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The European Youth Portal offers European and national information and opportunities that are of interest to young people who are living, learning and working in Europe. It gives information around eight main themes, covers 34 countries and is available in 28 languages.
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If there's one thing this generation of gaming has been, it'd have to be unpredictable. Sony has had to play catch-up for several years, Valve has released a polished title on the PlayStation 3 (Portal 2), and most of all, Square Enix has been in a slump. Final Fantasy XIII has been just one of several causes of concern for one of the world's best RPG series, and while the game wasn't bad by any means, it definitely didn't meet the enormous expectations set during its over five-year development cycle.
Square Enix Developer and Producer, Yoshinori Kitase, was recently interviewed by GameReactor and shared that he feels the development of FFXIII took far too long. He stated:
The current generation console, Final Fantasy XIII, was obviously the first game, and personally I think we took a little too long getting it out.
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When you think of Western triple A titles like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Assassin's Creed, they seem to work with a lot shorter turnaround – they make a new game in 1-2 years. That is something we need to follow up, because that seems to be the best way to keep our fans interested and attracted to the franchise.
It's understood that a large part of the development cycle went into the new Crystal Tools engine which will also be used for subsequent releases. What was probably most frustrating is that as development took longer to complete, competing games improved graphically extremely quickly, so Square Enix felt the pressure to go back and polish the visuals to ensure that they were competitive on its release in 2009/2010. Thankfully, Final Fantasy XIII-2 has taken fewer than two years to complete, which is partially because it uses a large amount of the assets used in the previous game. Even then, it sounds like Square Enix doesn't want to spend five years development any games in the future, so hopefully we don't have to experience that pain again.

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A report raises growing concerns that electronic health record products are being developed without specific best practices and design standards related to EHR product use in a healthcare setting. To overcome this difficulty, many vendors support an independent body guiding development of voluntary usability standards for EHRs, the study found.
The Electronic Health Record Usability Vendor Practices and Perspectives report was published this month by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The study, which was conducted by James Bell Associates and the Altarum Institute on behalf of AHRQ, interviewed vendors of ambulatory EHR products that came on the market during the mid-1990s to 2007.
The study's objective was to examine vendors' processes and practices with regard to: the existence and use of standards and "best practices" in designing, developing, and deploying products; testing and evaluating usability throughout the product life cycle; and supporting post-deployment monitoring to ensure patient safety and effective use.
The adoption of EHRs is a cornerstone of President Obama's healthcare reform strategy, with billions of dollars earmarked in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund a new healthcare IT infrastructure. The adoption of EHR technology is pivotal to that strategy, with the government declaring that its goal is to provide every citizen with an electronic health record by 2014.
Given the importance of EHR implementation to the success of healthcare reform, along with the strategy to demonstrate meaningful use of technology to improve patient outcomes, vendors should follow specific best practices and standards relating to health IT and incorporate them in their workflow during different phases of product development. According to the report, however, this is not happening.
The report noted that because comprehensive standards for EHR specific functionalities are lacking, vendors rely on general software design best practices to inform design, development, and usability. The result, vendors say, is that while these software design principles guide their process, they must be adjusted to fit specific customer needs in a healthcare environment.
"In addition to following existing general design guidelines such as Microsoft Common User Access, Windows User Interface, Nielsen Norman Group, human factors best practices, and releases from user interface and usability professional organizations, many vendors consult with Web sites, blogs, and professional organizations related to health IT to keep up-to-date with specific industry trends," the document said.
The majority of vendors also said that usability assessments and evaluations are not a common activity during the design and development process. "There was a common perception among the vendors that usability assessments are expensive and time consuming to implement during the design and development phase," the report said.
The document went on to say: "Although vendors described an array of usability engineering processes and the use of end users throughout the product lifecycle, practices such as formal usability testing, the use of user-centered design processes, and specific resource personnel with expertise in usability engineering are not common."
Additionally, end-user involvement during product development is often limited to workgroups, advisory panels, or clinicians who have a strong interest in technology and are part of an academic medical center. Vendors say they turn to these groups to provide feedback when developing initial product requirements, evaluating wireframes and prototypes, and participating in initial beta testing.
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Cherokee Indians
Part i: Overview; Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact; Part iii: Disease, destruction, and the loss of Cherokee land; Part iv: Revolutionary War, Cherokee defeat and additional land cessions; Part v: Trail of Tears and the creation of the Eastern Band of Cherokees; Part vi: Federal recognition and the fight for Cherokee rights; Part vii: Modern-day Cherokee life and culture; Part viii: References and additional resources
Part i: An overview
Cherokee Indians once occupied an area encompassing approximately 140,000 square miles that became parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. The Cherokee thrived in North Carolina well into the late eighteenth century, but as Euro-American settlers steadily moved into and near Cherokee lands, sharp conflicts arose between Cherokees and whites and between Cherokees themselves, as leaders with competing claims to speak for the tribe secured treaties and formed other agreements with white settlers that were not acknowledged by all Cherokee people. In 1838-39, the U.S. government forcibly removed the Cherokee from their lands in North Carolina, leading them on the infamous Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). A small number of Cherokee people successfully resisted removal, however, by claiming North Carolina citizenship and by maintaining the right to remain on lands they owned. These people and their descendants were recognized in 1868 by the federal government as the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. In the early 2000s these Cherokee, living on the Qualla Boundary in the western part of the state, were the only Indian tribe in North Carolina fully recognized by the federal government. The tribe has more than 13,000 enrolled members.
Keep reading > Part ii: Cherokee origins and first European contact
The Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians is self-governed and autonomous. Governance is by tribal council. The Principal Chief as of 2018 was Richard Sneed. His name is the latest in the list of Cherokee leaders, his predecessors being Yonaguska, William Holland Thomas, Salonitah (or Flying Squirrel), Lloyd R. Welch, Nimrod Jarrett Smith, Stillwell Saunooke, Andy Standing Deer, Jesse Reed, Bird Saloloneeta (or Young Squirrel), John Goins Welch, Joseph A. Saunooke, David Blythe, Sampson Owl, John A. Tahquette, Jarret Blythe, Henry Bradley, Osley Bird Saunooke, Walter Jackson, Noah Powell, John A. Crowe, Robert S. Youngdeer, Jonathan L. Taylor, Gerard Parker, Joyce Dugan, Leon Jones, Michell Hicks, and Patrick Lambert.
--Research Branch, North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2018.
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Dear Tom,
Dear Tom,
Thank you for visiting this article and for taking time to share your heritage and question. I have forwarded your question to Reference Services at the NC Government & Heritage Library. A librarian will contact you shortly to help you with this.
