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John and George finally explain to Charlotte who her real parents are.
It wasn't unusual for me to hear the sharp tones of my Uncle John and Uncle George. I never knew what they were saying; I could never understand their words. No matter what it was, it needed to stop.
I set down a book that I had just gotten for my birthday down and left my room with a sudden sense of courage. Usually by now they had made up and would be watching TV or something, so I never bothered to do anything. But they were still fighting, and I was getting tired of it.
As I walked down the stairs and through the hallway, the words to their argument started to become more clear to me. They were saying something about me, something they needed to tell me... no, they didn't... wait, did they or did they not? I knew they would stop from my presences, which is what I had intended, but hearing the topic gave me the idea to listen to what they were saying. I hid myself behind the wall next to the doorway to the living room.
"She needs to know, George..."
"Why can't we wait? We've done well waiting, haven't we?"
"She's fuckin' fifteen, George! We should've fuckin' told her years ago!"
"Why do we even have to tell her? Every damn thing has been fine so far!"
"She'll hate us, and you know it! She'll probably already hate us already for not saying anything before!"
For the first time, there was a silence.
"C'mon, George, we have to act like men with this! Oh wait, that's right, you're a man-lady!"
The second I heard the sound of things being thrown and other crashes, I rushed into the room. "What the hell is going on?!" I shouted as I witnessed Uncle Joh with his hands over his eyes in pain and a fumed Uncle George, his face red with anger. They stopped and looked at me. The colour in their faces had begun to turn to normal and their expressions seemed... alarmed?
"Charlotte..." Uncle John said quietly. He exchanged glances with Uncle George, who looked horrified.
"You two are acting like a married couple!" I exclaimed.
"Charlotte, th-this isn't really-" Uncle George slowly stammered.
"Just tell me what's going on," I interrupted. "Please..."
Uncle John looked at Uncle George. "We need to tell her. Now."
"Tell me what?" I asked, and Uncle George sighed.
"Aright... Just... sit down somewhere... I'm going to get Uncle John some ice..." I obeyed as he left the room and went into the kitchen. I waited nervously for whatever was coming.
Finally, after what felt like forever, he came back with an ice pack and gave it to Uncle John, who thanked him and put it on his eye. They sat down on the couch across from me. Uncle John took one of Uncle George's hands and squeezed it gently, creating a weak smile on the younger man's mouth.
"Alright," Uncle John started, taking a deep breath. "Charlotte... we think now that you're fifteen... you should know more about your parents..."
"Really?" I exclaimed. I barely knew anything about them, only that they died in a car accident. I knew this ever since I had asked, realizing almost everyone I knew lived with their parents and not two of their uncles. They had refused to tell me anything else until I was old enough, and now was the time!
"Yes..." Uncle John said. "We're really sorry, sweetheart, but... they're not really dead."
"What do you mean, they're not really dead?!" I demanded, standing up from my seat.
"Charlotte, honey, sit back down so we can explain-"
"How could you lie to me like that?! You can't just pretend my parents don't exist, they're important to me! Even though I never remembered them, they-"
I stopped at the sound of Uncle George's first word since he had left the room for ice.
"Charlotte, sweetie, please sit down and listen, cos there's more we need to confess..." I sat down and waited again. "Charlotte, we're not really your uncles..."
"I kinda figured that out already," I replied rolling my eyes. "I've known you two aren't really related to me for quite some time..."
"But that's just it," Uncle John said, "we are really related to you."
"Really?" I asked, surprised. "How?"
"Well," Uncle John said, "I'm... actually your dad..."
I stared at him, dumbfounded. "Y-you're my... but why-"
"We kept it a secret cos of your mum."
"Mum?" I asked. "Who is she anyway? Where is she? Why isn't she here?"
"You're mum is here..." Uncle George said quietly to the floor.
"What do you mean?"
"Charlotte." He looked me straight in the eye and hesitated. "I... I am your mum..."
"WHAT?!" I stood up again. "YOU'RE CRAZY! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Sweetie, sit down!" Uncle John said.
"We're not kidding! We'd never do anything like that to you, you know that!"
"I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT!" I ran out of the living room to my bedroom, crying. What did they think they were doing?! Why didn't they tell me sooner?! Why would they wait?! I slammed the door shut and hopped onto my bed. I could hear Uncle John and Uncle George argue again.
That was it. I couldn't stand them or believe them anymore. I was leaving.


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BOLACHAS PREMIERE: Point Reyes, "Buildings"
To get Brooklyn band POINT REYES off the ground, Asa Horvitz suggested that percussionist Kyle Farrell and cellist Daniel Bindschedler join him in Warsaw, Poland (where he was working supported by a Fulbright grant) to spend four months writing, rehearsing, and giving concerts in a completely foreign environment. Farrell and Bindschedler jumped at the opportunity and in May 2011 the trio moved into a sunny attic loft across from the Vistula river. Throughout the summer of 2011, POINT REYES immersed themselves in Poland: they performed in towns where no Americans had performed before, rehearsed ten hours a day in the basement of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, studied Polish, swam in flooded meadows, became obsessed with Communist architecture, played festivals in Krakow and Berlin, collaborated with Polish musicians and theater artists, and wrote and recorded their debut full length album. The project was funded in part by the Fulbright grant awarded to Horvitz. POINT REYES' debut album is the culmination of their time in Poland. It will be released on CAKES AND TAPES (Portugal) in January 2012.
