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David Collier is to retire from his role as England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive at the end of this summer, it has been confirmed.
Collier, 59, will leave after a highly-eventful decade at the helm of English cricket administration.
He believes it is simply the "right time to step aside", and leaves with ECB chairman Giles Clarke expressing a "huge debt of gratitude" for his services since October 2004.
During Collier's tenure, England have won four Ashes series - including Down Under for the first time in almost a quarter-of-a-century in 2010/11.
They also went to the top of the International Cricket Council Test rankings in 2012, again for the first time, but have since slipped dramatically from that position and suffered a 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia last winter.
There was a first win in an ICC global tournament on Collier's watch, at the 2010 World Twenty20 in the West Indies.
Clarke said: "David has overseen the most successful period of development, playing success and growth for cricket in England and Wales - and we are extremely grateful to him.
"During his decade as chief executive, David has produced and delivered three strategic plans which have revolutionised cricket in this country."
Those initiatives, Clarke adds, have "provided the blueprint for the success not only of England teams but also the ECB board, county and recreational structures".
Collier played a key role too in the lucrative sale of live television rights to a subscription-based broadcaster.
His departure will be another high-profile change in ECB management personnel since the end of last year.
Paul Downton was appointed as managing director, following Hugh Morris' move back to Glamorgan, before England's embarrassingly unsuccessful Ashes campaign in Australia.
In the aftermath of that disappointment, team director Andy Flower resigned his post and took another with ECB.
He and limited-overs coach Ashley Giles were then replaced by the returning Peter Moores, back in charge of the England team in all formats.
Clarke added: "When we reflect on the past 10 years, we will all recognise the huge debt of gratitude which is owed by cricket in England and Wales to David Collier and the management teams he has built and revitalised during that period."
Collier is confident he has made the right decision to hand over the reins now.
He said: "After 10 years at ECB, I believe it is the right time to step aside and retire from the position of chief executive, because I shall turn 60 in the spring and I do believe the time is right for a new CEO to open the batting.
"I am immensely proud of the achievements and the enormous strides forward which cricket in England and Wales has made during the past decade.
"We have achieved both men's and women's victories in ICC global events, three consecutive home men's Ashes Wins, three women's Ashes wins, an Ashes victory in Australia, victory in India and developed a world leading National Performance Centre at Loughborough.
"I pay tribute to my management team, who have been such a strong and cohesive unit over the past decade which has delivered this success.
"I thank the two chairmen during my term in office, David Morgan and Giles Clarke, for the opportunity I have been given to lead cricket in England and Wales for the past decade.
"I wish my successor every success in the future and I shall continue to follow cricket closely, albeit from outside the boundary rope."
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The United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry (UA) has mandated its Locals to train qualified pressure welders to fill the void left by retiring members. Local 67 of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada started a school in 2004, achieved Teaching Delivery Agent (TDA) status and now graduates apprentices up to journeyman status and Red Seal certification (interprovincial standards for the trades in Canada).
The issue of skilled welders retiring is compounded by the fact that the nuclear industry in Canada is growing. In Ontario, where energy demands have continued to climb, the refurbishment and construction of new nuclear facilities has created further demand for highly skilled welders. Local 67 trains its welders in proper Stick, TIG and MIG pipe welding technique—ninety percent of what journeymen encounter in the field is Stick.
In late 2010, Local 67 will open a new training facility in Branford, Ontario, with 40 new welding booths. In addition to its own members, staff will train other tradesmen and union members to Red Seal certification in order to help meet this shortage. Whereas the retiring generations learned pipe welding on behemoth "rectifier" and "magnetic amplifier" technology welders, the newe st generation will train on welders no larger than a carry-on suitcase, and about as light: the CST™ 280 Stick/TIG welder from Miller Electric Mfg. Co.
Apprentices spend eight hours a day in the Local 67 classroom. The first half of the day is spent on welding theory, while the second half of the day is spent on practical welding. The object at the end of the term is to do a bend test and obtain a ticket (certification that welder is proficient in a specific process/application) corresponding to the type and position of the pipe weld completed. Each year gets harder as the pipe diameters get smaller. Instructors start incorporating other processes after the third year, but for the first two and a half years are strictly focused on Stick welding with 6010 and 7018 electrodes. 6010 is the industry standard for root passes on carbon steel pipe, and 7018 is the standard for fill and cap passes. Journeymen must have their F3 and F4 tickets to get out of the Local 67 dispatch hall and on to the jobs most in demand.
"It takes us three to four years to build someone up to be a decent journeyman," says Brian Morrissey, weld test manager, Local 67. "There seems to be a perception in welding that anyone can do it. I know a lot of people who can put two things together, but that doesn't make them qualified to work in a nuclear power plant. Weld quality has to be top notch because you're working on high-pressure components, and if anything ever goes wrong, the weld quality will be highly scrutinized. We push weld quality because the industry is changing. We're not just doing steel mills anymore. We're getting into higher technology again."