Best wishes,
Kelly Agan
I have always been told that
I have always been told that my great grandmother (mother's side of the family) was a Cherokee indian. My grandmother was born in Buncombe county, NC. Some of the surnames in my mother's side of the family include Tweed, Hensley and Franklin. It has been very difficult to confirm any of this information. Do you have any suggestions in trying to verify whether my great grandmother and great great grandmother were Cherokee indians? I have done DNA testing through Ancestry and Family Tree DNA with no native american ancestry identified. But, this would be likely considering the number of generations that have passed since my birth.
Dear Angie,
Dear Angie,
Thank you for visiting NCpedia and especially for sharing your family history and question.
I am replying to you at the email you included in your post and connecting you with Reference Services at the NC Government & Heritage Library. A reference librarian will contact you shortly to help with your question and suggest resources you can consult to help look into Cherokee heritage.
Best of luck with your search!
Best wishes,
Kelly Agan, NC Government & Heritage Library
my mother name was Iva Mae
my mother name was Iva Mae Richardson she is Cherokee her people live in North Carolina she has 2 cousins that are Cherokee Indians also, My question is this, what do i have to do to be recognize by my tribe?
Hi Deborah,
Hi Deborah,
Thank you for visiting NCpedia.
Here are a number of resources to consult to help you with this investigation:
1. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has resource pages to help you investigate your rights and heritage. The site has a link to a document you may want to consult: the U.S. Dept. of the Interior's "A Guide to Tracing American Indian & Alaska Native Ancestry." The document has a section on p. 4 dealing with the process for enrollment in federally recognized tribes -- http://www.indianaffairs.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc-002619.pdf.
And here is the link to the Bureau of Indian Affairs resource page with numerous links to helpful information -- http://www.indianaffairs.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc-002619.pdf. And the Tribal Leaders Directory can be found at http://www.indianaffairs.gov/cs/groups/webteam/documents/document/idc1-0.... You will also find contact information for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and can call them if you have additional questions.
2. Here are the official websites for the Eastern Band of Cherokee http://nc-cherokee.com/ and the Cherokee Nation http://www.cherokee.org/.
3. Website for the NC Commission on Indian Affairs: This site has tribal information and resources as well as contact information for the state's recognized tribes: http://www.doa.nc.gov/cia/
I hope this information helps!
Best wishes,
Kelly Agan, NC Government & Heritage Library
My father raised me believing
My father raised me believing I was of Cherokee heritage and way of life. Imagine my hurt when a man with proof of being my half brother after 60 says he has proof I am not. I feel ashamed to have presented myself as such. I also feel a lost in my beliefs. Want to apologize to a great people and ask forgiveness
I don't think there is any
I don't think there is any reason to apologize. It was a simple mistake. Who's to say your half brother is correct? Did you verify the validity of your father's claim that you ARE part Cherokee? Did you verify your half brother's claim that you ARE NOT?
Have you done a DNA testing kit from Ancestry.co. Start there. Start filling in your family tree.
My Great Grandmother (Annie
My Great Grandmother (Annie Tucker was born in 1883, a black Indian), in NC. Can U find a birth certificate and address?
Dear Leonzo,
Dear Leonzo,
Thank you for visiting NCpedia and asking your question.
By separate email I'm going to connect with librarians at the Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of North Carolina. They will be able to help direct you to appropriate agencies and information resources for your question.
Good luck and best wishes,
Kelly Agan, Government & Heritage Library
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Khloe Kardashian Slams Kris Humphries Once Again: I Always Hated Him
Khloe didn't hold back her true feelings about Kris on 'The Tonight Show' — she said she didn't like him from the first moment she met him! Is this too harsh?
Khloe Kardashian is brutally honest! Just like her recent interview with Jimmy Kimmel, the 27-year-old reality starlet went on Jay Leno's late-night talk show on Feb. 28 and repeated what she said before: Kris Humphries's abrasive comments immediately rubbed her the wrong way!
"When I met Kris the very first time, I had just landed in New York and it was late at night … and he was in Kourtney and Kim's suite," Khloe says. "And I went in there to say, 'Hi' because Kim was like, 'Oh, I wanna introduce you to my friend. They'd just started dating. And you know, one of the first things that came out of his mouth — like within the first five minutes — was, 'So, how much you getting paid to fake your marriage? Like how long are you gonna keep this up for?'"
Khloe didn't find this funny at all — in fact, she was furious!
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Gregg Saunders, vice president of retail real estate development at Philips International, had been in no rush to sell a house north of Route 27 in Sagaponack that was built for him and his wife in 1998. The four-bedroom property with a tennis court and pool had been on the market for two years at $2.9 million.
Then last year, he bought a historic home on an acre of land closer to the beach in the same town for $2.45 million.
Saunders said he "didn't want to be stuck with two homes," so he cut the price on the first house "dramatically." It sold in December for $1.75 million.
as told to Bloomberg News, Jan26, 2012
The reality is, the realty market in Manhattan has held significantly better than The Hamptons. We have typically said that "as goes New York, so goes the East End", however it does not appear to be holding true this time around.
January 27, 2012, 8:14 AM EST, Bloomberg
Why would that be? Could it be:
1- Manhattan has more permanent residences and The Hamptons are more discretionary homes?
2- There are more foreign buyers in Manhattan than The Hamptons because the investment quality of Manhattan real estate is more stable?
3- The Bankers who have fueled both buying here as well as the business of others who end up buying here are being more conservative? ( have you heard the stories about the senior management at Goldman, Chase, etc telling their ranks to "keep a low profile")
4- Is it that The Hamptons don't have professional property management companies that can manage real estate investments adequately for investors?
5- When enough properties sell for 60% (or less) of asking price, does that spook big buyers to downsize and play it safe?
6- Could the lack of dependable Market Data make today's more educated buyers uneasy?
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The foreign language program at Lewis University offers students an opportunity to study a variety of foreign languages, including more commonly taught languages like Spanish, Italian, French, and German and less commonly taught languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian. Students are encouraged to consider taking one of the less frequently taught critical languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, the knowledge of which is especially important today and may considerably enhance the value of their bachelors and masters degrees. All courses carry three semester hours of credit.
Classes in Spanish are conducted in conventional teacher-fronted settings combined with small group activity. The maximum enrollment in Spanish is 20 students. Classes in less commonly taught and critical languages use a tutorial-based model of instruction with maximum enrollment of 4 students and are scheduled by arrangement. Language mentors, who are native or near-native speakers, conduct language tutorials. The main function of the language mentors is to serve as conversational partners.
