader of government business in the House of Representatives, Everald Warmington, announced that debate on the bill would be suspended. His remarks drew the ire of Fitz Jackson, member of parliament for St Catherine South, who demanded that the bill be taken through all its stages. Jackson introduced the private member's bill last year, which has had several setbacks since it was first tabled for debate.
A motion for the suspension of the bill was put by Warmington last week, and opposition lawmakers called for a divide. When the votes were counted, the motion was carried, with 30 government legislators saying 'yes', compared with 21 opposition lawmakers dissenting.
Jackson had first introduced a resolution on bank fees from 2013, which was debated and referred to a joint select committee for deliberation.
Stakeholders from various financial institutions made presentations to the committee and a report was prepared with a raft of recommendations.
Lawmakers who participated in the debate on the bank fees resolution gave widespread support to the measure.
Below are Hansard records parliamentary comments on bank fees:
- In a debate on the Banking Services Act, 2014 (not the Jackson bill), then Opposition Spokesman on Finance Audley Shaw said: "I have concerns about bank charges - and, I mean, I had put it on the table; I had stated, as I did in my presentation in the Budget Debate, because, among the reasons I am concerned about it, is that we have seen that for every dollar collected by banks as fees and commissions, only 20 to 30 cents of that dollar constitutes the actual cost of providing the service."
- Debating the resolution on bank fees in November 2013, Fitz Jackson said: "How could any human being, how could any bank board, any bank CEO sit down and allow this to happen to the most vulnerable ... anybody for that matter, but bearing in mind that there are so many vulnerable persons in the country and they impose this charge?"
- Karl Samuda said: "The problem has existed for a number of years. In fact, the issue first came to the fore in around 2008, when it was decided to undertake an in-depth study of the various charges of the banking institutions".


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Sorry Charlie, this was done in 1999.thehunt wrote:I hope that the streets are named after the planets, with the man being the sun and the planets being the 9 planets of the solar system, orbiting around the man...if that hasn't been done in previous years.
I just say NO to regurgitated previous years' themes.
I mean come on! Astronomy (1999) + Belief system (2003) = SHLOCK
Obviously there is not enough Frop in SOMEONE'S diet.
I'm just going to stick with shit. AND DON'T SIT IN THE URINALS!


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Principal Director for Military Personnel Policy Maj. Gen. Gary Patton speaks to reporters at the Pentagon, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, to discuss the results of the department's Women in Service Review.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is replacing the general in charge of preventing sexual abuse in the military in the wake of new allegations, first reported by NBC News, that the general interfered with an internal investigation into horrific patient abuses at a U.S.-funded hospital in Afghanistan.
The Defense Department announced Monday that Army Maj. Gen.l Gary S. Patton is stepping down as director of the Defense Department Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), effective next month, and retiring from the Army next spring. The new director will be Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Snow.
In a statement, Hagel praised Patton's work on sexual abuse, saying he has "made a lasting positive impact" on the department's efforts to curb assaults in the military. The statement makes no reference to the new allegations against Patton.
But the action comes after a Defense Department inspector general finding disclosed in September that Patton improperly "restricted" an investigation into abuses at the Dawood National Military Hospital in Afghanistan while serving as a top NATO commander there in 2011. Patton was recently formally admonished over the finding, an Army spokesman said Monday.
The Dawood hospital, where wounded Afghan soldiers were treated, received national attention in 2011 after the Wall Street Journal reported on abuses at the facility and gruesome photos surfaced showing patients starving and suffering from maggot-infested wounds. One U.S. legal adviser in Afghanistan later told Congress that conditions at the hospital – funded with more than $200 million from U.S. taxpayers -- were "Auschwitz-like."
On Nov. 15, NBC News reported new allegations that Patton had blocked a U.S. Navy nurse from briefing a team from the Pentagon inspector general's office about patient abuses at the hospital. "Gen. Patton gets me cornered in the hallway, he puts his finger in my chest and he says, 'You need to stay in your f--- lane,' lieutenant," Lt. Commander Jeremy Young said in an interview about his efforts to brief investigators.
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Two other military officers corroborated portions of Young's account to NBC News. Earlier this month Young filed a formal "whistleblower" complaint against Patton with the inspector general. "No officer should EVER place their hands on another person in anger and in an attempt to intimidate them," he wrote in the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News. He was due to be interviewed by a Pentagon investigator on his allegations Monday.
After the NBC News story, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D.-N.Y.) said that if Young's allegations were substantiated, Patton "should be relieved of his post." Another whistleblower group, the Project on Government Oversight, has also called for Patton to be dismissed, noting that one of SAPRO's core missions was to encourage military officers to step forward and report abuses.
A Defense Department official, who asked not to be identified, wouldn't comment on the new complaint to the inspector general against Patton or the reasons for his removal.
A spokeswoman for Patton said his decision to retire is "unrelated" to the inspector general's investigation and that she was "not aware" of any new investigations by the inspector general.