The CST 280 is designed for construction applications with varying input power considerations, perfect for welders performing plant construction and maintenance. Welders can flip between high (465-570) and low (208-230) primary input voltage ranges with a simple switch on the back of the machine. It is specifically designed for Stick welding pipe and features process settings for EXX10 and EXX18 electrodes. The entire machine is controlled by two knobs: one to set amperage and one to specify arc characteristics by electrode type, which breaks down as follows:
* Stick EXX18 Soft: This setting provides a lower dig/arc force setting for smooth weld performance. A stable weld puddle with little arc "snap" gives excellent weld bead appearance with minimal spatter.
* Stick EXX18 Stiff: This setting provides a higher dig/arc force that gives a slightly more fluid weld puddle, more arc "snap," and reduces the potential for electrode sticking at shorter arc lengths.
* Stick EXX10 Soft: This setting provides lower dig/arc force for open root vertical up joints or joints that do not require additional current for fit up inconsistencies.
* Stick EXX10 Stiff: This setting provides a higher dig/arc force for open root vertical down joints where additional current is needed to compensate for tight joint fit up without the need to increase overall welding current.
"On 6010, we set the machine on a stiff setting so that we get good pounding and we get that root," says Steve Knapp, certified welding instructor, Local 67. "We've got separation with root landings, preparation, gaps, and we've got to get that weld all the way throughout the interior side of the pipe. We're fighting gravity from the bottom up. On an X-ray or a bend test, 6010 penetration has to be on the inside diameter of the pipe, and if it's not, you fail. With the stiff settings on the CST 280, we work way less to get what we need inside there."
"The wetting out with the new inverters gives you good stability and good arc control, especially when you have a key hole," adds Morrissey. "Old rectifiers tended to come on with about 50 amps as a hot start, which just blew everything up. With the Miller technology it's very passive. When you're doing a root pass it gives you more dig and you've got great control with it. We find that it makes it far easier to weld."
When switching to the fill and/or cap passes, a simple flip of the knob to the soft setting for XX18 series rods and an increase in voltage (depending on pipe size) is all a welder needs to start.
"We set the machine on its soft setting when we go to the 7018 series for the fill and cap passes," says Knapp. "We find that we get a lot more buttering. A lot of our stuff is done in the 6G position, which is on a 45 degree angle and we run a lot of stringer, so there's a lot of blending of welds."
"The soft xx18 setting when using low hydrogen electrodes is perfect for capping," says Morrissey. "You get very smooth, very fine ripples."
Simplifying the control settings of the machine makes training easier in that it allows apprentices to focus on technique rather than worrying about settings. Taking that variable out of the hand of the welder ensures consistency and confidence in one of the trickiest welding specialties in the industry. While the rest of the industry catches up to inverter technology, however, many of the apprentices will still encounter the old rectifiers out in the field.
"They're kind of spoiled being here in the shop with the new inverters," says Knapp. "When they go out to jobsites, our big steel mills and co-generation plants, they never get these types of machines. The CST 280 helps a welder a lot. If you know how to use the machine and the proper settings, that machine will help a welder be better. When they get out into the field and don't have that, they really have to draw back to the core of what we're teaching them."
Weighing in at only 41 lb., the CST 280 provides pipe welders with industrial-strength welding performance in a very portable design. The welder provides 5 to 200 amps of Stick/TIG welding output using single-phase power and 5 to 280 amps running off three-phase power. Knapp reports that it is about 1/6th of the size of their old rectifiers, and Morrissey explains what that means to the layout of a training booth and to a journeyman in the field, especially in nuclear facilities and refineries where space is tight:
"We chose them because we actually put them in our booth," says Morrissey. "They're small, compact. In the construction industry, if you're out in the field, you don't need a crane to move them around. A man could pick them up just like a suitcase and bring it right up into his welding area wherever he's working. So they're very portable."
Having a machine close to you versus stringing out dozens of feet of welding lead and cable not only reduces hassle, it makes it easier to make adjustments to the machine as you work. It also features remote amperage control provided through a 14-pin receptacle on the front of the machine. This permits the use of standard remote amperage control devices.
Having the machine in the booth with the apprentices, and next to the action in the field, exposes it to more grinding dust and weld particulate than if the machine was kept away from the work, but neither Knapp or Morrissey report that to be a problem. The only maintenance Knapp reports having done on the machine is blowing the dust out and it hasn't missed a beat.
"The machines that we have in our shop right now, we've had them two years," says Morrissey. "They run everyday, eight hours a day, and I've never had any breakdowns yet. I would unequivocally recommend it to any UA Local or pressure vessel/pipe fabricator."
And, in the grand scheme of things, Morrissey believes it's absolutely the right tool to train the next generation of UA journeymen:
"When you give someone something really difficult to do, they lose interest fast. With the new inverters, once you get the confidence up and get them going and let them understand the process, now you can take them to something that is ancient—the old rectifiers—and they'll have an easier understanding. It's easier to go back than it is to go forward."
Steve Knapp, certified welding instructor, UA Local 67, and 2nd year welding apprentices Alicia Komejan, Shaun Goulbourne, Nathan Guthrie and Devon Wilson.