The philosophy of Lewis Universitys language program stresses immediate practical language skills. More emphasis is placed on using the language in a culturally appropriate way than on learning about the language. The focus is on communication skills (as opposed to grammar and translation). Very little English is used in class. Students must participate and communicate in every class session. They must also work independently, utilizing a textbook and/or other printed materials and specialized online resources.
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08-22 Greater Pine Island Little League Mud Cats and Sand Gnats T-ball games are played at 9 a.m. on Field #1. All are welcome to come and cheer on the players. more »»
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08-22 A free meal will be offered to any and all island residents at the Jesus Chris Ministries located at 5100 Doug Taylor Circle in the industrial park. Dinners will be served beginning at 6 p.m. For information or transportation, call Sister Diana at 896-0270, Debbie at 292-6556 or Lynne at 282-2226. more »»
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08-22 A synronized swim class will be held at the Pine Island Community Pool from 9 to 10 a.m. All are welcome to join anytime. For more information, call coach Wendy Stafford at 233-3813 or e-mail to sunshinesynchrosplash2gmail. more »»
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08-22 Kids Read Down Fines at the Pine Island Public Library from 1 to 3 p.m. Children and teens can earn a $2 coupon for every 15 minutes spent reading good toward library fines. This program is for patrons age 18 and under onl. more »»
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08-22 Children and teens can read down fines from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Pine Island Public Library. Earn a $2 coupon good toward library fines for every 15 minutes spent reading at the library. This program is for those age 18 and under. more »»
AA Meetings
08-22 Sunday: 7:30 p.m., Methodist Church; Monday: 7 p.m., Methodist Church; Tuesday: 9:30 a.m., Fishers of Men Lutheran Church; Wednesday: 10 a.m., Fishers of Men Lutheran Church; Wednesday: 7:30 p.m., Matlacha Community Center; Thursday: 8 p.m., Fishers of Men Lutheran Church; Friday: 10 a.m. more »»
NA Meetings
08-22 Tuesday: 8 p.m., Methodist ChurchSaturday: 6:30 p.m. more »»
Museum of the Islands
08-22 Located at 5728 Sesame Drive at the Center (next to library). Winter hours: Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Summer hours are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.. Tours are available, call 283-1525. more »»
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08-22 The Thrift Store hours are from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. more »»
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08-22 Sunday, 1 to 5:45 p.m.; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.; and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The pool is located at 5675 Sesame Drive. Call 239-283-2220. more »»
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08-22 The Pine Island Public library is located in the Pine Island Center at 10700 Russell Road. The phone number is 533-4350. Library hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesday, noon to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Monday, closed. more »»
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August 18, 2010
It's one of those sounds that means summer — the almost constant evening and night commotion made by cicadas. They've been around for weeks and will likely be around that much longer. The website cicadamania.com is devoted to them and offers answers for frequently asked questions.
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SCORE gives top honors to Foskey Heating and Air
Foskey Heating and Air has been named "Business Client of the Year" for 2011 by S.C. Lowcountry SCORE® "Counselors to America's Small Business."
The client award is given annually to recognize successful entrepreneurs and business owners that SCORE counselors have assisted.
Now headquartered in Bluffton, Foskey became SCORE clients in 2005 and have had continued growth and success under the guidance of Counselor Harrison Hays.
Owner Mike Foskey is quick to point out how helpful SCORE and Hays have been to his firm's success, helping them grow. "SCORE held our hand and basically walked us through how to start a business," said Foskey, "starting from the point when our company was just myself and my wife until now when we have several technicians and employees."
Foskey serves residential and commercial clients in both Beaufort and Jasper counties and maintains a fully certified staff of technicians. For more information visit the website: www.Foskeyheatingandair.com.
Circle-Lets installs Lowcountry chapter
"Circle-Lets, Inc", installed its newest chapter, The Circle-Lets of Metropolitan Hilton Head in November. The three-day event was held on Hilton Head Island at the Hilton Oceanfront Resort.
The membership is comprised of women from Hilton Head, Bluffton and the Beaufort area. The induction ceremony was supported by chapters from across the country as well as family and friends. Local activities and events were scheduled for the visitors, many of whom were visiting the Island for the first time. After the installation, dinner was served. The evening was completed with lively music and dancing.
The first chapter was founded in Dallas in 1955. Circle-Lets, Inc. is a purely social organization dedicated to friendship and cultural activities that provide a social outlet and sisterly relationships among women with similar ideals and interests.
Psychotherapist joins Bluffton practice
Judith Jacques, MSW, licensed independent clinical social worker has joined Dr. Helene Stoller's practice, Psychological & Counseling Associates of the Lowcountry LLC.
Jacques has more than 15 years of experience in working with clients; she was most recently in private practice where she saw children, adolescents, adults, seniors, couples, and families. She also worked in school and hospital settings.
Chamber seeks small business award nominees
The Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for the Small Business of the Year award. The award honors those individuals whose ingenuity, hard work and innovation have created successful and growing business ventures. The chamber recognizes an outstanding small business each year.
The award will be announced during the 2012 Small Business Week luncheon which will be held the week of May 20. Completed nomination forms must be received by 5 p.m. March 16. The business must be a chamber member in good standing, have been in business under current ownership at least three years and employ 30 or fewer employees.
Applications should include accurate and detailed information with all evaluation criteria specifically addressed. Submissions will be held in strict confidence. For more information call Janie Treon at (843) 341-8373 or email email@example.com. Application forms are available at chamber headquarters or online at hiltonheadchamber.org.
Hilton Head Hospital elects new officers
Hilton Head Hospital recently elected a new chairman and members for its governing board.
Donna Williams, a Hilton Head Island resident, retired from the Beaufort County School District in 2004 where she was principal at Hilton Head Middle School, was chosen as the new chairman for 2012. Williams has been on the governing board since 2007.
J. Simon Fraser, founder and partner of Fraser & Allen, LLC., and Dr. Robert Burnaugh, a pulmonologist at the hospital, were also elected to the 13-member board.
Williams, who replaces Ray Warco as chairman, will serve a two-year term in this role. Fraser will serve a three-year term on the board and Burnaugh will serve a two-year term.
Other members of the board include Don Creamer who was named vice chairman, Eric Esquival named secretary, Dr. Ann Gorman, Dr. Scott Cummings, Charlene Robinowich, Dr. Randy Dingus, and Vincent Ruede; Dotty Gottdenker, Dr. G. Neil Love, Dr. Richard Hussong and Mark O'Neil hold ex-officio positions on the board.
Hospital volunteers recognized
The Hospital Auxiliary Hilton Head Hospital/Coastal Carolina Hospital held a reception to honor volunteers who have reached total volunteer hours from 100 hours to 2,000 hours.