I'm so glad I'm able to work with talented people like this trio. For you, here's BUILDINGS. Free streaming and download below. WARSZAWA is out tomorrow, January 12th 2012.
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Simply throwing storage at the problem is, clearly, not enough to make the iPad a "Pro" device. - Monday Note
One could argue that an iPad is "Consumer" out of the box and that it's the apps that make it "Pro".
Simply throwing storage at the problem is, clearly, not enough to make the iPad a "Pro" device. - Monday Note
One could argue that an iPad is "Consumer" out of the box and that it's the apps that make it "Pro".
iPad mini, Retina iPad and the first generation iPad. Apple calls the iPad mini a "concentration of, not a reduction of" the 9.7" iPad. I've got to agree with them here. And as the iPad has been becoming increasingly concentrated, I've been using it more. I don't even think screen size is the driving force here, it's the reduction of mass and therefore weight. The thing I do most on my iPad is read and browse the web (which I'm guessing are the most popular uses for the device), and the Retina iPad was simply too heavy to read for hours in bed with.
I wrote about my iPad mini experience a few days ago, but as a writer I still have a lot to learn, especially if you compare my (lack of) photos to those of Andrew Kim..
About a month ago just before Christmas I bought an iPad mini on impulse. A had just gotten paid for a website I designed, and since I work at an Apple Reseller I already got to play with the device a few times, so I knew I wouldn't dislike it.
But I wondered how and if the device would fit in my digital life style. Which is a fancy expression for, is it as good for reading and taking notes as its bigger sibling? It was an impulse buy, because I didn't really need it, so somewhere logic kicked in and I (only) bought a 16Gb black Wifi model, and not some high-end LTE enabled model.
I consider myself an iOS user first, Mac user second, and when at home, most of my screen time is behind an iOS device of some sorts, and not my Mac. My main device was a 64GB iPad 3, which was filled with 200-something apps, movies, video's, you name it. But since the mini was a test project, and my iCloud backup was bigger than the storage of my new iPad, I decided/was forced to start from scratch.
So I decided, just as many others online these days, to start using the iPad in it's default configuration, and add apps when needed.
It took me an hour of using it to quickly decide that my ideal iOS device needs at least the following apps:
These apps enable me to enjoy content, communicate and work on the iPad without needing to resort to a Mac for most of the time. All the apps interconnect in a way that information easily flows from one to the other, and I know these are apps that I can trust on.
The key to a developing a trusted system is just that: trust. You have to figure out what works for you so that you can sit in the dark, drink your coffee, write your thoughts and trust that they will not disappear on you. - James Gowans
Hardware wise, the lack of retina only bothered me the first few hours, it's better than a non-retina iPad, and worse than an iPhone 5, but since icons are smaller and everything looks more dense on the screen to me, I don't really noticed it. I did notice the opposite though, when I turn back to my big iPad, everything looks huge and fake to me.
I really like this pocket size iPad, it has the same capabilities as a regular iPad, but is lighter, fits in one hand and the chamfered edges are more enjoyable to hold.
It's the essence of an iPad, and since I haven't touched my iPad 3 since I got the mini, I can say, my only iPad.
And then there's the cloud. I'm a bigger believer in cloud services than ever before. Because I use Rdio, not iTunes, I had all my music right away. Because I use Evernote to take reporting notes, everything that I was currently working on still existed. Dropbox and 1Password re-opened every door for me in a way that would have been impossible if I were just storing passwords locally via my browser. - Wired
The only thing I'm worried about is storage, I choose 16GB for this device because, since I considered it a test and not a real purchase, so wasn't willing to spend more than needed. But 16GB is not that much, I haven't added any movies, have (only) 50 apps at the moment, my Photostream and half a dozen books and 5 magazines on it at the moment and have only 2Gb left. Since all my data lives in the cloud I can rely on a 100GB Dropbox as an external storage, but I can't really add any movies or TV Shows.
I'm tempted to upgrade to a bigger one, but with a possible retina release on the horizon, I'll wait a bit I think.
There's just one thing I don't like and that's Apple's new smart cover. It's not sturdy, there's no symmetry so you can't really fold it in two when reading, it's flimsy and doesn't attach as strongly as the original smart cover.
So a better cover is definitely a future purchase.
Had Microsoft launched Office on the iPhone and iPad early on, they could have furthered the impression that Office was a must-have for anybody serious about anything, even on iOS. But they let years pass, and now Microsoft's flagship applications aren't so must-have anymore and Apple isn't overly eager to accommodate them. It's easy to imagine that four years ago when preparing to launch the iPhone App Store Apple may have been more willing to negotiate with Microsoft to get flagship apps like Word and Excel on the smartphone. But today? Apple's doing just fine without them.
I disagree. For people who have lived in the iOS ecosystem for a while, this logic is ok. But for people who haven't yet experienced the iPad, Office is still the defacto platform for writing. When they buy a PC or Mac, they buy Office. So when they fire up their iPad for the first time, they'll probably go to Facebook, open the Twitter app (and not Tweetbot), and start looking for Office on the App Store.
So I expect, when Office does launch for iOS, people who found an alternative will keep using that one, but new users will go to Office, and won't look for an alternative, because for them Office is the only way to write.
I once saw a little kid on a sunny beach sitting in the shadow playing with his iPad, his back turned to the sea, completely ignoring the environment. I found it a sad image, a kid so consumed by technology that it didn't play with sand, or jumped in the water.