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Re (tilly) 5: Prime Number Finderby tilly (Archbishop)
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You claim that 1 is not a prime by definition, and This is a useful definition since it allows integers to have a unique prime factorization. But note:
Therefore the uniqueness of prime factorization is only uniqueness up to some defined equivalence relation of factorizations. There is no reason we can't define this equivalence so that stray factors of +-1 don't matter.
Indeed the standard definition most people know of a prime is something like, A positive integer is prime if it is only divisible by 1 and itself. Arguing about whether 1 is prime is a question of arguing about whether those two statements need to be separate. Which is a pretty minor difference.
As I say I point this out because when I was taking upper level number theory I would run across articles which made comments like, "X's counts are off by one from Y's because X counted 1 as prime." When I first saw this I was flabbergasted. Then I was told that everyone knew it didn't really matter one way or the other, so some people who were trying to produce long lists of primes counted 1 just as an easy way of improving their count. (This isn't something that people have done much of recently because it is simpler to generate lists than to find somewhere to store it.)
So there isn't really a definite answer within the positive integers. The definition that 1 is not prime does generalize more nicely into abstract algebra (primes generate prime ideals which leave you with integral domains when you mod out by them). And most people use it most of the time. But that usage isn't universally set in stone in my experience.
You also point out that, Less controversially, 0 is not prime... which is absolutely true. I have never seen anyone claim that 0 is a prime. The closest that I have seen is things like having people who study the p-adic number fields refer to the reals as the 0-adics, and 0 as "the infinite prime". (Try factoring 0 to see where the "infinite" bit comes from.)
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Name-calling is rife in many schools, but is often dismissed as simply "banter", according to a new Ofsted report into bullying.
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But while students admit to using language that they know is inappropriate, the report also raises concerns that some teachers were not aware how frequently it was being used.
The Ofsted report, based on visits to 56 schools and discussions with around 2,000 pupils and staff, looked at the best ways that schools can prevent and tackle bullying.
It said it was clear that pupils were using derogatory language outside of the classrooms, such as in the playground, although at times it spilled over into lessons.
Words such as "stupid", "idiot", "mong", "spazzer" or "spaz" were used when pupils struggled with work or a sport, it said, while other youngsters told inspectors that terms such as "gay", "slag" or "slut" could be used against classmates.
The report warned that "gay" was often used as an insult, with one secondary school pupil saying it was used to mean "rubbish".
School staff also said that the use of the word "gay" was a "common issue".
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Susan Gregory, Ofsted director of education and care, said: "Schools must develop a positive culture so all pupils learn in a happy and safe environment. Teachers should receive the right training and support so they have the skills and confidence to teach pupils about diversity and the effects of bullying."


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I am a sucker for jerky. It used to be that I was the only one who understood the allure of jerky but evidently that's changed. I'm seeing so much love for jerky lately that it just warms my heart.
Jerky is the perfect food, in my book. It's portable, it's shelf stable, it's loaded full of protein. Awesome for after a work out.
See? Perfect food.
I actually had it for breakfast this morning. Don't judge.. you just jealous.
I usually get an eye round roast when I see it on sale and clean it up myself with my knife.
My idea of perfect jerky is toothsome.. meaning, I have to really rip into it and CHEW. So for that I cut long strips with the grain of the meat.
I usually brine my jerky meat in a apple jalapeno mixture, but this time I wanted to try something a bit sweeter.
So I chopped up some fresh garlic and ginger and poached it in some honey and water until it was soft.
And then I added these:
Then I pureed the crap out of it with my boat motor
And let that cool.. then I smooshed it all over the meat.
Popped that into the fridge overnight and in the morning, I spread it out over my dehydrator trays and let it run at 160 degrees for about 9 hours
You want some? Lemme give you the recipe:
- 4-5 pounds of lean beef, cut into strips
- ½ cup of honey
- 6 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 2 inch chunk of fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
- ¼ cup canning or Kosher salt
- ½ cup water
- ½ tsp ground cardamom
- ⅛ tsp ground cloves
- Put the honey, garlic and ginger is a small sauce pot and heat until just boiling. Reduce heat to a simmer.
- Add salt and water to the pot, stirring to dissolve the salt.
- Simmer for about 15 minutes or until the ginger and garlic are soft.
- Add the cardamom and cloves and immediately remove from heat. Stir
- Puree with immersion blender, regular blender or food processor.
- Allow marinade to cool.
- Add the marinade to the meat and smoosh it with your hands to get every piece covered.
- Put the meat mixture in a plastic bag and allow to marinate over night.
- Put the strips of meat on a dehydrator tray and dehydrate at 160 degrees until dry but still bendy. About 8-9 hours.


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Usain Bolt was pushed hard by rival Asafa Powell before powering through in the late stages to win the 100m in 9.79 seconds at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo.
Following a sluggish display in Ostrava, Bolt returned to form with an eye-catching run in Rome at the end of May, and he produced the goods again on Thursday to run down Powell and set a new meeting record.
Mark Lewis-Francis, looking to find some form before the British trials in Birmingham on June 22, committed a blatant false start and, under the current regulations, was forced to sit the race out.