Four volunteers reached milestones of 1,000 and 2,000 hours. They are Bob Powell, Doris Johnson, Irene Williamson of Hilton Head Hospital and Chuck Roth of Coastal Carolina Hospital.
Mark O'Neil, CEO of HHH; Dottie Gottdenker, president of the Hospital Auxiliary and Jodie MacCloud, director of volunteers, thanked and congratuated the volunteers. The hours of those receiving their pins totaled 11,300 hours.
Local residents awarded degrees from College of Charleston
The following students from the Lowcountry earned bachelor's degrees from the College of Charleston in December.
Beaufort: William Dodge, Jack Weaver
Bluffton: Travers Davis
Hardeeville: Ashley Haupt
Okatie: Joey Perkins
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Just as an experiment, I plotted up all the ring widths for the Gaspé and Polar Urals sites, with each core displaced a little. What I was thinking of the type of graph that you see in seismic surveys. The look is interesting, given how much weight is placed downstream on these data sets in multiproxy reconstruction.
First, the Gaspé data set which has a very strong hockey stick shape. Quite a few series do have strong 20th century growth, but this is far from general. Quite a few don't. Prof Larson, a renowned cedar expert at the University of Guelph, said that cedars like cool and moist climate, rather than hot summers. In the cedars that he's studied, he said that they grew slowly when they were young and when they were old. An issue that I'm pondering with many tree ring sites is the effect of standardizing by fitting a negatively sloped curve and the end effect bias if the slope is too negative. You can see some examples here, where early-period growth, which might be attributed to early period warmth, would be massaged out by curve fitting and attributed to being a juvenile growth effect.
Figure 1. Gaspé (cana036)
The next one is the Polar Urals site. Here I haven't figured out yet how to make a longer scroll (I haven't tried hard) so that the individual series are not squished so much. However, you can readily see the shortness of the individual cores at the Polar Urals site and that the early portion is poorly represented. This series has a relatiely strong inter-series correlation in the well-dated later section.


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Little Red & the Renegades & the Love of Louisiana Music in the Greater DC Area
8 years
Little Red & the Renegades hold an important position as far as the greater Washington DC area's love for the music of Southwest Louisiana and New Orleans. They were one of the first (if not the first) in the area to perform it for us.
The background history of the Renegades takes us to Syracuse NY where longtime friends Tom Corradino (Little Red) and guitarist Harry Rado were founders of the band Bad Medicine in 1968. After a good run the band broke up in 1975. Harry moved to DC and Tom followed his love for Louisiana music down to New Orleans. While there he basked in as many Professor Longhair and Clifton Chenier performances he could attend. He had first heard Zydeco in 1967 on the Clifton Chenier Arhoolie LP that inspired him greatly and thus became one of the first non-Creoles in the country to perform Zydeco. After his stint in New Orleans he moved to DC and looked up his friend Harry Rado. He did a stint playing accordion with Tex Rubinowitz and His Bad Boys and piano with a Haitian band, Las Pachas before joining with Harry to form Little Red & the Renegades in 1982. At 42 years and counting this makes their pairing one of the longest continuous music collaborations you will find.
First editions of the Renegades included saxophonist Derek Huston before he joined the Uptown Rhythm Kings. Derek introduced them to fellow Langley HS classmates saxophonist Chris Watling and trumpeter Alan MacEwan who became Renegades before they were Grandsons. The current lineup includes bassist Dave Petersen working with the band since the late 80's, Jon Danforth who has worked with the band for 15 years, and steel drum player Carol Arthur who joined up 5 years ago. When he plays Haydee's Restaurant it becomes my one regular chance to work out on the fratoire (rub board). I picked up my chops working with the late Zydeco legend Roy Carrier.
Little Red and the Renegades and Haydee's Restaurant in Mt. Pleasant DC
Tom was a long time resident of Mt Pleasant and in 2008 started a once a month gig. It is the second Friday of every month and Friday March 9th marks the next performance.
A Little Red and the Renegades night is pretty evenly split between the piano stylings of New Orleans and Zydeco of SW Louisiana. There is NO COVER! so come on out and pass a good time.
Little Red and the Renegades at Haydee's Restaurant
3102 Mount Pleasant St, NW
Washington DC
(202) 483-9199
Friday March 9
9pm to 1am


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The Hackday: Report and Reflections
The JLERN Experiment and JISC CETIS co-organised a Learning Registry Hackday on January 23rd 2012, hosted by Mimas at Manchester University. Lorna Campbell from CETIS has already written a great blog post (which now includes some excellent discussion below the line) summarising some of the issues that were discussed.
I wanted to report from a JLeRN point-of-view what happened at the Hackday, and what we got out of this event. Our aim was to get the UK folk who were already doing stuff around the Learning Registry in a room with those who were starting to think about doing stuff, to talk about use cases. And we wanted to get some technical people in a room with the JLeRN developers to play around with publishing and accessing data through the JLeRN node.
Before JLeRN started CETIS were already on the case in forming a community of interested folk in UK HE. And Pat Lockley, when he was still at Nottingham University (he's now at Oxford University), attended the first ever Learning Registry Plugfest in the US (see his report here). So we had a room full of early adopters and experts in the Learning Registry, alongside some new folk with great ideas.
Plan for the Day
We started the day with a blissfully brief presentation session, just an hour long before lunch. Lorna Campbell gave us an overview of the Learning Registry and JISC's involvement with it. I talked everyone through what JLeRN is doing, with the help of this handout, which summarises some of the options from the Learning Registry specification: Communities, Networks, Nodes. John Robertson of CETIS finished with an introduction to paradata.
After lunch everyone introduced themselves and what their interest in the Learning Registry was. This was where some interesting ideas and use cases started to emerge.
One Outcome: Concrete Proposals to JISC OER RI Funding Call
It also became apparent that several participants were intending to submit project proposals involving JLeRN and/or The Learning Registry to the JISC OER Rapid Innovation funding call. As it turned out, four proposals (that we know of) that were discussed here were submitted; we won't know whether any of them were funded until March, but it was great to get so much concrete interest out of the day.
Who Came and What They Said
CETIS's Scott Wilson was there; he was interested in the Learning Registry from the point of view of a project he's involved in, which is developing "a Widget Store aimed at the UK education sector using a codebase shared across and sustained by a range of other EU projects and consortia". Scott wanted to see if the Learning Registry could offer solutions for sharing paradata about educational widgets.