The iPad is a window into other media, and with the tap of an app the screen is turned into a book, a TV, a puzzle or a book of cards. It replaces the physical. Giving children an iPad means they loose the tactile feeling of playing with Lego's, the joy of making a puzzle or the practice of drawing with pencils instead of drawing on a screen.
Foldify is a new app that attempts to join the digital and the real world. I remember those pre-printed papers where I drew on when I was a kid, then cut out and folded them into cars, little puppets or boxes. They learned me that lines on a flat surface don't always meet up when you fold them together, and at the same reminded me that I shouldn't draw on the table cloth.
Foldify takes this same idea, but digitizes it. You choose a template, color it in on the iPad, and next to the drawing you can immediately see the folded result. You see how drawings line up, and the flat image immediately gets real.
But the genius part is, that after coloring the drawing, you can print the page via AirPrint, cut it out and have a real version of your digital creation.
Great app. The iPad is quite cheap at 2€, which gives you 10 basic forms, a color pallet and a couple of stencils featuring eyes, noses and other face-parts. In-App purchases allow for extra stencils to be installed for a buck a set.
Great app.
Will Moleskine sue Apple or Apple, who invented round corners, sue Moleskine? flic.kr/p/dvV2VX— Oliver Reichenstein (@iA) November 25, 2012
@ia Moleskine also infringes upon Apple's page-turn patent.— Florian Schroiff (@fschroiff) November 25, 2012
When reading the blog of a fellow blogger, DBuntinx, I came across an article that was unexpected, and intriguing. It's a review of the original iPad by Patrick Rhone.
In the article he starts from a basic premise: how would I review the original iPad now, compared to the way I currently use the device. What are its flaws, what does or doesn't work, and do I need to upgrade my iPad to a new model.
One sentence from the article caught my (And apparently also his) attention:
Yep. Boring. Which is exactly what a well made tool should, eventually, become.
I personally don't find the iPad boring, I find it reliable and unobstrusive. You don't notice the device as a device anymore, once the new and exiting experience of a new gadget wears off and using it becomes a habit.
But a habit is not boring per se. I drink coffee everyday, pressed with my Aeropress. Although that routine is boring, the act of drinking a coffee is a reliable enjoyment.
So I'd rather compare my iPad to a good cup of coffee, I know it's there and available. trustworthy, but not boring.
The iPad mini reminds me of my first MacBook Air. When the Air first shipped it was a Mac with some serious technical compromises with a design and form factor so compelling that you would re-arrange your entire digital life to make it work. The iPad mini reminds me of that except that it only has one serious compromise: the non-retina display. In every other respect, it's a full-bore iPad. In fact, I don't even refer to it as "my iPad mini" any more; I just call it "my iPad".
I wonder if Speirs calls his iPad mini, his iPad because he considers it to be his main iPad, or because it's just easier to refer to it.
People refer to their MacBook or iMac as 'my Mac' to, without any higher thoughts whether a MacBook Air is as real a Mac as a MacBook Pro.
Aside from that, he makes some valid points in the article, specifically about educational purposes. Using a 7.9" screen for creation is though, a 9.7 screen lends itself better.
The only issue I have with the mini, personally is that I still feel that the smaller screen makes it less of a device to use and work on, for the exactly the same I reason I prefer my 13" MacBook over an 11" inch Air.
Good article.
No iPad, I am your father.
After seeing the iPad mini, and reading the reviews, I still wonder why Apple didn't go for retina in their device.
And after thinking about it for a while, I think I've got it figured out why.
The iPad mini currently has a resolution of 1024x768 at 163dpi. This means the apps written for the iPad can run unmodified at a slighty smaller size on the iPad mini.
Coincidentally, the display panel of an iPad mini has the same dpi as a nonretina iPhone.
Coincidence, or clever planning by Apple.
Now, let's say Apple wanted to go retina with the iPad mini.
The easiest way would be doubling the resolution of the released model, to make it a true retina screen. This means using a 2048x1536 resolution at 326dpi. Sounds familiar? Well, it should be because that display is the same display as a retina iPhone.
In theory this works, the same apps work in both the iPad mini and iPad in retina resolution, only the touch targets on the mini are still a bit smaller as the full-size iPad.
The downside: the iPad mini with a 326dpi display have a far better retina quality than the iPad at 264dpi. Selling the retina iPad as retina wouldn't really be justifiable I think.
And this display is more expensive, making the 329€ target price more difficult to reach.
They could also do what they did when going from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5 and keep the same display panel, but just cut it in a different size.
Take the display of an iPad retina, and cut it down from 9.7 to 7.9 inches: at 264DPI this gives us a 1678x1250 screen.
This makes developing apps a lot more complicated: developers need to design apps for a new screensize, apps now not only need to contain an iPhone and iPad payload in both retina and nonretina size, but would also be designed for a 7.9 screen specifically.
Comparing these three options:
I think it's logical Apple has chosen for the first solution at this moment.
In the future I see Apple upgrading the display to a retina iPhone screen once prices go down.
Update 6/nov/12
I did this thought exercise with DPI and resolution in mind.
Various people mentioned I forgot to include power consumption and weight. But since I don't have any facts about how much more power a retina screen uses I've decided not to include this aspect.


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How Apple hurts the tech sector
A hot company often helps drive its sector. But Apple's dominance is a phenomenon that hasn't been seen -- and its fortunes will have an unprecedented ripple effect.