At the resumption, Bolt got away well but it was fellow Jamaican Powell that surged clear in the early stages. Bolt, looking less smooth and fluent than he did in Italy, had to work hard to reel him in, doing so in the final few strides and making sure of his victory with a dip at the line. Powell was second with a season's best 9.85s.
"I really enjoyed it," Bolt said. "My execution was alright. I'm going home now to top things up. I'll look to go fast and look forward to the trials."
Having crossed the line at full steam, Bolt collided with a flower girl on the track, catching her as she fell before hugging her with a big smile on his face.
World 400m hurdles champion Dai Greene had a poor night, labouring to fourth place in 49.98s. Javier Culson, who tool silver behind Greene in Daegu last summer, fired a warning shot to his rivals by posting the fastest time in the world this year - 47.92s.
"It was disappointing. I'm not going to lie, I wanted a lot more. I didn't think I was going to run as fast as Culson did today but I just didn't feel quite as fresh as I did a few weeks ago," Greene said.
"I thought I could have gone about four tenths faster. That was the target in my head. I ran very aggressively from the start but it was a struggle from hurdle seven onwards. Hopefully, things will get a bit easier in the future."
Jessica Ennis ran her third quickest time ever of 12.83s in the semi-finals of the 100m hurdles but was then disqualified from the final for a false start. Sally Pearson won in a world-leading time of 12.49s, while Britain's Tiffany Porter ran well to take third in 12.70s.
Abi Oyepitan recorded her best 100m time in eight years to finish second in her race in 22.71s - well within the Olympic 'A' qualifying standard. And Gareth Warburton made the 'A' standard too by winning his 800m race in 1minute 44.98 seconds.
Defending Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele, who is expected to go toe-to-toe with Brtain's Mo Farah at London 2012, trailed home in fifth place in the 5000m.


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Alan.belkin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 159 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a logo to use for our Energy Comparison service - EnergyWizard.
The nature of our business is that we help customers find a cheaper energy deal, specifically Electricity and Gas.
Our competitors:
So we want to stand out from these guys.
Our audience will vary in age between 20-55. Our customers are those that pay the Electricity/ Gas bills and are interested in saving money as the cost of living increases. (Nearly all of us)
Electricity being an essential service they want to be able to trust the comparison site so cartoons or something along those lines will not be suitable.
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1. No Cartoons - we want it to be trustworthy... not childish.
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3. Trustworthy is important in this industry. Think police, fire brigade, ambulance.
Here is an example of a logo from our competitors:
The other companies in the industry are:
This should spark some creative ideas.
Colors need to be simple and will form the base the rest of our marketing campaigns, website color scheme etc. E.g. 3 colours max.
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Elder Perry on the Priesthood, Part 3: The Priesthood Strengthens the Family
18 January 2011
Priesthood bearers have a responsibility to build home and family "with the most sacredness, the greatest spirit, the encouragement, and the greatest enthusiasm they can possibly have," says Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in this third of a four-part series on the Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood.
- 18 January 2011
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14 January 2011
Scouting can provide blessings for young men who live by its principles, President Thomas S. Monson says in a video prepared for the 100th Anniversary of Scouting in the United States.
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Great Expectations for Youth of Church
14 January 2011
Watch a video that portrays what prophets and apostles think about the youth of the Church. The video includes this statement from President Thomas S. Monson to the youth: "As I contemplate who you are and what you are, who you may become and what you may become, I say to you, 'You have great expectations.'"
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Elder Christofferson Addresses Young Adults
9 January 2011
Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke to the young adults of the Church during a CES fireside broadcast from the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, on January 9, 2011.
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Elder Perry on the Priesthood, Part Two: The Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods
5 January 2011
"It's a great brotherhood, probably the greatest brotherhood there is on earth," said Elder L. Tom Perry in the second of four segments from an interview about the oath and covenant of the priesthood. Sharing thoughts he has also used in messages, talks, and training, he says the priesthood should be "a greater relationship than anything else other than our own individual families."
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One breaker would go and park up in some obscure location. Transmitting for sixty seconds every other minute & all the other breakers would hunt him down and the nearer to the 'strawberry patch/30+ the nearer you are to the fox. Everyone puts say a fiver in the pot & the first to find the fox gets the pot.
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Marlborough, world famous for it's sauvignon blanc is New Zealand's largest wine region.
The variety that put us onto the international stage is still a favourite with 90% of New Zealand sauvignon blanc coming from Marlborough. The dry fruity wine can be found all over the world and was Australians best selling white wine in 2011. If you are a not a fan of "Savvy" as the locals refer to it do not be alarmed there are many more varietals on offer in Marlborough; Pinot Noir, Aromatics and Chardonnay are all on offer at our wineries.