With our proximity to the national learning resource repository Jorum, also based at Mimas, we were delighted to see Ben Ryan, the new Jorum Technical Manager, and Steven Cook, one of Jorum's developers. Jorum has a great interest in usage data and other forms of paradata, and had been promising to share data with JLeRN from the start. This event turned out to be an excellent opportunity for their new technical manager to get up to speed. Plus, Steven Cook, who is working on a framework and dashboard for Jorum usage stats, was inspired to start developing ways to get that kind of data out of Jorum, together with resource metadata, and into a Learning Registry node. Watch this space: Steven will be blogging here!
Tatiana Novoselova and Andrew Green came from the University of Liverpool, bringing with them lots of experience and ideas around sharing data about engineering learning resources. They had already been trying to grapple with the Learning Registry, and found the Hackday helpful in ironing out some technical issues they had been having, partly thanks to Pat Lockley's presence and support, and partly thanks to the JLeRN technical team. They reported here.
Terry McAndrew came from JISC TechDis, with some great ideas about how the Learning Registry might allow the educational content community to finally start getting some traction on how to usefully share information about accessibility of resources. It's always been very difficult to get metadata standards to accommodate accessibility data, which is often, basically, about a user's experience of a resource, or about the features of a resource as they relate to a user's individual requirements. Lorna's post summarises this discussion.
Suzanne Hardy and John Peterson came from Newcastle University, full of ideas from the more complex end of the paradata spectrum: their Dynamic Learning Maps as educational context of use / curriculum data around resources. Watch this space: I'd like to get some more out of them about their ideas!
Julian Tenney came from the University of Nottingham with some great ideas about gathering good paradata from users via the Xerte content authoring tools. He felt it important to start to think about ways that content authors and educators will actually be able to contribute contextual data as part of their usual workflow. Another space to watch.
Richard Goddard, formerly of MrCute (Learning Objectivity) and Alastair Hole came from Worcester College of Technology with an idea about developing a tool that will help record actual educational usage of resources (as distinct from merely hits/downloads). Once this data is recorded, wouldn't it be great to share it via the Learning Registry?
Jenny Gray from the Open University has had an interest in the Learning Registry since before JLeRN, from the point of view of the OU's LearningSpace, came along and had some fruitful chats with Nick and Bharti, and Pat Lockley, about options for publishing LearningSpace data and paradata in the node. Like Jorum, she's interested in how to get an OAI-PMH feed into a Learning Registry node. She reported back on her own blog here and followed up with some more thoughts, and questions, on sharing LearningSpace paradata here (to share or not to share?).
Matters Arising
Note: these action points and issues are not a to-do list for JLeRN, or even for the Learning Registry! They are just a note for when future plans are discussed, and for JISC and other stakeholders to take note of.
- We need to more fully develop some concrete use cases. E.g. a simple Accessibility "Like" button that could start to capture accessibility info of use to users.
- We need to develop some demonstrators. E.g. a desktop widget or browser plugin that captures info on user, resource, content, and context of use, with a simple interface.
- We need to think about how we interact with a node to share and call complex paradata (e.g. Dynamic Learning Maps type stuff).
- We need to start defining the structure of paradata for various use cases. E.g. we need to look at the concept of 'actor' as currently specified for paradata.
- Note that running a node is a cost, and the JLeRN node will only run for the life of the project (until July 31 2012); need to think about business model and business case for node services; folk can build their own tools and services on top of nodes. People will not feel motivated to start building on something that is still experimental and has an uncertain future.
- Might be an idea for JISC to take a similar approach to developing SWORD: a series of simple tools to put and get data into JLeRN.
- Running a node on Amazon Web services (i.e. on a cloud service) has unpredictable costs; this is not generally liked by UK university finance departments!
Data sources for JLeRN
A final note to ourselves: some excellent suggestions from the floor, and thanks to Lorna for taking these notes!
- Jorum
- Xpert
- NHS eLearning Repository
- DLM NBBS programme data
- FE Data sources like NLN? XTLearn
- Open Spires podcasts
- Delicious / Diigo
- Merlot
Next Steps
JLeRN are about to attend the Learning Registry session at the CETIS Conference 2012, like, tomorrow. And we are still calling for entries to our Dev8D JLeRN Paradata Challenge (due Friday midday).
After that, we have five months to go until the end of JLeRN. What should we be focusing on? Discussions are ongoing, we'll report back here, let us know your thoughts!


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Juan for the Books
Last night 's White Sox homecoming was full of both oddities and familiarities as the Sox defeated the Tigers, 6-4, to move within two and a half games of second-place Detroit and seven behind the division-leading Tribe.
The oddities: Juan Pierre homered for the first time this season. Adam Dunn reached on an infield hit, his first off of a lefty. The Sox failed to score twice with the bases loaded and once with men on second and third with no outs. The South Siders broke a nine-game losing streak against the Tigers and in the process won their fourth consecutive game for the first time in 2011. Not to mention that Paul Konerko sat out the game after undergoing a procedure on his wrist.
The familiar: Carlos Quentin smashed a three-run homer, his 14th, to give the Sox a 4-0 lead. Red-hot Brent Lillibridge slammed a solo shot, his seventh. "Money" closer Sergio Santos's four-out save, his 10th in 11 tries, ended with a strikeout of the always dangerous Miguel Cabrera. Brent Morel made three sensational plays at third, reminiscent of Joe Crede. Mark Buehrle delivered another quality start, winning his fifth of the season. Also very familiar were Alex Rios's continuing struggles at the plate and Matt Thornton's less-than-effective appearance as a set-up man.
Amid all of that, it was Pierre that emerged as the primary hero. It was his great catch against the wall off the bat of catcher Alex Avila with the bases loaded in the eighth that saved the Sox from losing the lead. Moments later, in the bottom of the inning, his homer gave the Sox some breathing room heading into the ninth. In all, he reached base four times (homer, two walks, one HBP) with three runs scored.
I would be remiss if I didn't congratulate Dunn (half-kidding here). He took a baby step toward respectability as he beat out that ground ball to halt his hitless streak against lefthanders.
Gratuitous photo of the day: Actress Minnie Driver throws out the ceremonial first pitch last night at the Cell.
The "Cojones Kids" Do it Again
Sox Make it Interesting, But Yankee Homers and Walks Just Too Much to Overcome
Win or Lose, These Sox Keep Coming at You
Paulie, Buehrle & Friends Right the Ship
Danks Outduels King Felix as Sox Remain in First


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"The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." – President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Grain prices have more than doubled over the last year as the world is starting to realize that the food supply is running out. In 9 of the 10 last years, the global consumption of grain has outpaced production according to the USDA. To meet future demand, experts are predicting that global agriculture will need to produce more food in the next 50 years than what was produced during the previous 10,000 years, putting more and more pressure on future farmers and the land they use to produce our food.