Apple (AAPL) is crushing it, but its success is disrupting the technology sector in ways that could hurt the stocks of many other players -- friend and foe alike.
Last month, Apple's quarterly results stunned even the optimistic watchers on Wall Street. Eschewing the usual kabuki dance where a company magically beats the analysts' consensus estimate by a penny or three, Apple reported second-quarter earnings of $7.79 a share, oceans past the $5.85 estimate.
Shares of Apple surged after the report, clawing above $400 before falling back. After the earnings announcement, several gobsmacked analysts rapidly upped their 12-month price targets above $500 a share.
Often a hot company helps drive its sector. For instance, Apple's 1980s success with the Macintosh sparked a personal-computing revolution that spawned many successful companies.
But Apple has become so dominant that it is becoming more of a threat -- rather than a sentiment booster -- to the rest of the technology sector. That isn't to say investors should ignore other tech players -- they just aren't as likely to see the same kind of upside that Apple enjoys.
To be sure, plenty of companies, such as Qualcomm (QCOM) and Arm Holdings (ARMH), ride the Apple coattails. But that can be a dangerous game. Apple has become a sort of Wal-Mart of tech land, able to drive tough bargains with suppliers as it builds dominant positions in key device markets.
One of its advantages is delivering sexy products at price points that don't break the bank. And gadgets tend to get cheaper over time, which means Apple will have to squeeze suppliers more if it wants to retain its profits.
Apple, now second only to Exxon Mobil (XOM) in terms of market value, wields its power with companies big and small. Adobe Systems (ADBE), a software giant and maker of Flash, has found it challenging and expensive to penetrate Apple's world.
Apple, of course, does face challenges. Analysts fret that mobile carriers won't keep pace with the demand Apple's devices are creating. Component shortages could slow manufacturing. And Apple has gotten so huge that maintaining its torrid growth rate won't be easy. The stock isn't terribly expensive, trading at about 15 times trailing earnings, which is less than the S&P 500's 16 times trailing earnings. But one profit blip could change that in a hurry.
Research In Motion (RIMM), which essentially invented the smartphone market, has taken a beating. Trading at near $70 in February, the BlackBerry maker is now in the mid-$20s. Shares of Nokia (NOK) have been halved since February, and the former handset king has reached out to Microsoft (MSFT) in a bid to leapfrog into a stronger smartphone position. (Microsoft owns and publishes MSN Money.)
Apple faces stiff competition in the phone market, primarily from Google (GOOG) Android phones made inexpensively out of Asia by companies like Samsung Electronics and HTC. But Apple is countering with cheaper versions of its iPhone.
Tablet makers aren't faring much better. CLSA, a research shop, estimates that Apple sold about 9.25 iPads for every Google Android tablet in the most recent quarter. This despite a proliferation of new tablets coming from Research In Motion, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Samsung and Motorola Mobility (MMI). As Apple has romped to record highs, Motorola Mobility shares have slid to $23 from $34 in January, and Hewlett-Packard shares have dropped to $36 from $49.
Perhaps the most disruptive aspect of Apple's strategy is the way it is reshaping the personal computer space. Apple's various Mac products are selling decently, but the emergence of the iPad has changed the PC calculus.
Intel (INTC), which reported strong earnings and record sales on July 20, remains upbeat about PCs (which use its chips). It pointed to 70% sales gains in Turkey and Indonesia during the quarter. At the same time, it trimmed back its overall forecast for PC sales. Mobile devices, chiefly the iPad, are rapidly eating into the segment.
And that will likely continue, perhaps faster than expected. Intel said after its earnings release that 86% of Fortune 500 companies are "testing or deploying" the iPad. PC backers had counted on the notoriously conservative corporate IT gatekeepers to move slowly on the iPad. Of course, "testing" could mean a few iPads in the executive suite, but Apple is clearly signaling that it is making headway with the biggest companies, the stronghold of PCs.
Not surprisingly, PC-centric stocks have not done as well as Apple. Intel's shares eased after its strong earnings, but they have risen 7% this year and are down modestly from May highs. Microsoft's shares are down 2% this year.
Both companies continue to be massive cash generators. But unlike Apple, they have had to deploy more of their cash in the form of dividends and buybacks to attract investors. Intel pays a solid 3.7% yield and bought back more than $1 billion in shares in the most recent quarter. Microsoft pays a dividend of 2.3%.
As Apple races to become the biggest stock in the land, it is swiftly becoming a sector unto itself. The non-Apple tech world is on its own.
|Tech at a glance
|Market cap
|Sales growth over past 12 months
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|Apple (AAPL)
|$374 billion
|Intel (INTC)
|$121 billion
|Microsoft (MSFT)
|$236 billion
|Research In Motion (RIMM)
|$14 billion
|Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
|$77 billion
|Qualcomm (QCOM)
|$94 billion
|Google (GOOG)
|$200 billion
This article was reported by Dave Kansas for The Wall Street Journal.
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|Wed, 01-16-2013 - 1:14pm
Mine have already started begging, sigh! I 've relented to lip gloss but that's it. They are okay with it for now but it does make me wonder when the "right age" to allow them is? Junior high? High School? Should I restrict it to certain kinds of makeup? Help!
|Thu, 01-17-2013 - 10:46am
I would say junior high is ok for sepcial occasions but you have to supervise and instruct them in how to wear makeup. A young girl doesn't really need makeup of course so you want them to wear very natural looking makeup--light lip gloss, blush, maybe mascara--so they don't end up looking clownish.
|Thu, 01-17-2013 - 12:39pm
OK I don't have girls but I was maybe 11 or 12. I don't recall really asking but I do remember my mom took me to clinique counter and thinking back its a real nice memory. The lady was great, was more focused on skin care and taking care of my skin then some light foundation, neutral eye shadow and blush. Never did mascara did do eye liner but not at first. I remember eye shadows were big and lip gloss. Think the trick is when you think they are ready have them shown how to. Nothing is worse then BAD make up and it can be a good mother daughter bonding thing.