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By Volvo Guy on Friday, January 19, 2018Traded a 2012 XC60 for 2018 V-90 Cross Country. Drove it for about 1000 miles and returned it to dealer for a 2017 XC60 demonstrator with Certified Warranty. Got hosed financially in the deal, and dont even care. Love the 2017 XC60. Hated the 2018 V-90. Electronics were unreliable. Nav system would sometimes not load up, but would give circle of death loading sign until I shut everything down and started over. Would accept destinations, but then forget and make me reenter everything. Warning for lane changes on multi-lane highways were provided too late to actually make lane changes safely. Categories for search were not tuned to American driving and needs. Large screen was mostly a video-game-like distraction from actually driving the car. Radio would come on mysteriously after just opening driver side door to put groceries or brief case into car, but not starting it up. Various apps, especially Weather,Pandora, and Sirius would not load or would load and then fail to function--again until stopping car and starting all over again. (Sometimes even this would not fix the problems.) Stop/start override function for the engine when at stop lights or at rest required several different screens to operate. In the XC60 a simple push of one button on the console does the trick. Stop/start is dumb in any case. Should be a one-time choice of owner/driver, not something you have to select every time you operate the car. Repeated use of starter motor makes no sense at all. It also results in lag while system restarts that is annoying as can be. My 2017 XC60 is a fine car and allows the driver to actually drive without lots of IT and other distractions. Just drove it from CT to California and love it. It is likely to be my very last Volvo.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Switching to electronic health records might help close health gaps between black and white Americans, researchers suggest in a new study.
They say government data on primary care visits from 2007 to 2008 show that when doctors didn't use digital records, there was a racial gap in how many patients had high blood pressure. But there was no such gap among patients treated at practices with electronic record-keeping.
That could be important, because African Americans are more likely to have high blood pressure than whites, which might in turn explain why they also have more heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease, said Dr. Lipika Samal, who worked on the new study.
"If we really do find the tools help to reduce disparity," she told Reuters Health, "then as a society we should incentivize people to use these tools."
But that's still a big 'if,' according to Samal, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Her findings are just an association, she said, and can't prove that electronic health records by themselves get rid of health disparities.
The study is based on a survey of doctors across the U.S. It includes more than 17,000 primary care visits, during which doctors recorded patients' blood pressure.
Fifteen percent of the doctors said they used electronic health records, with another 27 percent using special pop-up messages in addition to the digital records to help them make medical decisions.
When offices used traditional records, 69 percent of blacks were estimated to have their blood pressure relatively under control (less than 140/90) after accounting for age, insurance and who owned the office, among other factors. That number was 75 percent for whites.
At offices that had embraced the new technology, the numbers were similar for blacks and whites at 75 percent and 78 percent, respectively. And Hispanics had an even higher rate of good blood pressure control.
Samal said more research is needed to tease out why the gap between whites and blacks disappears at offices that use digital tools, but said it could be that the systems help doctors make better decisions — such as suggesting cheaper medicines for poor patients.
The government already provides incentives to physicians who switch to electronic health records. According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 57 percent of office-based physicians used such a system in 2011.
Samal said her results might help convince more doctors to make the switch, but noted that there might still be financial, legal or technical barriers that need to be addressed.
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Nuggets loss at Portland damaging in more than just win-loss column
Say one thing about this shortened season in which you play most teams in the same division just three times: It takes the guesswork out of tiebreakers.
Win two, and you own it.
As such, the Nuggets' loss to the Trail Blazers on Saturday night had sting beyond the final score. Portland earned the tiebreaker over the Nuggets, meaning the boys in powder blue are going to have to finish with a superior record in order to get the higher playoff slot should they be tied at the end of the season. Portland's win pushed it to 2-0 against the Nuggets so far with the third, and final, game in the season series set for Feb. 29 at the Pepsi Center.
In a division with the team with the best record in the NBA – Oklahoma City – it's a fairly serious development, yes, even this early in the season.
Should OKC continue to be dominant all season long, Denver, Portland and Utah are all playing for second in the Northwest Division. If the Nuggets and Portland are the two that finish second and are tied, the higher spot goes to the Trail Blazers. If those records put them in the top four of the conference, which carries home court advantage in the first round, the Nuggets fall to fifth.
For a Nuggets team that will rely on a good matchup for its greatest chance to advance in the playoffs, it is a bit of a worrisome development.
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Minnesota is the only team in the Northwest division the Nuggets play four times. Everyone in the division is looking to feast on the Timberwolves, but that won't be easy. Minnesota sports a young, talented roster with one of the NBA's best coaches in Rick Adelman. They are .500 and far from a pushover.
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At the top of the show, Adam talks about his very eventful weekend in Monterey. David Wild is also in studio and he and Adam exchange their songs of the week. Adam then rants about stupid 'F You' posters from the 70s that he sees at various mechanic shops.
Next up, actress Dana Workman is in studio. Adam talks with her about her new paranormal SyFy series, Haunted Highway. Alison then starts up the news with the sad passing of director Tony Scott and actress Phyllis Diller. Other news stories include Todd Akin's controversial rape comments, a celebrity cast for the new season of Survivor, and Jay Leno having to cut a bunch of staffers. As the show wraps up, Adam talks a bit more about Monterey and listens to the latest Dick Banks classic.
Catch Haunted Highway, Tuesdays at 10pm on SyFy. You can also visit http://DanaWorkman.com, and follow her on Twitter @DanaWorkman.