Not only is the world running out of grain, it is also running out of farmland at an alarming rate. Hundreds of thousands of acres across the globe have disappeared due to erosion, urban development, and overuse over the last century. The American Farmland Trust estimates that farmland is disappearing at a rate of 2 acres per minute.
The National Soil Tilth Laboratory highlighted, "Each human on earth lives off the farming equivalent of about a third of a football field today. Population growth and urbanization will shrink that available land base in half by 2050."
Despite soil's importance to the survival of the human population, soil is eroding faster than it is being replaced. In the last 30 years, roughly 30% of the Earth's arable land has eroded according to David Pimentel, professor at Cornell University. "Soil erosion is second only to population growth as the biggest environmental problem the world faces," said Pimentel.
Over half of the U.S.'s best cropland is experiencing an erosion rate 27 times the natural rate or 11,000 pounds per acre (approximately 1/26 of an inch of soil/year) according to the USDA. The natural, geological erosion rate is about 400 pounds of soil per acre per year. Based on these levels of erosion it would take approximately 26 and over 700 years respectively, for one inch of top soil to erode.
Parts of Iowa, which has some of the best soil is the world, have seen topsoil levels erode from a depth of 18 inches down to 10 inches according to the USDA. Productivity drops off sharply when topsoil reaches 6 inches or less, the average crop root zone depth.
Andres Arnalds of the Icelandic Soil Conservation Service estimates that roughly 38,000 square miles of land (100,000 square kilometers) each year becomes severely degraded or turns into desert due to erosion. "We are overlooking soil as the foundation of all life on Earth," said Arnalds. "Soil and vegetation is being lost at an alarming rate around the globe, which in turn has devastating effects on food production and accelerates climate change."
The economic impact of soil erosion in the U.S. costs the nation approximately $37.6 billion each year in productivity losses and damage from soil erosion according to Cornell University. Worldwide it is estimated to be $400 billion per year.
The primary causes of rapid soil erosion are conventional tillage programs coupled with highly sloped and large amounts of precipitation. In areas prone to erosion, fall tillage and the removal of crop residues after harvest are key drivers of erosion. On sloped land in the spring, there is a window of opportunity for erosion between the start of tillage and when the crop establishes a root system strong enough to hold the surrounding soil. This window typically lasts for four to six weeks and is most susceptible to erosion during hard rain falls.
Sloped land also has waterways, which are natural occurring drainage pathways that rainwater follows. Farmers maintain these waterways by planting the area with grass to provide an outlet for water to flow through without removing topsoil.
Row crops, such as corn and soybeans, result in roughly 50 times more soil erosion than faster growing, densely populated crops such as wheat, alfalfa, and grasses. Farmers in areas prone to erosion will plant a cover crop (rye, clover, and vetch) in the fall when they intend to plant row crops the following spring. The farmer can then choose to plant directly into the cover crop or plow them under. The latter provides the farmer with many valuable nutrients that they would otherwise have to apply to the land in the form of commercial fertilizer.
In addition to the solutions listed above, in areas prone to erosion farmers can reduce soil erosion by using strip or no-till farming methods. The main difference in the two methods is strip-tilling bands fertilizer in a 4 inch trench approximately 6-8 inches below the surface of the soil and seed is then planted directly above the band of fertilizer making the fertilizer available to the plant that year. While no-till operations spread the majority of fertilizer over the top of the ground making it less accessible to the crop in the first two years following application and plant directly into the un-tilled soil. With both options crop residue is left on the surface of the soil and breakdown over time, providing nutrition, water retention, and soil carbon. Currently, only 20% of corn in the U.S. is grown using no-till.
Iceland is a prime example of the dangers of soil erosion. Since the country was settled in the ninth century, over half of the vegetative cover has been destroyed and 40% of its soil has eroded according to a national survey completed in 1997. Now desert covers 45,000 square kilometers, or 40% of the country.
Despite spending the last 100 years trying to improve its soil, Iceland needs to import a large portion of its food supply and is continually battling the degraded soil. Arnalds noted that Iceland should serve as a warning to other countries. "It is far better to preserve than restore," he said.
Soil stores carbon as it is one of the key ingredients for plant growth. The amount of carbon stored in soil is roughly twice the amount of carbon found in the atmosphere and three times the amount in vegetation. Across the U.S., agricultural methods have removed approximately 20% to 50% of the Earth's original soil carbon, and up to 70% in some regions according to the USDA.
Land degradation may account for up to 30% of the world's green house gas releases according to Ohio State University. While tillage of crop residue still locks carbon into the ground for a short period of time before it is released into the atmosphere, no-till methods lock carbon into the crop residue for a longer period of time, delaying the release into the atmosphere.
Soil erosion also limits one of the best natural water filters. Topsoil filters out many of the impurities and the next sandy gravel layer will further filter the substance before it enters an aquifer. Surface water sifts through soil and by the time it reaches an aquifer, it is some of the purest, cleanest water on Earth.
Farmland has also been disappearing in the U.S. due to urban development. Farmland has been used to create new highways, industrial parks, and housing developments. The American Farmland Trust estimates that between 1992 and 1997, more than six million acres of agricultural land, an area the size of Maryland, was used for urban development.
There has been a 5% decrease in farmland in the tri-state area of Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia from 1987 to 2007. Wisconsin's farmland has decreased by 19% from 1978 to 2008. Virginia lost 521,000 acres of farmland from 2002 to 2007.
The decline in farmland has lead to the U.S.'s food supply being grown in smaller areas with a higher concentration. The high concentration of crops is dangerous because of the risk of: drought, floods, insects, disease among crops, and depleting quality of soils. The U.S. food supply could be at risk as any unexpected interruption in the food chain could wipe out a significant portion of food production.
The loss of farmland to soil erosion and development is a growing concern across the globe. The increasing demand for farmland and food production is already outpacing supply. Development and erosion will need to be kept at a minimal to limit the loss of potential food production.
Read more about agriculture and farmland at http://farmlandforecast.colvin-co.com.


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At Eli's, we welcome the Fall as it marks the start of College and High School Football and our Annual Eli's Cheesecake Festival.
This year we also celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Eli's Family participating in College and High School Football. It was in October of 1947 that Eli's cousin, Glenn "Buddy" Schulman took the field for the Wright College Rams. Weighing 190 lbs. Buddy wore number 40 and played tackle as the Rams took on Morgan Park, North Park, Morton, Grand Rapids, Wilson and LaSalle Peru.