How old are your girls now? Is it a play thing or are other girls wearing it. I don't really notice grils in DS class yet into the makeup and he is in 4th grade but middle school transition starts next year so I am guessing it will peak. I don't see anything wrong with make up as dress up when they are younger or if you have a special occassion coming up a bit of eye shadow or blush. I like the natural look anyway and just use base to hide some flaws but when going out its sometimes nice and thats a message too thats sometimes importand for girls to learn young make up for just enhance you not define you so a little can go along way. think if you out right so no way ever it just wants them to have it more and then you have them sneaking behind your back.
|Thu, 01-17-2013 - 12:51pm
Mine was a bit of a "late bloomer" with make up compared to a lot of her classmates that started in early middle school, 6th or 7th grade. I made sure from early on to teach her that make up should be worn to simply enhance natural beauty and physical features and that helped. She did wear it for dance performances and gymnastics competitions at much earlier ages. She wore clear mascara and lip gloss in 7th and 8th grade and really did not start wearing make up full time until 9th grade. Other than when she is cheerleading at games and competitions which requires heavier make up, she wears her still as a senior in high school very naturally, she wears foundation eye shadow, eyeliner and mascara, rarely blush or lipstick or glosses.
|Sun, 01-20-2013 - 9:12am
nail polish and clear lipgloss were never an issue for me. My fil's summer reseach students pained my dd#1's nails when she was two!
DH and I allowed our girls to wear clear mascara in 6th grade. In 7th grade we allowed light blush, eyeshadow, and brown mascara. Lip stick was ok for special occasions. #1 began to wear foundation as well because she has acne.
In 8th grade we didn't put much by way of limits, and both girls experimented with dark eyeliner, which ended up being a passing phase for both, #1 by the end of 9th grade, and #2 by the end of 8th.
They both have times when heavy makeup is called for, color guard and musicals, but they really use a pretty light hand for day to day.


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Crowding Continues to Occur, and Some Patients Wait Longer than Recommended Time Frames
GAO-09-347: Published: Apr 30, 2009. Publicly Released: Jun 1, 2009.
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Hospital emergency departments are a major part of the nation's health care safety net. Of the estimated 119 million visits to U.S. emergency departments in 2006, over 40 percent were paid for by federally-supported programs. These programs--Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program--are administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). There have been reports of crowded conditions in emergency departments, often associated with adverse effects on patient quality of care. In 2003, GAO reported that most emergency departments in metropolitan areas experienced some degree of crowding (Hospital Emergency Departments: Crowded Conditions Vary among Hospitals and Communities, GAO-03-460). For example, two out of every three metropolitan hospitals reported going on ambulance diversion--asking ambulances to bypass their emergency departments and instead transport patients to other facilities. GAO was asked to examine information made available since 2003 on emergency department crowding. GAO examined three indicators of emergency department crowding--ambulance diversion, wait times, and patient boarding--and factors that contribute to crowding. To conduct this work, GAO reviewed national data; conducted a literature review of 197 articles; and interviewed officials from HHS and professional and research organizations, and individual subject-matter experts.
Emergency department crowding continues to occur in hospital emergency departments according to national data, articles we reviewed, and officials we interviewed. National data show that hospitals continue to divert ambulances, with about one-fourth of hospitals reporting going on diversion at least once in 2006. National data also indicate that wait times in the emergency department increased, and in some cases exceeded recommended time frames. For example, the average wait time to see a physician for emergent patients--those patients who should be seen in 1 to 14 minutes--was 37 minutes in 2006, more than twice as long as recommended for their level of urgency. Boarding of patients in the emergency department who are awaiting transfer to an inpatient bed or another facility continues to be reported as a problem in articles we reviewed and by officials we interviewed, but national data on the extent to which this occurs are limited. Moreover, some of the articles we reviewed discussed strategies to address crowding, but these strategies have not been assessed on a state or national level. Articles we reviewed and individual subject-matter experts we interviewed reported that a lack of access to inpatient beds continues to be the main factor contributing to emergency department crowding, although additional factors may contribute. One reason for a lack of access to inpatient beds is competition between hospital admissions from the emergency department and scheduled admissions--for example, for elective surgeries, which may be more profitable for the hospital. Additional factors may contribute to emergency department crowding, including patients' lack of access to primary care services or a shortage of available on-call specialists. In commenting on a draft of this report, HHS noted that the report demonstrates that emergency department wait times are continuing to increase and frequently exceed national standards. HHS also provided technical comments, which we incorporated as appropriate.
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If there was ever any doubt as to what Mitt Romney thinks about most of the people in this country (and about Barack Obama supporters in particular), it can be put to rest. Romney was caught during what appears to be a fundraising dinner at the Boca Raton home of controversial private equity manager Marc Leder saying unimaginably entitled, out-of-touch, and downright cruel things about the American people.