As part of Hagel's announcement, Patton said, "It has been my great honor and privilege to have served our nation for nearly 35 years in peace and in combat. In my position as SAPRO director I am heartened by signs of progress in combating sexual assault."
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Introduction Scott Russell Sanders There is a kind of writing that begins from the impulse to make things up, to invent a situation and see how it unfolds, to create characters and see what they do. Since around 1600, such writing has been called fiction, from a Latin root meaning "to feign" or "to counterfeit." In making fiction, the writer freely goes wherever imagination leads. The only requirement is that the counterfeit be sufficiently compelling to engage the reader's attention from the first line to the last. Writing may also begin from a contrary impulse, not to make things up, but to record and examine something the writer has actually witnessed, lived through, learned about, or pondered. Such writing can range from history and philosophy to manifestos and memoirs, from the formality of footnoted tomes to the pizzazz of slangy blogs. What all such writing has in common is faithfulness to some reality that the writer did not invent -- to a shared history, to real people, to actual events, to places one can visit, to facts one can check. For better or worse, this wildly diverse range of writing has come to be called, by contrast with the freely invented kind, nonfiction. Dividing the realm of prose literature into fiction and nonfiction is clumsy at best, rather like dividing the realm of animals into birds and nonbirds. It might be technically correct to describe giraff es and june bugs as nonbirds, but it would not tell us anything about giraff es or june bugs, or birds. Nor is it useful to lump together a four-volume saga of the Crusades and a four-page celebration of croissants under the single label of nonfi ction. Judging from the earliest citations of the word in theOxford English Dictionary, the label was imposed by nineteenth-century librarians, who began dividing their books into the twin categories of fiction and nonfi ction (originally with a hyphen). I suspect they did so, at least in America, to emphasize the portion of a library's holdings that were solid, sober, useful, uplifting, and, above all, true, such as encyclopedias and repair manuals and religious tracts, as opposed to the romances, poetry, mysteries, fantasies, westerns, pirate adventures, thrillers, dime novels, and other frivolous books that wasted readers' time and corrupted youth and made no mill wheels turn. Whatever the origins of the nonfi ction label, the publishers soon picked it up, and then so did bookstores, critics, and teachers, and now, clumsy though it may be, we are stuck with it. One virtue of the term is that the sly little prefixnon-implies a promise -- that such literature is neither feigned nor counterfeit; it is answerable not merely to the writer's imagination but to a world beyond the page, a world that precedes and surrounds and outlasts the act of writing. Of course, these two contrary impulses -- to freely invent a world or to report on the actual world -- rarely exist in pure form. Fiction must draw on the familiar world if it is to be comprehensible, and nonfi ction must draw on the writer's imagination if it is to come alive. Ask a roomful of writers how far a work may be shaped by imagination before it no longer deserves to be called nonfiction, and you'll receive a roomful of answers. Most likely all will agree on the necessity of choosing, from the myriad of possible details, those that are essential to the story and leaving out the rest; many writers will accept the filling-in of memory's blank spaces with vivid details; some will permit the merging of incidents or characters to streamline the account; and a few will claim the right to add, drop, change, or invent anything that enlivens the work. While we may debate where the line should be drawn, at some point along that spectrum, nonfi ction gives way to fi ction. When a writer crosses over the line and still claims to be off ering nonfiction, it's usually for the sake of selling moreWilliford, Lex is the author of 'Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction Work from 1970 to the Present', published 2007 under ISBN 9781416531746 and ISBN 1416531742.[read more]
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Head Start providers improve quality through new competitions, greater accountability
The Department of Health and Human Services this week is entering the next stage of strengthening quality and accountability in Head Start, beginning negotiations with approximately 160 potential winners of a competition that, for the first time ever, required providers to show they are offering children the best early education services available in their community. The negotiations with this first group of grantees are the next step in an ongoing process put in place by a new rule implemented by the Obama Administration that – for the first time – require all lower-performing Head Start grantees that fail to meet a new set of rigorous benchmarks to re-compete for continued federal funding.
"This Administration stands firm on improving the quality of services we deliver to our most vulnerable children and families," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "It is our duty to ensure our nation's federal dollars are only invested in the most effective programs – and that our children receive the best early education possible – in every community."
Under the reforms announced by President Barack Obama in 2011, 125 Head Start grantees who did not meet quality thresholds established by the Office of Head Start were notified in Dec 2011 they had to compete with other potential providers for continued Head Start funding.
All competitors had to submit proposals detailing how they would achieve Head Start's goal of delivering high-quality early childhood services to the nation's most vulnerable infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers. These proposals were subjected to an extensive evaluation process, including review by a panel of independent early childhood professionals and assessment by Certified Public Accountants to determine a potential grantee's ability to implement Head Start's mission and standards in their community.