Today the traditon of Eli's and high school and college football continues as our associates, Mike Neuhaus, Defensive End for the Wyoming Cowboys and Armando Chavez, Defensive End and Fullback, for the Chicago Academy, are playing key roles in the 2007 season–Wyoming winning its opening game against Virginia by 23-3 and the Chicago Acedemy winning its first two games by scores of 34 to18 and 38 to 0.
Mike and Armando are both namesakes for their fathers, Mike Neuhuas, our Operations Manager, and Armando Chavez, Production/Decorating Manager, who collectively have over 35 years at Eli's. We are delighted to see their children achieve excellence in both academic and sports.
It is also coincidental that the Chicago Academy is located on the original Wright College Campus. Back then Wright had to play its home games at Rockola Field. Today the Chicago Academy is fortunate to have a state of the field directly in back of the school.
We wish Armando, Mike and their teams the best of success this season.
Mike Neuhaus has been helping us at Eli's since he was a very small child. Mike and his sister, Nicole, now at the Eli's Cheesecake Bakery Cafe and Taste Co-Manager, were with us at the first Take Your Child to Work Day on February 27, 1992.
Armando Chavez was in the first middle school class at the Chicago Academy. As a senior, he is a leader on the football field and also helps in production at Eli's.
Armando and Mike continue a great Eli's tradition in football started by Buddy Schulman for the Wright Rams in 1947.
Chicago Academy Football Schedule
Sat, Aug. 25 North Shore Country Day N. Shore 2:00P 34 – 18
Thu, Aug. 30 Sullivan Winnemac Stadium 3:30P 38 – 0
Sat, Sep. 08 Roosevelt Chicago Acad. 1:00P
Sat, Sep. 15 ACT Charter Chicago Acad. 1:00P
Sat, Sep. 22 Noble Street Chicago Acad. 1:00P
Sat, Sep. 29 Uplift Chicago Acad. 1:00PM ,
Sat. Oct. 06 Kelvyn Park Winnemac Stadium 11:00A
Sat, Oct. 13 Rickover Chicago Acad. 1:00P
Wyoming Cowboys Football Schedule
Date Opponent / Event Location Time/Result
9/1/07 Saturday, Sept 1 vs. Virginia Laramie, Wyo. W, 23-3
09/08/07 vs. Utah State TV Laramie, Wyo. 12:00 p.m.
09/15/07 at Boise State TV Boise, Idaho 6:00 p.m.
09/22/07 at Ohio TV Athens, Ohio 1:00 p.m.
10/06/07 vs. TCU TV Laramie, Wyo. 12:00 p.m.
10/13/07 vs. New Mexico TV Laramie, Wyo. 12:00 p.m.
10/20/07 at Air Force TV Colorado Springs, Colo. 12:00 p.m.
10/27/07 vs. UNLV TV Laramie, Wyo. 12:00 p.m.
11/03/07 at San Diego State TV San Diego, Calif. 7:00 p.m.
11/10/07 at Utah TV Salt Lake City, Utah 1:30 p.m.
11/17/07 vs. BYU TV Laramie, Wyo. 12:00 p.m.
11/23/07 at Colorado State TV Fort Collins, Colo. 12:00 p.m.


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Pandora Media Inc. recently opened its first sales office in Boston as the Internet music streaming company is aggressively competing with local radio stations for advertising dollars.
Pandora has 29 sales offices in major markets such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, and plans more this year, in an effort to boost revenue and pay the artist royalties that run into the millions of dollars each year.
Pandora's free service lets users create customized channels based on musical tastes. Despite being the largest music streaming service in the United States and adding listeners, Pandora is losing money — a lot of money. Last year, it posted a net loss of $38 million.
Being in Boston could help lower those losses, if the company can convince longtime radio advertisers such as car dealers or furniture sellers that advertising on an Internet station is more effective than marketing over the airwaves.
"When you have 200 million registered users, that creates a whole new opportunity to talk to local advertisers," said Andy Lipset, Pandora's vice president of East Coast operations. "We've reached the scale now. We're a top radio station in Boston because we have so many listeners."
Pandora would not disclose its listener numbers for Boston or other markets. But the service, and others such as Spotify or Rdio, is are still behind traditional radio in terms of overall listenership and reach in local markets, according to industry specialists.
Radio stations "are still offering a demographic that is pretty hard for Pandora to match," said Scott Fybush, an independent radio industry analyst in Rochester, N.Y.
What Pandora and other Internet stations can offer is highly targeted advertising. Since Pandora users register with their location, age, and sex, the company has a good idea of who is listening at any given time. So advertisers who want to reach say, Boston-area men between the ages of 18 to 45, would be more likely to get the target audience to hear their commercials than running ads on terrestrial radio, Fybush said.
Pandora has signed up major national brands such as General Motors Co. and Sony Corp. and local advertisers Rockland Trust and Boston Volvo Village.
"Pandora is the only major player in this space that is even a challenge to radio on a local level," said Robert Favre, general manager of data and analytics for Triton Digital, a Los Angeles company that measures digital radio audience.
Favre said Pandora has audience numbers that would likely place it among the top 10 stations in each of the country's biggest markets.
So far, local radio executives don't appear to be too worried about Pandora showing up on their turf to compete for a share of the local advertising market valued around $15 billion.
"Pandora doesn't compete directly with broadcast radio nationally or locally because it's not radio in the real sense of the word," said Tim Castelli, president of national sales for Clear Channel Communications Inc., which owns several stations in Boston.
"Pandora is a play-list creator, which means it can't deliver what makes radio — the rich personal and interactive experience that radio brings its listeners," he said.
Clear Channel is a giant: It owns 850 stations, has more than 2,700 sales people, and operates Pandora streaming competitor iHeartRadio.
On the financial front, Pandora has been campaigning to reduce its royalty payments, which it must pay every time any song is played over its service. While only a fraction of a penny each, the royalties add up: More than $250 million in 2012, Pandora founder Tim Westergren wrote in a blog post in June.
"If major market FM stations paid the same rates as Pandora, based on audience, some would be paying thousands of dollars for every song they played," Westergren wrote.
That campaign has sparked a backlash from musicians including members of the rock band Pink Floyd, who say the company is attempting to cheat artists. Last year, Pink Floyd members were among 130 musicians that opposed a congressional bill that Pandora supported to reduce the royalties Internet radio stations pay. The bill did not pass.
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This week, we're sharing an article provided by Meredith K. Olafson, community moderator at the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Myth vs. Fact: Business Owners Will Be Fined If They Don't Notify Their Employees About the New Health Insurance Marketplace
As a business owner, it's important to understand how the Affordable Care Act may affect your business. However, with so many misconceptions about how the Affordable Care Act works, this can be difficult.