Romney has never tried to appear warm and fuzzy. He is a business man who made his (vast) living tearing other people down for his own gain. But even for a Master of the Universe like Romney, his off the cuff comments seem callous and breathtakingly unaware of his position.
Essentially, he believes he would have a better shot at being President if he were Mexican. He believes 47 percent of Americans are entitled moochers. And he believes Americans are too dumb to want to listen to "intellectual" arguments. This is the man you want to elect? See below:
Look, Romney doesn't have to be likable. He doesn't have to be a guy you want to get a beer with. George W. Bush was that and look how well that turned out. He does need to be HUMAN, though. And he has failed at that in the most basic way.
The idea that a man making as much as he has made in his life balks at people feeling entitled to, I don't know, FOOD seems so unimaginably out to lunch, it's like a joke about rich people. His clueless cruelty begs comparison to all kinds of entitled, out-of-touch wealthy people throughout history. Maybe we should ask Marie Antoinette how ignoring plight worked out for her. Oh wait ...
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I also take his comments personally. I am an Obama supporter and I have paid an ungodly sum to the IRS this year. I have never once taken any kind of government assistance. My family votes in the same precinct as Romney for god's sake. We aren't victims. We aren't entitled. And we don't expect government handouts.
We believe that it's the responsibility of those of us who were born into lucky circumstances and who availed ourselves of clean water, paved roads, good fire and police forces to give back. That might mean higher taxes. I would pay them. I am comfortable enough in my life and circumstances to WANT to pay taxes so that others might have chances at education, food, housing, and all the other things our taxes cover.
Moreover, as David Brooks said so eloquently in his column today in The New York Times:
The people who receive the disproportionate share of government spending are not big-government lovers. They are Republicans.
It's easy to dismiss Obama's supporters as whiny, entitled moochers. In fact, that couldn't be more wrong. The Obama supporters I know are all hard workers. Most have master's degrees or higher. Most are paying upwards of $30,000-50,000 in taxes in the past year.
You are wrong Mr. Romney. And because of that, you will lose. You should lose. A president who thinks like Romney is dangerous, indeed.
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yeah and there are 'secret tapes' of President Obama telling Vladmir Putin that he's going to appear to be hard on him just until he gets reelected and then they'll work things out the way he wants. Either candidates are going to have to be 'on' 24/7 and never make a mistake, or we have to deal with how they realy feel and make our decisions based on their honesty and not their talking points and campaign slogans.
I dont think it is nearly as bad as everyone is making this out to be. The vast majority of those voting for Obama DO believe we are all entitled to healthcare. And it really isn't that we are all entitled to food, it is the belief that the GOVERNMENT has to provide it that I have a problem with. I think everyone should have basic needs met. (Food, clothing, shelter)
I am, however, offended that he thinks everyone who pays no income tax is voting for Obama. We get ALL our income tax back and then some, but I am NOT voting for Obama. If Romney keeps this up, I might just vote third party even at the risk of Obama being re-elected.
I'm not offended either. Sometimes the truth hurts. There is a video showing people talking about getting "Obamas' money" during the last elections. My ex sil will vote for him because she is able to support her kids as she puts it "because of Obama" without having to work. She worked only 2 months last year and got over six thousand in tax returns...how does that happen? I know that not all Obama supporters are free loaders but the same can be said that not all Obama nonsupporters are racist. See how that works?!
This is fun to watch.
I am not offended, Ill tell you there are plenty of peope who think they are entitled to everything. Yes everyone needs assistance in their life at one point or another, but then there is just taking major advantage over the system. Like I always say WORK HARDER, MILLIONS ON WELFARE DEPEND ON YOU!!!!!!
He's totally right. Most of the poor democrats are public moochers. And why wouldn't they be? With welfare systems that are created to encourage joblessness, SNAP funds that can be used to buy crap so that money can be spent on "accessories", and a "gimme" society perpetuated by the lie that minorities can't stand on their own two feet, of course those who want to not work and have the government pay for them and their kids are democrats. Of course they're going to vote for the party who brags about the number of minorities on food assistance (a la Nancy Pelosi), but doesn't want any accountability measures put in place because that would "violate their rights".
I don't care for Mitt Romney much, but I hate what Democrats have done to our society. He's got my vote.


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The chairman of the St. Petersburg City Council has called a council workshop with unusual guests: friends and foes of the Lens, the proposed New St. Petersburg Pier.
"Maybe it'll be a disaster, maybe they'll just be throwing rocks at each other," Karl Nurse said. "But these are all smart people who I candidly think all have our city's best interest at heart."
Lisa Wannamaker, lead local architect for the Lens and possibly other members of the design team, will be on one side of the table. Leaders of "Stop The Lens," a citizens group petitioning for a referendum on the $50 million project, will be allowed to directly ask questions.
"There's multiple issues around the construction [techniques], there's multiple issues around people that don't care for the Lens" Stop The Lens co-chair Fred Whaley said, "I think maybe the workshop will help address some of those questions and bring to light some of the construction problems."
Wannamaker also welcomed the opportunity.
"Let's sit across a table from each other and respond to each other's questions and try to educate each other," she said. "I'm just as interested in hearing what they have to say so I think it's a very good idea, I'm looking forward to it."
The workshop is scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday, April 4th, at City Hall. Nurse said he would also like to negotiate an agreement about the proposed referendum. The petitioners expect to have gathered enough signatures to call a referendum by mid-April.
The city council will consider the next big spending on the Lens April 18th.