Out of the 125 existing providers required to compete for continued Head Start funding, 80 were successful in developing proposals that documented their improvements and plans to provide the highest-quality services and education for low-income children and families in their communities, and these 80 grantees will continue to receive federal funding. Twenty-five existing providers will be replaced by new programs that developed better plans for delivering Head Start services in their communities, and an additional 14 existing grantees will see their grants split up between new and existing providers. In the remaining competitions, no applications were found to meet the panel's high standards: in these areas, Head Start services will continue while a new competition begins this spring to find a new provider.
Providers that competed for continued federal funding for health and safety issues are subject to annual unannounced monitoring visits to ensure they are living up to the higher health and safety standards they have laid out in their applications. Failure to do so, or to comply with other federal performance standards, could result in termination of their grant. In addition to the new competitive process, all Head Start grants will now be administered over a five year period. All providers of Head Start services will be subject to strengthened grant terms and conditions implemented by the Obama Administration to ensure that every Head Start child across the country receives consistent, high-quality education and services.
"Moving these grants to a five-year competitive cycle is a key step in making sure all grantees, new and old, are consistently providing the best possible services to vulnerable children across America," said Yvette Sanchez-Fuentes, Director of the Office of Head Start. "Applicants entering negotiations today have demonstrated a strong plan in how they will serve their communities. We'll be closely monitoring each grantee to ensure they follow through on their promises."
The panel's initial selectees are now in negotiations with the Department of Health and Human Services. Final grantees will be announced by July, once the negotiation process has ended. A full list of agencies currently in negotiations is available at http://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/hs/dr/prelim-1st-cohort-awardees.html.
A second group of Head Start grantees was notified in January that they will need to compete for future funding as well. The competition process for those service areas will open to the public this spring. HHS will continue to continue to hold competitions on an ongoing basis for grantees who do not meet quality thresholds.
For more information on Head Start, please visit https://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ohs/.
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CHARLOTTE � When Charlotte Bobcats coach Mike Dunlap was hired, the directive was to develop players, even if it was at the expense of winning games.
When you can accomplish both tasks � as Charlotte did Monday night in the 119-114 win over the Washington Wizards � it certainly has to feel good.
Fourth-year forward Gerald Henderson led the way in the early going, then second-year guard Kemba Walker closed out a comeback rally on both ends of the court.
�I was brought in to develop players,� Dunlap said in response to a question about Henderson�s recent improved play. �His development is not deniable. So is Kemba�s.�
Their development has coincided with a recent surge for the Bobcats, as they have won two straight home games in a year in which they once lost 16 straight home contests. And the first win of the modest two-game home win streak (last Tuesday against Boston) snapped an overall 10-game losing streak.
Charlotte (15-52) also recorded only the fourth seasonal series victory in two seasons by taking its third win in four matchups this year with Southeast Division rival Washington (23-43). The Bobcats swept Minnesota 2-0 earlier this season and beat Toronto 2-1 and Golden State 1-0 last season.
�We�re definitely making strides,� said Walker, who had 18 points, seven assists and three steals. �We�re not having such a great year but we�re building and we�re a young team that�s working hard.�
Walker was at his best after the Wizards took a 111-106 with 3:15 to play on Trevor Booker�s acrobatic slam dunk off John Wall�s alley-oop pass.
In the next two minutes, Walker scored six points, assisted on a Ben Gordon 3-pointer on offense and stole two passes, pressured Wall into a missed shot and took a charge. That effort sparked a 12-0 run that gave Charlotte the lead for good.
�We�ve got a lot of fight let in us,� said Henderson, who had game-highs of 27 points and eight assists. �We had a lull at the end of the fourth quarter but we just kept battling.�
Gordon (19 points), Josh McRoberts (17), Byron Mullens (12), Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (11) and Jannero Pargo (11) also reached double-figures for the Bobcats on a night in which they had three spectacular individual plays.
Bismack Biyombo had a long sweeping slam dunk in the first quarter, Kidd-Gilchrist had a similar dunk in the third quarter and Henderson blocked a Booker dunk attempt on one end and sprinted to the other end for a dunk himself.
�The people in our locker room are on point and they are competitors,� Dunlap said.
Wall�s 25 points led the Wizards.
Notes: Pargo has been a solid addition, scoring in double figures twice in his three games as an injury replacement for Ramon Sessions (left knee). �He�s a scoring point and he�s done some good things for us,� Dunlap said of Pargo, who signed a 10-day contract last Thursday�.
The Bobcats stay at home Wednesday when they host the Toronto Raptors at 7 p.m. They stay at home Saturday as part of a day-night basketball doubleheader at Time Warner Cable Arena. The Harlem Globetrotters play at 1 p.m., with the Bobcats hosting the Detroit Pistons at 7 p.m�.
Monday�s attendance of 10,141 was the team�s lowest of the season, even as they entered the game averaging 15,656 per home date. Currently 23rd in the league in attendance average, that would give the Bobcats their third-highest NBA attendance ranking in team history; Charlotte was 21st in 2010-11 and 22nd in 2005-06.
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