Also, follow David Wild on Twitter @WildAboutMusic.
Adam's pick: Get It On, by Chase
David's pick: This Time It's For Real, by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
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Lapras (Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky)
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Lapras (Japanese: ラプラス Laplace) is a non-player character in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky.
In the games
Lapras is first seen as a silhouette in a cut-scene when the player and his/her partner is staring into a sunset sea. Later that night, another cutscene is shown where he is talking to Wigglytuff, who tells Lapras that he can no longer keep his promise due to the threat of world destruction. It is later revealed that Wigglytuff had previously met Lapras in Brine Cave, when Chatot was severely injured after protecting Wigglytuff from an attack by two Omastar and a Kabutops. Wigglytuff panicked and was unable to help his partner, but fortunately Lapras appeared in time to save Chatot. Lapras tells Wigglytuff that he neither knew nor cared whether they were good or evil, but simply asked that they did not investigate the strange pattern on the wall of Brine Cave.
Later, when the player makes their way to the pattern with Grovyle and their partner, the partner's Relic Fragment reacts to the pattern on the wall and it sends a light out to sea, summoning Lapras. The three ride Lapras out into the ocean, whereupon Lapras explains more about reaching the Hidden Land, and how he met Wigglytuff. Lapras eventually crosses the Sea of Time, passing through the gaps between a second, before flying above the Hidden Land itself. He lands, and can be used from that point onwards as a permanent way of entering and leaving the Hidden Land (but only to the player, the partner, and Grovyle). He explains how to reach Temporal Tower, before wishing the player's team luck.
Lapras is briefly mentioned by Dialga after he is defeated, telling the player that Lapras would be waiting for them. A devastated partner makes the journey on Lapras back to Treasure Town alone.
In the second part of the game, Lapras is a permanent resident at the beach just south of the Guild. He offers comments at certain parts of the storyline, and can be used to get to the Hidden Land at any time. When the player and partner are wondering about the distortion of space, Lapras is able to offer information, explaining about the existence of Palkia and his domain, Spacial Rift. However, Lapras does not know where that is or how to get there, because he can only travel to the Hidden Land. He also takes care of Manaphy after a certain point in the game.
After the second part of the game is finished, Lapras remains on the beach, and can be used to travel to the Hidden Land to recruit Dialga. It is unknown how he fared in the alternate future, due to his close links with Dialga.
In the anime
Lapras made a brief appearance in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness, where he was carrying Piplup, Chimchar, and Grovyle to the Temporal Tower.
In the manga
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Lapras appeared in Aim for the Hidden Land!.
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Young Mexican immigrant returns to nation she barely knows
In a corner of her room is a pink drawer. It's almost hidden by the 3-foot pile of clothes. But when Alejandra Pinzon clears a path and pulls open the plastic drawer, she can touch her most cherished possessions: a jumble of mementos that connect her to a life that's slipping from her grasp.
Homecoming photos from her high school back in Kansas. A worn letter from her aunt in Overland Park, Kan. A report card of five A's and, in Spanish, a B minus. And her SAT scores, numbers she's never bothered to read.
Kneeling on the floor of her Mexico City apartment, Pinzon riffled through the drawer until she found her gold Taylor Swift concert tickets. She stared at the tickets and smiled.
"I'm obsessed with Taylor Swift," she said. "I wish she'd come to Mexico."
Just months after the concert, in the spring of 2010, while her friends were chattering about what to wear to prom, Pinzon faced an irreversible decision – whether to return to Mexico – that would forever shape her future.
Pinzon was 17 and living in the United States illegally. She wanted to go to college, but she knew that wasn't an option. She worried about being deported. She thought she could go back to Mexico, get her degree, build her skills and then, hopefully, a U.S. company would sponsor her to return on a visa. She might be back in as little as four or five years.
It didn't work out that way.
When Washington lawmakers debate pro and con, immigration is framed as a political issue. But the repercussions are real for young people such as Pinzon, whose parents chose the difficulties of starting new lives in the United States illegally over the safety and small horizons of home. This fractured relationship between right and left, Republicans and Democrats, has half a million young people like Pinzon caught in a state of limbo between countries.
The now 21-year-old with big brown eyes and a wide smile lives in Mexico City. But emotionally she's tied to the broad suburbs and flat accents of the American Midwest. It's an ambiguous space for these young people that affects everything from the relationships they develop to their sense of self. It's a space that exists somewhere on both sides of the border, but not on one or the other. The late poet Gloria Anzaldua called it the "borderlands."
An estimated 500,000 Mexicans ages 15 to 32 returned to their homeland from 2005 to 2010, according to an analysis of Mexican migration records by Jill Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In all, about 1.4 million people moved from the United States to Mexico in that time, about double the number that did so from 1995 to 2000.
About 11 million people, including 6.1 million from Mexico, remain in the U.S. illegally, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
"For these young people, like Ali, it's a very painful and confusing space, because the question is 'Where do I belong?' and 'To whom do I belong?' " Anderson said. She's editing a book, "Los Otros Dreamers," that documents the sociological challenges that young returning migrants experience. "And I think that becomes even more painful when you're separated from your family."