"To me, the rational thing if they get the signatures is to hit the pause button," Nurse said, suggesting the project -- and related spending -- be put on hold until after a public vote.
By city charter, the council has to hold the referendum within 90 days of certification of sufficient petition signatures. Nurse explained ideally the petitions would not be submitted until sometime closer to an already-scheduled municipal primary.
Otherwise, the city will have to pay roughly $250,000 for a special election.
Whaley agreed with Nurse's logic.
"We will get the petitions and there will be a vote," he asserted. "Hit the pause button. I think that's a good idea. I think that we need to let the city, let the council re-look at [the project] and let's address it."
Wannamaker said "pausing" is not a decision her colleagues can make.
"The design team is charging forward, we've got a lot of momentum and we're going to keep moving," she said.
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WICHITA, Kan. -- A suspect arrested in Wichita last weekend for five robberies at area QuikTrips is facing a federal charge for one of those crimes.
The U.S attorney's office said that 21-year-old Samuel Vliet is charged with one count of commercial robbery. The indictment alleges that he robbed the QuikTrip at 2106 South Rock Road early Saturday morning.
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Vliet is accused of robbing four other QT locations in Wichita between Wednesday, Feb. 5 and Saturday, Feb. 8.
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Wichita police arrested a man they suspect is responsible for five QuikTrip robberies between Wednesday and Saturday.
The string of robberies began around 4:25 a.m. Wednesday morning at the QuikTrip location at 1620 S. Webb. Another followed Friday night at 127th Street East and 21st Street North.
Three QT locations were robbed within about 10 minutes early Saturday: 4:20 a.m. at 5602 E. Harry, 4:24 a.m. at 1620 South Webb again and 4:31 a.m. at 2106 S. Rock. In each case, he walked into the store and demanded money.
After the second robbery Saturday, a witness saw the suspect drive away in a red Chevrolet pickup truck. Officers were aware of other QuikTrip stores in the area and drove over to the location on South Rock.
They saw a red Chevrolet truck sitting empty in a nearby parking lot, then witnessed the suspect running from the QuikTrip toward his truck. He slipped and fell in the snow and was taken into custody. Right after, 911 received a call from an employee of that store, reporting a robbery.
The suspect has been identified as 21-year-old Samuel L. Vliet. He was booked on five counts of robbery.
QuikTrip spokesman Mike Thornbrugh applauded Wichita police for their efforts.
"Our people did the right thing and law enforcement obviously did a really good job of zeroing in and figuring out a pattern and getting this guy off the streets," Thornbrugh said.
He says the arrest comes as a relief, not only for QuikTrip but for other area businesses.
"It doesn't matter if it was us or anybody else. You got a guy off the streets that was going to continue to rob anybody," Thornbrugh said. "We just happened to be the one he chose."
The suspect did not choose wisely. QuikTrip is well-known for its extensive and advanced security systems. Thornbrugh says over the years the company has brought in experts to make sure its security is top of the line.
"We've spent a lot of time dealing with law enforcement and dealing with the new technology that is out there and we're always making sure that we enhance the system," Thornbrugh said.
He says they do that so they are prepared when someone like this suspect is bent on breaking the law.
"We don't wait for things like this to happen. We continuously sit down and evaluate everything that we are doing," Thornbrugh said. "It's all about protection and security for our employees and our customers.


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In a way, I'm surprised that there hasn't been more said about this, but Dayton Moore made a statement to Bob Dutton about the current starting pitching market.
Moore was forthright in admitting that he may have misjudged the free agent market early on. As he told Dutton:
"I guess if we had known all along that Edwin Jackson or Oswalt were going to take one-year deals maybe we would have done things a little differently or thought things through a little differently. But I don't think so."
The reason behind Moore's skepticism is a desire to keep the path open for the young pitchers in the system to be called up when they're ready. Danny Duffy is already up and the hope is that Mike Montgomery puts it together in spring or early on in Omaha and earns his promotion as well.
Through it all, Moore has stuck to his guns.
The question has come up though – why didn't Moore sign Roy Oswalt? Why not Edwin Jackson? Jackson only signed a one year deal with Washington and Oswalt's rumored deal (when he finally settles on a team) shouldn't be any bigger than one year and seven million dollars. Outrage! What is this guy doing? Is he openly sabotaging the team's chances?
It's clear that the Royals need outside help or vast improvement from the current crew. They traded for Jonathan Sanchez on the hopes that he returns to his 2010 form when he struck out 9.5 batters per nine innings and held batters under seven base hits per nine. At the end of November, they worked out a deal to keep Bruce Chen after a pair of solid seasons in the Royals rotation. Moore cited Chen's consistency as a reason to hustle to get a deal done.
Now, he's being ripped for the move because "he should have just signed Oswalt or Jackson".
Let's review. The Royals signed Chen at the end of November, coming to the agreement on November 23.
At that time, C.J. Wilson and Mark Buehrle had yet to sign and were outside of the Royals price range. Oswalt was said to be waiting for those two pitchers to come off the market, thus lowering the number of impact starters out there and hopefully adding value. This was two weeks after the Royals had signed Chen. Since, yes, Oswalt has lowered his demands and went from being open to a one-year deal (though not until a month after the Royals and Chen agreed to their deal). Now it's understood by most reporters that all he'll get is a one year deal, but he's being patient and picky.