As part of our ongoing blog series, "Myth vs. Fact: The Affordable Care Act and Small Business," this week we're debunking another common myth: Business owners will be fined if they don't provide notification to their employees about the new Health Insurance Marketplace.
Fact: If your company is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, you must provide a written notice to your employees about the Health Insurance Marketplace by October 1, 2013. However, there is no fine or penalty under the law for failing to provide the notice.
Which Employers Must Provide This Notification?
Under the Affordable Care Act, all employers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (generally, those firms that have at least one employee and at least $500,000 in annual dollar volume of business), must notify their employees about the new Health Insurance Marketplace, whether or not the employer currently provides health coverage to its employees.
The Marketplace opens for enrollment in all states on October 1, 2013 and offers individuals and small business owners an online portal to find and compare private health insurance options.
What Information Do I Need to Include in the Notice to My Employees?
The notice should inform employees:
- About what the new Health Insurance Marketplace is and that open enrollment begins on October 1, 2013;
- That, depending on their income and what coverage may be offered by the employer, employees may be able to purchase lower cost private insurance in the individual Marketplace; and
- If employees buy insurance through the individual Marketplace, they may lose the employer contribution (if any) to their health benefits.
Employers are required to provide this notice to all current employees by October 1, 2013, and to each new employee at the time of hire beginning on that same date. This requirement applies regardless of an employee's plan enrollment status (if applicable) or their part-time or full-time status.
The Department of Labor (DOL) will consider a notice to be provided at the time of hiring if the notice is provided within 14 days of an employee's start date.
Where Can I Get More Information?
DOL has provided employers with two sample notices they may use to help comply with this rule. There is one model for employers who do not offer a health plan and another model for employers who offer a health plan to some or all employees:
- Model Notice for employers who offer a health plan to some or all employees
- Model Notice for employers who do not offer a health plan
Access Spanish and MS Word versions of the model notices on the DOL Affordable Care Act page.
For more information about this notice requirement, see this Technical Release issued by the Department of Labor. You can also visit DOL's website for additional Q&A on this topic.
DOL's Wage and Hour Division also provides guidance relating to the applicability of the FLSA in general, including a compliance assistance tool to determine applicability of the FLSA.
To keep up with the latest health insurance marketplace and Affordable Care Act updates, as well as COBRA administration information, sign up for our blog in the upper right hand corner of this page.


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Like a kitchen-friendly version of Voltron that's come to help you with dinner, Enrico Azzimonti's Take It line of cooking cutlery come in unorthodox shapes that can be combined to further expand their functionality.
There are four sets to choose from that feature redesigns of forks, spatulas, and even spoons. Their bent handles make them easier to use in deeper pots, while a special groove near the top allows them to be combined and used as serving tools as well as cooking utensils. Certainly handy, but they'd be even cooler if they turned into robot lions. [Enrico Azzimonti via designboom]


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Scientists debate 'DeExtinction'
It sounds like a scene from Jurassic Park: molecular biologists, ornithologists, and a bioethicist came together at a private meeting at Harvard Medical School in February of 2012 to discuss bringing back the passenger pigeon.
The once-abundant bird was driven into extinction by hunters in 1914. The scientists gathered in Boston, convened by environmentalist Stewart Brand and genome entrepreneur Ryan Phelan, were discussing the technologies they might use to revive the species — and whether such a feat of conservation could and should be done.
Today, that discussion is being aired for a national audience, at a TedX conference convened around the concept of "DeExtinction,'' streamed online. It is also the cover story in the April issue of National Geographic.
I spoke with two of the scientists involved in that initial meeting, George Church, the Harvard Medical School geneticist who has developed increasingly sophisticated ways to edit the genome, and Scott V. Edwards, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, to get a perspective on the ideas that shaped the conference.
Church said he was tapped for his expertise in technology. He described to the group new tools, many developed in his laboratory, that allowed scientists to very precisely change individual spots in the genome. Such tools made it feasible, Church told them, to take one species and tweak its DNA in the appropriate ways to create a closely-related one that might be extinct.
Edwards provided an ornithological perspective. The bandtailed pigeon, a close relative of the passenger pigeon found on the coast of California and in the foothills, would probably be a good starting place if such an endeavor were to move forward.
That's not to say scientists were in wholehearted agreement that they should startsuch a project, or that the passenger pigeon was the best candidate.
Church, for example, said he likes useful things more than iconic demonstrations. He hasn't signed up for reviving any species, but he's personally a bit more intrigued by the idea of bringing back mammoths. That interest was sparked in part by a paper published in the journal Science in 2005 that suggests that the "mammoth ecosystem'' — in which large herbivores maintained a certain balance of plant life in the Arctic tundra — helped keep the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming in the ground and out of the atmosphere.
"I'm always looking for a practical application,'' Church said.
He also said he hoped reviving a species, if it is done, could be similar to the effort to send a man to the moon — a technological feat that inspired a great many young scientists, including himself. That might get people more broadly interested in biology or the genome, and could focus interest not just on bringing back species, but also preserving the ones still here.
"The technology we're developing for gene therapy could be used for resurrecting diversity, injecting diversity'' in species at risk of going extinct, Church said. For example, such techniques could be used to inject genetic diversity that would make Tasmanian devils, a species being ravaged by an infectious fatal cancer, resistant.
Edwards, who participated in the Harvard meeting but not in Friday's TedX event, noted that there are more extinctions than many people realize in North America alone. Aside from the well-known passenger pigeon, the Carolina Parakeet, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and the Bachman's Warbler are just a few of the species now lost that he mentions when he teaches ornithology.
His concern is that if species revival technology became available, it would detract attention and resources from the critical job of protecting habitat and saving existing species.
"People are going to try to do it,'' Edwards said. "I think human curiosity has rarely been checked voluntarily. … It's a lot of complex questions as to whether it's a good or bad thing: People might say humans need to be more cognizant of our actions and we can't be constantly correcting our rampant destruction of the environment with these quick-fix technologies.''
Only time will tell which efforts, if any, move forward. The scientists had fixated on the passenger pigeon in part because it was nearing the centennial of its extinction, and partly because it is such an iconic bird. John James Audubon described its numbers vividly in his 1837 book, Birds of America:
"The air was literally filled with Pigeons; the light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse, the dung fell in spots, not unlike melting flakes of snow; and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses to repose.''
What do you think? Would it be a triumph of conservation biology, a waste of time, or an ethical transgression if scientists were able to revive extinct species and see flocks of pigeons blacken the sky once again?
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