Ali Pinzon could be anyone's American-born next-door neighbor. She adores country music and peppers her sentences with "like" and "you know."
But she's not next door.
Her family has been divided by the consequences of the U.S. immigration policy. While sister Lulu – born in the United States and thus a U.S. citizen – lives in St. Louis, their younger sister, Gaby, 19, lives in Mexico City. Gaby Pinzon also lived for a period in the United States, but she returned to Mexico several years before her sister did.In the spring of 2010 as she was about to graduate from high school, Pinzon felt she had two choices. She could remain in the United States, be dependent on Lulu and work illegally as a waitress or in some other service job. Or she could return to Mexico and attend college. She thought it'd be easier to go to a Mexican college.
Lawyers told her that if she returned to Mexico before she was 18 she could avoid immigration violations.
Sister Lulu was against the move. "You don't know what you're doing," Lulu told her. "You haven't been to Mexico."
On Aug. 9, 2010, Pinzon stepped off a plane into a country that felt foreign to her, even though it was her native land. She walked out of the airport in her UGG boots and breathed in the city, which she said smelled like burnt rubber, to begin a new life in a place teeming with 20 million people. She didn't know when she'd be back in the U.S. again.
"I felt like I was going somewhere where I had never been before," she said. "I didn't really speak a lot of Spanish."
At first, Pinzon spent much of her free time on Facebook and Skype, up to eight hours a day. The friends she does have in Mexico are almost all recent returnees from the U.S., many via deportation. She doesn't have to worry about being judged by them when she speaks English. Until she found them, she felt as if no one in this massive city understood her homesickness.
"In my mind, I felt like I was the only one who knew English," she said. "I felt like I was the only one who was going through this situation."
She still speaks more English than Spanish. She estimates that 80 percent of what she says is in English. Her phone and Wii video game console are set up in English.
Pinzon was taken to the United States when she was 11 years old by her father, who was hoping to cultivate a better life, along with little sister Gaby. Their mother remained in Mexico, and Lulu was already living in the U.S. The three then overstayed their tourist visas and moved in with Pinzon's grandmother, a legal U.S. resident, in Overland Park.
Pinzon entered the seventh grade at Oxford Middle School in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, Mo. She was the only Hispanic child in her class. Later, at Blue Valley Northwest High School, she joined the yearbook committee, sang with the chorus and danced with the Dazzlers drill team.
She lived at the pool during the summers. She went to almost every high school football and basketball game and treated Kansas City's Zona Rosa shopping center as if it were a higher calling. "Retail therapy," she called it.
One of her favorite things – and what she misses most – was a holiday stop at the Red Robin burger joint on West 135th Street for a gingerbread milkshake.
"You can taste the fat in your mouth," she said. "You know you shouldn't drink more than one a month, but we'd have three a week."
For her 17th birthday, an aunt got her Taylor Swift concert tickets. Hunched over her kitchen table one recent afternoon, she flipped through an album with dozens of photos from the show. She pushed a tress of brown hair behind her ear and recounted how her best friend, Kristin, surprised her with a "Happy late 17th birthday Alibear" message that flashed on a screen behind the country singer.
"I still get very homesick," she said. "I miss my friends. I miss everything. Like in the winter I miss the snow. Right now, here it's been raining. But I know there it's been super sunny. And I want to be there and go to the pool and get tanned."
Pinzon regrets that she didn't keep up her Spanish while she lived in Overland Park. Her grandma spoke to her in Spanish, but she always answered in English.
After her father and grandmother died, Pinzon moved to Indiana in 2009 to live with the family who once employed her grandmother as a housekeeper.
She graduated the next spring. Like her closest friends, she wanted to go to college. Her sister Lulu went to Saint Louis University. She wanted the same experiences and opportunities. She'd maintained a 3.5 grade-point average through high school. She fantasized about attending the University of Missouri or Indiana University and studying journalism or international relations. She took the SAT at her aunt's request, but she's never looked at the scores.
"Why would I look at them?" she asked. "It's not going to help me. It's just going to torture me. I could have gotten into college."
As many of her friends were packing to go to college, she was packing to return to Mexico.
Pinzon tried to get into college when she returned to Mexico City, but she couldn't overcome the bureaucracy. The government wouldn't validate her U.S. high school diploma because she'd used a hyphenated name in the United States. Many returning migrants struggle to certify their transcripts. Pinzon was told she'd have to get a U.S. court to validate her identity or wait until she was 21, when she could take a GED-equivalent test.
With her good grades and diverse extracurricular activities, which included collecting school supplies for children in Uganda, Pinzon probably would been a shoo-in for a U.S. state college, had she been there legally. But in Mexico, she couldn't even get the government to accept her high school diploma.
"It was so much paperwork," she said. "So much bureaucracy that it kind of wears you out, and eventually you're going to need money. So I just got a job, and that's what I do now."
She ended up finding a job at a call center, one of thousands where telephone and cable companies, among others, hire Americanized migrants to take customer service calls from the United States at Mexican wages.