Part of the huffing and puffing suggests that the Royals hadn't even expressed any interest. When a former Cy Young candidate and a pitcher with solid control and good strikeout numbers through the years is on the market, a team that needs a big starter for a potential shot at contention had better go after the guy. A common question out there (by some, not all) is "why didn't the Royals go after Oswalt?"
Let's rewind ourselves to November 11th. On that date, ESPN's Jerry Crasnick reported that the Royals were meeting with Bob Garber in Milwaukee.
So what?
Bob Garber is the agent to one Roy Oswalt.
In other words, two weeks before signing Bruce Chen, the Royals inquired about Oswalt. Now, I don't know the nature or breadth of those discussions. As Levi Payton suggests, it may have just been due diligence, just on the off chance that Oswalt was ready to go to a smaller market team with a lot of energy and a lot of hope.
At that time, as noted above, Oswalt was waiting out the big money southpaws so maybe the Royals came away with the impression that they'd have to overpay to secure his services. Maybe Oswalt wasn't ready to sign at all with anybody. Maybe he flatly told the Royals "no". We don't know because neither side is telling us, but at that point the Royals shifted to going after Chen. It's not an outrageous guess that they may have went after Oswalt, were rebuffed and went to their secondary plan.
But wait, why not Edwin Jackson? Why not give him a one year deal before the Chen agreement?
For one, at the time (late November) even the Yankees thought Jackson's price was too high according to reporting by Jon Heyman. Some figures in early January had Jackson seeking a five year deal for $12 to $15 million a season. It wasn't until recently that Jackson was reported to be open to a one-year deal, even spurning three year offers from the Orioles and Pirates to sign in Washington. Those deals were said to be around $10 million a season over three years. Washington will pay him $11 million. My hunch is that Jackson saw Washington as a great fit for a) the money b) the goal of a one year deal (which allows him to re-enter the market next year) and c) a chance to fit in with a sleeper contender. Pitching alongside Stephen Strasburg and Jordan Zimmerman is probably more attractive than being mixed in with Luke Hochevar and Jonathan Sanchez.
The sense I'm getting from some Royals fans on Twitter and Facebook is that the Royals sat on their hands entirely*. However, given the market at the time of the Chen agreement, there's no indication that the Royals would have been able to sign either Oswalt or Jackson, and waiting may have left them out of the Chen sweepstakes too.
*Then there's the group that would have complained if the Royals could have signed Oswalt, citing his back and age while bemoaning the fact that he was blocking Montgomery. Moore can't win no matter what he does, sometimes.
Then there's the evaluation that 2012 might not quite be the year for the Royals. A lot of things would have to fall right for a one-year deal (if one could have been reached at the time) to impact the team enough to push them past Detroit (who, it should be said, won the division by 15 games in 2011). It's arguable if any pitcher can make up that big of a difference when other factors are similar. The Tigers have a good set of hitters, a good bullpen and strong starters.
Even if there's no regression from Alex Gordon or Jeff Francoeur or Eric Hosmer (dread that sophomore slump), is it going to be enough? And could one pitcher – like a 34-year-old with back issues or a 29-year-old who's bounced around the league his entire career – be enough to overtake the Tigers? Unlikely, though it would improve the odds, and I'd have been in favor of a move.
Add it up and it's easy to see how Moore's decision-making led him to pursue Chen and leave Oswalt and Jackson for the rest of the league. At the time, the investment was outside of the Royals range and the pitchers' availability or willingness to come to Kansas City is questionable as well. Dayton Moore can't sign a player for the Royals if they don't want to be a Royal. That leaves him in the position to where he has to make the best move he can at the time under the conditions.
The Royals missed out on Edwin Jackson. The Royals are likely to miss out on Roy Oswalt. Or, more likely, they never had a shot, so did they really "miss out"?
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Marissa Mayer likened Yahoo's culture to its DNA, at a talk today for the Wired Business Conference in New York City. DNA with some elements that needed to be "muted," to use the genetic term, but nothing that needed to be changed. And as she works to strengthen that existing culture she says she's never been turned down.
"There's a lot of fantastic folks at Yahoo who have been sitting there with their ideas, waiting for their chance to run," said Mayer, who listed the recession among reasons for the delay Yahoo veterans had in implementing their ideas.
Of things that needed muting, one was a slow release of products. The Yahoo CEO and former Google exec said, "One of the things we wanted to do was to get into a faster cadence," releasing new products like their new mail for tablets, and stream ads, at least once a week, sometimes more.
But there were also 3 aspects of the culture she said were fine just the way they are: A geeky vibe, a love of pop culture, and a respect for creatives.
In the process of bolstering Yahoo's existing corporate culture Mayer said in every single hire she's ever made at Yahoo she's gotten exactly the person she wanted, and that in some instances the candidate actually came to her.
Although we're in no position to argue that point, there does seem to be at least a little evidence that even if she has gotten every hire she wanted, a few good ones may have gotten away.
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Member of Youth Parliament,
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Do young people have a valid role to play in national and international politics?
Do you think that young people actually have a role to play in politics?
Many people look down upon young people who try to have an input as being to young to know what they are speaking about or to have an opinion in the first place.
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Sep 11 2011: Yes, young people should play a role in politics -- but politics, policy-makers, and institutions need to find a way how to show young people that they could play this role at all. Most young people don't even know how they could be heard if they wanted to express their opinions, because the communication channels are not adapted to young peoples' needs and technological knowlege. So right now, young people don't play a role in politics: not because they don't have anything to say, but because they don't know how and where they could say it.
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