One day, she recognized the 913 area code. It was a woman from Overland Park who needed her cable services transferred. Pinzon ignored the five-minute-per-call limit and chatted. She told the woman she used to live by Johnson County Community College. They talked about a local Greek restaurant they both liked.
"Don't you love Overland Park?" she asked the caller.
On June 15, 2012, less than two years after Pinzon returned to Mexico, she was playing foosball with friends when her sister called from St. Louis.
It was about the DREAM Act. Her sister said there was news: High school graduates no longer would be deported.
Her sister sounded anxious, but Pinzon paid little mind. What did it matter to her? She was already in Mexico. She went back to foosball.
But that night, she opened her laptop and typed in "DREAM Act." News stories popped onto her screen. President Barack Obama raised the hopes of many immigrants when he announced from the White House Rose Garden that he'd block deportations for hundreds of thousands of young people, like Pinzon, who'd arrived as kids and graduated from U.S. high schools.
More than 400,000 already have been accepted into the program and more than 1 million probably are eligible. Pinzon might have been one of them. but she'd gambled by leaving the country.
"What have I done?" Pinzon thought to herself.
Her sister called again the next day, as Pinzon headed to work.
"I guess I should have stayed," Pinzon told her flatly.
"You have to come back. You have to come back," her sister pleaded.
Pinzon arrived at work. She put her bag down and walked to the bathroom. She closed the stall door.
She threw up.
She should have waited, she now says.
"It would have just taken me two years," she said. "The two years I've been doing this, I could have been doing it there."
Pinzon returned home after getting sick and didn't leave her apartment for two days. She skipped work and ignored friends' calls. Gaby Pinzon said her sister fell into a deep funk.
She feared that the next time her older sister left it might be forever. She feared that her sister would flee, possibly illegally, to the United States.
"I kept telling her, 'It's OK, you're going to get used to it.' " Gaby Pinzon said. "I didn't want to lose her."
Alejandra Pinzon's friends in Overland Park often talk about visiting her in Mexico, but it hasn't happened yet. She thinks they'd be surprised that some of her new friends in Mexico include deported former gang members with tattoos on their necks and heads. They're so different from her social circle in Kansas.
"They're like pit bulls or Rottweilers," she said. "They look rough, but inside they're softies."
She still hopes to attend college in Mexico. When she turns 21, she'll be able to take an equivalency exam for high school and hopefully then enter a Mexican college. She still hopes to earn a degree and entice an American company to sponsor her in the United States.
Going back illegally is also an option, Pinzon admits. She's thought of various ways to return.
"I'm always going to think about going back," she said.
Her sister Lulu even bought her a plane ticket. Pinzon still has her tourist visa, which she could use to return and then overstay again. But she's not sure whether she's ready to start over again, leaving Gaby and her new nephew, Santiago.
But she's keeping the ticket, which she has saved on her computer in her room. It's near the pink drawer with the rest of her American stuff.
Alejandra's choice
This three-part project was sponsored by an international reporting fellowship administered by the International Center for Journalists and funded by the Brooks and Joan Fortune Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation.


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OXFORD, Miss. - The Tennessee Tech rifle team competed in the Ole Miss Invitational on Sunday, September 26 in Oxford, Miss. The Golden Eagles sat in third place in the two-day invitational with an aggregate score of 4488 but fell to a ninth place finish after the second day of competition took place.
Fifteen total teams competed, nine of which shot this past Sunday, while the other five teams shot with TTU two Sundays ago. The scores from the two days were combined to determine a winner -- which turned out to be Texas Christian University with an aggregate score fo 4641. Murray State finished second (4602) and host Ole Miss came in third (4582).
Leading the way for Tech was Austin Litherland who posted an aggregate score of 1143 after finishing with a 578 mark in air rifle and 565 score in small bore - both team highs.
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William Shatner Provides Message to Shuttle Before Undocking
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:34:24 AM GMT
William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek television series, provided a special message to the crew of space shuttle Discovery during the 3:23 a.m. EST wakeup call.
As Alexander Courage's theme song played underneath, Shatner replaced the original television introduction with, "Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30 year mission: To seek out new science. To build new outposts. To bring nations together on the final frontier. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before."
The "Theme from Star Trek" received the second most votes in a public contest from a Top 40 list for NASA's Song Contest. The top two songs with the most votes from that list earned a slot on the list to wake Discovery's crew during its final mission. The total number of votes cast during the four-month contest for STS-133 was 2,463,774. Of that, Star Trek received 671,134 votes (27.2 percent). Shatner recorded the new, special introduction for Discovery's final voyage – its 39th flight and 13th to the International Space Station.
Within a few hours, the song will be posted at: http://www.archive.org/details/STS-133
Pilot Eric Boe will undock Discovery from the space station at 7 a.m. and conduct a full-lap fly around of the complex at 7:30 a.m., before separating from station at 8:43 a.m. Later in the day, the crew will use the Orbiter Boom Sensor System to conduct a "late inspection" of the shuttle's heat shield.
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